The Apostles ' Creed is used in the non-Eucharistic services of Matins and Evening Prayer ( Evensong ).

In large churches where they were celebrated the services were usually grouped ; e. g. Matins and Lauds ( about 7. 30 A. M .); Prime, Terce ( High Mass ), Sext, and None ( about 10 A. M .); Vespers and Compline ( 4 P. M .); and from four to eight hours ( depending on the amount of music and the number of high masses ) are thus spent in choir.

In order that their services not be completely forgotten, a portion of them ( their canon at Matins, and their stichera from " Lord I Have Cried " at Vespers ) is chanted at Compline.

During Holy Week, the order of services is often brought forward by several hours: Matins being celebrated by anticipation the evening before, and Vespers in the morning.

The Short Service, an unpretentious setting of items for the Anglican Matins, Communion and Evensong services, which seems to designed to comply with the Protestant reformers ’ demand for clear words and simple musical textures, may well have been composed during the Lincoln years.

The 1662 Book of Common Prayer did not specify a particular rite to be observed on Good Friday but local custom came to mandate an assortment of services, including the Seven Last Words from the Cross and a three-hour service consisting of Matins, Ante-communion ( using the Reserved Sacrament in high church parishes ) and Evensong.

The boys choir and the girls choir ( each 16 strong ) sing alternate daily Evensong and Sunday Matins and Eucharist services throughout the school year.

In the Eastern Orthodox Church and the Eastern Catholic churches, the mantle is a monastic garment worn by bishops, hegumens, archimandrites, and other monastics in processions and while attending various church services, such as Vespers or Matins ; but not when vested to celebrate the Divine Liturgy.

The Epistle reading is always linked to a reading from the Gospel, though some services, such as Matins, will have a Gospel lesson, but no Epistle.

When the principal services of Holy Thursday, Good Friday, and the Easter Vigil were celebrated in the morning, the office of Matins and Lauds of each day was celebrated on the evening of the preceding day in the service known as Tenebrae ( Latin, " Darkness ").

Orthros ( Matins ) services for each day are held on the preceding evening.

* Irmologion ( Greek: ῾ Ειρμολόγιον ; Slavonic: Ирмологий, Irmologii )— Contains the Irmoi chanted at the Canon of Matins and other services.

Today, even in monasteries, the services are grouped together: Vespers and Compline are said together ; Matins and Prime are said together ; and the Third, Sixth and Ninth Hours are said together ; resulting in three times of prayer each day.

The Roman Catholic Church has a formal ' Adoration of the Cross ' ( the term is inaccurate, but sanctioned by long use ) during the services for Good Friday, while Eastern Orthodox churches everywhere, a replica of the cross is brought out in procession during Matins of Great and Holy Friday for the people to venerate.

The Gospel Book contains the readings that are used at Matins, the Divine Liturgy, Molebens, and other services.

The Eastern Orthodox Church and the Byzantine Rite Eastern Catholic Churches make frequent use of incense, not only at the Divine Liturgy ( Eucharist ), but also at Vespers, Matins and a number of other occasional services ( see Euchologion ).

Four services ( settings of canticles and other items for the new English Matins, Evensong and Communion services ) have all survived in incomplete form, the Second Service being of interest in that it influenced the design of Byrd ’ s Great Service ( research by Richard Turbet ).

When the nocturnal monastic services called Vigils or Nocturns were joined with Lauds, the name of " Matins " was applied at first to the concluding morning service and later still to the entire series of Vigils.

Matins is the longest and most complex of the daily cycle of services.

The " Song of the Three Holy Youths " is part of the hymn called a canon sung during the Matins and other services in Orthodoxy.

But with the demise of daily " Matins " ( choral morning prayer ) from the Anglican liturgy and the reduction of the choral element in communion services composers are now more likely only to set the evening service.

Since this chanting of Alleluia at Matins is characteristic of Lenten services, Lenten days are referred to as " Days with Alleluia.

Other services included here are The Office of the Prime, Matins, Vespers, Compline, and others.

The most notable alteration is the shortening of most feasts from nine to three lessons at Matins, keeping only the Scripture readings ( the former lesson i, then lessons ii and iii together ), followed by either the first part of the patristic reading ( lesson vii ) or, for most feasts, a condensed version of the former second Nocturn, which was formerly used when a feast was reduced in rank and commemorated.

Edwards in Matins, Lauds and Vespers for St David ’ s Day: the Medieval Office of the Welsh Patron Saint in National Library of Wales MS 20541 E ( Cambridge, 1990 )

The Great Canon itself is recited during Matins for Thursday, which is usually celebrated by anticipation on Wednesday evening, so that more people can attend.

As a part of the Matins of the Great Canon, the Life of St. Mary of Egypt by St. Sophronius, Patriarch of Jerusalem ( 634-638 ) is read, for her example of repentance and overcoming temptation.

