Editing Matins (section)

==Liturgy==
In the [[Liturgy of the Hours]] of the [[Catholic Church|Roman Catholic Church]], Matins is also called “the Office of Readings”, which includes several psalms, a chapter of a book of Scripture (assigned according to the liturgical seasons), and a reading from the works of [[patristics|patristic]] authors or saints.{{citation needed|date=January 2025}}

In the [[Byzantine Rite]], these vigils correspond to the aggregate comprising the [[Midnight office]], [[orthros]], and the [[Prime (liturgy)#Constantinopolitan Rite|first hour]].{{citation needed|date=April 2019}}

[[Lutheranism|Lutherans]] preserve [[Matins in Lutheranism|recognizably traditional Matins]], distinct from the office of [[Lauds|morning prayer]].{{citation needed|date=January 2025}}  

In the [[Daily Office (Anglican)|Anglican Daily Office]], Matins, occasionally spelled Mattins, combines the hours of Matins and Lauds as established by [[Benedict of Nursia|St. Benedict]] in Roman Catholicism and observed in England until the Reformation, most grandly in the [[Use of Sarum|Sarum Rite]]. It is one of the two daily times for prayer, the other being [[Evensong]], which combines St. Benedict's Vespers and Compline. {{citation needed|date=January 2025}}

In [[Oriental Orthodox Churches|Oriental Orthodox Christianity]] and [[Eastern Protestant Christianity|Oriental Protestant Christianity]], the office is prayed at 6 am, being known as '''Sapro''' in the [[Syriac Christianity|Syriac]] and [[Christianity in India|Indian]] traditions; it is prayed facing the [[direction of prayer|eastward direction of prayer]] by all members in these denominations, both clergy and laity, being one of the [[Fixed prayer times#Christianity|seven fixed prayer times]].<ref name="Kurian2020">{{cite web |last1=Kurian |first1=Jake |title="Seven Times a Day I Praise You" – The Shehimo Prayers |url=http://www.ds-wa.org/seven-times-a-day-i-praise-you-the-sheema-prayers.html |publisher=[[Malankara Orthodox Diocese of Southwest America|Diocese of South-West America of the Malankara Orthodox Syrian Church]]|access-date=2 August 2020}}</ref><ref name="DSWA2016">{{cite book |title=Shehimo: Book of Common Prayer |date=2016 |publisher=[[Malankara Orthodox Diocese of Southwest America|Diocese of South-West America of the Malankara Orthodox Syrian Church]] |page=5 |language=en |quote=The seven hours of prayer create a cycle that provides us with a foretaste of the eternal life we will spend in the presence of God worshipping Him. ... We pray standing upright while facing East as we collect our thoughts on God.}}</ref><ref name="Richards1908">{{cite book |last1=Richards |first1=William Joseph |title=The Indian Christians of St. Thomas: Otherwise Called the Syrian Christians of Malabar: a Sketch of Their History and an Account of Their Present Condition as Well as a Discussion of the Legend of St. Thomas |date=1908 |publisher=Bemrose |page=98 |language=en |quote=We are commanded to pray standing, with faces towards the East, for at the last Messiah is manifested in the East. 2. All Christians, on rising from sleep early in the morning, should wash the face and pray. 3. We are commanded to pray seven times, thus...}}</ref>

"Matins" is sometimes used in other [[Protestantism|Protestant]] denominations to describe any morning service.{{citation needed|date=January 2025}}