Christianity
- 19841
- Catholic Encyclopedia: Divine Office
- Brief essay on the historical development of the Liturgy of the Hours.
- 19842
- Catholic Encyclopedia: Lauds
- Article on the canonical hour once known as Matins, then as Lauds, now as Morning Prayer. One of the two principal hours.
- 19843
- Catholic Encyclopedia: Matins
- Not Morning Prayer, but a nighttime prayer, which has now been replaced by the Office of Readings.
- 19844
- Catholic Encyclopedia: Music of Vespers
- Applies especially to the cathedral Office, i.e., the Liturgy of the Hours in a parish setting.
- 19847
- Catholic Encyclopedia: Office of the Dead
- Historical article on a special set of prayers for the deceased.
- 19849
- Catholic Encyclopedia: Reform of the Roman Breviary
- Article on the 1911-1913 revamping of the breviary so as to allow recitation of all of the Psalter each week. Feasts were also ranked according to liturgical importance, and some offices were no longer obligatory or were even suppressed.
- 19851
- Catholic Encyclopedia: Terce
- Essay on the office of Terce, the earliest of the "little hours" in the day.
- 19852
- Catholic Encyclopedia: Vespers
- Historical article on Evening Prayer, one of the two principal canonical hours.
- 19853
- Universalis
- Source for praying the Liturgy of the Hours. Once you have entered your time zone and country, you can bookmark pages for daily prayer. (This site does not use the official Liturgy of the Hours translation due to copyright issues).
- 19854
- Homiletic & Pastoral Review
- Magazine that includes homily suggestions as well as liturgical articles and commentary for pastoral work.
- 19856
- CyberTypicon
- Freeware has a Melkite calendar from 1960-3000. For each day, it tells you the name and class of the feast (if any), the tone, whether it is a fast day, and suggests a typicon for the Divine Liturgy. Web site requires Java for navigation. Software requires about 5.5M disk space.
- 19857
- College of Cardinals Traces Its Roots to Middle Ages
- A short history of the College from Catholic Heritage.