The resurrection of Lazarus is understood as a foreshadowing of the Resurrection of Jesus, and many of the Resurrection hymns normally chanted on Sunday ( and which will be replaced the next day with hymns for Palm Sunday ) are chanted at Matins on the morning of Lazarus Saturday.

Since some of the most important readings and liturgical actions take place at Matins, it is celebrated in the evening ( rather than early in the morning before dawn, as is usual for Matins ) so that more people can attend.

That night, the hangings and vestments in the church are changed to black, and Matins for Great and Holy Friday is celebrated.

Also belonging to the more archaic stratum of motets is Libera me Domine ( a5 ), a cantus firmus setting of the ninth responsory at Matins for the Office for the Dead, which takes its point of departure from the setting by Robert Parsons, while Miserere mihi ( a6 ), a setting of a Compline antiphon often used by Tudor composers for didactic cantus firmus exercises, incorporates a four-in-two canon.

The reason for this is that the nights are longer in winter, especially in the northern latitudes, so during this season three Kathismas will be chanted at Matins instead of two, so in order to still have a reading from the Psalter at Vespers, the Eighteenth Kathisma is repeated.

The hour is struck on Great Dunstan, the largest bell in Kent 63cwt ( 3. 2 tonnes ), which is also swung on Sunday mornings for Matins.

Their days are structured by the selection of offices they follow ; the gathering for prayer at Matins ( at midnight ) and the following service of Lauds, Prime at 6 am, Vespers at 6 pm and Compline at 8 or 9 pm ( depending on the season ).

In the Eastern Orthodox and Greek-Catholic Churches, the Matins service for Good Friday is called Matins of the Twelve Passion Gospels, and is remarkable for the interspersing of twelve readings from the Gospel Book detailing chronologically the events of the Passion — from the Last Supper to the burial in the tomb — during the course of the service.

In the evening, the All-Night Vigil for the Feast of the Nativity is composed of Great Compline, Matins and the First Hour.

It terminates, as Matins formerly terminated, and Lauds at present terminates, by a lection, or reading, from the Gospel, or canticum evangelii, which, for Vespers, is always the " Magnificat ".

At Matins, Orthodox worship specifies a Great Doxology for feast days and a Small Doxology for ordinary days.

The " Song of the Three Holy Youths " is part of the Matins service in Eastern Orthodoxy, and of Lauds on Sundays and feast days in Catholicism.

Besides the Ladder, in some monasteries the Paradise of the Holy Fathers by Palladius and the penitential sermons of St. Ephrem the Syrian are read during Matins.

A Matins service, before the Holy Sepulchre | tomb on Good Friday at a St. Joseph the Betrothed Ukrainian Greek Catholic Church | church in Chicago.

The Matins service ( usually celebrated Thursday night ) is officially entitled, " The Office of the Holy and Redeeming Passion of our Lord Jesus Christ ", and is commonly known as the " Matins of the Twelve Gospels ", because interspersed throughout the service are twelve Gospel readings which recount the entire Passion of Christ from the Last Supper to the sealing of the tomb.

On Friday night, the Matins of Holy and Great Saturday, a unique service known as The Lamentation at the Tomb ( Epitáphios Thrēnos ) is celebrated.

This permits more of the faithful to attend, and shows that during Holy Week the times are out of joint — Matins ends up being served in the evening, and in some places Vespers is served in the morning.

Matins of Great and Holy Friday is celebrated on the evening of Holy Thursday.

Matins of Great and Holy Saturday is held on Friday evening.

This is used during Holy Week, especially during the Matins of Great Friday ( Good Friday ).

Special canons to the Holy Spirit are chanted at Compline and Matins.

The Epitaphios ( liturgical ) | Epitaphios with the Gospel Book in the center of an Orthodox temple prepared to be carried in procession near the end of Matins on Holy Saturday

Matins of Holy and Great Saturday ( usually held on Friday evening as per ancient church tradition based on Jewish practices ) takes the form of a funeral service for Christ.

Those portions of the vespers and matins which in sundry local customs take place before the Icon of the Feast ( e. g., the chanting of the Polyeleos and the Matins Gospel ) instead take place in front of the Holy Table.

In the Roman Catholic Church, Tenebrae is the name given to the celebration, with special ceremonies, of Matins and Lauds, the first two hours of the Divine Office, of the last three days of Holy Week.

The celebration of Matins and Lauds of these days in the form referred to as Tenebrae in churches with a sufficient number of clergy was universal in the Roman Rite until the reform of the Holy Week ceremonies by Pope Pius XII in 1955.

At that time, the Easter Vigil was restored as a night office, moving that Easter liturgy from Holy Saturday morning to the following night ; the principal liturgies of Holy Thursday and Good Friday were likewise moved from morning to afternoon or evening, and thus Matins and Lauds were no longer allowed to be anticipated on the preceding evening, except for the Matins and Lauds of Holy Thursday in the case of cathedral churches in which the Mass of the Chrism was held on Holy Thursday morning.