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Lay led devotions ; not about Communion Services
Topic Started: Monday, 22. June 2009, 13:54 (618 Views)
Rose of York
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OSB, out of interest, how long does it take you to pray Compline?
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I don't know how long Evening Prayer or Compline take me. I only need to have a handle on Morning Prayer because I need to allow time for it before I leave the house on days when I go out to work.
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Saturday, 27. June 2009, 18:17
I don't know how long Evening Prayer or Compline take me. I only need to have a handle on Morning Prayer because I need to allow time for it before I leave the house on days when I go out to work.
I timed an online Compline session.

The answer is, not much longer than five minutes, dependent upon the time taken by Examination of Conscience. It is a prayerful way to round off the day.
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I may be mistaken but when I visited two Benedictine Abbeys for Compline well before V2 it lasted about half-an-hour or more.
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Derek was that before or after Vatican 2?

Online we use this:

http://www.universalis.com/Europe.England.Westminster/compline.htm

The pre Vatican 2 version of Compline for Sundays is in my old missal. It is longer than the one on the Universalis website. I remember Compline taking quite some time when I took part every evening for a week, about 1958. We had Compline (modern version) in one of our fairly local churches, we used to start ten minutes before weekday Evening Mass.

I do not have the printed version of the current official version of the Daily Office. Our online Evening Prayer is prayer, shared by a small group. Two or three or more are gathered in His name.
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I think that when I was a pre-V2 child Compline and Benediction were in one sequence.

Evening Prayer is longer and earlier than Compline.
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I only came across Compline in Abbeys.

Except that wandering around a town "somewhere in southern England" I came across a church advertising Holy Mass, Compline and Benediction. I entered and saw a group of women apparently going to Confession but they were having a very long session. I decided to try elsewhere and on the way out noticed a bench marked 'Churchwardens' and that the 'CTS rack' had other leaflets. It was of course a 'High Church' but not Catholic enough.
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Thursday, 2. July 2009, 17:31
I think that when I was a pre-V2 child Compline and Benediction were in one sequence.

Evening Prayer is longer and earlier than Compline.
OSB I never heard of Compline being prayed publicly in a Catholic Church until recent years.

My only experience of it was on a one week course run by the Cell Movement. A priest, Father Clifford Howell, was oh, so daring! He said Mass facing us (using an improvised altar) just once, and every evening he led us in Compline. Father Howell told us such practises would be the norm in our lifetime. That was about 1958.
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