«TE LUCIS ANTE TERMINUM». — Hymn of Compline, belonging to the Irish group.
It is the evening prayer, in which the soul turns to God so that He may guard it in sleep.
BIBL.: G. G. Belli, Gli inni del Breviario tradotti, Roma 1856, p. 94; G. S. Piment, Les hymnes du Bréviaire romain, I, Parigi 1874, pp. 124–30; A. Mirra, Gli inni del Breviario romano, Napoli 1947, p. 49. Silverio Mattei