Commontide

For the Acceptance of Prayer

Heavenly Father, you have promised to hear what we ask in the Name of your Son: Accept and fulfill our petitions, we pray, not as we ask in our ignorance, nor as we deserve in our sinfulness, but as you know and love us in your Son Jesus Christ our Lord. Amen.

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Commontide

Blessing

Worship & the Office

Grant Us a Peaceful Night

Compline

The Lord Almighty grant us a peaceful night and a perfect end. Amen.

Provenance

Roman Breviary, c. 9th–13th c.

Draft — AI-assisted research under editorial review.

A medieval Latin blessing that has stood at the threshold of Compline for centuries, asking God for safe passage through sleep and, ultimately, through death.

The Lord Almighty grant us a peaceful night and a perfect end. Amen.

Provenance

Roman Breviary, c. 9th–13th c.

Draft — AI-assisted research under editorial review.

A medieval Latin blessing that has stood at the threshold of Compline for centuries, asking God for safe passage through sleep and, ultimately, through death.