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the dawn prayer that gets monks out of bed before the sun even tries
means Lauds is the early-morning prayer service of the Christian liturgical hours, sung at or near dawn to praise God at the start of the day.
from From Latin laudes, the plural of laus, 'praise' — the same root that gives English 'laud' and 'laudable.' The service took its name from the psalms of praise traditionally sung at this hour, especially the closing psalms (148–150), which ring out with repeated cries of praise. So the name is, quite literally, just the word 'praises' standing in for the prayer made of them.
- latin root
- From laudare, meaning to praise
- time slot
- Sung at daybreak, second of the canonical hours
- psalm fan
- Built around praise psalms, especially the final ones
- plural trick
- A single service, yet always grammatically plural
- modern echo
- Lives on as a verb meaning lavish praise