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- Dictionaryves·pers/ˈvespərz/
noun
- 1. a service of evening prayer in the Divine Office of the Western Christian Church (sometimes said earlier in the day).
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Vespers (from vesper 'evening' ) is a liturgy of evening prayer, one of the canonical hours in Catholic (both Latin and Eastern Catholic liturgical rites), Eastern Orthodox, Oriental Orthodox, and Lutheran liturgies. The word for this prayer time comes from the Latin vesper, meaning "evening". Vespers typically follows a set order that focuses on the performance of psalms and other biblical cantic... Wikipedia