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Article: Grace Lutheran offers new compline service
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- Intelligencer Journal Lancaster, PA
- Article date:
- February 3, 2007
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LORI VAN INGEN
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 leader begins
chanting in ancient Gregorian tones, asking God for a quiet, peaceful
night.
With prayers, hymns, psalms, chanted verses and responses - most
of which are a cappella - Grace's 10-person-compline choir leads the
congregation in giving thanks for the day and entrusting the world
and its people into God's care through the night.
Compline - derived from the Latin completorium- is the completion
of the liturgical day in Roman Catholic, ...