Divine Office

Originally this would have carried the antiphonal book, for use by the cantor or precentor leading the singing of the divine office.

Members of a household brought their dead to a ditch as best they could, without priest, without divine offices.

In all divine offices in the abbey, in reading and in meditation, he associated with the brethren in the cloister.

A strange place, Coldstream Priory: no bells for divine office, just a rather hasty Mass said before noon.

The chorus is not uncritical of David's weaknesses, but reveres his divine office as "Holy Father" of God's people.

The latter record that Bricius had solemnly denied practicing divine offices during the interdict.

In addition to the communal celebration of the divine office, members of his community were to devote at least three hours to contemplative prayer each day.

At our court we have many ministers who are of higher dignity than ourselves in the Church, and of greater standing in divine office.

He laid special stress on the necessity of instructing the younger canons in song and in grammar, that they might be fit to perform the divine office.

Having waited so long for the overcrowding of divine offices, God summons Hercules and would punish him for the gesture he made.