matins

Tous les Matins du Monde is another fond memory, but it's a biopic of Marin Marais, a composer.

Donnez-lui tous les matins l’argent qu’il peu gagner chaque jour, à la charge qu’il ne joue point: vous le rendez malheureux.

At my school from 6-12, we did indeed have to get up at 2am for matins.

Hardly a singular obsession of one person when we have both Vigil and Matins as standards of the canonical hours for much of the past two thousand years of church records.

Following that, they retire, but then they will have to return to the church very early the next morning for matins, and apparently they wake up a couple of hours before that for personal devotions.

I have been trying to pray Matins more regularly as well (also called the Office of Readings), which is three psalms followed by a longer reading from the Bible and reading from one of the Church Fathers.

There is a very important scene in "Tous les Matins du Monde" where Gerard Depardieu is pretending to play a Viola de Gamba.

For some reason the following caught my eye in this interesting article: "In between the first and second sleep the person would be awake about an hour – enough to say prayers during Matins, which would typically fall between 2 am and 3 am, study or even have sex." Why the even:-)?

So the Lamentation service of Holy Saturday will have been said on the calendar-Friday and the first services of Pascha, the Rush Procession and Orthros (Matins), will start on calendar-Saturday.