Going to Church in Medieval England
Gone Medieval
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The Forgotten War
There's a default that happens every day And then there are Sunday and festival And seasonal changes What you have every day Is a morning service called Matins Which takes place at or soon after dawn. An afternoon service Known as even song Because they yet have the word after noon They consider evening begins after noon The afternoon service is about Three o'clock in our time. There are services of hymns, prayers, readings And the like Not hymns as we understand it But it will be a plain song hymn Just sung by the priest and the current themselves With no congregational involvement. Mass, which is the most popular service From the 1100s up to the Reformation in 1500s
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