Note 169 — Chapter I · THE CHURCH’S YEAR
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“Hoc autem die inclinante ad vesperam statuta celebratio noctis Dominicæ in ecclesia incipitur,” etc. (Rabanus Maurus, De Cleric. Instit., 2, 38; Migne, Patr. Lat., cvii. 350). “Post nonam (3 p.m.) vestiantur omnes qui ad sacram aliquid habuerint legendi,” etc. (Consuet. Farf., ed. Albers, 55). The Constit. Lanfranci give the same hour (Migne, Patr. Lat. cl. 466). According to Ordo Rom., x. App., No. 16, the ceremonies began at hora sexta (noon). The Greeks and Russians have their Mass after their evening service or Vespers. Maltzew, xciii.; Hefele, Beiträge, ii. 291.