Compline

I have done the Office every day since Ash Wednesday -- on good days going through the morning rite, the service for midday, evening prayer, and a compline before bed; on days when I performed the tasks of a single dad sometimes only saying part of the Office. ❋ Beau Friedlander (2011)

The quiet time after compline receives a similar treatment. ❋ Unknown (2008)

However, many of the antiphonals belonging to male Dominican houses were broken up into two volumes for winter and summer usage. 106 Occasionally, houses had diurnals, manuscripts containing antiphonal materials for the daytime offices but excluding compline and matins. ❋ Unknown (2008)

The material for compline and matins were recorded in nocturnals, none of which survive from the houses. ❋ Unknown (2008)

In her introduction to the Töss text, the author describes the silence observed by the early sisters of her house: "They were also so soft and quiet with words and with work that during the day it was as quiet in the cloister as if it were after compline." ❋ Unknown (2008)

Such behavior was common, for almost all of the nuns of Adelhausen are said to have wept in the choir and the dormitory after compline, loudly enough to be heard at quite a distance. 132 Anna Turner was not among them. ❋ Unknown (2008)

To keep a medieval focus: I often sing with a compline group at Columbia, on Sunday nights. ❋ Mary Kate Hurley (2008)

But the emphasis in the passage is on what transpired after compline. ❋ Unknown (2008)

When the Weiler choir nuns sang the antiphon Salve regina one night at the end of compline, a nun saw the Virgin Mary enter the choir with the Christ Child on her arm. 74 At Adelhausen, the Virgin Mary was also seen in the choir during the singing of Salve regina. 75 And at Töss when the choir nuns sang the antiphon, Mezzi Sidwibrin would shout, "Sing, sing, God's Mother is here!" ❋ Unknown (2008)

When they were at their devotions, it was then throughout the cloister silent and serious, as if it were silent Friday, and always after compline the crying was so great in the choir, and also in the dormitory when they were before their beds, that one could hear it from afar. ❋ Unknown (2008)

Veilleurs Dans La Nuit "Watchmen of the night" is a film showing a day in the life of the Abbaye Sainte-Madeleine du Barroux from Matins at 3.30am to compline at 7.45pm. ❋ Unknown (2009)

The bell at the top of the chapel was ringing for compline, the last service of the day. ❋ E (2009)

Evening in the nursing home reminds me of the compline prayers against the peril of the night. ❋ Susan Palwick (2009)

I would imagine they took to bed following the 7: 30 p.m. compline prayers. ❋ Unknown (2009)

And if the city I inhabit is noisy, my own clamor (clamor meus ad te veniat, we sing in our weekly compline services) is deafening. ❋ Mary Kate Hurley (2007)

It takes me about minutes to drive there from Blackfen so I sometimes call over when I have an opportunity, especially to join the community for Saturday compline and the Carmelite anthem "Flos Carmeli" more information at this post. ❋ Unknown (2009)

Brother Beekeeper teased me when he saw me taking yet another photo of the monastery barn one evening before compline. ❋ E (2008)

Person 1: [Hey man], [are you okay]? Person 2: Yeah, I'm [compline]! ❋ Dysfunctionalr@ (2021)

Person 1: Hey man thanks for [the help] eariler! Person2: Yeah of course! it's [compline], if you need anything else [let me know]! ❋ Sk3tcherz (2021)

[John]: [I Hate Life] [James]: Stop the complination John! ❋ STOP! Meme Time. (2018)

[My wife] complines too much when I play [video games] too much, says I don't spend enough time with her, watch tv with her. [Quit] complining woman!! ❋ BooTaySmasherFoReals (2017)