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Vespers
The evening prayer — the first service of the liturgical day, opening with the lighting of lamps and the sunset psalm.
Vespers (Hesperinos, from hespera, evening) opens the liturgical day: in the Orthodox Church the day begins at sunset. Vespers includes the lighting of lamps (the Lucernarium), the reading of the sunset psalm (Psalm 104), fixed and variable psalmody, and the Evening Hymn ('O Gladsome Light'). Great Vespers on feast days may be combined with Orthros in the All-Night Vigil.