Anselm Compline

*Those blessed ones of your's shall rejoice according as they shall love;
and they shall love according as they shall know.
*How far they will know you, Lord, then! and how much they will love you!
* Father, bless the work that is done,and the work that is to be.
* Father, bless the servants that we are,and the servant that we will be.

O Lord our God, grant us grace to desire you with our whole heart;
that, so desiring, we may seek, and seeking find you;
and so finding you may love you: and loving you, may hate those sins from which you have redeemed us.

*And you, Jesus, are you not also a mother?
*Are you not the mother, who, like a hen,
gathers her chickens under her wings? Truly, Lord, you are a mother;
*for both they who labour
and they who are brought forth
are accepted by you.

*You have died more than they, that they may labour to bear.
*It is by your death that they have been born, for if you had not been in labour, you could not have borne death; and if you had not died, you would not have brought forth.

For, longing to bear sons into life, you tasted of death,
and by dying you begot them.