Compline - Lent III

We spent the afternoon trying to edit the audio from the cassette of Sunday morning's Eucharist. The quality is not very good, and we hesitate to post it. We would like you to email us to let us know if you would prefer hearing the service even if the quality is uneven and not up to our usual standard OR skip this week's audio. Please send your messages to webteam AT stbarnabasfalmouth DOT org (email spelled out to foil spammers).

Instead, we are offering you the raw recording of last Sunday's sung service of Compline. The pace is contemplative with pauses between prayers, hymns and anthems. The church is lit by candles and there is the perfume of incense from behind the altar.

Compline's structure is found in the Book of Common Prayer on pages 127 through 135. You may learn more about Compline here.

Some details:
Orison: 'Cross of Jesus' (Hymn 160)
Psalm (133)134: 'O come, bless the Lord, all you who serve the Lord' (Ecce nunc)
Lesson: Isaiah 58:6-7

Is not this the fast that I choose: to loose the bonds of injustice, to undo the thongs of the yoke, to let the oppressed go free and to break every yoke? Is it not to share your bread with the hungry and bring the homeless poor into your house; when you see the naked, to cover them and not to hide yourself from your own kin?

Collects: selected from the collects for Compline plus the Lent III collect (p. 218 BCP).
Anthem: Lord, for thy tender mercy's sake (Farrant)