Daily Prayers
Te Lucis Ante Terminum (Before the Ending of the Day)
The ancient hymn of Compline, in use since at least the seventh century and translated into English by J.
Before the ending of the day,
Creator of the world, we pray
that with thy wonted favour thou
wouldst be our guard and keeper now.
From all ill 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, thine only Son,
who, with the Holy Ghost and thee,
doth live and reign eternally. Amen.
Latin hymn for Compline, trans. J. M. Neale
About the prayer
M. Neale in 1852. Monks have sung it as the last words of the monastic day for well over a millennium. Its honesty about bad dreams and night fears makes it unusually useful to anyone who dreads the dark.
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