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'''Matins''' (also spelled "Mattins", from the Latin, ''matutinae'', "morning"), ''in Greek, '''Orthros''''' (which also means "morning", "dawn" or "day break"), is the longest and most complex of the [[Daily Cycle|daily cycle]] services. Unless it is celebrated as a [[All-Night Vigik|vigil]] in the evening, orthros (Greek for "early dawn" or "daybreak") Matins is celebrated in the morning.
==General Structure of Sunday Matins==