› Lenten Devotional Resource: Weekly Practice for Prayer & Meditation

Compline on The First Sunday in Lent | February 18, 2024: Click on the link above to listen to a short portion from a Compline service as recorded at St Mark’s Episcopal Church in Seattle, WA on February 18, 2024. We pray that these sung prayers throughout the season of Lent will provide you a few moments of rest, of reflecting, and of drawing near to God as God draws near to us.

› Lenten Devotional Resource: Weekly Practice for Prayer and Meditation

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n order to provide a rhythm to these weeks that allow us to dive deeper into our knowledge and experience of Christ, you are invited to listen to a short portion from a Compline service as recorded at St Mark’s Episcopal Church in Seattle, WA, and let the music pray through you. Compline is a service of prayer and reflection that takes place at the end of the day, a discipline we are borrowing here from our Episcopal siblings. The idea is to prepare the mind for sleep, to move from work to rest, as you end your Sunday and prepare for the week ahead.

For Sunday, March 9, 2025

Keep me as the apple of an eye;
Hide me under the shadow of thy wings.

Preserve us, O Lord, while waking, and guard us while sleeping;
that awake we may watch with Christ, and asleep we may rest in peace.

Lord, now lettest thou thy servant depart in peace: according to thy word.
For mine eyes have seen thy salvation, which thou hast prepared before the face of all people;
To be a light to lighten the Gentiles, and to be the glory of thy people Israel.
Glory be to the Father, and to the Son, and to the Holy Spirit:
As it was in the beginning, is now, and will be forever. Amen.