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    The Matins Gospel is the solemn chanting of a lection from one of the Four Gospels during Matins in the Orthodox Church and those Eastern Catholic churches...
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    Matins (also Mattins) is a canonical hour in Christian liturgy, originally sung during the darkness of early morning. The earliest use of the term was...
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    typica follows the sixth hour (or matins, where the custom is to serve the Liturgy then) and the Epistle and Gospel readings for the day are read therein;...
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    successive Sundays at matins; there are hymns sung at Matins that correspond with that day's Matins Gospel. The Daily Cycle begins with Vespers and proceeds...
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    Sundays and during Pascaltide Little Litany Anabathmoi Hypakoe Matins Prokeimenon Matins Gospel "Having beheld the Resurrection of Christ" on Sundays and during...
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    individuals in the Death and Resurrection of Jesus: Matins Gospel, Divine Liturgy, Epistle and Gospel. Since this day commemorates events surrounding not...
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  • Gospel reading The Anavathmoi ("hymns of ascent") based on Psalms 119-133, called the Song of Degrees) The Prokeimenon The order of the Matins Gospel...
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  • during various religious services Matins Gospel, a reading from the Gospels during Matins in some Eastern churches Gospel (novel), a 1993 novel by Wilton...
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    higher-ranking feast there will be a Gospel at Matins (normal weekday Matins does not have a Gospel reading). If so, the Gospel is still read by the priest, but...
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  • successive Sundays at matins; there are hymns sung at Matins that correspond with that day's Matins Gospel. The Daily Cycle begins with Vespers and proceeds...
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