Matins (disambiguation)

Matins is the canonical hour ending at dawn in the Roman Catholic monastic Liturgy of the Hours.

Matins may also refer to:

Religion
  • Orthros, the equivalent office in the Eastern Churches
  • Matins Gospel, the solemn chanting of a passage from the Four Gospels during Matins in the Orthodox and Byzantine Rite Eastern Catholic churches
  • Morning Prayer (Anglican), often called Matins or Mattins
  • Matins in Lutheranism, a morning order

Poetry
  • "Matins", the first of seven poems in the series "Horae Canonicae" by Scottish poet Donald Davie (1922–1995)
  • Matins, a collection of thirty poems by Canadian poet Francis Joseph Sherman (1871–1926) published in 1896
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