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The Office of Compline for June 25, 2023

The Nativity of Saint John the Baptist

ORISON: Comfort, comfort ye my people (Tune: GENEVAN 42) – Claude Goudimel (c. 1514-1572)

PSALM 85:7-13 – Jason A. Anderson (b. 1976)

HYMN: The great forerunner of the morn (Tune: THE TRUTH FROM ABOVE – Herefordshire carol; arr. Ralph Vaughan Williams (1872-1958)

NUNC DIMITTIS – Plainsong, Tonus peregrinus; harm. Lodovico Grossi da Viadana (ca. 1560 – 1627)

ANTHEM: Fuit homo missus a Deo – Giovanni Pierluigi da Palestrina (1525-1594)

Jason Anderson, director • Bill Turnipseed, reader • Fred McIlroy, cantor

The Office of Compline for June 24, 2018

June 24, 2018

The Nativity of Saint John the Baptist

A special Alumni + Compline service celebrating 62 years of the Compline Choir at Saint Mark’s Cathedral

ORISON: Comfort, comfort ye my people (Tune: Psaume 42) – Claude Goudimel (1514-1572)

PSALM 85:7-13 – Jason A. Anderson (b. 1976)

HYMN: The great forerunner of the morn (Tune: The Truth from Above) – Herefordshire carol; harm. Ralph Vaughan Williams (1872-1958)

NUNC DIMITTIS (Tune: Marilyn) – Peter R. Hallock (1924-2014)

ANTHEM: Peace – Peter R. Hallock

Jason Anderson, director • Joel Matter, reader • James Wilcox, cantor

The Office of Compline for June 23, 2013

5th Sunday after Pentecost
Eve of the Nativity of St. John the Baptist (June 24)

Conductor: Jason Anderson
Reader: Tyler Morse
Cantor: Richard Greene

ORISON: “The great forerunner of the morn” (tune: The Truth From Above, English melody, harmonized by Ralph Vaughan Williams [1872 – 1958])

PSALM: 85: 7 – 13 (Jason Allen Anderson)

HYMN: “Comfort, comfort ye my people ” (tune: Psalm 42 – Genevan Psalter, composed or harmonized by Louis Bourgeois [ca. 1510 – 1560])

NUNC DIMITTIS: (setting by Lodovico Grossi da Viadana [ca. 1560 – 1627]; Tone VII)

ANTHEM: “Benedictus” from Missa Sine Nomine (John Taverner [c. 1490 – 1545])