matins
Early morning worship
Matins is the first of the canonical hours in Christian liturgy, traditionally observed before dawn or at midnight.
The word typically appears in plural form even when referring to a single service: The monks rose for matins at 3 a.m.
In Anglican churches, matins (or mattins) often refers to the morning prayer service more broadly.
Expresses high admiration
- vespersEvening devotional service
- complineDay's final liturgy
- primeReadying for action
- sextExplicit mobile communication
none · canonical · hours · breviary · office · antiphon · psalmody · canticle
Monastic house of worship
- cloisterCovered monastic walkway
- monkCloistered religious devotee
- nunHebrew alphabet's fourteenth
- chantRepetitive rhythmic phrase
Gregorian · refectory · bell · chapel · devotion · dormitory · rising · observance
Early devotional practice
- Book of Common PrayerAnglican official worship text
- cathedralBishop's principal church
- parishLocal church community
- psalterDevotional song compilation
collect · canticle · suffrages · vicar · churchgoing
lauds
Expresses high admiration
sext · none · canonical · hours · breviary · office · antiphon · psalmody · canticle · lectionary
abbey
Monastic house of worship
chant · Gregorian · refectory · bell · chapel · devotion · dormitory · rising · observance · rule
morning prayer
Early devotional practice
- Book of Common PrayerAnglican official worship text
- cathedralBishop's principal church
- parishLocal church community
psalter · collect · canticle · suffrages · vicar · churchgoing
cockcrow
Dawn, announced by fowl
- daybreakMorning's first light
- sunriseMorning light's arrival
- first lightEarliest morning brightness
early morning · waking · pre-dawn · rosy · bells · call · summoning
- liturgical booksbreviary, missal, lectionary, missals, breviaries
- monastic lifecelibacy, cloister, habit, vespers, obedience
- choral termscantata, oratorio, mass, requiem, anthem
- morning songsreveille, aubade, dawn chorus
- Breviarylauds, compline, sext, none, prime
- Divine Officelauds, vespers, compline, sext, none
matinsvespers
Evening devotional service
evensong · compline · evening prayer · night prayer · vigils
- matinee idolHandsome stage or film star
- saturday matinee
- matinee showsAfternoon entertainment presentations
- matinee pricingLower fees for afternoon performances