Crowds of bees are giddy with clover, Crowds of grasshoppers skip at our feet, Crowds of larks at their matins hang over, Thanking the Lord for a life so sweet.
Between the matins and the mass there were even fewer people left in the church.
After standing through the matins and the mass, and having kissed the relics, the old women, with difficulty making their way, arrived at the house of the Chernyshevs.
But, inasmuch as the Prayer Book contains no direction that sermons shall follow Matins or Evensong, such sermons may be regarded as in the nature of separate or additional services.
So many as intend to be partakers of the Holy Communion shall signify their names to the curate overnight or else in the morning afore the beginning of Matins or immediately after.
All this time Otterbourne had only one Sunday service, alternately matins or evensong, and the church bell was rung as soon as the clergyman could be espied riding down the lane.
Going forth to matins ere the dawn of day, For from a single service she seldom kept away.
All night till break of day With troublous thoughts companion'd on her weary couch she lay, Nor ceas'd the tears a moment from her fair eyes to flow, Till early dawn to matins bade the pale mourner go.
The ordinary canonical hours were chanted in choir--Matins and Lauds generally at midnight.
As soon as matins were finished, the blessed body of the saint was carried back to the hospice, accompanied by all the brethren chanting psalms.
But as soon as the bell for matins struck at the midnight hour, he rose up quickly, and going to the church before the others he entered it alone and threw himself on his bended knees in prayer near the altar.
Matins were recited before day dawned, and no doubt the rock was an obstacle in the darkness to the brethren when going from their cells to the church.
The Emperor rose with the day-dawn clear, Failed not Matins and Mass to hear, Then betook him beneath a pine, Summoned his barons by word and sign: As his Franks advise will his choice incline.
LV The Emperor rose with the day dawn clear, Failed not Matins and Mass to hear, Sate at his tent on the fair green sward, Roland and Olivier nigh their lord, Duke Naimes and all his peers of fame.
They sleep robed and girt, and never return to their beds after matins, but they so order the hour of matins that it shall be light before the laudes; they are so careful of the rule that they deem no jot or tittle should be disregarded.
The nobles, given over to gluttony and lust, used not to attend church in the morning in Christian fashion, but lay in bed till late hours and idly listened to the service ofmatins and masses from the lips of a hurrying priest.
Matins and prime they sang there till the dawn had begun, Before the sun had risen the mass was o'er and done.
And the bells are rung for matins with all the haste they may.
In San Pedro to say matins the Abbot good will be; He will say mass in our behalf to the Holy Trinity.
Don Sancho was his name; And he was saying matins at the breaking of the day.
It was divided into nocturns, each consisting of a group of psalms followed by three lessons: on ordinary days matins consisted of a single nocturn, but on most feast-days there were three.
The dead bodies of monks rested in the chapter-house at Durham, and matins of the dead were sung for them here before they took their last journey through the parlour to the graveyard.
Their night was divided into two equal portions, between which came the night-office of matins followed by lauds.
In most monasteries the brethren entered and left the church in procession before and after matins by the night-stair, and the time between dressing and the signal to go to church was occupied in private prayer.
Perhaps you like this better:--'Yesterday I went to town and heard the matins read.
Towards midnight all repair to the church for Matins and Lauds, which are celebrated with extraordinary solemnity and prolixity, so as to last from 2 to 3 hours, according to the office.
They recite the prayers for minor canonical hours in their own dwellings, when warned by the bell of the church; but they all assemble in church for matins and vespers.
This we learn from Primaria Instituta Canonicorum Præmonstratensium[1068], where it is ordered that the sacristan should regulate the horologium and make it sound before matins to awaken him.
The office of matins and lauds, for the three last days in Holy Week.
In Matinsand Evensong, and in the Eucharistic Office, a form of "general confession" is provided.
This capacity will probably be less marked at Matinsand Evensong than at Holy Communion, and at Holy Communion than in private Confession, because it will be less personal, less thorough.
He is saying Matins as a Deacon just before his {131} Ordination, and he is forbidden to pronounce the Absolution: he is saying Evensong just after his Ordination, and he is ordered to pronounce the Absolution.
But the formal act is the same in each case; and to stroll late into church, as if the Absolution in Matins and Evensong does not matter, may be to incur a very distinct loss.
Reading the Prayer Book as it stands, from Matins to the Consecration of an Archbishop, no reviewer could miss its devotional beauty.
Then, finding that he was not dead, he said his matins with a better heart.
Those who had known him in former days, rubicund, carrying a good paunch and a joyous face, wont to tell his matins with bottles and his vespers with flagons, would certainly never have recognized him.
In Advent 1664 he suddenly reappeared with many monks at early matinsin the Uspenski Cathedral, peremptorily ordered the officiating clergy to perform certain offices.
Tsaritsa and, later, might himself attend her in the vestibule and accompany her to matins in one of the chapels of the palace.
Rouse ye, Ilya of Murom," cried Diuk; "it is time to go to royal Kiev town so as to be present at matins on Easter morn.
Now as I greeted my Risen Lord at matins this morning, I vowed to come hither by the straight way, and I came.
She has gone to matins now, but will soon return to give you her blessing.
And when matins are over, bring her to our venerable mother, whose soul will be filled with rapture to see her," twaddled the old nun, until the party passed in from her sight.
The sisters promised to bring the mother abbess to her bedside as soon as the matins should be over.
