Community Compline

Join the wider Tucson community this evening at 6:30pm for NightSong: A Compline Experience at the MSA Annex. It will be a beautiful service filled with incense, candlelight, and chant in an outdoor space overlooking downtown Tucson and the mountains.

Tonight's Compline is particularly special. Youth who have traveled to Tucson for the diocesan convention will host an art table, place candles, hang signs, etc. to prepare for other young people who will attend.

At the end of Compline, there will be a short blessing of the All Souls Ofrenda to prepare for Tucson’s annual All Souls Parade. All are invited to bring mementos or photos of loved ones who have died.

NightSong is a collaborative effort that includes Flam Chen and Many Mouths One Stomach (organizers of the annual All Souls Procession and Dia de San Juan), merchant Why I Love Where I Live, Episcopal Campus Ministries, Beloved in the Desert, and Saint Philip’s staff—Dr Justin Appel and Christopher Campbell.

Kristin and Alex Tovar of the Tucson shop Why I Love Where I Live provide wonderful merchandise for people to purchase as one way to help support the continuation of NightSong. The t-shirts and stickers are available through Chris.

To learn more about NightSong, or to help support it, you can visit the website: nightsongtucson.org.

Compline (Night Prayer) is often marked by chant, candlelight, and incense recalling ancient elements of worship offered for this day—and through the night. In a busy time, it is a space to find rest. In an anxious time, it is a place to find peace. In a fragmented time, it is a chance to reconnect with God, with ourselves, and with a deep sense of calm hope.