Editing Matins (section)

====''Roman Breviary'' matins====
In the ''Roman Breviary'', use of which was made obligatory throughout the [[Latin Church]] (with exceptions for forms of the [[Liturgy of the Hours]] that could show they had been in continuous use for at least two hundred years) by Pope Pius V in 1568, matins and lauds were seen as a single canonical hour, with lauds as an appendage to matins.<ref>[https://books.google.com/books?id=y8NVAAAAcAAJ&dq=Roman+Breviary+appended&pg=PA19 John Henry Newman, ''On the Roman Breviary as embodying the substance of the devotional services of the Church Catholic'' (Tracts for the Times, 75), p. 19]</ref>

Its matins began, as in the monastic matins, with versicles and the [[invitatory]] Psalm 94 (Psalm 95 in the Masoretic text) chanted or recited in the responsorial form, that is to say, by one or more [[Cantor (church)|cantor]]s singing one verse, which the [[choir]] repeated as a response to the successive verses sung by the cantors. A [[hymn]] was then sung.{{citation needed|date=January 2025}}

After that introduction, Sunday matins had three sections ("[[nocturns]]"), the first with 12 psalms and 3 very short scriptural readings; the second with 3 psalms and 3 equally short [[Fathers of the Church|patristic]] readings; and the third with 3 psalms and 3 short extracts from a homily. Matins of feasts of [[Ranking of liturgical days in the Roman Rite|double or semidouble rank]] had 3 nocturns, each with 3 psalms and 3 readings.<ref>''Rubricae Generales Breviarii'', I,5; II,4</ref> On a feast of simple rank, a ''feria'' or a vigil day, matins had 12 psalms and 3 readings with no division into nocturns.<ref>[https://archive.org/details/bub_gb_ieGIT3_BdREC ''Rubricae Generales Breviarii'', III,4; V,3; VI,4]</ref><ref>[https://books.google.com/books?id=q1DNl-q61-wC&q=breviarium+romanum ''Breviarium Romanum'' (Dessain 1861), as an example of a volume of the Roman Breviary]</ref>

The psalms used at matins in the Roman Breviary from Sunday to Saturday were Psalms 1−108/109 in consecutive order, omitting a few that were reserved for other canonical hours: Psalms 4, 5, 21/22−25/26, 41/42, 50/51, 53/54, 62/63, 66/67, 89/90−92/93.<ref name=PiusV&X>[https://rorate-caeli.blogspot.com/2011/10/divino-afflatu-centennial-ii-comparing.html List of psalms in the Pius V and the Pius X matins]</ref> The consecutive order was not observed for the invitatory psalms, recited every day, and in the matins of feasts.{{citation needed|date=January 2025}}

Each reading was followed by a [[responsory]], except the last one, when this was followed by the ''[[Te Deum]]''.{{citation needed|date=January 2025}}