Matins

1. : the night office forming with lauds the first of the canonical hours. 2. : morning prayer.

Matins, the lengthiest, originally said at a night hour, is now appropriately said at any hour of the day. Lauds and vespers are the solemn morning and evening prayers of the church. Terce, sext, and none correspond to the mid-morning, noon, and mid-afternoon hours.

Choral Matins is a service of Morning Prayer in which the versicles and responses, invitatory, psalm(s), and proper collects are sung. “Choral” distinguishes music that is sung, rather than played on an instrument or instruments.

The Sunday Office is made up of the invitatory, hymn, three nocturns, the first of which comprises twelve psalms, and the second and third three psalms each; nine lessons, three to each nocturn, each lesson except the ninth being followed by a response; and finally, the canticle Te Deum, which is recited or sung after ...

Morning Prayer (Mattins): A short service of psalms, Bible reading and prayers, using Common Worship. Eucharist (Holy Communion): This service lasts about 30 minutes and directly follows Morning Prayer. We use Common Worship. Evensong or Evening Prayer: During term time this service is from the Book of Common Prayer.

The day was thrilling with the matins of the birds. At that gray hour they had risen for matins.

Liturgy. In the Liturgy of the Hours of the Roman Catholic Church, Matins is also called “the Office of Readings”, which includes several psalms, a chapter of a book of Scripture (assigned according to the liturgical seasons), and a reading from the works of patristic authors or saints.

Examples of matins The chimes were ringing to matins and the devout were entering to the early mass. Birds were chanting matins as if all the jubilance of their short lives must be poured out at once. The birds are singing their early matins, before the smoke of camp becomes too thick for their vocal organs.

Evensong is a church service traditionally held near sunset focused on singing psalms and other biblical canticles. It is loosely based on the canonical hours of vespers and compline. Old English speakers translated the Latin word vesperas as æfensang, which became 'evensong' in modern English.

Vigil (eighth hour of night: 2 a.m.) Matins (a later portion of Vigil, from 3 a.m. to dawn) Lauds (dawn; approximately 5 a.m., but varies seasonally) Prime (early morning, the first hour of daylight, approximately 6 a.m.)

An afternoon performance is called a matinee, like a matinee performance of a play that starts at two o'clock.

The word matins is derived from the Latin adjective matutinus, meaning 'of or belonging to the morning'.