Choral Evensong
Sunday 15th July 6pm
Choral Evensong according to the Book of Common Prayer, sung by the church choir and singers from other local churches, takes place in St John’s Tisbury on the third Sunday in the month (except August and December) at 6pm.
The next service will be on Sunday 15th July. More details will follow nearer the time.
The anthem in our service on Sunday 17th June featured a text thought to have been written by King Henry 8th; the anthem O Lorde the Maker of al thing set to music by the South African composer John Joubert.
Read the sermon written and delivered by the Revd Michael Goater which referred to much of the text – that of an evening prayer:
O Lorde, the maker of al thinge
We pray Thee now in this evening
Us to defende, through Thy mercy,
From al deceite of our en’my.
Let neither us deluded be,
Good Lorde, with dreame or phantasy,
Our hearte wakyng in Thee Thou kepe,
That we in sinne fal not on slepe.
O Father, throughe Thy blessed Sonne,
Grant us this our peticion,
To whom with the Holy Ghost alwaies,
In heav’n and yearth be laude and praise.
There’s no Choral Evensong in August.
We look forward to seeing you for what is an increasingly popular service, perhaps because of the cadences of its traditional language and its timelessness, combined with good quality speech and music – and coming as it does at the end of the day.
It’s true; more people are attending our Choral Evensong services too, though not in their thousands – as yet. Do come; you will be very welcome.
