Tag Archives: Pentecost

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 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

The Office of Compline for September 22, 2024

The Eighteenth Sunday after Pentecost

ORISON: Maker of all things – Thomas Tallis (c. 1505-1585)

PSALM 54 – Jason A. Anderson (b. 1976)

OFFICE HYMN: Te lucis ante terminum (Before the ending of the day) – Plainsong, Mode VIII; harm. Orlando di Lasso (1532-1594)

NUNC DIMITTIS – Plainsong, Tone IV; harm. Anon., adapt. Bernarr Rainbow (1914-1998)

ANTHEM: O bone Jesu – Alonso de Tejeda (c. 1540-1628)

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

The Office of Compline for September 1, 2024

The Fifteenth Sunday after Pentecost

ORISON: Round me falls the night – mel. A. Drese (1620-1701); harm. S.S. Wesley (1824-1899), Henry Ley (1887-1962), and J. S. Bach (1685-1750)

PSALM 15 – Peter R. Hallock (1924-2014)

HYMN: Lamp of our feet (Tune: NUN DANKET ALL UND BRINGET EHR) – mel. att. Johann Cruger (1598-1662), alt.

NUNC DIMITTIS – Christopher Tye (c. 1505-c. 1573)

ANTHEM: Exultate justi in Domino — Lodovico Grossi da Viadana (c. 1560-1627)

Jason Anderson, director • J. Scott Kovacs, reader • James Wilcox, cantor

The Office of Compline for August 25, 2024

The Fourteenth Sunday after Pentecost

ORISON: The shadows of the evening hours – Joshua Haberman (b. 1982)

PSALM 34:15-22 – Plainsong, Tone V.2

HYMN: Abide with me (Tune: EVENTIDE) – William Henry Monk (1823-1889)

NUNC DIMITTIS – Plainsong setting, Tone VII; harm. Lodovico Grossi da Viadana (c. 1560-1627)

ANTHEM: Salva nos, Domine, vigilantes – Jacob Handl (1551-1591)

Jason Anderson, director • Bill Turnipseed, reader • Joel Bevington, cantor