Choral Evensong
“Evensong hangs on the wall of English life like an old, familiar cloak passed through the generations.” Read Stephen Hough’s article in The Telegraph.
http://blogs.telegraph.co.uk/culture/stephenhough/100059899/do-not-touch-me-the-wisdom-of-anglican-threshholds/Choral Evensong is sung weekly by the St.Christopher Singers. Upcoming music is listed below
Check at the bottom of the page if you would like to look at our Archived Evensong Music files. To listen to recordings of Evensong Services, please visit our Recorded Services Page. We have a sample recording below of Choral Evensong, September 16, 2012.
Archived Choral Evensong Music:
"For those who view a well-signposted theological motorway, straight as
an arrow, as an unconvincing route to divinity, or who are repelled by
the bleak certainties and bullying self-righteousness of much organised
religion, choral evensong according to the Prayer Book affords
understated hospitality, of that gentle, accepting sort described by
George Herbert, who lived his life by the 1559 BCP, and wrote much verse
about how to use it:
Love bade me welcome: yet my soul drew back,
Guilty of dust and sin.
But quick-ey'd Love, observing me grow slack
From my first entrance in,
Drew nearer to me, sweetly questioning,
If I lack'd any thing …
You must sit down, says Love, and taste my meat: So I did sit and eat.
'Love (III)', from _The Temple_ (1633)."
