Likewise Mestre, Sebastião Mota de Melo, founder of Cefluris, also joined the Esoteric Circle while being a member of the Alto Santo, and even after the break up [from the Esoteric Circle] he kept his diploma framed on the wall of his house. A hymn of Mestre Irineu, which says, “Six o’clock in the evening, the sun is going to set, I must sing to my Father, the Savior”, encouraged him to hold at home the habit to pray every day in the evening (which  he marked not by the clock but by the pious of the nambu, Amazon bird that always sings at this hour) the Key of Harmony and to sing some hymns.

With the creation of Cefluris, in 1974, and the construction of the church, Padrinho Sebastião began to form a book of his hymns for this daily prayer of the six o'clock in the afternoon, which was completed around 1978 with twelve hymns. Up to 1990, when he came to die, the Oração closed with the hymn "I am not God”, therefore sung standing. With the entry of his son, Alfredo, in the general command, one hymn of the latter was added and was established that the second hymn of the Oração would also be standing as a solemn invocation.

Padrinho Waldete, in Mapiá, has always reinforced that the Oração is not to be sung in the bailado rhythm, but at a more marked pace and with the words being well pronounced. Just possibly, as in a Sunday, together with the rehearsal of other hymns, is that the Oração is danced, but in this case with the exception of the second hymn that is sung in the guard position.

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

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Note: It is important to know 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 blend in with the original liturgy of the concentration left by Irineu Serra. Therefore, in concentration day at Cefluris, they would drink Daime before the Oração and at its end follow with the concentration in fact.

We know that in urban centers the Oração hardly occur in a daily basis and concentrations are also unlikely to start at six o'clock. Then it was explicit determined that, in centers that are somehow linked to Cefluris, the Oração should be sung first, which curiously leaves the impression to the novice that one is part of the other, when in fact they are two distinct ritual - Oração and Concentration - performed in sequence.