Inter-Hours

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Inter-Hours are brief, supplementary prayer services in the Eastern Christian liturgical tradition that are inserted between the main canonical Hours.

All labels observed (2)

Label Occurrences
Hora (in some accounts) 1
Inter-Hours canonical 1

How this entity was disambiguated

Statements (43)

Predicate Object
instanceOf Eastern Christian prayer
liturgical service
supplementary Hour
areInsertedBetween First Hour and Third Hour
Sixth Hour and Ninth Hour
Third Hour and Sixth Hour
canonical Hours
arePartOf Daily cycle of services
Liturgy of the Hours
surface form: Divine Office
category Byzantine Rite services
Christian prayer
Liturgy of the Hours
celebratedBy choir
deacon
priest
contains priestly blessing
psalms
short litanies
troparia
duration brief
frequency not obligatory on all days
function supplementary prayer service
languageTraditions Church Slavonic
Greek
liturgicalFamily Byzantine liturgy
liturgicalRank minor service
purpose to augment the main Hours with additional prayer
relatedTo First Hour
Ninth Hour
Sixth Hour
Third Hour
rubricalSource Horologion
Typikon
structure modeled on the corresponding main Hour
tradition Eastern Christianity
typicalUse Lent
surface form: Great Lent

monastic communities
more rigorous liturgical observance
periods of fasting
usedBy Eastern Catholic Churches
surface form: Eastern Catholic Churches of the Byzantine Rite

Eastern Orthodox Christianity
surface form: Eastern Orthodox Church
usedIn Byzantine Rite
Eastern Christian liturgical tradition

How these facts were elicited

Referenced by (2)

Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.

Horologion includesService Inter-Hours
Hersilia deityName Inter-Hours
this entity surface form: Hora (in some accounts)