(1) After their meal they retire to their caves and cells for the rest of the day, emerging only to sing lauds, vespers and compline at the appointed times.(2) At compline , a guitar was played and the psalmody was clearly not Gregorian.(3) With the household interns we observe the ancient practice of fixed-hour prayer, keeping whenever possible four offices each day: morning prayers, midday prayers, vespers, and compline .(4) Later in the evening came compline , followed by the midnight office.(5) The 30-minute worship draws upon an Anglican prayer service from New Zealand, Lutheran or Episcopal compline , and Holden Evening Prayer.(6) So begins one of my favorite prayers, from the service for compline in the Episcopal prayer book.(7) The final church, St Nicholas at Fyfield, was reached shortly after 4pm where the day was completed with tea followed by compline .(8) I cannot be concentrating on reciting lauds and compline at church, or on private prayers at home, and at the same time fully attend to my granddaughter's emotional needs - or talk over some thorny bioethical question with my husband.(9) The rhythm of my days goes slower now: matins and lauds, vespers and compline .(10) It ends 16 hours later with compline , after which the monks return to their cells for contemplation, prayer and sleep.
