Wow LISTEN to a Sublime New Release by VOCES8 the Church's Night Prayer Hymn Te Lucis Ante Terminum Composed by Tallis

VOCES8 new release singing 'Te Lucis Ante Terminum' by Thomas Tallis at the VOCES8 Centre in London. 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....FULL LYRICS below the VIDEO

FULL TEXT Lyrics in Latin with Translation: Te lucis ante terminum, rerum Creator, poscimus, ut solita clementia, sis praesul et custodiam. Procul recedant somnia, et noctium phantasmata: hostemque nostrum comprime, ne polluantur corpora. Praesta, Pater omnipotens, per Iesum Christum Dominum, qui tecum in perpetuum regnat cum Sancto Spiritu. TRANSLATION Before the ending of the day, Creator of the world, we pray That with thy wonted favour, Thou Would'st be our guard and keeper now. From all ill dreams defend our eyes, From nightly fears and fantasies; Tread under foot our ghostly foe, That no pollution we may know. O Father, that we ask be done, Through Jesus Christ, Thine only Son; Who, with the Holy Ghost and Thee, Shall live and reign eternally. Amen.