The ensemble I sing with (Encore) leads a Compline service the first Sunday evening of the month, hosted by the Episcopal Church of the Ascension. It's a wonderful service, and I'm linking the following page so you can read a little more about it.
Compline - Night Prayer
Let each one take care to pray with great vigilance in the middle of the night, for our fathers said that at that hour all creation is assiduous in the service of praising God, all the angelic hosts and the souls of the just bless God. For the Lord testifies to this, saying, "In the middle of the night there was a cry: Behold, the bridegroom has come, go out to meet him" (Mt.. 25:6). ...When a man sleeps in his bed, he must pray to God in his heart. (Canons of Hippolytus, n. 27)
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