Matins

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Liturgical churches have a Matins service that does not include the Lord's Supper and is generally defined as a morning prayer service. This Sunday I'll be chanting the layman's part for the first time and I'm excited that my tongue has healed enough after my cancer surgery to be able to do this.

I have said before that our liturgies come straight from scripture and I will be copying and pasting Matins here and adding the scriptural references. All of these parts are sung (chanted).

 

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L - O Lord, open my lips,
C - and my mouth will declare your praise (Psalm 51:15)
L - Make haste, O God, to deliver me;
C - make haste to help me, O Lord (Psalm 70:1)

C - Glory be to the Father and to the Son and to the Holy Spirit;
as it was in the begining, is now, and will be forever. Amen.

C - Praise to you, O Christ, Alleluia.

Common (or Seasonal) Antiphon

L - Blessed be God, the Father, the Son and the Holy Spirit.
C - O come, let us worship Him.

 

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Venite (95:1-7)
C - O come let us sing unto the Lord
Let us make a joyful noise to the Rock of our salvation.
Let us come before His presence with thanksgiving;
And make a joyful noise unto Him with psalms.
For the Lord is a great God
And a great King above all gods.
In His hand are the deep places of the earth;
The strength of the hills is His also
The sea is His, and He made it;
And His hands formed the dry land.
Oh, come let us worship and bow down;
Let us kneel before the Lord our maker
For He is our God
And we are the people of His pasture
And the sheep of His hand.
Glory be to the Father and to the Son
And to the Holy Ghost
As it was in the beginning, is now,
And ever shall be; world without end. Amen

 

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Common (or Seasonal) Antiphon

L - Blessed be God, the Father, the Son and the Holy Spirit.
C - O come, let us worship Him.

Additional Psalms.
Readings (not sung)

Responsory Psalm 119:89; 26:8; Luke 11:28

L - Forever, O Lord, Your Word is firmly set in the heavens.
C - Lord, I love the habitation of your house and the place where Your glory dwells.
L - Blessed are those who hear the Word of God and keep it.
C - Lord, I love the habitation of your house and the place where Your glory dwells.
L - Glory be to the Father and to the Son and to the Holy Spirit.
C - Lord, I love the habitation of your house and the place where Your glory dwells.

Canticle
Te Deum
C - We praise You, O God; we acknowledge You to be the Lord.
All the earth now worships You, the Father ever lasting.
To You all angels cry aloud, the heavens and all the powers therein.
To You cherubim and seraphim continually do cry;
Holy, holy, holy, Lord God of Sabaoth;
heaven and earth are full of the majesty of Your glory.
The glorious company of the apostles praise You.
The goodly fellowship of the prophets praise You.
The noble army of martyrs praise You.
The holy Church throughout all the world does acknowledge You.
The Father of an infinite majesty; Your adorable, true, and oly Son;
also the Holy Ghost, the Comforter.
You are the king of glory, O Christ;
You are the everlasting Son of the Father.
When you took upon Yourself to deliver man,
You humbled Yourself to be born of a virgin.
When You had overcome the sharpness of death,
You opened the kingdom of heaven to all believers.
You sit at the right hand of God
in the glory of the Father.
We believe that You will come
to be our judge.
We there pray You to help Your servants,
whom You have redeemed with Your precious blood.
Make them to be numbered with Your saints
in glory everlasting.
O Lord save Your people and bless Your heritage,
Govern them and lift them up forever.
Day by day we magnify You.
And we worship Your name forever and ever.
Grant, O Lord, to keep us this day without sin.
O Lord, have mercy upon us, have mercy upon us.
O Lord, let Your mercy be upon us, as our trust is in You.
O Lord, in You have I trusted; let me never be confounded.

 

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or Benedictus - Song of Zechariah (Luke 1:68-79)
C - Blessed be the Lord God of Israel;
for He has visited and redeemed His people
and has raised up a horn of salvation for us
in the house of His servant David,
as He spoke by the mouth of His holy prophets,
who have been since the world began;
that we should be saved from our enemies
and from the hand of all who hate us;
to perform the mercy promised to our fathers
and to remember His holy covenant,
the oath that He swore to our father Abraham,
to grant us that we,
being delivered from the hand of our enemies,
might serve Him without fear,
in holiness and righteousness before Him
all the days of our life.
And you, child, will be called the prophet of the Most High;
for you will go before the Lord to prepare His ways;
to give knowledge of salvation to His people
in the forgiveness of their sins,
when the day shall dawn upon us from on high
to give light to those who sit in darkness and in the shadow of death,
to guide our feet info the way of peace.
Glory be to the Father and to the Son
and to the Holy Spirit;
as it was in the beginning,
is now, and will be forever. Amen.

 

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Offering
Prayer
Kyrie (Mark 10:47)
C - Lord, have mercy; Christ, have mercy; Lord, have mercy.

The Lord's Prayer

Collects
L - O Lord, hear my prayer
C - And let my cry come to You.

or
P - The Lord be with You.
C - And with your spirit.

Collect of the day.
Collect for Grace
L -O Lord, our heavenly Father, almighty and everlasting God, You have safely
brought us to the beginning of this day. Defend us in the same with Your
mighty power and grant that this day we fall into no sin, neither run into any
kind of danger, but that all our doings, being ordered by Your governance, may
be righteous in Your sight; through Jesus Christ, Your Son, our Lord, who lives
and reigns with You and the Holy Spirit, one God, now and forever.
C - Amen

The Benedicamus (Psalm 103:1)
L - Let us bless the Lord.
C - Thanks be to God.

Benediction (2 Corinthians 13:14
P - The grace of our Lord Jesus Christ
The love of God and the communion of the Holy Spirit
Be with you all.
C - Amen.