Compline Service

Compline - bedtime or after-supper prayer - is basically a private office. There are two versions of compline - great and small compline. Great compline is a church service commemorating such occasions as the Eve of the Nativity of Christ or providing a structure to pray the Great Canon of St. Andrew of Crete during Lent. Small compline is the private, bedtime prayer office.

The opening prayers of Compline are like those of vespers.