WordNet
n. the first canonical hour; at daybreak [syn: matins]
Wikipedia
Morning Prayer (also Matins or Mattins), is one of the two main Daily Offices in Anglican churches, prescribed in the various editions of the Book of Common Prayer and other Anglican liturgical texts. Like Evening Prayer (and in contrast to the Eucharist), it may be led by a layperson and is recited by some Anglicans daily in private (clergy in many Anglican jurisdictions are required to do so).
Morning Prayer may refer to:
- Prayers in various traditions said during the morning
- Morning Prayer (Anglican), one of the two main Daily Offices in the churches of the Anglican Communion
- Vigils, a term for night prayer in ancient Christianity
- Matins, the monastic nighttime liturgy, ending at dawn, of the canonical hours
- Lauds, a divine office that takes place in the early morning hours
- Fajr (Islam)
- Shacharit, in Jewish Services
Morning Prayer is a 1978 album by Chico Freeman, released on India Navigation and the Japanese Whynot Records.
Usage examples of "morning prayer".
Faqoosh in his tatty robes leading a small band of the faithful in the morning prayer.
When I get up to have my morning prayer time, outside is still as black as night.
It was the hour of the morning prayer, and I was kneeling yonder, with my face turned toward Mecca, toward the east, and these men came from the west.
The crystal dome caught the sound, ringing to herald the coming dawn, and the Temple grounds suddenly burst into Me as priests and priestesses spilled out of the cloisters, answering the call to morning prayer.
The longest prayer of the day was the morning prayer, which was traditionally said before breakfast and could take an hour.
It was regrettable that we had arrived during the morning prayer, but there was nothing for it.
The Empress has her own cleric attached to her own suite of rooms, a man known for a relaxed attitude to the hour of morning prayer and equally lenient, if less well-publicized, views regarding the heresies of Heladikos, the mortal (or half-mortal, or divine) son of Jad.