Can You Still Find Meaning in Ancient Music?

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I’ve lived two miles away from St. Mark’s Episcopal Cathedral for more than a decade now, but it took a book written by an author who was born in Switzerland, grew up in Montreal, and lives in Washington, DC, to alert me to something special that’s been happening there every Sunday since 1956.

In The Power of Meaning, Emily Esfahani Smith details her visit to St. Mark’s on Capitol Hill to see the Compline Choir, which sings an ancient monastic prayer service. Compline comes from

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