Complines III

Sunday -- The Ita Compline

*The Sacred Three

to save

to shield

to surround

the hearth

the home

this night

and every night.

*Search me, O God, and know my heart.

Test me and know my thoughts.

*See if there is any wicked way in me

and lead me in the way everlasting.

*O Father, O Son, O Holy Spirit,

forgive me my sins.

O only-begotten Son the heavenly

Father,

forgive.

O God who is one,

O God who is true,

O God who is first,

O God who is one substance,

O God only mighty,

in three Persons, truly merciful,

forgive.

*O God of life, this night,

O darken not to me Thy light.

*O God of life, this night,

close not Thy gladness to my sight.

*Keep Your people, Lord,

in the arms of Your embrace.

Shelter them under Your wings.

*Be their light in darkness.

Be their hope in distress.

Be their clam in anxiety.

*Be their strength in their weakness.

*Be their comfort in pain.

*Be their song in the night.

*In peace will I lie down, for it is You, O

Lord,

You alone who makes me to rest secure.

*Be it on Your own beloved arm,

O God of grace, that I in peace shall awake.

*Be the peace of the Spirit

mine this night.

Be the peace of the Son

mine this night.

Be the peace of the Father

mine this night.

The peace of all peace

be mine this night

in the name of the Father,

and of the Son,

and of the Holy Spirit.

Amen.