The Office of Compline for December 8, 2021

The Second Sunday of Advent

ORISON: People of Zion, look up – Plainsong, Mode VII

CANTICLE 16: The Song of Zechariah – Plainsong, Tone VIII.1

HYMN: Prepare the way, O Zion (Tune: BEREDEN VÄG FÖR HERRAN) – mel. from Then Swenska Psalmboken, 1697; harm. Koralbok för Svenska Kyrkan, 1939, alt.; adapt. Jason A. Anderson (b. 1976)

NUNC DIMITTIS – Richard Proulx (1937-2010)

ANTHEM: Ecce Dominus veniet – Tomás Luis de Victoria (1548-1611)

Jason Anderson, director • Josh Sandoz, reader • Fred McIlroy, cantor

The Office of Compline for December 1, 2024

The First Sunday of Advent

ORISON: Matin Responsory – Jason A. Anderson (b. 1976)

PSALM 25:1-9 – Plainsong, Tone IV.2

HYMN: Creator of the stars of night (Tune: CONDITOR ALME SIDERUM) – Plainsong, Mode IV

NUNC DIMITTIS – Richard Proulx (1937-2010)

ANTHEM: Rorate caeli desuper– Peter R. Hallock (1924-2014)

Jason Anderson, director • Tyler Morse, reader • Joel Bevington, cantor

The Office of Compline for November 24, 2024

The Last Sunday after Pentecost: The Reign of Christ

ORISON: ‘Psalm 95’ from Six Hymns to Doctor Watts – Alice Parker (1925-2023)

PSALMS 93 & 150 – Plainsong, Tone VIII.3 & C. V. Stanford (1852-1924)

HYMN 419: Lord of all being, throned afar (Tune: MENDON) – mel. from Methodist Harmonist, 1821; adapt. Lowell Mason (1792-1872)

NUNC DIMITTIS – Plainsong, Tone III.4

ANTHEM: The Altar – Jeff Junkinsmith (b. 1956)

Jason Anderson, director • Jeff Ricco, reader • Jeremy Matheis, cantor

The Office of Compline for November 17, 2024

The Twenty-sixth Sunday after Pentecost; 100th Birthday of Peter R. Hallock

ORISON: Bring us, O Lord God – Peter R. Hallock (1924-2014)

PSALMS 134 & 4 – Peter R. Hallock

HYMN: I’ll praise my Maker while I’ve breath (Tune: OLD 113TH) – Melody from Strassburger Kirchenamt, 1525; harm. Peter R. Hallock (1924-2014)

NUNC DIMITTIS (2-part setting with handbells) – Peter R. Hallock

ANTHEM: Christus est Stella Matutina – Peter R. Hallock

Jason Anderson, director • Gregory Bloch, reader • Tyler Morse, cantor

The Office of Compline for November 10, 2024

The Twenty-Fifth Sunday after Pentecost

ORISON: In all our grief and fear, we turn to you (Tune: FREDERICKTOWN) – Charles R. Anders (1929-2020)

PSALM 146 – Plainsong, Tone IV.2

HYMN: All who love and serve your city (Tune: CHARLESTOWN) – mel. from The Southern Harmony, 1865; harm. Alastair Cassels-Brown (1927-2001), alt.; vs. 3 reharm. Jason A. Anderson (b. 1976)

NUNC DIMITTIS – Dana Marsh (b. 1965)

ANTHEM: Sometimes I feel like a motherless child – African-American Spiritual, arr. Brian Fairbanks (b. 1968)

Jason Anderson, director • Joel Matter, reader • John Garlid, cantor

The Office of Compline for November 3, 2024

All Souls: All the Faithful Departed (transferred)

ORISON: ‘I heard a voice from heaven,’ from Burial Sentences – Thomas Tomkins (1572-1656); adapt. Gregory W. Bloch (b. 1977)

PSALM 130 – Peter R. Hallock (1924-2014)

HYMN: Jerusalem, my happy home (Tune: LAND OF REST) – American folk hymn; collected by Annabel Morris Buchanan (1889-1983); arr. Richard T. Proulx (1937-2010)

NUNC DIMITTIS – Plainsong, Tone I; harm. William Byrd (c. 1540-1623)

ANTHEM: Burial Sentences – Thomas Tomkins; adapt. Gregory W. Bloch

Jason Anderson, director • Scott Kovacs, reader • Theo Floor, cantor

The Office of Compline for October 27, 2024

The Twenty-Third Sunday of Pentecost

ORISON: Help me, O Lord, thy way to keep – Shaker tune, arr. Kevin Seigfried (b. 1969)

PSALM 126 – Peter R. Hallock (1924-2014)

HYMN: Lord, we are blind (Tune: GODMANSTONE) – Cyril V. Taylor (1907-1991)

NUNC DIMITTIS – Plainsong, Tone III.4

ANTHEM: A Colloquy with God – Richard Rodney Bennett (1936-2012)

Jason Anderson, director • Bill Turnipseed, reader • James Wilcox, cantor

The Office of Compline for October 20, 2024

The Twenty-Second Sunday after Pentecost

ORISON: Be present, O merciful God – Roupen Shakarian (b. 1950)

PSALM 91:9-16 – Peter R. Hallock (1924-2014)

OFFICE HYMN: Te lucis ante terminum (Before the ending of the day) – Roupen Shakarian

NUNC DIMITTIS – Roupen Shakarian

ANTHEM: The Road Home (Tune: PROSPECT) – adapt. Stephen Paulus (1949-2014)

Jason Anderson, director • Jeremy Matheis, reader • Ken Peterson, cantor

The Office of Compline for October 13, 2024

The Twenty-First Sunday after Pentecost

ORISON: Now the day is over – M. Searle Wright (1918-2004)

PSALM 90:12-17 – Plainsong, Tone VIII.1

HYMN: My God, how wonderful thou art (Tune: WINDSOR) – mel. William Damon (c. 1540-c. 1591), alt.; harm. Henchman & Hancock, 1754; Booke of Musicke, 1591; and The Academic Hymnal, 1899

NUNC DIMITTIS – James Bassi (b. 1961)

ANTHEM: Lord, teach us to number our days – Charles H. Lloyd (1849-1919)

Jason Anderson, director • Josh Sandoz, reader • Fred McIlroy, cantor

The Office of Compline for October 6, 2024

The Twentieth Sunday after Pentecost

ORISON: ‘Beloved, let us love one another’ from In Praise of Singing – Alice Parker (1925-2023)

PSALM 139 – Peter R. Hallock (1924-2014)

HYMN: God himself is with us (Tune: TYSK) – from Psalm und Choralbuch, 1719; arr. Gregory Bloch

NUNC DIMITTIS – Plainsong setting, Tonus peregrinus; harm. William Byrd (c. 1540-1623)

ANTHEM: Ubi caritas – Maurice Duruflé (1902-1986); adapt. Jeff Junkinsmith (b. 1956)

Jason Anderson, director • Tyler Morse, reader • John Garlid, cantor