Monthly Archives: May 2025

The Office of Compline for May 25, 2025

The Sixth Sunday of Easter

ORISON: Alleluia! sing to Jesus! (Tune: HYFRYDOL) – Rowland Hugh Prichard (1811-1887)

PSALM 65 – Peter R. Hallock (1924-2014)

HYMN: Hark! I hear the harps eternal (Tune: INVITATION NEW) – arr. William Hauser (1812-1880); adapt. Gregory W. Bloch (b. 1977)

NUNC DIMITTIS (Tone VI) – Tyler Morse (b. 1990)

ANTHEM: Christus est Stella Matutina – Peter R. Hallock (1924-2014)

Jason Anderson, director • Tyler Morse, reader • Jeremy Matheis, cantor

The Office of Compline for May 18, 2025

The Fifth Sunday of Easter

ORISON: ‘O Light, O Way, O Truth, O Life’, from Ten Orisons – M. Searle Wright (1918-2004)

PSALM 148 – Peter R. Hallock (1924-2014)

HYMN: O what their joy and their glory must be (Tune: O QUANTA QUALIA) – mel. from Antiphoner, 1681; harm. John Bacchus Dykes (1823-1876)

NUNC DIMITTIS (Tone II) – Tyler Morse (b. 1990)

ANTHEM: Ubi caritas – Ola Gjeilo (b. 1978)

Jason Anderson, director • Jeff Rico, reader • Carl Bolstad, cantor

The Office of Compline for May 12, 2025

The Fourth Sunday of Easter

ORISON: All people that on earth do dwell (Tune: OLD 100TH) – mel. From Pseaumes octante trois de David, 1551, alt.; harm. after Louis Bourgeois (c. 1510-c. 1561); final fauxbourdon by John Dowland (1563-1626)

PSALM 23 (Setting II) – Peter R. Hallock (1924-2014)

HYMN: The God of love my Shepherd is (Tune: UNIVERSITY) – attr. Charles Collignon (1725-1785); verse 4 harm. Martin Fallas Shaw (1875-1958)

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

ANTHEM: The Good Shepherd – Alice Parker (1925-2023)

Jason Anderson, director • Scott Fikse, reader • Tyler Morse, cantor

The Office of Compline for May 4, 2025

The Third Sunday of Easter

ORISON: Christians to the Paschal victim (Tune: VICTIMAE PASCHALI LAUDES) – Plainsong, Mode I; melody att. Wigbert (d. 1050?) and Christ the Lord is risen again (Tune: CHRIST IST ERSTANDEN) – mel. from Geistliche Lieder, 1533; harm. Hans Leo Hassler (1564-1612)

PSALM 33:1-11 – Peter R. Hallock (1924-2014)

HYMN: Lift your voice rejoicing, Mary (Tune: FISK OF GLOUCESTER) – Thomas Foster (1938-2024)

NUNC DIMITTIS – Melchior Franck (c. 1579-1639); arr. Robert Preston & Gregory Bloch

ANTHEM: Regina caeli – Robert White (c. 1538-1574)

Jason Anderson, director • Gregory Bloch, reader • Carson Lott, cantor