Noun:

Evensong,

evensong's Usage Examples:

At 6.00pm there will be a service of sung evensong from the Book of Common Prayer.

Shamefully, it took me almost thirty years from the time I first listened to English sacred music to attend my first evensong.

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.

Some of the chief points of difference between this and subsequent Prayer Books were the following: Matins and Evensong began with the Lord's Prayer, and ended with the third collect; there were no alternative Psalm-canticles for Benedictus, Magnificat and Nunc Dimittis; the Athanasian Creed was introduced after the Benedictus on six festivals only, and in addition to the Apostles' Creed; the Litany was placed after the Communion service, for which an alternative title was given, viz.: " commonly called the Mass."

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.

It sings Sunday morning services every week and full choral evensong on all but the second Sunday of the month.

evensong at 5.45 pm on three weekdays.

choral evensong from the Cathedral of the Holy Nativity, Pietermaritzburg, South Africa.

Also at St Mary's the Chamber Choir sang a beautiful candlelit Evensong.

Vespers or Evensong consists of five varying psalms, a hymn, the Magnificat (Luke i.

Synonyms:

canonical hour, vespers,