Crossword clues for lauds
lauds
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
mid-14c., from Old French; morning Church service in which psalms of praise to God (Psalms 148-150) are sung (see laud).
Wiktionary
Wikipedia
Lauds is a divine office that takes place in the early morning hours. In the ordinary form of the Roman Rite ( Liturgy of the Hours), as celebrated by the Roman Catholic Church, it is one of the two major hours.
Usage examples of "lauds".
One day slipped into the next here confined in the rock walls, shrouded from the world outside, and the only constant was the round of prayer, the canonical hours that slid one into the next, Vigils becoming Lauds becoming Primri becoming Terce becoming Sext becoming Nones becoming Vespers be coming Compline becoming Vigils again.
Never before, as in our days, amid processions of flagellants, were sacred lauds heard inspired by the sorrows of Christ and of the Virgin, never has there been such insistence as there is today on strengthening the faith of the simple through the depiction of infernal torments.
In the darkness, immediately after lauds, we heard Mass in a village in the valley.
Sometimes, to keep himself awake, he composed lauds in honour of Christ and the saints, and they seemed to him so pleasant that he feared to forget them, so after much debate with himself he decided to ask a friendly priest from the valley, who sometimes visited him, to write down the lauds.
Only he felt a secret pang at the thought that he might die without seeing his lauds again.
Peace returned to him then, and with it a great longing to look once more upon his lauds, as he had dreamed of doing at his last hour.
Bartholomew's Abbey, Lauds immediately follows Matins — the singing of psalms and readings from the saints — which begins at 5:45 in the morning.
In any day, I'm likely to miss one or two periods of the Divine Office — sometimes Matins and Lauds, sometimes Sext, or Compline.
By Lauds, he still don't show, so I duck outta church to check his room.
Bartholomew's Abbey, Lauds immediately follows Matins-the singing of psalms and readings from the saints which begins at 5:45 in the morning.
In any day, I'm likely to miss one or two periods of the Divine Office-sometimes Matins and Lauds, sometimes Sext, or Compline.
He trained with Manfred from an hour before dawn until Lauds every single day.
If you would be ready by Lauds, tomorrow morning, I will have some of my Schiopettieri come to meet you here.
In the distance he heard Lauds being sung, and as he lay in the bed with one hand outstretched onto the cold space where Tallia had not lain the night before, the voices celebrating Lauds finished, paused, and began the service of Prime for sunrise.
Then came several biscops and presbyters whose cities and names Ivar couldn't keep straight, followed at the end by an elderly presbyter named Hatto who had not minded praying beside Ivar at the service of Lauds three days ago and, finally, by young Biscop Odila of Mainni, who had only recently taken up miter and crosier.