Repertoire for Upcoming Compline Services
Join us at 8 p.m. in the church for a 30-minute service with candlelight, light incense, and a liturgy chanted entirely by our Compline choir, Sanctuary. An Order for Compline is available here. In addition to these chanted psalms and prayers, Sanctuary will sing the following pieces in the coming weeks.
February 2 | The Presentation of Our Lord
June Collin, The quiet heart
Gustav Holst, Nunc dimittis
Johannes Eccard, When Mary to the temple went
Ave Regina caelorum, Liber usualis
February 9 | Epiphany 5
Lucy Walker, Oculi omnium
Charles Giffen, In manus tuas Domine
Howard Helvey, O lux beatissima
February 16 | Epiphany 6
Leo Sowerby, Eternal Light
Joan Szymko, Illumina la tenebre
Peter Philips, Ave Regina caelorum
February 23 | Epiphany 7
Eleanor Daley, Open thou mine eyes
Maurice Duruflé, Notre Père
Eric Whitacre, I thank you God for most this amazing day
March 2 | Epiphany 8
Alexander l’Estrange, Lighten our darkness
Diego Ortiz, Te lucis ante terminum
Stephanie Martin, Christe qui lux es et dies
March 9 | Lent 1
Kerensa Briggs, Media vita
Te lucis ante terminum, Liber usualis
Sergei Rachmaninoff, Nunc dimittis (All-Night Vigil)
William Byrd, Miserere mei, Deus
March 16 | Lent 2
Johannes Brahms, Ich aber bin elend
John Sheppard, In manus tuas Domine (third setting)
Annabel Rooney, Hear my prayer
March 23 | Lent 3
George Oldroyd, Prayer to Jesus
William Byrd, Emendemus in melius
Kerensa Briggs, Ave Regina caelorum
March 30 | Lent 4
Annabel Rooney, Keep me as the apple of the eye
Gerre Hancock, The Lord’s Prayer
Howard Helvey, Cor mundum crea in me Deus
Dates to note:
March 26, 7 p.m.: Labyrinth Concert
May 25: Final Compline service of the 2024-25 program year
August 3: Compline service resumes