Mattins

Every Sunday those of us who still go to Mattins will say the prayer of Saint Chrysostom containing the request “Fulfil now, O Lord, the desires and petitions of thy servants, as may be most expedient for them; granting us in this world knowledge of thy truth, and in the world to come life everlasting”.

Mattins is the first of the large Sunday services, in which the Morning Prayer from the Book of Common Prayer of 1662 is sung

Common practice today is to refer to the choral or sung version of the service as Mattins (or Matins) and the spoken version as Morning Prayer.