Compline
Visit this place, O Lord, and drive far from it all snares of the enemy; let your holy angels dwell with us to preserve us in peace; and let your blessing be upon us always; through Jesus Christ our Lord. Amen.
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A prayer for divine protection through the night, "Visit This Place" has been the closing collect of Compline in the Roman Breviary since at least the medieval period. Its roots are in 9th-10th-century Benedictine monastic usage, and it entered Anglican worship when Compline was added to the proposed 1928 and Scottish 1929 prayer books of the 20th century.