It’s a beloved Sunday night tradition celebrating its 65th anniversary this year. And like so many other things, the weekly Compline service at St. Mark’s Cathedral on Capitol Hill in Seattle was ...
As darkness envelops the night, candlelight shines forth to welcome the weary each Sunday evening at Grace Lutheran Church's new compline service. All is silent until a single bell rings and the ...
Many modern Catholics’ familiarity with the Liturgy of the Hours begins and ends with a ditty about an ineffective Matins bell and a dozing friar named Jacques. But due to the encouragement of recent ...
Compline is a brief service of prayer — essentially a monk’s bedtime prayers. The community gathers to give thanks for the day that has passed and to ask for safety in the night to come. In the office ...
At 6:55 p.m. on Sunday nights, the nave at Christ Episcopal Church in downtown Little Rock is nearly silent. The lights are dimmed and about 15 people sit silently in the pews. There is the occasional ...