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the first canonical hour

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Social Welfare Inspector Anthony Farrell told the court he first interviewed Mattins in October 2006.
During the mattins on Easter morning, prayers were said for the Queen as they are at every service, and also for those serving in Iraq and Afghanistan.
As clock, that calleth up the spouse of God To win her Bridegroom's love at mattins' hour Each part of other fitly drawn and urged Sends out a tinkling sound of note so sweet.
Ex-intimates were said to have stalked 30% of the women and 27% of the men (Budd & Mattins on, 2000).
It's all about leveraging consumers' passion and interest in celebrities," Mattins says.
Thomas Carlyle perhaps summed it up best in his essay on Sir Walter Scott: "Under all speech that is good for anything there lies a silence that is better." Let all those helter-skelter celebrants, all those clergy who recite endless petitions in the last strophe of mattins, all those choirmasters who fill every silence with ancient chants ponder the conclusion of Carlyle's paragraph when he states: "Silence is deep as eternity; speech as shallow as Time."
165 Veni creator: The famous Pentecost hymn, probably ninth century, sung regularly at Mattins.
HOLMBRIDGE | Mattins on Wednesday at St David's Church was led by Ian Gold.
However, the Easter break meant she could take time out and join her family for the Mattins service at St George's Chapel.
Tenebrae is really the Mattins (early Morning Prayer) for Maundy Thursday.
So two English Protestant cultures developed: a mainstream, reared on Mattins and Evensong, the other the nonconformity of Milton, Bunyan and Isaac Watts: a culture which in the United States has reversed its marginality and become the vehicle of money and power.
In his will he directed that every year a gown of black with a hood would be provided; and that everyday they should attend Mattins, Mass and Evensong; and daily, after they had supped, every man should go into church and, kneeling down, should say fifteen paternosters and fifteen aves, and three creeds, in the worship of the passion of Christ.