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"Southern Harmony" Compline Service

Compline is a short prayer service where participants "say goodnight to God." This 30-minute observance will combine monastic chant with music from the shapenote tradition.

This offering of compline will resource songs from the American shapenote songbook.

The regular choral compline service is held every Sunday evening at 8 p.m.

Here is the music we are planning for the order of service:

Pre-Introit - I Will Arise and Go to Jesus (Alice Parker Arrangement) 

Introit - I Hear the Harps Eternal (Alice Parker Arrangement) 

Confession - Set to Idumea 47b

The Preces - Set to Sometimes I Feel (Alice Parker Arrangement)

Psalm - Portions of Psalm 84 set to Not Made With Hands 571 in Cooper Book

Office Hymn - Captain Kidd aka God is Seen (Alice Parker Arrangement)

Nunc Dimittus - Set to Gospel Trumpet 99 in Denson

Lord’s Prayer - Set to Old One Hundred 49t in Denson

Anthem - Evening Shade 209 in Denson

Final Preces - Set to Hallelujah 146 in Denson, concluding 146 with verse 4 from the hymn

Earlier Event: March 28
"All-Day" Singing (Sacred Harp)
Later Event: April 4
Pysanky Easter Egg Decoration