Compline Psalms?

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Can anyone tell me the order (and the numbers) of the psalms for compline? Is it a rotation or specific to a day of the week? I got Shorter Christian Prayer to pray the morning and evening LOH but I love compline, and want to add it in.
 
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Doesn’t it have Compline (though it’s called “Night Prayer”)? I have one, and there are night prayers included.
 
It’s a weekly rotation. I suggest downloading an app like iBreviary or Laudate to do Compline.
 
Sunday and solemnitys after evening prayer 1 Psalm 4 and 134,
Sunday and solemnitys after evening prayer 2 Psalm 91
Monday Psalm 86
Teusday Psalm 143:1-11
Wendsday Psalm 31:1-6 and 130
Thursday Psalm 16
Friday Psalm 88
 
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I will probably be putting away my phone for lent so I need a physical copy of compline
 
Ah, fair enough! The psalms @aservant provided should be sufficient then.
 
Shorter Christian Prayer just has the morning and evening prayers. It leaves out daytime, night, and the office of readings.
 
I don’t think that the regular Christian Prayer single volume has all of the readings for the Office of Readings. For all of those, you need the full four-volume set.
 
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Sunday and solemnitys after evening prayer 1 Psalm 4 and 134,

Sunday and solemnitys after evening prayer 2 Psalm 91

Monday Psalm 86

Teusday Psalm 143:1-11

Wendsday Psalm 31:1-6 and 130

Thursday Psalm 16

Friday Psalm 88
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This is correct, however there is a little known rubric, if you read the General Instructions: it is possible to substitute the Sunday psalms every day of the week. You can either do 4 and 134, 91, or all 3. One monastery I’ve been at does 4 and 134 on Week I and 91 on Week 2.

The reason for this rubric is to rekindle the ancient tradition of saying Compline from memory in the dark. This was done for millennia in monasteries, using these 3 psalms. I’ve experienced it in a monastery in France and it is an awesome and moving experience.

If you pray the full LOTH, the psalms for the weekdays of Compline are repeated elsewhere in the breviary so you won’t miss them (when I do pray the LOTH I use the full version; right now I’m praying a monastic version of the LOTH which is on a one-week cycle for everything).

Here is the rubric:
  1. After evening prayer I of Sunday the psalmody consists of Ps 4 and Ps 134; after evening prayer II of Sunday it consists of Ps 91.
On the other days psalms are chosen that are full of confidence in the Lord; it is permissible to use the Sunday psalms instead, especially for the convenience of those who may wish to pray night prayer from memory.
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Which one do you have? I have the one put out by the Catholic Book Publishing Corp, and it includes the Night Prayers. The title page says it only has morning and evening, but the Night prayers are there, just before the Proper of Seasons
 
I’m not sure which one I have actually. I’ll have to check
 
It is the same as yours. Looked in the back of the book and poof! Night prayer was there.
 
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