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The Liturgy of the Presanctified Gifts, is used on the first three days of Holy Week.
Why is Vespers in the morning and Matins in the evening? During this week the Church deliberately changes around Her sense of time. As we move toward the passion the Church emphasises that the transcendence and otherworldly import of these holy days is so absolute that, in a way, time itself is truly suspended. These are the holiest of holy hours, which stand outside of ordinary reckoning, when the Son of God, Jesus the God-Man, prepares Himself to suffer agony and death out of love for us all.
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