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The parts of the liturgy available for musical setting are:

Morning Prayer

• Venite exultemus Domino ( Psalm 95 — rarely set after the Restoration)
• Te Deum laudamus or Benedicite opera omnia
• Benedictus ( Luke I, 68) or Jubilate Deo (Psalm 100)

Holy Communion

• Responses to the Commandments
• Nicene Creed
• Sanctus
• Gloria in Excelsis

(This follows the Book of Common Prayer; modern Anglican liturgy has largely reverted to the order of the Roman Catholic Mass).

Evening Prayer

• MagnificatMagnificat is the Latin name of the canticle of Mary, the mother of Jesus, which she speaks to Elisabeth, the wife of Zechariah that she is pregnant with the Saviour Jesus Christ. It appears in the Gospel of Luke, I:46-55 Latin: Magnificat anima mea Domin or (rarely) Cantate Domino (Psalm 98)
• Nunc dimittisNunc Dimittis is the Latin name of the passage in the second chapter of Luke that is commonly called the Canticle of Simeon. Simeon was a devout Jew who had been promised by the Holy Ghost that he would not die until he had seen the Saviour. When Mary and or (rarely) Deus misereatur (Psalm 67)

A "full service" includes all three of these groups; with the disappearance of daily " MatinsMatins is the morning prayer service in the Roman Catholic and Eastern Orthodox liturgies of the canonical hours. The term is also used in some Protestant denominations to describe morning services. More recently, Matins has been suppressed in the Catholi" (choral morning prayer) from the Anglican liturgy and the reduction of the choral element in communion services composers are now more likely only to set the evening service. The Burial Service (see RequiemA requiem is a Roman Catholic mass performed in commemoration of the dead, also known in Latin as the Missa pro Defunctis . It is used as a funeral service, and is also performed as part of the liturgy of All Souls Day (which occurs annually, on November) is sometimes set separately.

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