“TE LUCIS ANTE TERMINUM.” – Hymn of Compline, belonging to the Irish group.
It is the evening prayer in which the soul turns to God asking for protection during sleep.
BIBL.: G. G. Belli, Gli inni del Breviario tradotti, Roma 1856, p. 94; G. S. Pimont, Les hymnes du Breviare romain, I, Parigi 1874, pp. 124-30; A. Mirra, Gli inni del Breviario romano, Napoli 1947, p. 49. Silvestro Mattei