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13 unusual facts about Compline


Abbots Bromley

It begins in the morning on the village green and passes to Blithfield Hall, returning to the village in the early afternoon with the dancers then making their way around the pubs and houses, eventually finishing with a service of Compline at the church.

Benediction

Benediction is often employed as a conclusion to other services, e.g. Vespers, Compline, the Stations of the Cross, etc., but it is also still more generally treated as a rite complete in itself.

Catholic Order Rites

Every day after Compline they add, extra-liturgically, commemorations of the Immaculate Conception, St. Francis and St. Anthony of Padua.

Confiteor

In the Liturgy of the Hours, the Confiteor was said at Prime (usually) and Compline (always).

Eton College Chapel

Eton College Chapel is in frequent use, with at least one service a day, and many additional services which are in popular demand, ranging from Taizé to Roman Catholic Communion, to Compline.

Great Lent

In order that their services not be completely forgotten, a portion of them (their canon at Matins, and their stichera from "Lord I Have Cried" at Vespers) is chanted at Compline.

At Great Compline during the first four days of the Fast (Monday through Thursday) the Great Canon of St. Andrew of Crete is divided into four parts and one part is chanted each night (for further information about the Great Canon, see Fifth Week, below).

In the evening, instead of the normal Compline (the final service before retiring at night), the much longer service of Great Compline is chanted.

Night Prayer

Compline, the final daily liturgical prayer service from the Book of Hours in the Roman Catholic tradition.

Pre-Lenten Season

Since the liturgical day begins at sunset, and Great Lent begins on a Monday, the point at which Great Lent begins is at Vespers on the night of the Sunday of Forgiveness, with a "Ceremony of Mutual Forgiveness" (in some monasteries, this ceremony is performed at Compline instead of Vespers).

Queen of Heaven

These are prayed at different times of the year, at the end of Compline.

The prayer is used especially after Compline, the final canonical hour of prayer before going to sleep.

Tupholme Abbey

In 1482 the behaviour of the canons had evidently been unruly, as they were forbidden to leave the precincts of the abbey without prior permission, or to sit up drinking after Compline.


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Community of St Mary the Virgin

The five main Daily Offices said or sung in the CSMV chapel (Lauds, Terce, Sext, Vespers and Compline) were streamed live on the internet until 15 December 2012, when the streaming ended after Compline, the final office of the day.

Compline Choir

The Order of Compline consists of short passages from scripture (chapters), psalms, an office hymn, a canticle (Nunc dimittis), a litany, collects and additional prayers.

H. Balfour Gardiner

His best-known work Evening Hymn (1908), a setting of the Compline hymn Te lucis ante terminum, is a lush, romantic work for eight-part choir and organ, of dense harmonies.

Mucknell Abbey

After Compline the community observe Greater Silence through the night until the end of Terce the following morning.

Night Prayer

Evening Prayer, which combines Compline and Vespers, is the final daily prayer service in the Anglican tradition

Saint Austin Press

It was notable for publishing Ad Completorium which contained the complete text and music for Compline according to the Roman Catholic Breviary of 1961.

Secular Order of Discalced Carmelites

The primary, daily obligations of the Seculars are to engage in silent, contemplative prayer or "recollection", to pray Morning Prayer (Lauds) and Evening Prayer (Vespers) of the Liturgy of the Hours (Divine Office), and to attend daily Mass and pray Night Prayer (Compline) when possible.