Matins (disambiguation)

Matins is the canonical hour ending at dawn in the Roman Catholic monastic Liturgy of the Hours.

Matins may also refer to:

Religion

• Orthros, the equivalent office in the Eastern Churches
• Matins Gospel, the solemn chanting of a passage from the Four Gospels during Matins in the Orthodox and Byzantine Rite Eastern Catholic churches
• Morning Prayer (Anglican), often called Matins or Mattins
• Matins in Lutheranism, a morning order

Poetry

• "Matins", the first of seven poems in the series "Horae Canonicae" by Scottish poet Donald Davie (1922–1995)
• Matins, a collection of thirty poems by Canadian poet Francis Joseph Sherman (1871–1926) published in 1896