Join us for Evening Prayer on the second Wednesday evening of each month this summer. Meet up on the Commons Room Patio with Rev. Christy. This June we’ll offer New Zealand Night Prayer as our service format.

INCLEMENT WEATHER

In the case of inclement weather, we will gather for worship in the Chapel.

ABOUT NEW ZEALAND NIGHT PRAYER

The offering of prayer late in the evening, by laity, religious orders or clergy, often called Compline, has sometimes been described as the ‘goodnight prayer of the Church’. It rounds off the day and prepares us for a quiet night. As the psalmist wrote:

I lie down in peace and take rest my rest
for it is in God alone that I dwell unafraid.

Night Prayer derives its content from the wisdom of the centuries in Scripture and above all in the psalms, but also from contemporary Christian experience of God. It celebrates the awareness that each of us who tries to pray is a part of the human whole. So we are taken over the threshold from daytime, not in a mood of self-centred spirituality, but as representatives of humanity, acknowledging our creaturehood before God.