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Great Compline
Compline is the service before sleep. Great Compline is the long form served in Lent and on the eves of some feasts, with the hymn “God is with us, understand all ye nations.”
It is full of the psalms and prayers of the night.
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About this edition
From the Service Book of the Holy Orthodox-Catholic Apostolic (Greco-Russian) Church, translated and arranged by Isabel Florence Hapgood (Boston: Houghton, Mifflin and Company, 1906). Our text was made from scans of the printed book and checked against three separate scans; if you spot a mistake, tell us in the server.
This translation is in the public domain. We took the text from the Christian Classics Ethereal Library and left out the editors’ footnotes.
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