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Virgin River Valley, Zion National Park, Utah. Processed with Lightroom, Photoshop and Topaz filters.
Vespers, evening prayer of thanksgiving and praise in Roman Catholic and certain other Christian liturgies. Vespers and lauds (morning prayer) are the oldest and most important of the traditional liturgy of the hours. Many scholars believe vespers is based on Judaic forms of prayer and point to a daily evening celebration observed among Jews in the 1st century BCE.By the 3rd century CE the writings of Tertullian show clear evidence of an evening prayer. During the 4th, 5th, and 6th centuries, cathedral choirs and monastic orders developed the vespers service, as it was known for centuries thereafter. Following the Second Vatican Council (1962–65), the Roman Catholic service was translated into the vernacular and simplified, but it continues to revolve around the Magnificat canticle, various psalms and antiphons, and readings that vary according to liturgical season.
The Lutheran and Anglican churches both include an evening prayer service in their liturgies. In the Anglican church, evening prayer traditionally is called evensong and can be found in the 1549 Book of Common Prayer. Both Protestant churches revised their rite for evening prayer during the 1970s, and both rites are patterned closely after the traditional Roman Catholic evening prayer. In the Anglican church the revised prayers offer alternative choices for greater individual choice among congregations.
Les vespres són una part de l'ofici diví -previ a les completes-, que constitueixen la pregària del vespre, i que s'acostuma a celebrar cap al capvespre. En la litúrgia romana, tenen una estructura semblant a la de les laudes i té les parts següents:
el versicle inicial Deus in adjutorium meum intende, i l'himne.
la salmòdia, actualment consistent en dos salms i un càntic del Nou Testament.
la lectura i el responsori amb el cant del Magníficat.
la pregària que acaba amb el rés del Parenostre.
l'oració i els versicle o el diàleg finals.
Tant la salmòdia gregoriana com el magníficat s'interpreten de forma antifonal.
Tal com va passar amb altres parts de la litúrgia, les vespres de les grans solemnitats, ja fos de les festes assenyalades de l'any litúrgic, ja fossin les festes principals d'una determinada localitat o territori, a partir del segle xvi els textos de les vespres van rebre musicalitzacions polifòniques per part d'un bon nombre de compositors, especialment d'aquells que servien a l'església i rebien aquesta mena d'encàrrecs per dotar la litúrgia de l'esplendor adient.
Posteriorment, i d'acord amb els estils més de moda en cada època, a partir de primer Barroc molts compositors van optar per un estil concertant. Tal és el cas de les Vespres (Vespro della beate Vergine) de Claudio Monteverdi, i les diverses que va compondre Mozart (vesperae de Dominica i Vesperae solemnes de confessore). Entre les més destacades del segle xx hi ha les de Serguei Rakhmàninov (que responen als cànons de la litúrgia de l'església ortodoxa russa, i les que el compositor txec Petr Eben va escriure sobre un text en català i que s'estrenaren a Montserrat l'any 1968.
Entre els compositors catalans que han escrit vespres o, en tot cas, salms de vespres, hi ha Francesc Valls i Joan Cererols; i entre els valencians, Joan Genís Peres.
Tone your wants and tastes low down enough, and make much of negatives, and of mere daylight and the skies.
-- Walt Whitman
Image created with Dream by Wombo and textured with my textures plus Distressed FX Plus
Prompts:Bouquet of Poinsettias, holly, pine boughs with ornaments, clear glass vase, old dark rough wood table, still life, black background, only dark moody soft warm back lighting
Style: Soft Touch
Only one more week until Christmas so I've got a bunch of Wombo holiday images on the way!
Thanks in advance for taking a closer look, for your faves, comments and invitations!
I collected about two dozen beautiful and varied leaves last night from the trees at Costco. My husband loaded our groceries while I wandered the parking lot searching for treasures. When we got home, I carefully laid the wet leaves on towels and put heavy pans over them to keep them from curling up and getting crunchy. I had dreams all night about what I could create with them.
