midnight
You should go there for prayers ! '' `` Yes , '' answered my companion , and he wagged his head , `` I have been here for three weeks . And you know , every day services , every day services . On ordinary days at midnight they ring for matins , at five o'clock for early mass , at nine o'clock for late mass . Sleep is utterly out of the question . In the daytime there are hymns of praise , special prayers , vespers ... . And when I was preparing for the sacrament I was simply dropping from exhaustion . ''