mattins

English

Noun

mattins

  1. (rare outside Anglicanism) Synonym of matins or morning prayer
    • 2013 January 23, “What's wrong with the word servant?”, in Salisbury Journal‎[1], archived from the original on 11 October 2025:
      Every Sunday those of us who still go to Mattins will say the prayer of Saint Chrysostom containing the request “Fulfil now, O Lord, the desires and petitions of thy servants, as may be most expedient for them; granting us in this world knowledge of thy truth, and in the world to come life everlasting”.
    • [2025, St Paul's Cathedral‎[2], archived from the original on 11 October 2025:
      Mattins is the first of the large Sunday services, in which the Morning Prayer from the Book of Common Prayer of 1662 is sung]
    • [2025, Cathedral Music Trust‎[3], archived from the original on 11 October 2025:
      Common practice today is to refer to the choral or sung version of the service as Mattins (or Matins) and the spoken version as Morning Prayer.]

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