Monastic Compline

[@philmcdonald6088]

wow. this brought tears to my eyes and sweet nostalgia. why can't monks sing like this anymore? the future of the church is in the monasteries. i am an 80 year old recovering catholic reduced to attending a protestant church and living as a hidden contemplative in the world by the brief rule of saint romuald. live jesus.

[@Ocxlocxl]

Phil, I hope you find your communion and are blest in many ways.

[@thisisgin16]

Sir, i hope you pray for me and your brethren.

[@norrinradd7457]

Benedictine Monks of Santo Domingo de Silos, among many others, do.

[@laporziuncula]

Many monks and nuns still do

[@dannyhenry38]

My family and I have visited a traditional catholic monastery in NM for the past 15 years. The faith is still alive! My eleven children are prof. God bless you my friend

[@joeowens6180]

This original compline, attributed to Saint Benedict himself, is my favorite form of night prayer. Even though I pray it every night, it never loses its power as prayer, and as a most satisfying way to end the day. I'm grateful for this post!

[@manuelcuentacorreo6311]

Thanks. Gracias!

[@messyhomestead7320]

Do you know where to find it with the music? I haven't been able to find anywhere. Thank you.

[@mariekatherine5238]

Here is a prayer for one whose pain or distress of mind prevents him from praying. Beautiful.

[@OyinkansolaFadun-cl3ns]

May God in His infinity mercy grant my household the grace of Thanksgiving in all situations. Amen.

[@gilbertgonzales1715]

Thank you, Veteran of San Diego Ca nephew of Brother Martin of Guadalupe Trappist abbey of Oregon who past in September at 96 years old. Gilbert R. Gonzales, decorated Viet Nam at Camp Alpha Saigon, Viet Nam. April 12,1966 ,served with 84 Th Engineers, 1965 to 1966.

[@ericvechery8853]

As far as I know the eastern orthodox and the Catholic Church are the only churches that offer this service before you go to bed! That is why it’s so amazing!

[@omendjadi]

Fairly common in episcopal churches.

[@paulcaswell2813]

My old university college (very high church Church in Wales chapel) did compline nightly, using the RC Latin rite.

[@E.C.2]

They do belong to the Unum Sanctum Catholicam Apostolicum Ecclesiam.

[@jhauoli1]

Compline is my favorite of all the canonical hours!

[@jkllfdsa]

Yes. So comforting in many places.

[@nohaylamujer]

mine too

[@aronspidle138]

@@nohaylamujer Mine too.

[@richardlloydmarshlubitz3573]

I just love our traditional Roman Catholic heritage. Little Lloyd 😇🔥❤️‍🔥😎🤠

[@MrMack65]

We are the only Christian community that has a prayer service that is SUPPOSED to put you to sleep. This was my favorite time of day when I visited the monks. It is astonishing how well you sleep when you go to bed after Compline. They are literally singing each other to sleep!

[@elviradonaghy5422]

They are giving God and his MOST HOLY MOTHER PRAISE AND HONOR FOR THEIR CONSTANT PROTECTION OVE US. NOT ROCK A BY BABY FOR YOU TO SLEEP. YOU SLEEP BETTER BECAUSE YOU HAVE TAUGHT YOUR SOUL HOW TO PRAY TO OUR LORD JESUS CHRIST THE DIVINE WAY TO PRAY. OUR SOULS ARE PRECIOUS TO GOD. YOU HAVE DONE A GOOD AND A HOLY THING. YOU ARE BLEST.

[@wendyfield7708]

Not the ONLY ones!

[@IslandHome-o5v]

A lullaby thought up in heaven to put the church and its people to bed for the night. 'A pity that post Vatican II many religious communities ceased to recite the traditional Vespers and Compline in common.

[@dannyk7226]

monastic pax is a very real thing

[@dooshimagbahabo2533]

Lord, God of Light, hear our midnight prayer, amen. Thank You, Jesus.

[@lisaweidenbenner5295]

Absolutely BEAUTIFUL!!

[@joeowens6180]

This is wonderfully how it really is. Compline is the perfect night prayer. Nothing is better.

[@Jenniferde2007]

Compline is so beautiful and a favorite of mine as well.

[@mateomaya5280]

I can't go to bed before praying. try it does put your soul close to our maker.

[@hermitruben4032]

From Misión Cruz Hermitage in Somerset, Texas. Blessings

[@williamdobbs6931]

Many thanks!!!

[@Jenniferde2007]

I love Compline and this prayer was recited in a Trappist Monastery that I was fortunate to visit while at their retreat house twice last year. Very beautiful.

[@revpgesqredux]

when in seminary, i was able to attend a few compline services in very beautiful surroundings. thank you for posting this....

[@The450522]

"Seven times a day..." I pray it every night. Latin is stronger than any translation

[@matthewdavis8179]

Monastic compline

[@paulcaswell2813]

@@matthewdavis8179 The Diurnal is still available from Farnborough Abbey too.

[@E.C.2]

Is this 1962 or 1939 Divine Office?

