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Resumen
- The evening collect “Lighten our darkness” from the Book of Common Prayer asks God to “defend us from all perils and dangers of this night.”
- Short prayers cover the end of a long day, a racing mind, sleeplessness, going to bed angry, fear and bad dreams, worry about tomorrow, loved ones and sleeping by day after a night shift.
- Traditional night prayers are quoted from the 1928 Book of Common Prayer, Catholic Compline in the 1888 Manual de Oraciones and Orthodox Great Compline in Hapgood’s 1906 service book.
- “Now I lay me down to sleep” first appeared in print in the 1737 New England Primer; its author is unknown.
- Scripture calls sleep a gift: “for so he giveth his beloved sleep” (Psalm 127:2), and Psalm 4:8 is a night prayer in itself.
- Long-lasting sleeplessness needs a doctor as well as prayer; 988 (US) and Samaritans (116 123) answer at any hour.
Bibliografía (Haga clic para mostrar)
- Scripture quotations are from the King James Version (1611), text of Project Gutenberg eBook no. 10 (Psalm 3:5; 4:8; 31:5; 63:6; 77:4; 91:5; 127:2; 139:12; Proverbs 3:24; Isaiah 26:3; Matthew 6:34; Mark 4:38; Luke 2:29; Ephesians 4:26). https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/10
- El Libro de Oración Común (Iglesia Episcopal Protestante en los EE. UU.), Libro Estándar de 1928. Oración de la tarde, “Una oración colecta para pedir ayuda contra los peligros”, pág. 31; Oración familiar, “Por la noche”, págs. 594–595. Facsímil en PDF: https://www.artisticdailyprayers.org/uploads/3/0/1/6/30164961/bcp1928std.pdf
- Un Manual de Oraciones para el Uso de los Laicos Católicos, prepared and published by order of the Third Plenary Council of Baltimore. New York: Catholic Publication Society, 1888. Evening Prayers (Compline), pp. 69–75. https://archive.org/details/AManualOfPrayers1888
- Hapgood, Isabel Florence, trad. Libro de Servicio de la Santa Iglesia Apostólica Ortodoxa-Católica (Greco-Rusa). Boston and New York: Houghton, Mifflin, 1906. The Office of Grand Compline, pp. 151–154 and 161–162. https://www.ponomar.net/data/hapgood.pdf
- “Молитвы вечерние на сон грядущим” (Evening Prayers Before Sleep), Church Slavonic text. Foma, 7 June 2016. https://foma.ru/molitvyi-vechernie-na-son-gryadushhim.html
- Ford, Paul Leicester. The New-England Primer: A History of Its Origin and Development. New York: Dodd, Mead, 1897, p. 46. https://archive.org/details/newenglandprimer00ford
- Línea de Prevención del Suicidio y Crisis 988. https://988lifeline.org/
- Samaritans. “Contacta a un samaritano”. https://www.samaritans.org/how-we-can-help/contact-samaritan/
