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A religious service, most commonly seen in the Anglican or Episcopal Church, that takes place in the early hours of the evening.
Examples of evensong in a Sentence
Also at St Mary's the Chamber Choir sang a beautiful candlelit Evensong.
It sings Sunday morning services every week and full choral evensong on all but the second Sunday of the month.
His preaching, his catechizing of the children after evensong, and his connexion with the Bala Methodists - his wife's stepfather being a Methodist preacher - gave great offence.
In addition to the enactment of canons (strictly so-called) the English provincial synods since the Henrician changes have legislated - in 1570 by the enactment of the Thirty-Nine Articles, in 1661 by approving the present Book of Common Prayer, and in 1873 by approving shorter forms of matins and evensong.
Shamefully, it took me almost thirty years from the time I first listened to English sacred music to attend my first evensong.
At 6.00pm there will be a service of sung evensong from the Book of Common Prayer.
We hope that many of you will come to meet old friends and contemporaries and to attend evensong in chapel.
The dedication, which followed evensong, was watched by a congregation who crowded the small church.
Designed for cathedral evensong prayers, with arm slits allowing a wider view.
Entertainment includes music and drama ranging from candlelit evensong in college chapels to Shakespeare in the park.
Let the music wash over you, reflect, relax, pray, etc. Sung evensong in many small parish churches is often excruciating.
We also performed madrigals in the gardens of Mottisfont Abbey last year, as well as singing Evensong at Romsey Abbey.