DIVINUM OFFICIUM Order

Compline of Maundy Thursday

Holy Thursday: Compline follows stripping of altars. Gloria Patri omitted from psalms. No Marian antiphon.

This rubrical direction for Holy Thursday Compline describes the stark simplicity of Triduum prayer: Compline follows the stripping of altars, with extinguished candles and without chant. Gloria Patri is omitted from the psalms, and no Marian antiphon concludes the hour. The liturgical poverty reflects the Church's mourning as Christ enters His Passion.

LATINE
Ad Completorium dicitur post nudationem altarium, extinctis candelis et sine cantu.
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. Deinde dicitur flexis genibus:
Ant. Christus factus est pro nobis obediens usque ad mortem.
Pater noster (totum secreto). Deinde sine Oremus: [Oratio Respice, quaesumus...] sub silentio concluditur.
Deinde omnes surgunt et in silentio discedunt.
ENGLISH
Compline is said after the stripping of the altars, with the candles extinguished and without chant.
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. Then the following is said kneeling:
Ant. Christ became obedient unto death for us.
Ant. Christus factus est pro nobis obediens usque ad mortem.
Pater noster (silently). Then without Oremus: [Collect Respice, quaesumus...] concluded silently.
Then all arise and depart in silence.
NOTA
FONS
Breviarium Romanum (1962)
USUS
Holy Thursday: Compline follows stripping of altars. Gloria Patri omitted from psalms. No Marian antiphon.
HORA
Compline
TEMPVS
passiontide
GENVS
Order