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Leader Resource 2: UU Book of Hours

In Workshop 5, Alternate Activity 1: A UU Book of Hours, participants consider traditional daily cycles of prayer and contemplation observed by some religious Muslims and Christians.

Before leading the activity, write and post two separate sheets of newsprint

Traditional Christian Canonical Hours

Times for Muslim Daily Prayer

Vespers (sunset)

Compline (bedtime)

Midnight Office (midnight)

Matins (dawn)

Prime (~7 a.m.)

Terce (~9 a.m.)

Sext (noon)

None (~3 p.m.)

 

Fajr (dawn to sunrise)

Zuhr (early afternoon)

Asr (later afternoon)

Maghrib (after sunset)

Isha (between dusk and dawn)



Last updated on Friday, April 18, 2008.

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