[@IslandHome-o5v]

It is fitting that a universal, church should have a universal language for its liturgy. The Jewish community understand the value of it, and so do the Muslims. We used to until the Second Vatican Council.

[@honeybunny316]

Beautifully sung and prayed .

[@RichardIIfan]

This reminds me of the office I used to sing i in the abbey and it's wonderful. It's part of what has been lost and why I am withdrawing.

[@kateedwards7129]

This is a wonderful resource, thank you for making it available here.

[@manuelcuentacorreo6311]

Yes. I would like to be there. Ojalá. Ojalá así fuera.

[@museluvr]

I first learned of this lullaby while watching the video of New Melleray Abbey. I need to find a copy of it as close to how the monks sung it as possible, as on sleepless nights, I can play it. There is love and God in it, and it made me want to cry hearing it.

[@elviradonaghy5422]

DEAR FATHERS, PLEASE DO ALL OF THE SEGMENTS OF THE DIVINE OFFICE FOR US. IT HELPS SO MUCH. NO ONE CHANTS THIS LIKE YOU DO AND THE WAY I LEARNED IT. IT IS SO BEAUTIFUL. I CAN FOLLOW WITH IT. THANK YOU AND GOD BLESS YOU.

[@laporziuncula]

Compline is the only office that stays the same every day, the others all change each day, so it’s not possible to just record once and post. You can listen to the offices of the Abbey of anaerobic though. They post them every day, all of the hours except matins

[@jacksoncastelino04]

Very Beautiful prayer

[@esaeloranta548]

God bless you all, please go on praying all the breviary. In union of prayer

[@fuggedaboudit223]

An atheist once said "The Catholic faith is too beautiful to be true". Im so glad it IS true!

[@lizzierixom1676]

So beautiful thank you 🙏🏻🙏🏻

[@thesolitude]

Is this chanted by all Roman catholic monasteries today? Or only by those who follow the rule of St Benedict? I’m not a Catholic but would like to ask. I also know after second vatican council much of the Latin was washed out and repleced by the native language?? Wonderful video thanks for uploading.

[@davidwilson123able]

Hi there, if you check out pluscarden abbey in Scotland on KZbin. 700 year old monastery and the monks still sing the daily office in Latin.

[@thesolitude]

@@davidwilson123able Thank you for answering. I will write the name of the abbey in my notebook.

[@IslandHome-o5v]

@@davidwilson123able I was there on a visit once. As you say they still sing the Divine Office in Gregorian chant. They do not use the Tridentine Mass for their Eucharistic celebrations, but they do offer the novus ordo Mass very devoutly with no ad libs thrown in. Not all Roman Catholic Monastic Orders follow the same order or style of chant. Some have a a breviary and calendar peculiar to their religious order. The Carthusians are one of them, and they do not have an organ to sustain the chant.

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[@ldoom8827]

here is another deep monastic- Benedictine style which shows commitment to God. the very early tone of the Benedictine brothers.This existed before and after reformation

[@gegaoli]

I wish they recorded other hours or better yet have a daily viewing for all the monastic hours.

[@Oremus333]

I wish so, too.

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[@jkllfdsa]

The music in the hymn that starts at 11:15 is hauntingly stunning. Takes me into another realm. And so it should. Does anyone know anything more about it? What is it called, besides "Hymn" (which is all it says in the Benedictine sisters' compline book I have).

[@TheVetusMores]

_Te lucis ante terminum_ is a part of Compline every night of the week. Authorship is unknown (many believe it was composed by St. Ambrose of Milan), although it is certainly at least 1,200 years old. The video has the English translation*; here it is in Latin: _Te lucis ante términum,_ _rerum Creátor, póscimus,_ _ut sólita cleméntia_ _sis præsul ad custódiam._ _Procul recédant sómnia_ _et nóctium phantásmata;_ _hostémque nostrum cómprime,_ _ne polluántur córpora._ _Præsta, Pater omnípotens,_ _per Iesum Christum Dóminum,_ _qui tecum in perpétuum_ _regnat cum Sancto Spíritu._ ** _Amen._ Listen to it again while reading the Latin above (the "acute" marks indicate the accented syllable) and see if you find even greater sublimity in its composition! * I favor a different English translation. The breviary used by the Society of St. Pius X (1962) has it as follows [note that this is intended to be a *readable*, free-form translation, not a metric]: _Before the day is finished, Creator of the world, we earnestly ask of Thee that, in keeping with Thy mercy, Thou be our protector and defense._ _May no "ill dreams," no "nightly fears and fantasies" come near us. Hold in check our enemy that our bodies be not defiled._ _Grant this, most loving Father and Thou, the only Son, equal to the Father and, with the Spirit, the Paraclete, reigning through the ages. Amen._ ** They're using the original version of the Latin: the version used by most traditional societies is that revised by Pope Urban VIII some 450 years ago. *** All is the same except for the final paragraph, which Urban revised to: _Præsta, Pater piíssime,_ _Patríque compar Unice,_ _cum Spíritu Paráclito_ _regnans per omne sǽculum._ *** If you are at all interested, you can read _why_ Urban did that: books.google.com/books?id=PJq99gHwL88C&pg=PA71

[@devinlawson2208]

To thee before the close of day, creator of the world we pray, that with wonted favour thou, wouldst be our guard and keeper now, from all I'll dreams defend our eyes, from nightly fears and fantasies, tread under foot our ghostly foe, that no pollution we may know. O Father that we ask be done, through Jesus Christ Thy Son, who with The Holy Ghost and Thee, shall live and reign eternally. Amen.

