Hore (liturgy)

Hore ( lat. Hora "hour, time") is the term used in the church liturgy for an independent part of the prayer of the hours . Another name for the Horen is "times of the day".

The official term for the Liturgy of the Hours is Divinum officium (“divine service”) or liturgia horarum (“liturgy of the day”), consisting of the horae canonicae (“canonical hearing”). The German term “Horenliturgie” suggested by individual liturgical scholars did not prevail.

The Roman after the reform of the Divine Office includes Second Vatican Council the following Horen:

• Reading hearing
• Laudes
• third
• Sixth (around noon)
• Non
• Vespers
• Completely .

The council determined: “Since the sanctification of the day is the goal of the Liturgy of the Hours, the traditional sequence of the hours of prayer ( horae ) should be rearranged in such a way that the hearing regains its timely approach as much as possible. At the same time, today's living conditions should be taken into account, in which especially those who are apostolic live. "

With the Liturgy of the Hours, the day is structured roughly in a 3-hour rhythm, starting in the morning at around 6 a.m. The first hour of the day will be opened by the invitation . The earlier nocturnal Matutin became the Office of Readings that can be prayed at any hour of the day; it now contains fewer psalms and more readings. Laudes and Vespers (the horae praecipuae ) are the “most important hours” as morning and evening prayers and “double pivot point of the church prayer of the hour”. The prim is omitted. The third, sixth and non represent the so-called “ small ears ”, of which only one is compulsory for priests and apostolic orders, which should be selected according to the time of day (“ day hour ” or “noon shore”). Compline is the hour at the end of the day.

literature

• General introduction to the Liturgy of the Hours
• Andreas Heinz : Listen . In: Walter Kasper (Ed.): Lexicon for Theology and Church . 3. Edition. tape 5 . Herder, Freiburg im Breisgau 1996, Sp. 273 f .

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Sacrosanctum concilium No. 94.
2. ^ Adolf Adam : Plan of the liturgy. Herder Verlag, Freiburg 1985, p. 239.
3. ↑ Sacrosanctum concilium No. 89.
4. ↑ Sacrosanctum concilium, No. 88.