During Lent we keep the tradition of nearly 800 years of singing special antiphons during Compline. Since they are the treasure of the Order we continue to sing them in Latin. Here is a glimpse into Compline at our monastery.
Obviously, it's not the Nun's Story! In fact, you can see Sr. Maria coming in the middle of the Office after having been called out to care for one of our elderly sisters!
What you hear first is the Short Responsory: In Manus Tuas. Then we sing the antiphon Evigilia then the Nunc Dimittis and the Evigilia is repeated.
The In Manus is sung every evening during the week but on Saturday and Sunday the In Pace is sung in it's place during the first 4 weeks of Lent. Every evening for the first 2 weeks of Lent the Evigilia is the antiphon for the Nunc Dimittis. During week 3&4 the Salva nos is sung and during week 5&6 the O Rex is sung.
The words of the antiphon are:Evigila super nos aeterne Salvator, ne nos apprehendat callidus tentator:quia tu factus es nobis sempiternus adiutor.
(Watch over us, eternal Saviour, that the cunning temptor not lay hold of us: for you have been our helper forever.)
Wednesday, March 07, 2007
Compline During Lent
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How lovely Sisters! Compline is always my favorite part of the Office. As to the nuns story, we know how that ended, I prefer your reality!
beautiful sisters! Please post more videos they are all inspiring! thank you.
Unfortunately, my office system won't let us look at these things and I only have a computer at work, so I miss all your inspiring videos. I let the others who can see them tell me how inspiring they are, and I am sure they are!
God Bless you, Sisters, and thanks for sharing your lives with us.
You don't sing the 'Media vita'? My favourite part of Lenten Compline.
Too soon for the Media Vita, Brother! That will come in week 3&4. I didn't want to complicated something that already sounds complicated!
I love all our Lenten antiphons but as chantress I love singing the In Pace. It's so much fun!
Wow you've been singing for 800 years. You must be very tired. LOL
Compline is my favorite prayer! Thanks, it was beautiful!
Ron
LOVELY !!!.............thank you so much for sharing this with us, God Bless you Sisters.
Dear Sisters,
You might find the below of interest. It is a post that I made at New Liturgical Movement in reply to an individual who was criticizing you all for using "In Manus Tuas" in Lent.
--Fr. Augustine O.P.
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Actually, the "In Manus Tuas" WAS used in Lent in the Medieval (and Post-Pius X--Pre-Vat. II)Dominican Rite. See Brevarium SOP (1909), vol. 1, p. 152, which gives the medieval use, on Compline in Lent: "Sequens R. "In pace" dictur *tantum* in sabbatis et Dominicis diebus, in festis duplicibus ad utrumque Completorium et infra Octavas Solemnes (*ceteris autem diebus* dicatur R/. "In Manus tuas." In those days, the "Media Vita" (which sister mentions at Moniales.org) was sung in place of the antiphon of the "Nunc Dimittis" from first Vespers of Lent Sunday 3 to the Saturday before Passion Sunday, at which the "In Manus" (without, however, the Gloria Patri) came back again.
In the modern adaptions of the Roman Office for the Dominicans, the "In Pace" may be sung every day up to the Triduum, with the "Media Vitae" replacing it as the responsory on Saturdays, Sundays, and solemnities. On this, see Proprium Officium OP (1982), pp. 679-80 and 681-82 (for new rules on "Evigila" and "O Rex."
If you check the sisters' site, you will see that they follow a local custom of their own, which is a combination of the old and new practices.
Is 'evigilia super nos', and, if so, have you got the reference.
Thank you and Gid bless you.
Sorry, is 'evigilia' a biblical text ?
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