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The Office of Compline for March 17, 2024

The Fifth Sunday in Lent

ORISON: Give judgment for me, O God – Plainsong, Mode IV

PSALM 119:9-16 – Plainsong, Tone II.1

HYMN: Drop, drop, slow tears (Tune: SONG 46) – Orlando Gibbons (1583-1625)

NUNC DIMITTIS – Plainsong setting, Tone IV.2

ANTHEM: Lamentations of Jeremiah (a5) – Alfonso Ferrabosco the Younger (c. 1575-1628)

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

The Office of Compline for March 10, 2024

The Fourth Sunday in Lent

ORISON: Rejoice with Jerusalem– Plainsong, Mode V

PSALM 107:1-3, 17-22 – Plainsong, Tone V.1

HYMN: Lord, keep us steadfast in your Word (Tune: JESU DULCEDO CORDIUM) – Plainsong, Mode II; ed. Carl C. Crosier (1945-2014); harm. Peter R. Hallock (1924-2014

NUNC DIMITTIS – Plainsong setting, Tone IV.2

ANTHEM: Of the Lord’s mercies – Erin Aas (b. 1974)

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

The Office of Compline for March 3, 2024

The Third Sunday in Lent

ORISON: He shall call upon me – Plainsong, Mode VIII

PSALM 19 – Plainsong, Tone III.4

OFFICE HYMN: ‘Christe, qui lux es et dies,’ from Music for Compline – Plainsong, Mode II; arr. Kevin Siegfried (b. 1969)

NUNC DIMITTIS – Plainsong setting, Tone IV.2

ANTHEM: Lamentations (Setting I) – Thomas Tallis (c. 1505-1585)

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

The Office of Compline for February 25, 2024

The Second Sunday in Lent

ORISON: My eyes are ever looking to the Lord – Plainsong, Mode VI

PSALM 22:22-30 – Peter R. Hallock (1924-2014)

HYMN: Lord Jesus, think on me (Tune: SOUTHWELL) – from Daman’s Psalter, 1579; adapt. Hymnal 1940; fauxbourdon harm. by Peter R. Hallock

NUNC DIMITTIS – Plainsong setting, Tone IV.2

ANTHEM: Lamentations – Peter R. Hallock (1924-2014)

Jason Anderson, director • J. Scott Kovacs, reader • Ken Peterson, cantor
Page Smith, violincello

The Office of Compline for February 18, 2024

The First Sunday in Lent

ORISON: Remember, O Lord – Plainsong, Tone IV [American Gradual]

PSALM 25:1-9 – Plainsong, Tone IV.2

HYMN: The glory of these forty days (Tune: ERHALT UNS, HERR) – mel. from Geistliche Lieder, 1535; harm. Johann Sebastian Bach (1685-1750)

NUNC DIMITTIS – Plainsong setting, Tone IV.2

ANTHEM: Lamentations of Jeremiah (a7) – Costanzo Festa (c. 1485/1490-1545)

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

The Office of Compline for March 26, 2023

The Fifth Sunday in Lent

ORISON: Judica me Deus – Plainsong, Mode IV

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

HYMN: Out of the depths I call (Tune: SAINT BRIDE) – Samuel Howard (1710-1782) and Geoffrey Shaw (1879-1943)

NUNC DIMITTIS – Plainsong setting, Tone IV.2

ANTHEM: Lamentations of Jeremiah (a7) – Costanzo Festa (c. 1485/1490-1545)

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

The Office of Compline for March 19, 2023

The Fourth Sunday in Lent: LAETARE Office for the Dead — 3 Years of COVID

PROCESSIONAL: Requiem aeternam – Plainsong, Mode VI

PSALM 91 – Plainsong, Tone IV.4

HYMN: O Holy Spirit, by whose breath, life rises (Tune: VENI CREATOR SPIRITUS) – Plainsong, Mode VIII

NUNC DIMITTIS – Plainsong setting, Tone IV.2

ANTHEM: Lamentations – Peter R. Hallock (1924-2014)
– Page Smith, violoncello

Jason Anderson, director • Bill Turnipseed, reader • Derek Tilton, cantor

The Office of Compline for March 12, 2023

The Third Sunday in Lent

ORISON: Oculi mei – Plainsong, Mode VII

PSALM 95 – Plainsong, Tone IV.4

HYMN: Lord Jesus, think on me (Tune: SOUTHWELL) – from Daman’s Psalter, 1579; adapt. Hymnal 1940; fauxbourdon harm. by Peter R. Hallock (1924-2014)

NUNC DIMITTIS – Plainsong setting, Tone IV.2

ANTHEM: Lamentations of Jeremiah (a5) – Osbert Parsley (c. 1511-1585)

Jason Anderson, director • Josh Sandoz, reader • James Wilcox, cantor

The Office of Compline for March 5, 2023

The Second Sunday in Lent

ORISON: Reminiscere miserationum tuarum – Plainsong, Mode IV

PSALM 121 – H. Walford Davies (1869-1941)

HYMN: Our Father, while our hearts unlearn the creeds that wrong thy name (Tune: BALFOUR) – Scottish hymn; harm. Geoffrey Shaw (1879-1943) and Gregory Bloch (b. 1977)

NUNC DIMITTIS – Plainsong setting, Tone IV.2

ANTHEM: Lamentations of Jeremiah (a4/a5) – Juan de Lienas (c. 1617-1654)

Jason Anderson, director • Jeffrey Ricco, reader • Joel Bevington, cantor

The Office of Compline for February 26, 2023

The First Sunday in Lent

ORISON: Exaudi Domine – Plainsong Introit, Mode IV

PSALM 32 – Plainsong, Tone III.4

HYMN: The Truth from Above – Herefordshire Carol, arr. Ralph Vaughan Williams (1872-1958)

NUNC DIMITTIS – Plainsong setting, Tone IV.2

ANTHEM: Lamentations of Jeremiah – Claudin de Sermisy (c. 1490-1562)

Jason Anderson, director • J. Scott Kovacs, reader • Jeremy Matheis, cantor