Sunday, March 15, 2020

Rebroadcast of Choral Evensong Worship Service


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The Chapel is currently closed to visitors and not holding in-person services or any other events, so our ministers and musicians have selected the Choral Evensong worship service shown below to rebroadcast/re-post at the time when we would normally hold the service.

The readings and music in this service from January 21, 2018, can speak to the current moment in a number of ways. The service includes Psalm 23 with words that are calm, dark, and yet hopeful. The hymn in the service, “Hymn to the Creator of Light” by John Rutter, acknowledges there are things we know but also things we do not understand. The text for the hymn, written some 400 years ago by the Anglican bishop Lancelot Andrewes (1555–1626), reminds us that people have wrestled with this paradox for centuries. Here is one example of how the text expresses this:

“Glory be to the, O Lord, glory be to thee,
“Creator of the visible light, the sun’s ray, the flame of fire;
“Creator of the light invisible and intellectual: That which is known of God, the light invisible.”

Here is a listing of music in the service to help you follow along:

  • “Almighty and Everlasting God” by Orlando Gibbons
  • “Preces and Responses” by Kenneth Leighton
  • Psalm 23
  • “Mount Saint Alban Service” by David Hogan
  • “Hymn to the Creator of Light” by John Rutter