How To Use Compline In A Sentence
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It ends 16 hours later with compline, after which the monks return to their cells for contemplation, prayer and sleep.
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The final church, St Nicholas at Fyfield, was reached shortly after 4pm where the day was completed with tea followed by compline.
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When this was over, after a further short interval the evening reading or Collation took place in the chapter-house, after which the monks were at liberty to go and warm themselves at the one great fire kept up for the purpose in the calefactory; and then compline was sung, followed by Our Lady's Anthem.
The King's Achievement
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The rhythm of my days goes slower now: matins and lauds, vespers and compline.
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With the household interns we observe the ancient practice of fixed-hour prayer, keeping whenever possible four offices each day: morning prayers, midday prayers, vespers, and compline.
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Hydrophilos, having girded his sable cappa magna as high as to his cherubical loins, at solemn compline sat in his sate of wis-dom, that handbathtub, whereverafter, recreated doctor insularis of the universal church, keeper of the door of meditation, memory extempore proposing and intellect formally considering, recluse, he meditated continuously with seraphic ardour the primal sacra-ment of baptism or the regeneration of all man by affusion of water.
Finnegans Wake
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So begins one of my favorite prayers, from the service for compline in the Episcopal prayer book.
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There was a small congregation in the parish part of the church even at Compline that night, a dozen or so goodmen of the district, come to offer devout thanks for deliverance from terror.
The Virgin In The Ice
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And that is where we stayed together, until we heard the Compline bell.
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With the household interns we observe the ancient practice of fixed-hour prayer, keeping whenever possible four offices each day: morning prayers, midday prayers, vespers, and compline.
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The 30-minute worship draws upon an Anglican prayer service from New Zealand, Lutheran or Episcopal compline, and Holden Evening Prayer.
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In this hymnary it is assigned, together with the hymn "Christe qui lux es et dies", to Compline.
The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 14: Simony-Tournon
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I cannot be concentrating on reciting lauds and compline at church, or on private prayers at home, and at the same time fully attend to my granddaughter's emotional needs - or talk over some thorny bioethical question with my husband.
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He could hear the sounding of matin invitatories; chimes telling a rosary of harmony over tortuous labyrinths of narrow streets, over cornet towers, over pepper-box pignons, over dentelated walls; the chimes chanting the canonical hours, prime and tierce, sexte and none, vespers and compline; celebrating the joy of a city with the tinkling laughter of the little bells, tolling its sorrow with the ponderous lamentation of the great ones.
Là-bas
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After their meal they retire to their caves and cells for the rest of the day, emerging only to sing lauds, vespers and compline at the appointed times.
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After their meal they retire to their caves and cells for the rest of the day, emerging only to sing lauds, vespers and compline at the appointed times.
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The rhythm of my days goes slower now: matins and lauds, vespers and compline.
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Later in the evening came compline, followed by the midnight office.
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At compline, a guitar was played and the psalmody was clearly not Gregorian.