On dreary days it's comforting to know that this is near my doorstep and I can't wait for the next visit.
location: taal, lemery, batangas, philippines
image info: nikon d90, 18-200mm@200.00mm focal length, manual settings w/o circular polarizer filter, iso:200, exposure:1/400s, aperture:f/5.6 and handheld
shot taken last: december 28, 2010
photo process info: natural light, with crop and no hdr. pp in adobe cs2 (adjustment of brightness/ contrast, exposure, shadows/ highlights and color balance), picasa 3.0 (adjusment of sharpen, tuning and watermark) and neat images (reducing noise).
“A simplified life means that what has to get done will get done. And when we pare down life to its simplest, most beautifully basic parts, we’re left with room to enjoy each other, to rest, and to truly savor life with all our hearts, minds, and spirits.”
Blue Dasher, Pachydiplax longipennis. The last of a very satisfying series of photos taken in Cullinan Park a year ago, and my last post with Canon equipment.
26 July 2021; 08:50 CDT; RAW+post
Fog, trees and a muddy path. Not really much to see here but one of the things I like about fog is how it softens the landscape and simplifies our view by removing everything that could distract us.
La capacità di semplificare significa eliminare il superfluo in modo che solo il necessario possa parlare.
Hans Hofmann
Toni caldi al tramonto, in un cielo senza nuvole, sopra i canali di Padova
Buona serata
#padova #canali #tramonto #toni #tones #shades #semplicità #simple #essential #essenziale
Hidup ini nikmat, nafas ini nikmat, rasa ini nikmat, dunia, alam semesta dan segala isinya ini adalah nikmat...
Maka bersyukurlah.
"Essentially, perspective is a form of abstraction. It simplifies the relationship between eye, brain and object. It is an ideal view, imagined as being seen by a one-eyed, motionless person who is clearly detached from what he sees. It makes a God of the spectator, who becomes the person on whom the whole world converges, the Unmoved Onlooker."
— Robert Hughes
This, too, is taken in the gardens near the rose garden at Point Defiance Park, located in Tacoma, Washington. I think I'm having a difficult time deciding which I like more, roses or dahlias! They're both so beautiful! Hope you all enjoy!
Point Defiance Park
Tacoma, Washington
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While on the first leg of my flight from Fairbank to Nome, we flew right past Denali. While capturing this shot with my phone, I knew I wanted it in black and white. For me, in some shots color is a distraction from seeing the true power displayed in a subject.
Or maybe I just want to sometimes see the world as the racoon does…just to simplify the world.
Photo taken on 17 August, 2025.
“Simplifying our life, throwing away what we have left over, living soberly, that is knowing how to live.”
DOMENICO CIERI ESTRADA
The ability to simplify means to elmininate the unnecessary so that the necessary
may speak.
Hans Hofmann
Chinese gardens are constructed to recreate and miniaturize larger natural landscapes. Traditionally, Chinese gardens blend unique, ornate buildings with natural elements. Just about every Chinese garden contains architecture, like a building or pavilion; decorative rocks and a rock garden; plants, trees and flowers; and water elements, like ponds. Most Chinese gardens are enclosed by a wall and some have winding paths. Chinese gardens aren’t just thrown together. Instead, they’re deliberately designed and visitors should walk through them in the particular order that the garden was laid out.
The Chinese Garden of Friendship (simplified Chinese: 谊园; traditional Chinese: 誼園) is a heritage-listed 1.03-hectare (3-acre) Chinese garden at 1 Harbour Street, in the Sydney Central Business District, City of Sydney, New South Wales, Australia. Modelled after the classic private gardens of the Ming Dynasty, the garden offers an insight into Chinese heritage and culture. It was designed by Guangzhou Garden Planning & Building Design Institute, Tsang & Lee, and Edmond Bull & Corkery and built from 1986 to 1988 by Gutteridge Haskins & Davey; the Darling Harbour Authority; Imperial Gardens; Leightons; and Australian Native Landscapes. The gardens were added to the New South Wales State Heritage Register on 5 October 2018. The Chinese Garden of Friendship was designed by Sydney's Chinese sister city, Guangzhou in China. Sydney's Chinatown complements the area's already rich in Chinese heritage and culture. The garden was officially opened 17 January 1988 as part of Sydney's Bicentennial Celebrations and named the Chinese Garden of Friendship symbolising the bond established between China and Australia. 15053