(Edited text from www.hinarios.blogspot.com)
 
Oração
 

“Field prayer" (Oração) in front of the 5 Mil church, at the end of the 70s, when the Manchete magazine registered for the first time,
and in colors, the Santo Daime doctrine’s existence in Acre.

 

Sebastião Mota de Melo, the founder of the Cefluris, as well as Mestre Irineu, also became a member of the Esoteric Circle while a member of the Alto Santo headquarters, and even after the break up [with the Esoteric Circle] he kept his diploma framed in a wall of his house. A Mestre Irineu’s hymn that said: "Six o’clock in the afternoon / the sun is going to set / I should sing / to my Savior Father,” encouraged him to have in his residence the every day's practice, in the evening (that he marked not by the watch but by the nambu peep, Amazon bird that sings always at this time), to pray the Key of Harmony and to sing some hymns.

With Cefluris' Creation in 1974 and the church’s construction, Padrinho Sebastião started to form a book of his hymns for this daily prayer of the six o’clock in the afternoon, concluded around 1978 with twelve hymns. Up to 1990, when he came to die, the Oração finished with the hymn "I am not God," therefore sung standing. With the arrival of his son Alfredo in the general command, was added one of his hymns, and was also established that the second hymn of the Oração would be sung standing, like a solemn invocation.

Padrinho Waldete, in Mapiá, has been always reinforcing that the Oração is not to be sung in the bailado rhythm, but yes in a more marked rhythm, with the words well pronounced. Only eventually, as on a Sunday, together with the rehearsal of other hymns, is that the Oração is danced, but in this case it excepts the second hymn, that is sung in guard's position.

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Note: It is important to notice that due to the fact that Padrinho Sebastião always held, every day, the Oração of the six o’clock in the afternoon, everywhere he lived, since the time of the Colônia Cinco Mil, joining with the fact that the concentrations on the 15th and 30th always started at the same hour, naturally the Oração began to “mix” in the original liturgy of the works left by Irineu Serra. Therefore, in the days of concentration the Daime was taken right before the Oração, proceeding to the concentration order of things.

We know that in the cosmopolitan cities the Oração hardly happen on a daily basis and also that hardly concentrations are started at six in the afternoon. Then it became explicit, in the centers somehow linked to Cefluris that in concentration days the Oração is sung first, leaving the impression, to the newer, that one makes part of the other, when actually they were two distinct rites, held in sequence.