matins

[ UK /mˈætɪnz/ ]
NOUN
  1. the first canonical hour; at daybreak
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How To Use matins In A Sentence

  • The rhythm of my days goes slower now: matins and lauds, vespers and compline.
  • The Hour of Matins is divided into three nocturns, as on the greater feasts, each of which consists of three psalms with their antiphons, a versicle, and three readings with their responsories. Compendium of the 1955 Holy Week Revisions of Pius XII: Part 5 - Tenebrae and the Divine Office of the Triduum
  • For example, the chantress Hailrat of Engelthal was at Matins on the fourth Sunday of Advent when she and the other nuns sang the fifth response Virgo Israel. Sensual Encounters: Monastic Women and Spirituality in Medieval Germany
  • _Domine labia mea aperies; _ when, if an answer came, he might enter and say matins with his master. Castles and Cave Dwellings of Europe
  • Matins on important feasts and Sundays had three nocturns, while less important feasts and weekdays had only two nocturns.
  • Si, je sais bien que tous les matins elles balayent leurs escaliers puis y jettent un seau d'eau. Tante Marie-Francoise
  • It was a Sunday and from modern village far below, the silence was broken by a single male, bass voice chanting: the village priest at his matins.
  • At that moment, the semantron was struck for Matins, and the priest awoke and came to himself. This Is Life!: Revolutions Around the Cruciform Axis
  • They went to that office of the night which is called matins in those churches in which it is said at midnight, as is still the custom at Notre Dame, in Paris. The Life and Legends of Saint Francis of Assisi
  • This is another example of a long hymn broken up into shorter ones for use at the various Office hours of a particular feast or season; the Ut queant laxis section about the first third of the hymn is used at Vespers; the Antra deserti teneris sub annis section is used at Matins; and the O nimis felix, meritique celsi section is used at Lauds. Archive 2008-06-01
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