Catholic Encyclopedia: Compline
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Description: Scholarly essay on what is essentially a bedtime prayer, often recited privately.
CATHOLIC ENCYCLOPEDIA: Compline (Compline) is derived from the Latin , complement, and has been given to this particular Hour because Complin is, as it were, the completion of all the Hours of the day: the close of the day. The word was first used in this sense about the beginning of the sixth century by St. Benedict in his Rule (cc. xvi, xvii, xviii, and xlii), and he even uses the verb
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