We warmly invite all people in all places of faith and life to Compline. Offered on the first and third Sunday this month, this beautiful candle-lit service is a meditative experience of a cappella singing and chanting to commemorate the day’s end. This month, November 1 will feature Women’s Compline. November 15 compline will be led by members of the LCH Men’s Schola. Musical selections include Gregorian chant, Taizé chant, Renaissance polyphony, and more.
Compline will be livestreamed on our streaming page and the LCH Facebook page and then archived on the the LCH Facebook page.
Blessing of Petsat 10:00 am
Vespers for the Feast of St. Francis at 7:30 pm
All are invited to join us for our first Bach and Prayer service on September 22 at 7:00 pm. A quiet time of prayer and reflection, Bach and Prayer offers a space for silent prayer and meditation interspersed with contemplative organ works by J. S. Bach and his family.
The beginning of the new school year marks the return of Godly Play, LCH’s Sunday School program for children from kindergarten though 5th grade.
September also brings the return of Compline, or Prayer at the Close of the Day.
LCH staff and the Worship and Music Committee have carefully planned an in-person worship event for this Sunday, August 1. The number of attendees is limited to 35 to accommodate the 6-foot CDC distancing guideline. We will meet outside in the courtyard. RSVPs and masks are required. 
Please join us for streaming midweek Lenten services. Holden Evening prayer will begin at 7:00 on Wednesday evenings during Lent with the theme “From Darkness into Light.” Each service will approach the theme from a different perspective including spirituality, care of earth, and mental health using music, imagery, art, and proclamation to draw us deeper into God’s presence. Members of Writers’ Workshop will provide much of the proclamation texts.
The season of Lent begins with a very special worship on Ash Wednesday. This beautiful evening service begins the Lenten season of reflection, prayer, and preparation as we hear the words from Genesis 3:19, “Remember that you are dust, and to dust you shall return.” Physical distancing keeps us from receiving ashes, a sign of mourning and repentance, on our foreheads this year. But we are reminded of our mortality through the cross, a sign of promise, and life, and hope. Ash Wednesday—and the whole season of Lent—calls us to reflect and remember the precious gift of life and love that God has given us in creation and community and to re-center our thoughts and spirit on what truly matters. We recall that our mortality is joined to God’s forever in Christ, and remember that together we share the joy of life with all of God’s world.