ORISON: “If Ye Love Me” (Thomas Tallis [ca. 1505 – 1585])

PSALM: 19 (plainsong, Tone III Ending 4)

HYMN: “Book of books, our people’s strength” (Liebster Jesu, melody by Johann Rudolph Ahle [1625 – 1673]; altered in Das Grosse Cantional oder Kirchen-Gesangbuch, 1687; harmonized by George Herbert Palmer [1846 – 1926])

NUNC DIMITTIS: (setting by Lodovico Grossi da Viadana [ca. 1560 – 1627])

ANTHEM: “Beati quorum via” (Sir Charles Villiers Stanford [1852 – 1924])