St. Clement Episcopal Church
1501 32nd Avenue South
Seattle, WA 98144

7:30pm-8:00pm

The Byrd Ensemble perform COMPLINE every Sunday at 7:30pm. This short 30-minute service is sung by 4 to 8 singers and is make up of chant and unaccompanied vocal music including chant, medieval, renaissance and modern music that fill this meditative and peaceful service.

About the Compline service (according to Wikipedia).

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Compline aka, Night Prayer, Prayers at the End of the Day is the final church service (or Office) of the day in the Christian tradition of canonical hours. The English word Compline is derived from the Latin completorium, as Compline is the completion of the working day. The word was first used in this sense about the beginning of the 6th century by St. Benedict in his Rule (Regula Benedicti; hereafter, RB), in Chapters 16, 17, 18, and 42, and he even uses the verb complere to signify Compline: “Omnes ergo in unum positi compleant” (“All having assembled in one place, let them say Compline”); “et exuentes a completorio” (“and, after going out from Compline…”) (RB, Chap. 42). Catholic, Eastern Orthodox, Anglican, Lutheran, and certain other Christian denominations with liturgical traditions prescribe Compline services. Compline tends to be a contemplative Office that emphasizes spiritual peace. In many monasteries it is the custom to begin the “Great Silence” after Compline, during which the whole community, including guests, observe silence throughout the night until the morning service the next day.

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