Evensong is a church service traditionally held near twilight focused on singing psalms and other biblical canticles. It is loosely based on the canonical hours of vespers and compline. Old English speakers …

Jun 5, 2025 · Evensong is a musical form of evening prayer, most familiar in the Anglican and Episcopal traditions. It’s typically held in cathedrals, collegiate chapels, and parish churches, often at the close …

Dec 13, 2021 · The modern Evensong service is based on a pattern laid out by The Book of Common Prayer in the Anglican Church, and it features choral music, readings and prayers, which the …

5 days ago · One of the treasures of the Anglican tradition, Evensong is a service of sung evening prayer that combines music with readings from scripture and ancient prayers.

Although in 1552 he replaced it with “Evening Prayer,” the common name remains “evensong.” In many Anglican cathedrals and other large churches, especially in England, evensong is sung by clergy and …

Evensong is a church service, generally held around sunset. It consists of sung psalms and prayers, offering a period of respite and contemplation after the busy day, to help transition into the restful night.

Evensong, linguistically and liturgically, is what one might call a descendant of the canonical hour of vespers, which takes place at sunset. The practice of singing the daily office can be traced to the …

Common practice today is to refer to the choral or sung version of the service as Evensong and the spoken version as Evening Prayer. The term Choral Evensong refers to a service in which a choir …

The service was a choral evensong and, like many of the church’s services, would be live-streamed on YouTube (there’s something truly Warholian about watching a thirty-minute video of two strangers …

The wonder is not that they failed so often, but that on the whole they succeeded so well. Each Evensong brings before us God's plan of salvation. We begin with the Old Testament, which looks …