title: Matins (disambiguation)
text: # 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
  * "Matins", any of seven non-sequential poems in Louise Glück's 1992 book, The Wild Iris
  