The Office of Compline for August 23, 2009




The Compline Service from St. Mark's Cathedral show

Summary: 23 August 2009 12th Sunday after Pentecost Conductor: Jason Anderson Reader: Jeremy Matheis Cantor: Richard Greene ORISON: "Phos hilaron" ("O gracious light") (Kevin Siegfried [b. 1969]) PSALM: 34: 15 - 22 (plainsong setting, Tone V Ending 2) HYMN: "Te lucis ante terminum" ("Before the ending of the day") (Compline office hymn, a plainsong melody in Mode VIII with a harmonized verse by Thomas Tallis [ca. 1505 - 1585]) NUNC DIMITTIS: (setting by Charles Wood [1866 - 1926]) ANTHEM: "Salve nos Domine, vigilantes" (Jakob (Handl) Gallus [1550 - 1591])