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est judlcare vivos, & mortnos. Credo in Spiritura sanctnm, sanctam Ecclesiam 

 Catholicam, Sanctorum communionem, remissionein peccatorum, carnis re- 

 snrrectionem, vitam aeternam, Amen. 



Confiteor Deo omnipotent!, beatae Mariae semper virgin!, beato Michael! 

 Archangelo, beato Joanni Baptistae, Sanctis Apostolis Petro & Paulo, omnibus 

 Sanctis, & vobis fratres : quia peccavi nimis cogitatione, verbo, & opere : mea 

 culpa, mea culpa, mea maxima culpa. Ideo precor beatam Mariam semper 

 virginem, beatura Michaelem Archangelum, beatum Joannem Baptistam, 

 sanctos Apostolos Petrura & Paulum, oninesSaiictos, & vos fratres, orare pro 

 me ad Dominum Deum nostrum .4- 



Hymnus, 



Pater Creator omnium 

 Qui lucidas Stellas poll 

 Vario splendore et lumine 

 Variis pingis coloribus. 

 Cum soils abeedit rota 

 Nee noctis crinienor nigrae 

 Lunae ministras ordinem 

 Vagosque cursus siderum 

 Vt noctibus, vel lumini 

 Diremptionis terininum, 

 Primordiis & mensium 

 Signum dares notissinium. 

 Expelle noctem cordium; 

 Absterge sordes mentium : 

 Resolve culpae vinculum : 

 Everte moles criminum. 

 Praesta, Pater piissime, 

 Patrlque compar Uniee, 

 Cum Spiritu Paraclito, 

 Kegnans per omne saecula. 



IX. O'CLOCK P.M. COMPLIA. 



Obs. The office of the Coraplia, or Completorium, was formerly 

 appointed for the end of the ninth hour, thus completing the canoni- 

 cal divisions of the day into eight parts. The following is the hymn 

 sung at this office. Sometimes the night prayers were said again 

 privately after Complia : they were said in private life at eight, nine, 

 or ten, as might be, just before goin| to bed. Those, however, who 

 rose to the Nocturnal Office at midnight went to bed at nine. The 

 prayers were usually the Pufer Wosfer, Ave Ma7-ia, Angelus, and 

 Confiteor ; and sometimes the Liturgy of the Saints, and Prayers to 

 the Blessed Virgin and to our Guardian Angels. The Hymn, too, 

 of the Complia was recited. 



Hymnus ad Cumpletorum. 



Telucisante terminum 



Reruin Creator poscimus; 



Ut pro tua dementia 



Sis praesul & custodia. 



Procul recedant somnia, 



Et noctium pliantasmata, 



Hostenique nostrum comprime, 



Ne poUuanter corpora. 



Praesta, Pater piissime, 



Patrique compar Unice. 



Cum Spiritu Paraclito, 



Regnans per omne saeculum. 





