The Second Sunday in Lent ORISON: You speak within my heart – Plainsong, Tone III; adapt. Bruce E. Ford (1947-2025) PSALM 27:10-18 – Plainsong, Tone VIII.1 HYMN: Eternal light, shine in my heart (Tune: JACOB) – Jane Manton Marshall (1924-2019) NUNC DIMITTIS – Plainsong setting, Tone VIII.1 ANTHEM: Lamentations of Jeremiah – Juan de Lienas […]…

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The First Sunday in Lent ORISON: He shall call upon me – Plainsong, Mode VIII; adapt. Bruce E. Ford (1947-2025) PSALM 91:1-2,9-16 – Plainsong, Tone IV.4 HYMN: Forty days and forty nights (Tune: AUS DER TIEFE RUFE ICH) – mel. att. Martin Herbst (1654-1681), alt.; harm. William Henry Monk (1823-1889) NUNC DIMITTIS – Plainsong setting, […]…

The Last Sunday after the Epiphany ORISON: ’Tis good, Lord, to be here! (Tune: CARLISLE) – Charles Lockhart (1745-1815) [St Paul’s Hymn] PSALMS 99 & 150 – Plainsong, Tone VII.7 and C. V. Stanford (1852-1924) HYMN: Christ upon the mountain peak (Tune: IBIS) – melody Thomas Kuras (1950-1997); harm. Peter R. Hallock (1924-2014) NUNC DIMITTIS […]…

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The Seventh Sunday after the Epiphany ORISON: In your mercy, Lord, you called me (Tune: HALTON HOLGATE) – William Boyce (1711-1779); verse 3 harm. Samuel Sebastian Wesley (1810-1876) PSALM 37:1-12,41-42 HYMN: Father all loving, who rulest in majesty (Tune: WAS LEBET) – mel. from Choral-Buch, 1754; harm. Ralph Vaughan Williams (1872-1958) NUNC DIMIT…

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The Sixth Sunday after the Epiphany ORISON: ‘Blest are the pure in heart,’ from Ten Orisons – M. Searle Wright (1918-2004) PSALM 1 – Jason A. Anderson (b. 1976) OFFICE HYMN: Before the ending of the day – Sarum plainsong, Mode VIII; harm. Thomas Tallis (c. 1505-1585) NUNC DIMITTIS – Anonymous setting from The Lumley […]…

The Fifth Sunday after the Epiphany ORISON: Dear Lord and Father of mankind (Tune: REST) – Frederick Charles Maker (1844-1927) PSALM 138 – Jason A. Anderson (b. 1976) HYMN: Jesus calls us; o’er the tumult (Tune: RESTORATION) – mel. The Sacred Harp, 1835; arr. Greg Bloch NUNC DIMITTIS – Plainsong, Tone VIII; harm. John Holmes […]…

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The Presentation of Our Lord Jesus Christ in the TempleCandlemas Procession at Compline ANTIPHON: Behold, our Lord will come with power – Plainsong, Mode III [American Gradual] PROCESSIONAL PSALM 48 PSALM 84 – Peter R. Hallock (1924-2014) HYMN: Virgin-born, we bow before thee – Claude Goudimel (c. 1514-1572) Nunc Dimittis with Candlemas Antiphon AN…

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The Third Sunday after the Epiphany ORISON: Blessed Jesus, at thy word we are gathered (Tune: LIEBSTER JESU) – mel. Johann Ahle (1625-1673); harm. George Palmer (1846-1926)\ PSALM 19 – Plainsong, Tone III.4 HYMN: O Christ, the Word Incarnate (Tune: MUNICH) – harm. Felix Mendelssohn (1809-1847) NUNC DIMITTIS – Plainsong, Tone II; harm. John Holmes […

The Second Sunday after the Epiphany ORISON: Songs of thankfulness and praise (Tune: SALZBURG) – mel. Jakob Hintze (1622-1702); harm. Johann Sebastian Bach (1685-1750) PSALM 36:5-10 – Jason A. Anderson (b. 1976) HYMN: All praise to you, O Lord (Tune: CARLISLE) – Charles Lockhart (1745-1815) NUNC DIMITTIS – Jeff Junkinsmith (b. 1956) ANTHEM: Tribus …

