Choral Evensong

Name: Choral Evensong
Start: 2025-10-19T16:00:00-04:00
Location: 25 S. Third Street, 28401

Schedule

Sun, 19 Oct, 2025 at 04:00 pm

UTC-04:00

Location

25 S. Third Street, 28401 | Wilmington, NC

Choral Evensong is a service (or ‘Office’) with its roots in the Christian monastic movement and in the sixteenth-century Reformation of the English Church. Today, this service, taken from the seventeenth-century Book of Common Prayer, is commonly celebrated in parish churches and cathedrals in the English tradition.
Choral Evensong is a combination of the medieval Offices of Vespers (Evening Prayer) and Compline (Night Prayer). At Evensong we pray that God will help us to worship him. We sing the Psalms. We listen to readings from the Old and New Testaments. We hear the Magnificat and the Nunc Dimittis – two songs, taken from St Luke’s Gospel, which are traditionally associated with Christian prayer in the later part of the day. We sing a hymn. At the end of the service, we may listen to a reflection of the scriptural readings we have heard, we pray for the needs of the Church and the world, and we ask God’s Blessing on the week to come.
Please join us as the Choir and Clergy lead us in our very own Evensong on Sunday, October 19th at 4:00 pm. Several singers from St. Paul’s and guest organist Dr. Brendan Conner will join the St James Choir all led by Dr. Weisser.