Te lucis ante terminum

Te lucis in a Spanish manuscript circa 1625, with pro tua clementia (instead of solita clementia) due to Urban VIII's classicizing revisions. The original Latin is used in post-Vatican II texts.

Te lucis ante terminum ('To Thee before the close of day') is an old Latin hymn in long metre. It is the hymn at Compline in the Roman Breviary.


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