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I have also, for example, gathered over Zoom with friends for compline, a nighttime prayer with roots in the medieval monastic tradition.

He is no longer strong enough, he said, to regularly attend the first or last of Mepkin’s seven daily prayer services — vigils at 3:20 a.m., and compline at 7:35 p.m.

As I stared at it, the bells in its square steeple rang the hour of compline.

The ancient service of compline, chanted in the beauty and warmth of candlelight by the St. John’s Choir, will be directed by organist and choirmaster Samuel Carabetta.

In the end, my longing for evensong was satisfied by the twilit encore, Gustav Holst’s setting of the “Nunc Dimittis,” the Latin canticle for the nighttime service of compline.