The Ninth Sunday after Pentecost ORISON:  Blessed spirits, loving angels – Shaker song by Eldress Mary Ann Gillespie (1829-1887) PSALM 126 – Peter R. Hallock (1924-2014), arr. Jeff Reynolds HYMN: Mothering God  – Janet Peachey (b. 1953), arr. Gregory Bloch NUNC DIMITTIS –  Giovanni Pierluigi da Palestrina (c. 1525-1594) ANTHEM: Grace Before Sleep – Susan LaBarr (b. 1981) The Women’s Compline […]

The Office of Compline for July 30, 2023

The Eighth Sunday after Pentecost ORISON: ‘Phos hilaron,’ from Music for Compline – Kevin Siegfried (b. 1969) PSALM 57 – Plainsong, Tone VII.1 OFFICE HYMN: ‘Te lucis ante terminum,’ from Music for Compline – Siegfried NUNC DIMITTIS – Dana Marsh (b. 1965) ANTHEM: Sicut cervus desiderat – Giovanni Pierluigi da Palestrina (1525-1594) William Turnipseed, director • Joel Matter, reader • Fred McIlroy, cantor

The Office of Compline for July 23, 2023

The Seventh Sunday after Pentecost ORISON: O gladsome Light (Tune: LE CANTIQUE DE SIMÉON) – mel. Loys Bourgeois (c. 1510-c. 1561); harm. Claude Goudimel (1514-1572) PSALM 65 – Peter R. Hallock (1924-2014) HYMN: Almighty God, your word is cast like seed (Tune: WALDEN) – Jane Manton Marshall (1925-2019); arr. Gregory Bloch (b. 1977) NUNC DIMITTIS: Plainsong, […]

The Office of Compline for July 16, 2023

The Sixth Sunday after Pentecost ORISON: Be present, O merciful God – Roupen Shakarian (b. 1950) PSALM 145 – Peter R. Hallock (1924-2014) OFFICE HYMN: Te lucis ante terminum – Shakarian NUNC DIMITTIS – Shakarian ANTHEM: Steal away to Jesus – African-American Spiritual; arr. Dale Adelmann (b. 1961) Jason Anderson, director • J. Scott Kovacs, reader • James Wilcox, cantor

The Office of Compline for July 9, 2023

The Fifth Sunday after Pentecost ORISON: ‘Phos hilaron,’ from The Evening Service – Stephen Sturk (b. 1950) PSALM 62 – Jason A. Anderson (b. 1976) HYMN: Christ, mighty Savior, light of all creation (Tune: MIGHTY SAVIOR) – David Hurd (b. 1950) NUNC DIMITTIS from The Evening Service – Stephen Sturk ANTHEM: Weeping Pilgrim, from The Sacred […]

The Office of Compline for July 2, 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. […]

The Office of Compline for June 25, 2023

The Third Sunday after Pentecost ORISON: Hope of the world, thou Christ of great compassion (Tune: Donne secours) – mel. from Trente quatre pseaumes de David, 1551; harm. Claude Goudimel (c. 1514-1572) PSALM 17:1-14 – Jason A. Anderson (b. 1976) OFFICE HYMN: Te lucis ante terminum – Scandinavian melody; adapt. Derek Tilton (b. 1987) NUNC DIMITTIS – Plainsong, Tone VIII; harm. […]

The Office of Compline for June 18, 2023

The Second Sunday after Pentecost ORISON: God be in my head – Doug Fullington (b. 1969) PSALM 4 – Plainsong, Tone IV.1 HYMN: ‘Christe qui lux es et dies,’ from Music for Compline – Kevin Siegfried (b. 1969) NUNC DIMITTIS in G – Charles Wood (1866-1926) ANTHEM: ‘In pace’ from Three Latin Motets – Grayston Ives (b. 1948) Ken Pendergrass, director • Josh Sandoz, reader • […]

The Office of Compline for June 11, 2023

First Sunday after Pentecost: Trinity Sunday ORISON: O lux beata Trinitas – Ronald Arnatt (1930-2018) PSALM 17:1-14 – Jason A. Anderson (b. 1976) HYMN: The day thou gavest, Lord, is ended (Tune: SAINT CLEMENT) – Clement C. Scholefield (1839-1904); stanza 4 harm. after Henk Vogel (b. 1992) NUNC DIMITTIS – Plainsong, Tone VIII; harm. Lodovico Grossi […]

The Office of Compline for June 5, 2023

Whitsunday; The Day of Pentecost ORISON: O Lord, give thy Holy Spirit – Thomas Tallis (c. 1505-1585) PSALM 104:25-32, 35-37 – Peter R. Hallock (1924–2014) HYMN: O Holy Spirit (Tune: DRUMCORDA) – David Frederick Ruddell Wilson (1871-1957); arr. Gregory Bloch (b. 1977) NUNC DIMITTIS – Plainsong, Tone VI; harm. Lodovico Grossi da Viadana (ca. 1560 – […]

The Office of Compline for May 28, 2023

A weekly podcast of the Compline service as sung every Sunday night in St. Mark's Episcopal Cathedral, Seattle.

