Choral Evensong
Beginning this Sunday, October 5, Saint Philip’s will offer Choral Evensong every Sunday at 4:30pm.
All are invited to this peaceful, musical service, which is offered daily in many English cathedrals and chapels.
One service per month is sung by our senior youth choristers and alumna, the Saint Morwenna Voices, named after their Welsh patron saint, known for building a church out of stones carried a distance with her own hands. Other services are sung by our lay clerks, and a traditional Anglican ensemble with the Saint Nicholas Choir and Schola Cantorum.
Our choirs are beginning a two-year period of preparation for the fifth UK Choral Residency in July 2027 at Exeter Cathedral. Donors from the Saint Philip’s community and beyond help make this formational program possible.
Choral Evensong is offered every Sunday from October-May. Sung Evening Prayer will be offered on the following dates: October 26, 2025; December 28, 2025; January 4, 2026; April 5, 2026 (Easter Sunday).
The service takes the form of sung prayers, psalms, and the traditional evening canticles—the Magnificat and Nunc dimittis—along with a hymn and anthem. The service is full of meditative moments, and is a perfect way to begin or end a week.
You are encouraged to participate as often as you can and invite your friends to join you. Saint Philip’s is pleased to offer this rich tapestry of music and prayer that follows a pattern of worship that is centuries old, but that speaks to us today as profoundly as in the 16th century.
Alternate choirs participate according to the following schedule:
*First Sundays—Lay Clerks
*Second Sundays—Saint Nicholas Choir
*Third Sundays—Saint Nicholas Choir and Schola Cantorum
*Fourth Sundays—Saint Morwenna Voices
Lay Clerks—Professional singers who perform the core of adult ensembles, Schola Cantorum, and the Choir of Saint Philip’s
Saint Nicholas Choir—Boys and girls age 8 through high school or until voices change
Schola Cantorum—Members from the adult choirs who participate in Choral Evensong
Saint Morwenna Voices—Senior trebles and alumna
