Omnium Sanctorum

The sacred sunday space sends out its morning call for all around to rise from their slumber and come to the morning prayer. Sweet whispers rise from the quiet earth as dozens of people, some smiling and others simply searching a new day for some sign of the savior, slowly shuffle their way toward the church doors. The cold air turns their breath to frost just in front of their reddened noses, while the sight of so many familiar faces warms their hearts. In Christianity, a church service is a term used to describe a formalized period of communal worship, often but not exclusively occurring on Sunday, or Saturday in the case of those churches practicing seventh-day Sabbatarianism. The real evolution of the Christian service in the first century is shrouded in mystery. By the second and third centuries, such Church Fathers as Clement of Alexandria, Origen, and Tertullian wrote of formalised, regular services: the practice of Morning and Evening Prayer, and prayers at the third hour of the day (terce), the sixth hour of the day (sext), and the ninth hour of the day (none). This sound uses the following file from Freesound: http://www.freesound.org/samplesViewSingle.php?id=109140