For more than 1,500 years, monks have praised and worshiped God eight times a day every day, through short services, where they chant psalms, hymns, and songs.  Compline is the last of the eight daily monastic offices of worship, which include Vigils (or Matins), Lauds, Prime, Terse, Sext, None, Vespers, and finally Compline, meaning "complete" and signalling the completion of the day.

    Compline has been celebrated at St. Andrew's since 1991. Compline, as a monastic office, traditionally consists of chanted Psalms, short passages of scripture (chapters), a canticle (a liturgical song, e.g. Nunc Dimittis), an office hymn, and a litany, bringing together our thoughts (collects) and prayers. The service at St. Andrew's adds an introit and an anthem.

    The Compline Choir is currently composed of men from St. Andrew's, but has traditionally had members from other churches. The brothers in this choir are bonded in dedication to this moving, peaceful, and spiritual form of worship and united by their love of the Lord and the closeness of the Holy Spirit during this moving form of worship. If you feel led to join the men of St. Andrew's in Compline, please feel free to attend the next Compline service, held at 8:00pm on the first Sunday of each month.

    For more information about Compline and how you can be involved, you may also download a more descriptive Compline brochure (.pdf).