The First Sunday after the Epiphany: The Baptism of Jesus ORISON: ‘I come,’ the great Redeemer cries (Tune: THIS ENDRIS NYGHT) – English mel.; harm. Ralph Vaughan Williams (1872-1958) and Martin Fallas Shaw (1875-1958) PSALM 29 – Peter R. Hallock (1924-2014) HYMN: Christ, when for us you were baptized (Tune: CAITHNESS) – melody from The Psalmes […]…

The Eve of the Epiphany ORISON: Brightest and best of the stars of the morning (Tune: MORNING STAR) – James Proctor Harding (1850–1911) PSALM 96 – Jason A. Anderson (b. 1976) HYMN 112: In the bleak mid-winter (Tune: CRANHAM) – Gustav Holst (1874-1934 NUNC DIMITTIS (Tune: MARILYN) – Peter R. Hallock ANTHEMS:The Three Kings – […]…

The First Sunday after Christmas Day PROCESSIONAL: Once in royal David’s city (Tune: IRBY) – mel. Henry John Gauntlett (1805-1876); harm. Arthur Henry Mann (1850-1929) PSALM 147 – Peter R. Hallock (1924-2014) HYMN: Of the Father’s love begotten (Tune: DIVINUM MYSTERIUM) – Sanctus trope, 11th cent.; adapt. Piae Cantiones, 1582; arr. Richard T. Proul…

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 […]…

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The Third Sunday of Advent ORISON: Rejoice in the Lord always – Plainsong, Mode I CANTICLE 9: The First Song of Isaiah – Plainsong, Tone VII.3 and Peter R. Hallock (1923-2014) HYMN: The King shall come when morning dawns (Tune: SAINT STEPHEN) – William Jones (1726-1800); verse 2 harm. The American Vocalist, 1849; verse 4 […]…

The Second Sunday of Advent ORISON: People of Zion, look up – Plainsong, Mode VII CANTICLE 16: The Song of Zechariah – Plainsong, Tone VIII.1 HYMN: Prepare the way, O Zion (Tune: BEREDEN VÄG FÖR HERRAN) – mel. from Then Swenska Psalmboken, 1697; harm. Koralbok för Svenska Kyrkan, 1939, alt.; adapt. Jason A. Anderson (b. […]…

The First Sunday of Advent ORISON: Matin Responsory – Jason A. Anderson (b. 1976) PSALM 25:1-9 – Plainsong, Tone IV.2 HYMN: Creator of the stars of night (Tune: CONDITOR ALME SIDERUM) – Plainsong, Mode IV NUNC DIMITTIS – Richard Proulx (1937-2010) ANTHEM: Rorate caeli desuper– Peter R. Hallock (1924-2014) Jason Anderson, director • Tyler Morse, rea…

The Last Sunday after Pentecost: The Reign of Christ ORISON: ‘Psalm 95’ from Six Hymns to Doctor Watts – Alice Parker (1925-2023) PSALMS 93 & 150 – Plainsong, Tone VIII.3 & C. V. Stanford (1852-1924) HYMN 419: Lord of all being, throned afar (Tune: MENDON) – mel. from Methodist Harmonist, 1821; adapt. Lowell Mason (1792-1872) NUNC […]…

The Twenty-sixth Sunday after Pentecost; 100th Birthday of Peter R. Hallock ORISON: Bring us, O Lord God – Peter R. Hallock (1924-2014) PSALMS 134 & 4 – Peter R. Hallock HYMN: I’ll praise my Maker while I’ve breath (Tune: OLD 113TH) – Melody from Strassburger Kirchenamt, 1525; harm. Peter R. Hallock (1924-2014) NUNC DIMITTIS (2-part […]…

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The Twenty-Fifth Sunday after Pentecost ORISON: In all our grief and fear, we turn to you (Tune: FREDERICKTOWN) – Charles R. Anders (1929-2020) PSALM 146 – Plainsong, Tone IV.2 HYMN: All who love and serve your city (Tune: CHARLESTOWN) – mel. from The Southern Harmony, 1865; harm. Alastair Cassels-Brown (1927-2001), alt.; vs. 3 reharm. Jason […]…