The Hour-Services, of which the principal wereMattins and Vespers, correspond to our Morning and Evening Prayer.
The seven Canonical hours of the Church were:-- { Mattins or Nocturns, usually sung between midnight and daybreak.
These seven offices were condensed in 1519 into two, our presentMattins and Evensong.
Mattins companies which form --8 verses in and reply to one the Litany Evensong another 4.
Tumulo Completa reponit; which may be translated: Seven are the hours at which we sing and pray; Mattins for Christ who takes our sins away, Prime shows Him mocked, and Terce says why He died.
Morning and Evening Prayer (called also Mattins and Evensong: see Table of Proper Lessons) are two divisions of the same chapter.
The chief Lessons from the Bible were read in the Mattins Service when it was said before Lauds.
And this order may be found also after the Versicles of Mattins and Evensong, O Lord, open thou our lips.
You forget your repast every morning for mass, and mattins often ring in your ears much before the hour.
Mattins are over, and there is time enough ere high mass," said the maiden; "but take some refreshment.
They now were returning from mattins with their extinguished lanterns in their hands.
The Palm Sunday procession at Mattins issued from the west door of the church, visited the stations in the churchyard and re-entered the church by the same door.
Then Flora 'gins to decke the fields With colours fresh and fine, Then holy clerkes their mattins sing To good Saint Valentine!
The other morninge Sir Cawline rose By the dawning of the day, And vntill a garden did he goe His mattins ffor to say; And that bespyed a ffalse steward, A shames death that he might dye!
We make it known we shall be pleased to see them after Mattinsand Evensong.
I remember thinking, when I made that promise which everyone makes when they are ordained, of obeying the Prayer-Book and saying Mattins and Evensong every day, that it would be a kind of slavery to me.
If any of you have drifted away from your regular use of Mattins and Evensong, or if you have not started it in your own churches, make a resolution to start it from to-day.
We have no right to complain for a moment of what some people call the monotony of Mattins and Evensong for ourselves.
Then we will keep mattins and ship's law on our own ground, ere the Bishop takes Lubeck law out of our hands.
Ere mattins were ended, the Marsk and his huntsmen brought a bound captive to the tower.
Soon afterwards Marsk Oluffsen's rough voice was heard in the court of the castle, and ere it rang for mattins a knight, at the head of a troop of horse, rode at full gallop out of the castle gate.
All the castle windows which looked on the tilt-yard were already crowded with richly attired ladies, and most persons seemed to have forgotten both mattins and mass for the festival.
Stories and Teaching on the Mattins and Evensong=: By DR.
It has been restored of late years for devotional use, and here the boys of the King's Grammar School attend daily Mattins and Evensong.
It was the time when, as the lax monks say, the birds say mattins (but the strict observants call it compline), but there was neithermattins nor compline then in the green wood.
At Mattinsand Evensong the following Psalms, Lessons, Suffrages, and Collects may be used: Proper Psalms, xx.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "mattins" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