[@TheVetusMores]

​@@paulcaswell2813 There's nothing unusual about it. It is sung on all ordinary Sundays as well as Second and Third Class Feasts. Bear in mind, there are a total of _17 tones_ that are used throughout the year on different occasions.

[@paulcaswell2813]

@@TheVetusMores Apologies for losing the plot! Page 584 in the Brevior and there it is - exactly as sung here. Maybe I should go to bed! The one more usually heard in England is much plainer: listen to the plainchant opening to Tallis's mainly polyphonic version to get an idea of it. Now I just feel a fool :-(

[@TheVetusMores]

@@paulcaswell2813 np :) Have a blessed evening!

[@SarumChoirmaster]

EVERY MAJOR CHURCH / CATHEDRAL IN THE ROMAN AND ANGLICAN RITES SHOULD HAVE THIS!

[@SarumChoirmaster]

@Luke Aloi AGREED

[@blancagarate7389]

Thank you helpful

[@sparrowno.5583]

hmm.. sounds like Fr.Mark and Prinknash Abbey ? AWESOME

[@tylerhill9510]

Sit nomen Domini benedictum. :Ex hoc nunc et usque in sæculum. Adiutorium nostrum in nomine Domini. :Qui fecit cælum et terram. :Benedicat vos omnipotens deus. :Pater, et Filius, et Spiritus Sanctus.Omnes:Amen.

[@dannyhenry38]

You’re very welcome. I hope you get to visit

[@muhplaylists9955]

This is so beautiful thank you for sharing! I've never heard the psalm tone that the psalms are chanted to here, it's not one of the 8 that I'm aware of. Does anyone know what it is called?

[@brendanmccann2455]

😇🙏

[@AL_YZ]

i wonder if the Latin text is available anywhere?

[@lekunberriko1]

Good bless monks.

[@E.C.2]

Is this pre-1945 or 1962 Divine Office?

[@semeonaranes5320]

where can we have a recording tape for this

[@JM-qs3fr]

Do you have recordings of any of the other offices?

[@fredsanford9224]

There is an echo in the recording. Try redoing this without the echo.

[@AutogenicMotor]

do you know if this is available as a recording anywhere?

[@chookiechooks]

What psalm tone is this? It's the same as the Nunc dimittis paschal tone.

[@judjohns59]

Is this from Chartreuse Monastery? (The Carthusians?)

[@paulcaswell2813]

Benedictine, taken from the Monastic Diurnal still published by Farnborough Abbey.

[@wendyfield7708]

No

[@IslandHome-o5v]

@@paulcaswell2813 I bought one from them in the 1980's It was their sixth edition at that time. I still have it.

[@davidcarradini5720]

Which monastery is this?

[@ericvechery8853]

Where was this monastery?

[@elinafernande4587]

They still do this type of prayers in Cistercian s monasteries

[@fatgutguts]

please, how can I acquire a copy of this?

[@brianedwards9819]

pretty simple really. youtube-mp3.org

[@Charliechorizo]

To download, open: www.sskzbin.info

[@IslandHome-o5v]

I have quite a collection of the Divine Office in Gregorian Chant from the internet. When it is a question of down loading Holy Mass, prayers and the Divine Office you will find that many of the sites will allow you to without infringements of copyright. I have a Magix Audio Cleaning Lab disc that I download the files to. You can adjust the sound, and spacing and add and subtract etc. I particularly like the chant of the Norbertine Canons and use their chant, Hymns etc. in my own recitation of the Divine Office.

[@familysgottalent8813]

Is this available as a CD recording?

[@oblatusosb]

Hymnii sunt Laudes Dei cum cantico. Continentes Laudes Dei cantare amantis est. ( Augustini; Enarrationes in Ps.72 says it all

[@null798]

Anyone have the latin for this?

[@AutogenicMotor]

Look for a book called “liber usualis” it will have compline and much much more

[@Mariojlhm]

Go here: divinumofficium.com/cgi-bin/horas/officium.pl# then make sure pre Trident Monasticum is selected, and then click "Completorium"

[@Mariojlhm]

here: divinumofficium.com/cgi-bin/horas/Pofficium.pl?date1=3-18-2018&command=prayCompletorium&version=pre%20Trident%20Monastic&testmode=regular&lang2=English&votive=

[@paulcaswell2813]

@@Mariojlhm The Benedictine Diurnal, used here, is sometimes at variance with with Usualis, however.

[@E.C.2]

Father Bernard Hall has a website dedicated to the Divine Office.

[@Michael-bc2op]

magis orare pro benedictione

[@dannyhenry38]

Silver city

[@lizzierixom1676]

So beautiful thank you🙏🏻🙏🏻