The Daily Office in Anglican churches refers to the traditional canonical hours of daily services, including Morning Prayer and Evening Prayer. These services usually follow the Book of Common Prayer.
One of the first pages of the psalter in a service book used for the canonical hours before the Reformation, showing the beginning of Matins on Sunday. Shown is the direction to sing Venite and Psalms 1 and 2.
The first Book of Common Prayer (1549), which first presented the modern Anglican Daily Office services in essentially the same form as present.
A choir rehearsing for choral Evensong in York Minster
Anglicanism, also known as Episcopalianism in some countries, is a Western Christian tradition which developed from the practices, liturgy and identity of the Church of England following the English R
Daily Office (Anglican)
…The Daily Office in Anglican churches refers to the traditional canonical hours of daily services, including Morning Prayer (also called Matins, especially when chanted) and Evening Prayer…
Jesus holding an Flag of the Resurrection and staff in the crook of his right arm depicted in a stained glass window in Rochester Cathedral in Rochester, Kent, England
Saint Alban is venerated as the first-recorded British Christian martyr
Augustine of Canterbury, the first archbishop of Canterbury
Queen Elizabeth I revived the Church of England in 1559 and established a uniform faith and practice; she took the title "Supreme Governor"