Every year on the Solemnity of the Assumption, a dozen monks take their perpetual or simple vows at the Heiligenkreuz (‘Holy Cross’) Abbey. (photo: Stift Heiligenkreuz/Elisabeth Fürst/Solène Tadié / ...

When my kids were little, we started ending the day the same way. We’d light a candle and sing an old song — “walk in the ...

Our Lady of Walsingham and a page from ‘Divine Worship: Daily Office’ (photo: Thorvaldsson / Wikimedia Commons CC BY 3.0 / Thomas L. McDonald) Catholic prayer and devotion can be enriched through this ...

The Kalispell Compline Choir announces the return of Nightcap for the Soul, a free monthly program of sacred music and meditative readings offered on the second Sunday of each month, September through ...

The above prayer is one we from the NW Mission Area of the Minnesota Episcopal Church use in our online Compline, Night Prayer, service every Tuesday, Wednesday and Thursday evenings at 8 p.m. via ...

Downtown Napa's Compline restaurant has entered the next phase of its culinary evolution with the appointment of Dan Ziebell as executive chef, bringing a veteran of Napa Valley's most acclaimed ...

We are living in difficult times, both in the Church and in the world. Now more than ever, ordinary Catholics must fight for the salvation of souls and personal sanctity. Latin is the universal ...

There is always a time and place for great art, and for the ultimate experience it should be within the setting for which it is designed. We all know that the experience of seeing row upon row of ...

It being the month of May, in which we particularly celebrate the Mother of God, it seems appropriate for us to focus on the four Marian seasonal antiphons. Every Catholic should know them — and sing ...

This is Episode 137 of the A Catholic Life Podcast. In today’s episode I address the importance of praying the Divine Office specifically Matins and Compline as a layperson. For the traditional ...

The worship-filled day of the Rev. Arthur Carl Kreinheder begins at 6 with the recitation of lauds. Afterward he celebrates Mass, and until the Great Silence that follows the night prayer of compline, ...

Take a tip from the monastics—make it a habit to indulge in the “great” or “grand” silence. You won’t regret it. In his Rule, St. Benedict of Nursia ...