Community Compline

Join the wider Tucson community at 7:30pm tomorrow, Saturday, April 22, 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.

This is street evangelism Episcopal-style. Saint Philip’s will bring the smells, bells, liturgical prayer, and Anglican chant of the Episcopal tradition to the stage of a modern music venue.

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 volunteer choir members.

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.