Editing Matins (section)

===Non-Roman Western Rites===
In the office of the Church of Jerusalem, of which the pilgrim [[Egeria (pilgrim)|Ætheria]] gives us a description, the vigils on Sundays terminated with the solemn reading of the [[Gospel]], in the [[Church of the Holy Sepulchre]]. This practice of reading the Gospel has been preserved in the [[Benedictine]] liturgy. In the Tridentine [[Roman Rite|Roman Liturgy]] this custom, so ancient and so solemn, was no longer represented but by the [[Homily]];<ref name=CE1911/> but after the [[Second Vatican Council]] it has been restored for the celebration of vigils.<ref>[https://web.archive.org/web/20070928023257/http://www.catholicchurch.org.uk/liturgy/Resources/Rites/GILH.pdf The General Instruction of the Liturgy of the Hours], 73</ref>

The [[Ambrosian Rite|Ambrosian Liturgy]], better perhaps than any other, preserved traces of the great vigils or ''pannychides'', with their complex and varied display of processions, psalmodies, etc. The same liturgy also preserved vigils of long psalmody. This nocturnal office adapted itself at a later period to a more modern form, approaching more and more closely to the Roman liturgy. Here too were found the three nocturns, with [[Antiphon]], psalms, lessons, and responses, the ordinary elements of the Roman matins, and with a few special features quite Ambrosian.<ref name=CE1911/>

As revised after the [[Second Vatican Council]], the Ambrosian [[liturgy of the hours]] uses for what once called matins either the designation "the part of matins that precedes lLauds in the strict sense" or simply Office of Readings.<ref>[http://www.unipiams.org/en/?id=207&PHPSESSID=5ff4d7343830c67a79b587060b9ad61c Ambrosian liturgy of the hours in latin: Introduction]</ref> Its structure is similar to that of the Roman Liturgy of the Hours, with variations such as having on Sundays three canticles, on Saturdays a canticle and two psalms, in place of the three psalms of the other days in the Ambrosian Rite and of every day in the [[Roman Rite]].<ref>[http://www.unipiams.org/en/?id=208&PHPSESSID=5ff4d7343830c67a79b587060b9ad61c Ambrosian Liturgy of the Hours in latin: chapter II], IV. De Officio Lectionis</ref>

In the [[Mozarabic Rite|Mozarabic liturgy]], on the contrary, Matins is a system of antiphons, collects, and versicles which make them quite a departure from the Roman system.<ref name=CE1911/>