Matins
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Matins is the monastic nighttime liturgy, ending at dawn, of the canonical hours. In the Roman Catholic pre-Vatican-II breviary, it is divided into three nocturns. The name "matins" originally referred to the morning office also known as lauds. When the nocturnal monastic services called vigils or nocturns were joined with lauds, the name of "matins" was applied at first to the concluding morning service and later still to the entire series of vigils.
In the Byzantine Rite these vigils correspond to the aggregate comprising the midnight office, orthros, and the first hour.
In the Anglican tradition, matins or mattins is the morning prayer, consolidating 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.
See also
- Liturgy of the Hours
- Canonical hours
- Diurnum
- Compline
- Vigils
- Anglican Morning Prayers
- Night Hours
- Book of Hours
- Matins in Lutheranism
