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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...

The Good News: Praying with Christ Every Day.  Anytime. Anywhere. W ith Anyone.   _______________________________________________________ VIRTUAL RESOURCES for the LITURGY OF THE HOURS MORNING PRAYER EVENING PRAYER _______________________________________________________ DIVINE OFFICE / LITURGY OF THE HOURS is the Prayer of Christ and the Church "Christ Jesus, high priest of the new and eternal covenant, taking human nature, introduced into this earthly exile that hymn which is sung throughout all ages in the halls of heaven. He joins the entire community of mankind to Himself, associating it with His own singing of this canticle of divine praise."   (Vatican II Constitution on Sacred Liturgy, #86) "For he continues His priestly work through the agency of His Church, which is ceaselessly engaged in praising the Lord and interceding for the salvation of the whole world. She does this, not only by celebrating the Eucharist, but also in other ways, especially by praying ...