Part 1. Praying in the dark. Prologue

Finding Compline: nightfall ; Keep watch, dear lord: pain and presence

Part 2. The way of the vulnerable. Those who weep: lament ; Those who watch: attention ; Those who work: restoration

Part 3. A taxonomy of vulnerability. Give your angels charge over those who sleep: cosmos and commonplace ; Tend the sick, Lord Christ: embodiment ; Give rest to the weary: weakness and silence ; Bless the dying: ashes ; Soothe the suffering: comfort ; Pity the afflicted: relentlessness and revelation ; Shield the joyous: gratitude and indifference

Part 4. Culmination. And all for your love's sake: dawn

Discussion questions and suggested practices.