Today at 5 pm is your last chance to attend. We'll be serving chicken soup (for the soul?) Yes, it is - but it's the Vespers service with all of us sitting around the table in evening song and prayer that really feeds the soul. Don't let Lent slip away without experiencing this.

For those who don't drive at night - not to worry. You're out before 7. Still plenty of light.

What is Vespers? In many times and places, dusk has been a time of prayer. Jews prayed in their synagogues at sunset as well as at other times each day. This Jewish pattern of prayer formed the basis of the Christian monastic “Daily Office,” with its prayers or “hours” at seven times each day. Anglican and Lutheran revisions of the Daily Office reduced the number of services to two — one for morning (Matins) and one for evening (Vespers or Evensong.)

Eventually, the evening service was given its present name, Evening Prayer. Many elements of Evening Prayer come from the monastic prayer tradition.