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 |
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Vespers (sunset) Compline (bedtime) Midnight Office (midnight) Matins (dawn) Prime (~7 a.m.) Terce (~9 a.m.) Sext (noon) None (~3 p.m.)
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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.
