The Order of Service & repertoire may be found at: complineunderground.wordpress.com/2025/12/21/compline-2025-the-fourth-sunday-of-advent/

December 21, 2025 • The Fourth Sunday of Advent

PROCESSIONAL: Veni, veni, Emmanuel – Plainsong, Mode I; composite arr. Jason A. Anderson (b. 1976); including harm. Peter R. Hallock (1924-2014), Alice Parker (1925-2023), and Philip Lawson (b. 1967)

PSALM 80:1-7,16-18 – Plainsong, Tone IV.4

HYMN 264: The Word whom earth and sea and sky adore (Tune: SONG 34) – mel. and bass Orlando Gibbons (1583-1625); harm. The English Hymnal, 1906

NUNC DIMITTIS – Richard Proulx (1937-2010)

ANTHEM: Alma Redemptoris Mater – Tomás Luis de Victoria (c. 1548-1631)

44:56 POST COMPLINE ORGAN MUSIC:

Prelude on Conditor alme siderum – Marilyn Biery

Partita on Freu dich sehr, O Meine seele – Anton Heiller

Chorale Prelude on Nun komm, der Heiden Heiland, BWV 659 – J. S. Bach

Organ Motet on Veni Emmanuel – John Hebden Schaffer

Toccata on Veni Emmanuel – Adolphus Hailstork

Jason Anderson, director • William Turnipseed, reader • Fred McIlroy, cantor • Christopher Stroh, organ recitalist

Thanks to this evening's Compline volunteers: hospitality ministers Priscilla Strand and Estephan Meza, and videographer Michael Perera.

Compline at Saint Mark's Cathedral has been a Seattle tradition since 1956. All the singers are volunteers. Learn more at: https://saintmarks.org/worship/compline/
and: https://complinechoir.org/