The Office of Compline for December 22, 2024

The Fourth Sunday of Advent PROCESSIONAL: O come, O Wisdom from above (Tune: VENI EMMANUEL) – New trans. of the O Antiphons by Jason A. Anderson (b. 1976), sung to Plainsong, Mode I, from Processionale, 15th cent.; arr. and harm. Peter R. Hallock (1924-2014) CANTICLE: Magnificat – Plainsong, Tone II.1 with O Rex gentium (antiphon for Dec 22) HYMN: Lo, how a Rose e’er blooming (Tune: ES IST EIN ROS) – melody from Alte Catholische Geistliche Kirchengesäng, 1599; harm. Michael Praetorius (1571-1621) and Carl Orff (1895-1982) NUNC DIMITTIS – Richard Proulx (1937-2010) ANTHEM: Maria durch ein Dornwald ging – German folk melody; arr. Philip Lawson Jason Anderson, director • Jeremy Matheis, reader • Ken Peterson, cantor

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A weekly podcast of the Compline service as sung every Sunday night by The Compline Choir in St. Mark's Episcopal Cathedral in Seattle, Washington. Founded in 1954 by the group's former director, Peter R. Hallock, the service has become something of a phenomenon, with upwards of 500 people (most of them in their teens and early twenties) attending the service, and thousands in the local radio audience and on the Internet each week.