Magnificat
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The Magnificat is a canticle, also known as the Song of Mary or Canticle of Mary, and in the Byzantine Rite as the Ode of the Theotokos. Its Western name derives from the incipit of its Latin text. Th
Visitation, by Domenico Ghirlandaio (1491), depicts Mary visiting her elderly cousin Elizabeth.
Translations of the Magnificat into various languages at the Church of the Visitation in Ein Karem
The Visitation in the Book of Hours of the Duc de Berry; the Magnificat in Latin
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Vespers
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Vespers is a liturgy of evening prayer, one of the canonical hours in Catholic, Orthodoxy, Anglican, and Lutheran liturgies.
Magnificat
…recited within the Liturgy of the Hours. In Western Christianity, the Magnificat is most often sung or recited during the main evening prayer service: Vespers in the Catholic and Lutheran churches, and Evening Prayer (or Evensong) in Anglicanism. The traditional form is found the Book of Common Prayer (1662…
Cistercians singing vespers in Santa Maria de Poblet in Catalonia
Incensing the congregation during the Magnificat at an Advent celebration of Vespers
Orthodox priest and deacon making the Entrance with the censer at Great Vespers
Table set with five loaves, wheat, wine and oil for artoklassia