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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

The candles flicker, casting long shadows over the vaulted ceiling. Incense wafts through the nave, as Gregorian chants echo throughout the dark expanse and men in monks’ robes walk solemnly under the ...

First-Plymouth Church will offer a Compline for Peace service on Sunday, Nov. 12, at First-Plymouth Church, 2000 D St. With the fires of war raging in the Middle East and Ukraine, we need to gather in ...

“It’s incredible to hear 300 people being completely silent. It’s amazing how quiet people can be,” said Stephen Kennedy, music director of Christ Church on East Avenue. That’s not the reaction most ...

Photo Provided The Rev. Ian B. Reid, senior pastor of First Lutheran Church, 19th and Plum streets, prepares to read the Bible lesson for an evening Compline service last year. Compline services, the ...

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 ...

We tend to note the passage of time with misgivings, seeing in a graying head or weathered fence a lifetime slipping away. Maybe we need to narrow our focus. Maybe the passage of a day or a week is ...

REDLANDS – The University of Redlands Chapel Singers will sing a compline service Sunday, Oct. 18, under the direction of Jean-S bastien Valle. The choral service is 7:30 p.m. in the university’s ...