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  General Instruction Liturgy of the Hours 39. When evening approaches and the day is already far spent, Evening Prayer is celebrated in order that “we may give thanks for what has been given us, or what we have done well, during the day.” [5] We also recall the redemption through the prayer which we send up “like incense in the Lord’s sight,” and in which “the raising up of our hands” becomes “an evening sacrifice.”[6]  This “may be understood also in a deeper spiritual sense of that true evening sacrifice which, as is handed down to us, was offered in the evening by the Lord and Savior, at supper with the apostles, when he instituted the most holy mysteries of the Church, or of the evening sacrifice, that is, the sacrifice at the end of the ages, in which on the next day he was offered to the Father as he raised up his hands for the salvation of the whole world.”[7]  Again, in order to fix our hope on the light that knows no setting, “we pray and make petition for the l...

WHY THE SAINT GABRIEL HOURS BLOG? The purpose of the blog is to bring the good news of Christ into our daily lives by Praying with Christ the Hours of Morning Prayer and Evening Prayer:  "Every Day Anytime Anywhere. With Anyone" The Good News is that this can be done easily through the use of virtual resources on the web.  Pope Francis makes an important distinction about our style of evangelization. We should be witnesses of the Gospel in our lives rather than its protagonists. This website witnesses some of the resources of the web which our household uses in the daily celebration of the Hours of Morning and Evening Prayer.  My journey with the Hours began in high school before Vatican II with the discover of the English version of the Hours intended for laity and women religious; priests then were still required to pray the Divine Office in Latin. That lifelong journey included collecting liturgical music from Anglican, Contemporary, Eastern and Roman traditions as bac...