The Third Sunday after the Epiphany ORISON: The people who in darkness walked (Tune: DUNDEE) – mel. The CL Psalmes of David, 1615; harm. Thomas Ravenscroft (c. 1592-c. 1635) PSALM 27:1-13 – Plainsong, Tone VIII.1 HYMN: Eternal light, shine in my heart (Tune: JACOB) – Jane Manton Marshall (1924-2019) NUNC DIMITTIS – Plainsong, Tone VII; harm. […]

The Second Sunday after the Epiphany ORISON: God of mercy, God of grace (Tune: LUCERNA LAUDONIAE) – David Evans (1874-1948) PSALM 40:1-12 – Plainsong, Tone II HYMN: Jesus, priceless treasure (Tune: JESU, MEINE FREUDE) – Johann Cruger (1598-1662), alt., and Johann Sebastian Bach (1685-1750) NUNC DIMITTIS – Anonymous setting [No. 29] from the Lumley Choir Books […]

The First Sunday after the Epiphany; The Baptism of Our Lord ORISON: ‘I come,’ the great Redeemer cries (Tune: THIS ENDRIS NYGHT) – English melody; 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 […]

The Holy Name PROCESSIONAL: Gloria in excelsis Deo – Plainchant, adapt. Peter R. Hallock (1924-2014) PSALM 8 – Plainsong, Tone V.2 HYMN: Ring out, wild bells (Tune: DEUS TUORUM MILITUM) – from Grenoble Antiphoner, 1753; arr. Gregory Bloch NUNC DIMITTIS (Tune: MARILYN) – Peter R. Hallock ANTHEM: The Shepherd’s Carol – Bob Chilcott (b. 1955); trans. […]

Christmas Day PROCESSIONAL: Hodie Christus natus est – Plainsong, Mode I PSALM 98 – Peter R. Hallock (1924-2014) HYMN: What child is this? (Tune: GREENSLEEVES) – English mel.; harm. Christmas Carols New and Old, 1871, alt. NUNC DIMITTIS (Tune: MARILYN) – Peter R. Hallock ANTHEMS: Away in a manger – Normandy mel. with CRADLE SONG […]

The Third Sunday of Advent ORISON: Love divine, all loves excelling (Tune: HYFRYDOL) – Rowland Hugh Prichard (1811-1887) PSALM 146:4-9 –Plainsong, Tone IV.2 HYMN: On Jordan’s bank, the Baptist’s cry (Tune: WINCHESTER NEW) – Bartholomäus Crasselius (1667-1724); with additional harm. by Harvey Grace (1874-1944) and William Henry Monk (1823-1889) NUNC DIMITTIS – Richard Proulx (1937-2010) ANTHEM: […]

The Second Sunday of Advent ORISON: Blessed be the Lord God – Erin Aas (b. 1972) PSALM 72:1-8, 18-19 – Plainsong, Tone I.1 HYMN: Hail to the Lord’s Anointed (Tune: ES FLOG EIN KLEINS WALDVÖGELIEN) – German folk song; adapt. and harm. Henry Walford Davies (1869-1941), Gregory Bloch, and Hymnal 1982 NUNC DIMITTIS – Richard Proulx […]

The First Sunday of Advent ORISON: Matin Responsory – Jason A. Anderson (b. 1976) PSALM 122 – Peter R. Hallock (1924-2014) HYMN: Prepare the way, O Zion (Tune: BEREDEN VÄG FÖR HERRAN) – mel. from Then Swenska Psalmboken, 1697; harm. Koralbok för Svenska Kyrkan, 1939, alt. NUNC DIMITTIS – Richard Proulx (1937-2010) ANTHEM: Canite tuba – […]

The Last Sunday after Pentecost: Christ the King ORISON: O worship the King, all glorious above (Tune: HANOVER) – attr. William Croft (1678-1727) with additional harm. by C.D. Hackett in The Boston Collection, 1841, and Harvey Grace (1874-1944) PSALM 46 – Peter R. Hallock (1924-2014) HYMN: Now thank we all our God (Tune: NUN DANKET ALLE […]

The Twenty-third Sunday after Pentecost ORISON: New songs of celebration render (Tune: RENDEZ A DIEU) – mel. attr. Loys Bourgeois (c. 1510-c. 1561); harm. Claude Goudimel (c. 1514-1572) PSALM 98 – Peter R. Hallock (1924-2014) HYMN: Disposer supreme, and judge of the earth (Tune: OLD 104TH) – mel. Thomas Ravenscroft (c. 1590-1633); harm. Ralph Vaughan Williams […]