Compline
Sign in to savethumb|270px|Book of hours open at compline (Eisbergen Monastery in North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany) Compline ( ), also known as Complin, Night Prayer, or the Prayers at the End of the Day, is the final prayer liturgy (or office) of the day in the Christian tradition of canonical hours, which are prayed at fixed prayer times.
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- Historical development
- Compline in the Roman Rite
- Lutheran usage
- Anglican usage
- Small Compline
- Great Compline
- Oriental Christian usages
- West Syriac Rite
- Alexandrian Rite
- Armenian Liturgy: Hours of Peace and Rest
- The Peace Hour
- The Rest Hour
- Notes
- References
- External links
- Roman Rite
- Liturgy of the Hours
- Eastern Orthodox
- Anglican and Protestant
- Sung compline
thumb|270px|Book of hours open at compline (Eisbergen Monastery in North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany) Compline ( ), also known as Complin, Night Prayer, or the Prayers at the End of the Day, is the final prayer liturgy (or office) of the day in the Christian tradition of canonical hours, which are prayed at fixed prayer times.
The English word is derived from the Latin , as compline is the completion of the waking day. The word was first used in this sense about the beginning of the 6th century in the Rule of Saint Benedict (Regula Benedicti; hereafter, RB), in Chapters 16, 17, 18, and 42, and he uses the verb compleo to signify compline: "Omnes ergo in unum positi compleant" ("All having assembled in one place, let them say compline"); "et exeuntes a completorio" ("and, after going out from compline")… (RB, Chap. 42).