Bible Translators Theologians In the Lutheran Church, Matins is a morning-time liturgical order combining features that were found in the Medieval orders of Matins, Lauds, and Prime.
Lutherans generally retained the Order of Matins for use in schools and in larger city parishes throughout the 16th and 17th centuries.
For example, at the close of the eighteenth century in Leipzig, one historian records that "every Sunday and festival day the canonical hours taken over from the Roman Catholic Church are still being chanted before [the chief service] at 6:30 am.
The first column contains the Offices of Matins, Lauds, and Prime as found in the pre-Reformation breviary from the Archdiocese of Magdeburg.
Along with the outline of the office itself, the various propers for Matins of the First Sunday in Advent are also included.