The Seventh Sunday of Easter; Sunday after Ascension PROCESSIONAL: O clap your hands – Peter R. Hallock (1924–2014) PSALM 47 – Plainsong, Tone V.2 HYMN: God is ascended (Tune: GEN HIMMEL AUFGEFAHREN IST) – German, 16th cent.; adapt. Peter R. Hallock (1924–2014) NUNC DIMITTIS – Plainsong, Tone IV; harm. Lodovico Grossi da Viadana (ca. 1560 – […]

The Office of Compline for May 21, 2023

The Sixth Sunday of Easter ORISON: This joyful Eastertide (Tune: VRUECHTEN) – mel. from Psalmen, 1685; harm. Charles Wood (1866-1926) PSALM 66:1-11 – Peter R. Hallock (1924-2014) HYMN: Christ is alive! Let Christians sing (Tune: TRURO) – Psalmodia Evangelica, 1790; vs. 5 harm. Harvey Grace (1874-1944) NUNC DIMITTIS – Plainsong, Tone III; harm. Lodovico Grossi […]

The Office of Compline for May 14, 2023

The Fifth Sunday of Easter ORISON: ‘The Call’ from Five Mystical Songs – Ralph Vaughan Williams (1872-1958) PSALMS 31:1-5, 15-16 – Plainsong, Tone IV.2 HYMN: Good Christians all, rejoice and sing! (Tune: GELOBT SEI GOTT) – Melchior Vulpius (c. 1560-1616) NUNC DIMITTIS – Plainsong, Tone I; harm. Lodovico Grossi da Viadana (ca. 1560 – 1627) ANTHEM: […]

The Office of Compline for May 7, 2023

The Fourth Sunday of Easter ORISON: The Lord is my shepherd – Bobby McFerrin (b.1950) PSALM 23 – Peter R. Hallock (1924-2014) HYMN: All people that on earth do dwell (Tune: OLD 100TH) – mel. from Pseaumes octante trois de David, 1551, alt.; harm. after Louis Bourgeois (c. 1510-c. 1561); final fauxbourdon by John Dowland […]

The Office of Compline for April 30, 2023

The Third Sunday of Easter ORISON: God himself is with us (Tune: TYSK) – from Psalm und Choralbuch, 1719; arr. Gregory Bloch PSALM 116 – Peter R. Hallock (1924-2014) HYMN: Lift your voice rejoicing, Mary (Tune: FISK OF GLOUCESTER) – Thomas Foster (b. 1938) NUNC DIMITTIS – Christopher Tye (c. 1505-1573) ANTHEM: Regina caeli – Robert […]

The Office of Compline for April 23, 2023

The Second Sunday of Easter ORISON: That Easter Day with joy was bright (Tune: PUER NOBIS) – mel. from Trier MS., 15th cent.; adapt. Michael Praetorius (1571-1621); harm. George R. Woodward (1848-1934 PSALM 16 – Jason A. Anderson (b. 1976) HYMN: We walk by faith, and not by sight (Tune: SAINT BOTOLPH) – Gordon Slater […]

The Office of Compline for April 16, 2023

Easter Day PROCESSIONAL: Easter Canticle – Peter R. Hallock (1924–2014) PSALM 118:14-24 – Plainsong, Tone VIII.1 HYMN: Ad cenam Agni providi – Plainsong, Mode VIII; harm. Guillaume Dufay (c. 1397-1474); ed. Jason A. Anderson (b. 1976) NUNC DIMITTIS: Plainsong setting, Tonus peregrinus; harm. William Byrd (c. 1540-1623) ANTHEM: Christus surrexit – Jacob Handl (1550-1591) Jason Anderson, director • Joel […]

The Office of Compline for April 9, 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) […]

The Office of Compline for April 2, 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) […]

The Office of Compline for March 26, 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 – […]

The Office of Compline for March 19, 2023

I live in Connecticut and have listened to Compline almost every Sunday evening (one week delay) for the past year and a half. Although I attend Sunday morning services in my home church, I like being part of an online congregation. 
At first I tried several other online Compline podcasts but kept coming back to this one. The voices, the music selections, and the arrangements are superb. I thought why don’t they have female choristers but now I’m used to the all-male choir. The roaring lion imagery and the Holy Ghost are a bit anachronistic for me. 
Listening was a trial when the windows were being replaced but now the room acoustics and audio engineers have created a sense of space that I can inhabit with those actually there. 
Good night from a devoted listener.

The bedtime prayers of the church

This is a fantastic way to worship the Lord by yourself or with your family. Even my small children are captivated by the beauty of Compline.

Late nights driving home, I’m disappointed that I won’t be able to do catechetical work with the children before bed.

I put this podcast on in the car and they hear the Lord’s Prayer, the Apostles’ Creed, a Psalm or two, and multiple verses of scripture sung by an angelic choir.

For Christians from a liturgical background, or for those interested in meditating on and teaching their children the time tested foundations of the Christian faith, this is an excellent podcast!

Beautiful!

The Compline Service from St. Mark's Cathedral

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