Nones (/ˈnoʊnz/), also known as None (Latin: Nona, "Ninth"), the Ninth Hour, or the Midafternoon Prayer, is a fixed time of prayer of the Divine Office of almost all the traditional Christian liturgies. It consists mainly of psalms and is said around 3 pm, about the ninth hour after dawn.
In the book, the ninth hour is when the sisters gathered in the convent for prayer. In the Bible, it is the hours that Jesus died on the cross.
The typical schedule for the Divine Hours follows a three-hour pattern, with prayers at 6:00 a.m., 9:00 a.m., noon, 3:00 p.m., and 6:00 p.m. In addition, there are evening prayers and morning prayers outside of these times.
It is a special miracle that God gives to special people. Eleventh hour miracles are for people who are tired of the situation they have found themselves. It is for those who have said, ” enough is enough” to that challenge.
The Gospels and Acts refer to praying at the third, sixth, and ninth hours—respectively referring to about three hours after sunrise, noon, and three hours after noon.
The prayer of protection. The prayer of transformation. The prayer of restoration.
Slang meaning. In the Irish Free State and Republic of Ireland, the "holy hour" (Irish: uair bheannaithe) was the term applied to the closing of public houses between 2.30 and 3.30 p.m. on Monday to Saturday in the cities of Dublin and Cork.
Nones (/ˈnoʊnz/), also known as None (Latin: Nona, "Ninth"), the Ninth Hour, or the Midafternoon Prayer, is a fixed time of prayer of the Divine Office of almost all the traditional Christian liturgies. It consists mainly of psalms and is said around 3 pm, about the ninth hour after dawn.
Note that the tenth hour is about 4pm, or about two hours before sunset. Lapide says that St. John adds these words, to show both the zeal of Christ, who, even though it was towards evening would not put them off until the following day, but started immediately upon the things pertaining to salvation.
Terce is a canonical hour of the Divine Office. It consists mainly of psalms and is held around 9 a.m. Its name comes from Latin and refers to the third hour of the day after dawn.
1) Prayer in the morning is so important because you meet God before you meet the Devil. 2) You meet God before you meet the circumstances of life. 3) You talk to God before you talk to many people. 4) You fellowship with God before you fellowship with other people.
Mark 1:35 NLT – Before daybreak the next morning, Jesus got up and went out to an isolated place to pray. Jesus rose early in the morning to have time to talk with this Father.
Daniel 6:10b tells us that Daniel spoke prayers of gratitude. "Three times a day he got down on his knees and prayed, giving thanks to his God, just as he had done before."
The Ninth Hour, McDermott's eighth novel, is about an order of nursing nuns and the needy families, elderly shut-ins, disabled invalids and strapped widows they care for in a predominantly Irish Catholic neighborhood of Brooklyn.
Matt. 27 Verses 45 to 53
[46] And about the ninth hour Jesus cried with a loud voice, saying, Eli, Eli, lama sabachthani? that is to say, My God, my God, why hast thou forsaken me?
their feast which is called the Passover, when they slay their sacrifices, from the ninth hour to the eleventh, etc." (roughly corresponding to 3 o'clock pm to 5 o'clock pm).
King James Bible, Matthew 20:6 & 20:9: And about the eleventh hour he went out, and found others standing idle, and saith unto them, Why stand ye here all the day idle? [...] And when they came that were hired about the eleventh hour, they received every man a penny.
Each time Jesus used these words, he was referring to his time of suffering at the hands of men and his sacrifice and death on the cross. He did not call it his finest hour, but he came from Heaven to Earth for this purpose of giving his life for our sins.
But instead of feeling defeated by their circumstances, the Bible says that at the midnight hour, they lifted their voices and began to pray and sing hymns to God. Can you imagine that? In their midnight hour, what probably was the darkest hour in their life, they chose to worship God and have a grateful attitude.
9AM is the first hour of prayer [see Acts 2:15] when the Temple gates opened. The Hebrew word for this hour of prayer is "Shacharit"(morning). According to Jewish time this is the 3rd hour (the third hour from sunrise); according to Roman time this is the 9th hour (Roman time for each day began at 12 midnight).
But the common people of New Testament times, in their homes and in business, knew nothing of the day of 24 equal hours. To them the day was the period between sunrise and sunset, and that was divided into 12 equal parts called hours.
Ezra. 10. [9] Then all the men of Judah and Benjamin gathered themselves together unto Jerusalem within three days. It was the ninth month, on the twentieth day of the month; and all the people sat in the street of the house of God, trembling because of this matter, and for the great rain.
Eternal Father, for the sake of the sorrowful Passion, and the Resurrection of Your Son, have mercy on us and on the whole world. Amen.
The Jewish daytime hours began with dawn and ended with sundown, which began the next day. The hours are seasonal, so the length of the daylight hours varied with the season of the year. The Romans began their day at midnight and counted 12 hours to high 12 noon and then 12 more hours from noon to the next midnight.
Prime (first Hour = approximately 6 a.m.) Terce (third Hour = approximately 9 a.m.) Sext (sixth Hour = approximately 12 noon) None (Ninth Hour = approximately 3 p.m.)