Saturday, February 21, 2009

Matins


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matins

matins n. (used with a sing. or pl. verb) Ecclesiastical. The office that formerly constituted together with lauds the first of the seven canonical
Matins (also spelled Mattins, from the Latin, matutinae, "morning"), also called Orthros (from Greek, meaning "morning", "dawn" or "day break"), is the longest and most complex of
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And when matins and the first mass were done, there was seen in the churchyard, against the high altar, a great stone foursquare, like unto a marble stone, and in the midst thereof
Matins: KNEEL (PRAYER BEFORE OFFICE) Aperi, Domine: STAND and PROFOUND INCLINATION: The Triple Prayer is always said in silence, in the manner prescribed in Common Forms.
mat·ins   (m t nz) n. (used with a sing. or pl. verb) 1. a. Ecclesiastical The office that formerly constituted together with lauds the first of the seven canonical hours.
Not Morning Prayer, but a nighttime prayer, which has now been replaced by the Office of Readings

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