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5 unusual facts about matins


Arthur: The Quest for Excalibur

The package for Arthur contained a copy of a Book of Hours, which explains the Canonical hours such as Matins, Lauds and Vespers.

Hill Brow Preparatory School for Boys

On Sundays the boarders would walk under supervision to the local village church of St Michael for the Matins service.

Matins

Mattins, often spelled in the Anglican tradition with a double "t", is the Morning Prayer which consolidated the hours of Matins, Lauds and Prime.

Lutherans preserve recognizably traditional Matins distinct from Morning Prayer, but "Matins" is sometimes used in other Protestant denominations to describe any morning service.

St Mary's Church, Fordingbridge

The church choirs and instrumental groups can be heard each Sunday supporting services such as the Family Communion, Matins and traditional Evensong whilst the Praise band, Identity, play for the popular modern Praise!


Aër

This is carried by the priest from the Prothesis to the Holy Table, where it will remain until the Great Doxology near the end of Matins.

Christian liturgy

In Lutheranism, like Anglicanism, the offices were also combined into the two offices of Matins and Vespers (both of which are still maintained in modern Lutheran prayer books and hymnals).

Gil Vicente

Though Leonor asked him to give an encore performance of the play at the Christmas matins, Vicente decided to write a new play for the occasion, the Auto Pastoril Castelhano ("Castilian Pastoral Act").

Great Lent

In order that their services not be completely forgotten, a portion of them (their canon at Matins, and their stichera from "Lord I Have Cried" at Vespers) is chanted at Compline.

Irmologion

An important portion of Matins and other services in the Orthodox Church is the Canon, a long liturgical poem divided into nine Odes.

Matins in Lutheranism

This order combines features that were found in the Medieval orders of Matins, Lauds, and Prime into a single morning service.

Mornings in Jenin

Mornings in Jenin, (2010, U.S.; originally published as The Scar of David, 2006, United States and Les Matins de Jenin, France) is a novel by author Susan Abulhawa.

Plenarium

The entire office, or series of prayers and psalms said (or chanted) in the Roman Catholic ChurchVespers, Matins, Lauds and Mass — is called plenarium.


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