Category Archives: Compline Service

The Service of Compline, as performed at St. Mark’s Cathedral; Sundays at 9:30 -10:00 p.m.

The Office of Compline for March 9, 2025

The First Sunday in Lent

ORISON: He shall call upon me – Plainsong, Mode VIII; adapt. Bruce E. Ford (1947-2025)

PSALM 91:1-2,9-16 – Plainsong, Tone IV.4

HYMN: Forty days and forty nights (Tune: AUS DER TIEFE RUFE ICH) – mel. att. Martin Herbst (1654-1681), alt.; harm. William Henry Monk (1823-1889)

NUNC DIMITTIS – Plainsong setting, Tone VIII.1

ANTHEM: In jejunio et fletu – Thomas Tallis (c. 1505-1585)

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

The Office of Compline for March 2, 2025

The Last Sunday after the Epiphany

ORISON: ’Tis good, Lord, to be here! (Tune: CARLISLE) – Charles Lockhart (1745-1815) [St Paul’s Hymn]

PSALMS 99 & 150 – Plainsong, Tone VII.7 and C. V. Stanford (1852-1924)

HYMN: Christ upon the mountain peak (Tune: IBIS) – melody Thomas Kuras (1950-1997); harm. Peter R. Hallock (1924-2014)

NUNC DIMITTIS – Plainsong, Tone VII; harm. Thomas Morley (1557-1602)

ANTHEM: Quicumque Christum quaeritis – Tomás Luis de Victoria (1548-1611)

Jason Anderson, director • Joel Matter, reader • Theo Floor, cantor

The Office of Compline for February 24, 2025

The Seventh Sunday after the Epiphany

ORISON: In your mercy, Lord, you called me (Tune: HALTON HOLGATE) – William Boyce (1711-1779); verse 3 harm. Samuel Sebastian Wesley (1810-1876)

PSALM 37:1-12,41-42

HYMN: Father all loving, who rulest in majesty (Tune: WAS LEBET) – mel. from Choral-Buch, 1754; harm. Ralph Vaughan Williams (1872-1958)

NUNC DIMITTIS – Elway Bevin (c.1554-1638)

ANTHEM: A Hymn of Faith – Gregory W. Bloch (b. 1977)

Jason Anderson, director • Scott Kovacs, reader • John Garlid, cantor

The Office of Compline for February 16, 2025

The Sixth Sunday after the Epiphany

ORISON: ‘Blest are the pure in heart,’ from Ten Orisons – M. Searle Wright (1918-2004)

PSALM 1 – Jason A. Anderson (b. 1976)

OFFICE HYMN: Before the ending of the day – Sarum plainsong, Mode VIII; harm. Thomas Tallis (c. 1505-1585)

NUNC DIMITTIS – Anonymous setting from The Lumley Books, c. 1547-1552 [No. 26]

ANTHEM: He that hath my commandments – William Mundy (c. 1529-c. 1591)

Jason Anderson, director • Bill Turnipseed, reader • Ken Peterson, cantor

The Office of Compline for February 9, 2025

The Fifth Sunday after the Epiphany

ORISON: Dear Lord and Father of mankind (Tune: REST) – Frederick Charles Maker (1844-1927)

PSALM 138 – Jason A. Anderson (b. 1976)

HYMN: Jesus calls us; o’er the tumult (Tune: RESTORATION) – mel. The Sacred Harp, 1835; arr. Greg Bloch

NUNC DIMITTIS – Plainsong, Tone VIII; harm. John Holmes (d. 1629)

ANTHEM: Ambulans Jesus – Francisco Guerrero (1528-1599)

Jason Anderson, director • Jeremy Matheis, reader • James Wilcox, cantor

The Office of Compline for February 2, 2025

The Presentation of Our Lord Jesus Christ in the Temple
Candlemas Procession at Compline

ANTIPHON: Behold, our Lord will come with power – Plainsong, Mode III [American Gradual]

PROCESSIONAL PSALM 48

PSALM 84 – Peter R. Hallock (1924-2014)

HYMN: Virgin-born, we bow before thee – Claude Goudimel (c. 1514-1572)

Nunc Dimittis with Candlemas Antiphon

ANTHEM: Almighty and everlasting God – Thomas Tomkins (1572-1656)

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

The Office of Compline for January 26, 2025

The Third Sunday after the Epiphany

ORISON: Blessed Jesus, at thy word we are gathered (Tune: LIEBSTER JESU) – mel. Johann Ahle (1625-1673); harm. George Palmer (1846-1926)\

PSALM 19 – Plainsong, Tone III.4

HYMN: O Christ, the Word Incarnate (Tune: MUNICH) – harm. Felix Mendelssohn (1809-1847)

NUNC DIMITTIS – Plainsong, Tone II; harm. John Holmes (d. 1629)

ANTHEM: Beati quorum via – Sir Charles Villiers Stanford (1852-1924); arr. Richard Barnes

Jason Anderson, director • Tyler Morse, reader • James Wilcox, cantor

The Office of Compline for January 19, 2025

The Second Sunday after the Epiphany

ORISON: Songs of thankfulness and praise (Tune: SALZBURG) – mel. Jakob Hintze (1622-1702); harm. Johann Sebastian Bach (1685-1750)

PSALM 36:5-10 – Jason A. Anderson (b. 1976)

HYMN: All praise to you, O Lord (Tune: CARLISLE) – Charles Lockhart (1745-1815)

NUNC DIMITTIS – Jeff Junkinsmith (b. 1956)

ANTHEM: Tribus miraculis – Orlando di Lasso (1532-1594)

Jason Anderson, director • Jeremy Matheis, reader • Joel Bevington, cantor

The Office of Compline for January 12, 2025

The First Sunday after the Epiphany: The Baptism of Jesus

ORISON: ‘I come,’ the great Redeemer cries (Tune: THIS ENDRIS NYGHT) – English mel.; harm. Ralph Vaughan Williams (1872-1958) and Martin Fallas Shaw (1875-1958)

PSALM 29 – Peter R. Hallock (1924-2014)

HYMN: Christ, when for us you were baptized (Tune: CAITHNESS) – melody from The Psalmes of David in Prose and Meeter, 1635; harm. The English Hymnal, 1906

NUNC DIMITTIS – Plainsong, Tone VI; harm. Orlando Gibbons (1583-1625)

ANTHEM: The Baptism of Christ – Peter R. Hallock

Jason Anderson, director • Gregory Bloch, reader • John Garlid, cantor

The Office of Compline for January 5, 2025

The Eve of the Epiphany

ORISON: Brightest and best of the stars of the morning (Tune: MORNING STAR) – James Proctor Harding (1850–1911)

PSALM 96 – Jason A. Anderson (b. 1976)

HYMN 112: In the bleak mid-winter (Tune: CRANHAM) – Gustav Holst (1874-1934

NUNC DIMITTIS (Tune: MARILYN) – Peter R. Hallock

ANTHEMS:
The Three Kings – Peter Cornelius (1824-1874); arr. Ivor Atkins (1869-1953) and Jason Anderson
Quem pastores laudavere – arr. Susan LeBarr (b. 1981)

Jason Anderson, director • Vern Nicodemus, reader • Tyler Morse, cantor