# Event Details

- **Event Name**: Advent Evening Prayer - Wednesday Vespers
- **Event Start and End Date**: Wed, 10 Dec, 2025 at 05:00 pm – Wed, 10 Dec, 2025 at 05:45 pm
- **Event Description**: Wednesday, November 12th	Luke 21:5-19	 
“By endurance you will gain your souls."

Wednesday, November 19th 	Matthew 17:22-27
Commemoration of Saint Elizabeth of Hungary

Wednesday, December 3rd 	Matthew 21:23-32	 
The outcasts inherit the kingdom

Wednesday, December 10th 	Matthew 23:1-12	 
The Greatest Commandment

Dating back to at least the 300s, the Church in Jerusalem and other churches, especially throughout the East, designated the “tenth hour” as the time when the lamps were light and incense was offered. Along with the lamplighting, various hymns were sung, including “Phos Hilaron,” Greek for “O Gracious Light,” which is considered the oldest hymn in the Christian tradition, and is a hymn which survives in our own hymnal today. Some scholars believe this hymn and the earliest roots of the tradition date back to around the year 150.

Every Wednesday evening at Grace, we continue this ancient Christian tradition of Lamplighting (called “Lucernarium” as an opening to the service called “Vespers,” which comes from the Greek word “hespera,” or “evening.” Vespers consists of singing psalms, hearing lessons from Scripture, singing the Magnficat, or “Song of Mary,” and concludes with various prayers appropriate for evening. The pattern for Vespers comes to us from the Benedictine tradition, in which monks, nuns, the clergy, and lay folk within the vicinity of the church would gather eight times daily at appointed times for prayer, to chant psalms, to hear the Scriptures, and to sing hymns.

If you have not experienced this beautiful liturgy and time for prayer and meditation, Lent offers you the opportunity to join others in prayer, as the office of Vespers takes us out of the fast-paced world around us and into sacred space with our Lord as we offer our prayers and hear the Word of God spoken fresh into our lives.
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- **Event Categories**: health-wellness, meditation
- **Interested Audience**: 
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## Ticket Details

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## Event venue details

- **city**: Easton
- **state**: MD
- **country**: United States
- **location**: Grace Lutheran Church, Easton MD
- **lat**: 38.770748
- **long**: -76.073128
- **full address**: Grace Lutheran Church, Easton MD, 111 Brookletts Ave,Easton, Maryland, United States

## Event Organizer details

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- **organizer**: Shore Lutherans - Chesapeake Country Area Ministry (https://allevents.in/org/shore-lutherans-chesapeake-country-area-ministry/26243474)

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## FAQs

- **Q**: When is the event happening?
  - **A:** Wed, 10 Dec, 2025 at 05:00 pm
- **Q**: Where is the event happening?
  - **A:** Grace Lutheran Church, Easton MD, 111 Brookletts Ave,Easton, Maryland, United States
- **Q**: Who is organizing the event?
  - **A:** Shore Lutherans - Chesapeake Country Area Ministry
- **Q**: What type of event is this?
  - **A:** health-wellness, meditation
- **Q**: Where can I find ticket details about Advent Evening Prayer - Wednesday Vespers ?
  - **A:** You can find ticket details about this event on AllEvents.

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