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Compline of Holy Saturday

Holy Saturday before Vigil: Special collect anticipating Resurrection. No Marian antiphon. Those attending Vigil do not say Compline.

This rubrical direction for Holy Saturday Compline notes that only those not attending the Paschal Vigil say Compline. The collect anticipates the Resurrection: 'Grant that we who anticipate the resurrection of thy Son with pious expectation may obtain the glory of the same resurrection.' Holy Saturday is the day of silent waiting between death and resurrection.

LATINE
Ad Completorium dicitur tantum ab iis qui non adsunt solemni Vigiliae Paschali.
Examine conscientiae, sequitur:
Confiteor. Miseratur. Indulgentiam.
Psalmi ut in Completorio Dominicae (Ps 4, 90, 133), sine antiphona.
Post psalmos dicitur statim Nunc dimittis, sine antiphona.
Quo expleto, totum Pater noster dicitur secreto; deinde clara voce, sine Oremus, dicitur:
Concede, quaesumus, omnipotens Deus: ut, qui Filii tui resurrectionem devota exspectatione praevenimus; ejusdem resurrectionis gloriam consequamur.
Et sub silentio concluditur: Per eumdem Dominum.
Deinde omnes surgunt et in silentio discedunt.
ENGLISH
Compline is said only by those who are not present at the solemn Paschal Vigil.
Examination of Conscience, followed by:
Confiteor. Miseratur. Indulgentiam.
Psalms as in Sunday Compline (Ps 4, 90, 133), without antiphon.
After the psalms, the Nunc Dimittis is said immediately, without antiphon.
And when this is finished, the whole of the Pater noster is said silently; then in a loud voice, without Oremus, there is said:
Grant, we beseech Thee, O Almighty God: that we who anticipate the resurrection of Thy Son with pious expectation, may obtain the glory of the same resurrection.
Concede, quaesumus, omnipotens Deus: ut, qui Filii tui resurrectionem devota exspectatione praevenimus; ejusdem resurrectionis gloriam consequamur.
The conclusion is said silently: Per eumdem Dominum.
Then all arise and depart in silence.
NOTA
FONS
Breviarium Romanum (1962)
USUS
Holy Saturday before Vigil: Special collect anticipating Resurrection. No Marian antiphon. Those attending Vigil do not say Compline.
HORA
Compline
TEMPVS
passiontide
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