Nunc Dimittis

Last night in Tulsa, about 150 people attended an evening chant conference learning basics of Gregorian Chant as related to the office of Compline. At the end of the evening the entire conference processed - with lights dimmed, candles lit, and incense burning - to chant the service of Compline. We also had a smaller group of cantors learn the gradual "angelus suis mandavit de te....." and chanted it as part of the evening service. We chose that particular gradual because it is based on the text of Psalm 91, the central psalm of Compline. It was really quite wondrous to see a group transformed.  To watch a group of so many individuals melt into a single group just by chanting the office together. "Though we are many, we are one body......"