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The Office of Compline for March 24, 2024

The Sunday of the Passion: Palm Sunday

ORISON: We glory in your cross, O Lord – Plainsong, Mode IV

PSALM 22:1-11 – Plainsong, Tone IV.1

RESPOND: In manus tuas – John Sheppard (c. 1515-1558)

HYMN: O cross, whose wood is all our race’s boast (Tune: TENTH AVENUE) – Peter R. Hallock (1924-2014)

NUNC DIMITTIS – Plainsong setting, Tone IV.2

ANTHEM: O vos omnes – Peter R. Hallock

Jason Anderson, director • Tyler Morse, reader • Joel Bevington, cantor

The Office of Compline for April 2, 2023

The Sunday of the Passion: Palm Sunday

ORISON: Christus factus est – Plainsong, Mode V

PSALM 88 – Plainsong, Tone I.7

RESPOND: In manus tuas – John Sheppard (c. 1515-1558)

HYMN: Today, he who hung the earth upon the waters is hung upon the tree – Byzantine chant, Tone VI; trans. John Muehleisen (b. 1955)

NUNC DIMITTIS – Plainsong setting, Tone IV.2

ANTHEM: We adore you, O Christ – Richard T. Proulx (1937-2010)

Jason Anderson, director • Jeremy Matheis, reader • Theo Floor, cantor

The Office of Compline for April 10, 2022

The Sunday of the Passion: Palm Sunday

ORISON: Domine, ne longe facias – Plainsong, Mode VII

PSALM 22:1-11 – Plainsong, Tone IV.1

RESPOND: In manus tuas – John Sheppard (c. 1515-1558)

HYMN: O sacred head, sore wounded (Tune: HERZLICH TUT MICH VERLANGEN) – Hans Leo Hassler (1564-1612); adapt. and harm. Johann Sebastian Bach (1685-1750)

NUNC DIMITTIS – Plainsong setting, Tone IV.2

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

Jason Anderson, director • Jeremy Matheis, reader • Derek Tilton, cantor

The Office of Compline for April 5, 2020

The Sunday of the Passion: Palm Sunday

ORISON: Vexilla Regis prodeunt – Plainsong, Mode I; harm. Guillaume Du Fay (c. 1397-1474); ed. Peter R. Hallock & Jason A. Anderson

PSALM 22:1-11 – Plainsong, Tone IV.1

OFFICE HYMN: To you before the close of day – Plainsong, Mode II

NUNC DIMITTIS: Plainsong, Tone V.1

ANTHEM: Absalon fili mi – attr. Josquin des Prez (c. 1450-1521) or Pierre de la Rue (c. 1452-1518)

Jason Anderson, director • Jeremy Matheis, reader • Fred McIlroy, cantor

The Office of Compline for April 14, 2019

April 14, 2019 • The Sunday of the Passion: Palm Sunday

ORISON: ‘Vexilla regis prodeunt’ from Via Crucis – Franz Liszt (1811-1886)

HYMN: O sacred head, sore wounded (Tune: Herzlich tut mich verlangen) – Hans Leo Hassler (1564-1612); adapt. and harm. Johann Sebastian Bach (1685-1750)

PSALM 22:1-11 – Plainsong, Tone IV.1

NUNC DIMITTIS: Plainsong setting, Tone III.6

ANTHEM: Lamentations of Jeremiah (Setting II) – Thomas Tallis (c. 1505-1585)

Jason Anderson, director • Tyler Morse, reader • Thomas Adams, cantor

The Office of Compline for March 25, 2018

March 25, 2018

The Sunday of the Passion: Palm Sunday

ORISON: The royal banners forward go (Tune: Vexilla Regis prodeunt) – Plainsong, Mode I; harm. Guillaume Dufay (c. 1397-1474)

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

PSALM 22:1-18 – Peter R. Hallock (1924-2014)

RESPOND: In manus tuas (Setting I) – John Sheppard (c. 1515-1558); ed. Simon R. Hill

NUNC DIMITTIS: Plainsong setting, Tone III.6

ANTHEM: Lamentations of Jeremiah (Setting I) – Thomas Tallis

Jason Anderson, director • Tyler Morse, reader • Fred McIlroy, cantor

The Office of Compline for April 1, 2012

Sunday of the Passion

Conductor: Jason Anderson
Reader: Joel Matter
Cantor: Fred McIlroy IV

PROCESSIONAL: “Vexilla regis” (“The royal banners forward go”), from “Via crucis” (Franz Liszt [1811 – 1886])

PSALM: 22: 1 – 21 (plainsong, Mode IV Ending 1)

HYMN: “Today He who hung the earth” (Byzantine chant, Tone VI)

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

ANTHEM: “In manus tuas” (John Sheppard [ca. 1515 – 1559])

The Office of Compline for April 17, 2011

Sunday of the Passion

Conductor: Jason Anderson
Reader: William Turnipseed
Cantor: Richard Greene

ORISON: “Drop, drop, slow tears” (tune: Song 46, 1623; Orlando Gibbons [1583 – 1625])

PSALM: 22: 1 – 21 (plainsong, Tone IV Ending 1)

HYMN: “The royal banners forward go” (Vexilla Regis, Guillaume Dufay [1397 – 1474])

NUNC DIMITTIS: (plainsong setting, Tone V Ending 1)

ANTHEM: “In manus tuas” (John Sheppard [ca. 1515 – ca. 1559])