
SE05 EP14 - Sanctifying Time: The Hours of the Divine Office through the Day and through the Liturgical Year - with Dr. William Mahrt
Square Notes: The Sacred Music Podcast
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The Vespers of Sunday
Vespers is at the end of the day when the sunset occurs and you have this wonderful hymn. Well, you have the hymns of Vespers for the week by St. Gregory which are each day focused upon the days of creation. Sunday is the day of the creation of light, but Vespers is the time when you need to light the candles in order to provide for a substitute of the natural light that is now setting. So the lodge is then something very, very wonderful about the phenomena of nature. With electric lights, there isn't any foul chaos anymore.
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