“The church’s wisdom invites us to remember Simeon’s words each night. This short canticle reminds us of God’s providence, preparing a way for salvation, and our own humanity, humbled to praise God for what we have witnessed even as we step back in surrender.”
Laura Kelly Fanucci: The wisdom of night prayer
Please explain Compline, the Night Prayer of the church
Compline invites us to pray for protection in three kinds of sleep: the natural sleep of night, the sleep of the soul in sinfulness, and the sleep of death at life’s end.