How To Use Evensong In A Sentence

  • At St Anne's in neighbouring Strathfield he responded to Anglican ‘matins and evensong, the canticles, the psalms, the hymns, the Bible readings’, and became a choirboy.
  • Or that nobody who is good at sports ought to be "morally upright" iow, not sleep with team-mates wives, girlfriends or partners, or swear gratuitously on every occasion or enjoy a decent choral evensong? Why are English sporting heroes so dull? | Kevin McKenna
  • At 7 p.m. we'll have a choral evensong, which is designed for congregation participation," Chapman said. "Land of Lakes Choirboys" paying visit to Macon, GA
  • And they had question together until evensong time which of them both should entame or begin to take of the bread. The Golden Legend, vol. 2
  • Evensong was half over when the preacher arrived, and the church being full Mark was given a chair by the sidesman in a dark corner, which presently became darker when Father Rowley went up into the pulpit, for all the lights were lowered except those above the preacher's head, and nothing was visible in the church except the luminous crucifix upon the High Altar. The Altar Steps
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  • I'll attend evensong in the Cathedral tonight, and- ' `Oh no! ABSOLUTE TRUTHS
  • With the right wind, he might one day hear the evensong of the bailiffs, wrestling with protesters, ripping down their tents. Hugh Muir's diary
  • Pre-order your poulet rouge, a slow-growing French breed of chicken prized for its rich flavor, from Evensong ($5 per pound). Market Roundup: Sept 30-Oct. 7
  • The Lincoln incident happened during Evensong on Tuesday when a Victorian oak altar and a 40-year-old altar frontal were set ablaze in the Morning Chapel in the minster's north west corner.
  • As often with good things, this has come my way via Nico, whose own Magnificat and Nunc Dimittis don't seem to be available yet on his website but were broadcast as performed by Girton and Clare College choirs, Cambridge on the BBC Choral Evensong program in February. Some insanely good music
  • The service will replace the usual Sunday night evensong.
  • Morning prayer is said every weekday morning, and evening prayer or evensong every night.
  • But come September 1, she will begin 14 hours of rehearsal each week for a six-month probationary period before she is paid to join the professionals, rotating daily choral evensong duties with the boys' choir.
  • They were told that an accident in the tower, where two men had been working, had resulted in the partial collapse of some of the vaulting above the knave, just after Evensong had finished at 6.15 pm on Monday.
  • Lots of people came to evensong and I got a few congratulations from members of the public after the performance.
  • Hours of 13.5 tog murders pondered amid snoozing spires and the distant peal of pre-recorded evensong. Top Gear, New Tricks, Lewis … the television shows that won't die
  • This being Sunday afternoon, it's time for evensong.
  • The cars are filling up fast for this special visit to Winchester Cathedral with lunch in the refectory and a special tour, followed by Evensong.
  • Go to evensong at an Oxford or Cambridge college chapel, in particular Kings or Clare.
  • I have BBC Radio 3 broadcasting choral evensong on while a student comes to discuss her long essay. Henry’s Demons
  • Lucy longs to be on the beach too, but Barnaby has evensong in an hour and he needs a break. SEA MUSIC
  • Then a spot of book shopping, coffee at the National Gallery (Yes I am a fan of the place, as is Liz), followed by evensong at Westminster Abbey (neither of us having ever been for evensong there before), and all in all a good day.
  • Leeds Parish Church and Chelsea choirs later got together for a festival evensong, followed by a recital by the Chelsea singers.
  • I hadn't realised that Tony, who was born into a church family, always attended evensong at St Mary Abbots in Kensington, London, where his father had worked. Aaaargh! It's the end of Nigel in the Archers. Now which one was he again?
  • The preces too, of course, are taken from the Roman Office and I was left with the ironic thought that to sample a flavour of the old Roman Office then BCP Evensong is the most accessible source! Old Mass and old breviary
  • When the shadows dip behind a churchyard somewhere in England's shires, it would be no surprise to glimpse David Gower on his way to evensong with Sebastian Coe and Tim Henman. Why are English sporting heroes so dull? | Kevin McKenna
  • As I have been to many Evensongs since, the order of the service is now second nature.
  • On Saturday evening the service at the parish church was abandoned and the Sunday evensong was held in the afternoon instead of evening because of the smell.
