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A Byzantine Rite priest during matins on Good Friday.
Matins (also Mattins) is a canonical hour in Christian liturgy, originally sung during the darkness of early morning.
The earliest use of the term was in reference to the canonical hour, also called the vigil, which was originally celebrated by monks from about two hours after midnight to, at latest, the dawn, the time for the canonical hour of lauds (a practice still followed in certain orders). It was divided into two or (on Sundays) three nocturns. Outside of monasteries, it was generally recited at other times of the day, often in conjunction with lauds.
Matins (also Mattins) is a canonical hour in Christian liturgy, originally sung during the darkness of early morning. The earliest use of the term was...
The Matins Gospel is the solemn chanting of a lection from one of the Four Gospels during Matins in the Orthodox Church and those Eastern Catholic churches...
the Lutheran Church, Matins is a morning-time liturgical order combining features that were found in the Medieval orders of Matins, Lauds, and Prime. Lutherans...
which are read on successive Sundays at matins; there are hymns sung at Matins that correspond with that day's Matins Gospel. The Daily Cycle begins with...
The Matins of Bruges (Dutch: Brugse Metten) was the nocturnal massacre of the French garrison in Bruges and their Leliaards [nl] supporters, a political...
Savall in the Film) Problems playing this file? See media help. Tous les matins du monde (English: "All The Mornings of The World") is a 1991 French film...
which are read on successive Sundays at matins; there are hymns sung at Matins that correspond with that day's Matins Gospel. Only autocephalous (self-governed)...
[citation needed] Matins of Great and Holy Friday is celebrated on the evening of Holy Thursday. During this liturgy, twelve Matins Gospels are chanted...
magnum mysterium is a responsorial chant from the Matins of Christmas. The text is drawn from the Matins of Christmas in the Roman Breviary. Latin text O...
Christ, begins on Thursday night with the Matins of the Twelve Passion Gospels. Scattered throughout this Matins service are twelve readings from all four...
title Our Lady of Solitude, referring to her grief at the death of her son. Matins of Holy and Great Saturday (in parishes usually held on Friday evening)...
and whenever all three nocturns of Matins of the Dead are recited. On other occasions, the ninth responsory of Matins for the Dead begins with Libera me...
darkness near the end of the service. Tenebrae was originally a celebration of matins and lauds of the last three days of Holy Week (Maundy Thursday, Good Friday...
parishes where it is held only on Sundays and feast days. It is often called matins after the office it most nearly corresponds to in Western Christian churches...
Church, nocturns refer to the sections into which the canonical hour of matins was divided from the fourth or fifth century until after the Second Vatican...
which are read on successive Sundays at matins; there are hymns sung at Matins that correspond with that day's Matins Gospel. The Daily Cycle begins with...
during Matins for Thursday, which is usually celebrated by anticipation on Wednesday evening, so that more people can attend. As a part of the Matins of the...
Greater Doxology is used in the Orthros (Matins) on Sundays and feast days. The Lesser Doxology is used at Matins on simple weekdays and at the Apodeipnon...
originally published as The Scar of David, 2006, United States and Les Matins de Jenin, France) is a novel by author Susan Abulhawa. Mornings in Jenin...
morning service combining Matins, the Litany, and ante-Communion comprised the usual expression of common worship, while Matins and Evensong were sung daily...
Rite Liturgy of the Hours it is one of the major hours, usually held after Matins, in the early morning hours. The name is derived from the three last psalms...
Le temps des porte-plumes, 30 ans, Une journée de merde! and Tous les matins du monde. She has also appeared in several episodes of the television show...
world! During the Polyeleos at Matins, the Epitaphios, which was placed on the altar on Holy Saturday (either at Matins or the Midnight Office, depending...
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