  • It starts outside the church with the lighting of new fire and the Paschal Candle followed by a full Easter service and Festal evensong at 6.30 pm.
  • It begins with snowdrops and ends with blackbirds celebrating choral evensong, and the rookeries, in whirling dervish mood. Times, Sunday Times
  • The formal part of the wedding (the vows and rings) came first, and the usual particulars of evensong followed - Rose responses, a psalm to Anglican chant, Gibbons Second Service canticles, and a few hymns.
  • Dr David Hope praised the Queen's ‘unstinting service, profound wisdom and unswerving faith’ during her 50-year reign at a special festal evensong at York Minster.
  • Lucy longs to be on the beach too, but Barnaby has evensong in an hour and he needs a break. SEA MUSIC
  • I was not merely celebrating my survival of evensong; I was escaping from the unrelieved stress of the entire day. ABSOLUTE TRUTHS
  • Lucy longs to be on the beach too, but Barnaby has evensong in an hour and he needs a break. SEA MUSIC
  • There is a melancholy in the modern world which looks with nostalgia to the days when magic ruled the world, and sunrise was a time of aubade, dusk a time for the canticles of evensong, when the elfin ships can be glimpsed by those with second sight against the fiery clouds, setting sail away from the mortal shores for worlds beyond the sunset, beyond the seas we know. MIND MELD: Gods by the Bushel
  • I ended up sleeping for about four hours - waking up at about 6.45 pm - missing not only my fringe show, but evensong as well.
  • Pop back at 6pm if the cathedral is holding evensong; plainchant by candlelight is quite something. Times, Sunday Times
  • Eleventhly, God of his grace had pierced her heart, it is read that S. Clare for to dispend amorously the time that God had lent her, in especial she was determined that from the hour of mid-day unto evensong time, she would dispend all that time in thinking and beweeping the passion of Jesu Christ, and say prayers and orisons according thereto, after unto the five wounds of the precious body of Jesu Christ, as smitten and pierced to the heart with the dart of the love divine. The Golden Legend, vol. 6
  • And in every wyndowe iij pewes or carrells, where every one of the old Monks had his carrell, severall by himselfe, that, when they had dyned, they dyd resorte to that place of Cloister and there studyed upon there books, every one in his carrell, all the after nonne, unto evensong time. Old English Libraries; The Making, Collection and Use of Books During the Middle Ages
  • Morning prayer, known as matins, and evening prayer, known as vespers or evensong, are most common.
  • A full Easter service and Festal evensong will be held at 6.30 pm.
  • With lessons and carols, communion and evensong, the person at the centre of these religious services will be working long hours delivering the Christmas message.
  • And these four knights aforesaid came to Canterbury on the Tuesday in Christmas week about Evensong time, and came to S. Thomas and said that the king commanded him to make amends for the wrongs that he had done, and also that he should assoil all them that he had accursed anon, or else they should slay him. 12/01/2003 - 01/01/2004
  • The weekend was rest mostly, except for a disappointing effort to catch my first evensong service at King's College Chapel - only to find evensong was done for the term, recommencing 13 January.
  • The best way to appreciate is to visit during evensong.01223 331212One of the earliest examples of a show of private wealth, this was built in 1440 by Ralph Cromwell, treasurer to Henry VI. Gothic architecture in Britain: examples from the era
  • As few among the public who queue every day to hear choral evensong at King's can be aware of how the choir of the chapel used to and ought to look, it is worth rehearsing the story of this scandal again.
  • The formal part of the wedding (the vows and rings) came first, and the usual particulars of evensong followed - Rose responses, a psalm to Anglican chant, Gibbons Second Service canticles, and a few hymns.
  • An Imber Day was also introduced so previous residents could return annually to tend graves, meet old friends and participate in Eucharist and evensong at St Giles' Church.
  • Morning prayer, known as matins, and evening prayer, known as vespers or evensong, are most common.
  • At St Anne's in neighbouring Strathfield he responded to Anglican ‘matins and evensong, the canticles, the psalms, the hymns, the Bible readings’, and became a choirboy.
  • The Lincoln incident happened during Evensong on Tuesday when a Victorian oak altar and a 40-year-old altar frontal were set ablaze in the Morning Chapel in the minster's north west corner.
  • It takes me back, to be precise, to evensong at St Matthew's, West Kensington, and Hail Marys at my convent school, but that is another story.

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