Night Prayer is the liturgy used in the Anglican tradition that is celebrated in the afternoon or evening. This is also known as Evensong , especially when the office is given coronally, ie when most services are sung.
This is roughly equivalent to Vespers in the Roman Catholic Church and Lutheran churches, although originally formed by combining the monastic offices of Vespers and Compline. Although many churches now take their services from Common Worship or any other modern prayer book, if a church has a choir, Choral Evensong of the Book of Common Prayer is often used because of the musical provisions the greater one.
Night prayers, such as Morning Prayer (Matin) and different from the Eucharist, can be led by laypeople, and recited by some devout Anglican every day personally (priests in many Anglican jurisdictions are required to do so).
Video Evening Prayer (Anglican)
In traditional prayer books
Evening Prayer, according to traditional prayer books such as 1662 English or 1959 Canadian Book of Common Prayer, has a structure similar to the equivalent Prayer of Prayer (or Matin), but with different columns and by collecting specific night. It consists of the following elements:
- Teaching of oral conversions, including the General Recognition and the Lord's Prayer. This is often omitted in the Evensong Daily Choir.
- Preces - a series of poems and responses including Gloria Patri.
- Some of the psalter, one or more psalm prose, ends with Gloria Patri.
- Two lessons (reading) from the Bible. The first is usually taken from the Old Testament and the second from the New Testament.
- Two columns, one after each lesson, usually Magnificat and Nunc dimittis , each ending with Gloria Patri.
- The Apostles' Creed, often sung in monotone.
- Some prayers and responses, often sung. These include the Kyrie eleison and the Lord's Prayer, followed by several verses and responses ("voting rights"), and collecting days and two additional collections ("three collections").
- A song after the third collection ("In quires and the place where they sing, here follow the anthem", in the famous phrase of the 1662 edition of the Prayer Book).
- Additional oral prayer.
If the service is accompanied, the organ will usually be played before and after the service. Many institutions have unaccompanied routines: in Durham Cathedral, Southwell Minster, Exeter Cathedral and Ripon Cathedral, and Chapels of New College, Oxford, and King's College, Cambridge, for example, Evensong on Fridays is usually sung for cappella arrangements. liturgy.
Further variation for evensong choir standard rendering is male voice service. In an institution where the choir consists of adult men (singing alto, tenor and bass parts) and trebles (singing male or female singers) singing the top (sopranos), one day a week a service may be sung by men only. When this happens, the music settings are only for alto, tenor and bass sounds. In Durham Cathedral, it is the norm for Thursday nights to be sung by the people of the choir.
In practice, the introduction of repentance is often overlooked, especially in the sung service. Preaching or homilies can be preached at the end of Sunday or feast days, but not form part of the liturgy. Also, one or more congregational hymns may be added to the service. In Anglo-Catholic churches, the Most Blessed Sacrament Do'a often follows Evensong.
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In contemporary prayer books
English Church
General Worship: Daily Prayers offers a contemporary form of liturgy. After the opening of the verse, singing songs, prayers or canticles are said or sung. Prayer is followed by psalms, reading and reading. The service ends with the intercession, gathering and praying of our Father. The structure is:
Get started:
- an opening verse, Oh God makes the speed to save us , the response, and the exact seasonal versus and response.
One or more of the following:
- a prayer of thanksgiving, varying according to season and ending with "Blessed be God forever."
- appropriate chants
- opening hole
- opening prayer, if desired
- This form of remorse can replace Preparation:
The Word of God:
- psalms, each with antiphonal prayer and psalms.
- New York cantric
- read (s) from the Bible
- a Responsory. These vary according to the season, and in normal times, the same is used as a Responsory in Morning Prayer.
- the Magnificat as the Gospel Canticle of choice, preceded and ended with a specific antifreeze for each day, with ferial, festal and seasonal variants.
Prayer:
- intercession and, especially at night, thanks
- the Collect of the day, or printed prayer
- Our Father's Prayer.
Conclusion:
- on Sunday and the celebration of a hymn or canticle can be used.
- Blessing or Blessing
- closing responses, if desired
- Peace can replace or follow Conclusions
Episcopal Church (US)
In the Episcopal Church of the United States, such as the Eucharist, the Funeral Cemetery, and the Order of Repentance, Morning and Night Prayers are given in the 1979 US Prayer Book together in two forms: "Rite One" and "Rite Two".
Rite One is a modified version of the traditional order for Night Prayer. This is somewhat similar to the traditional Prayer Rite, but the Confession has been cut off, the Phos Hilaron can be said, and only one passage needs to be used. The Magnificat and Nunc dimittis may be both used, or one of them can be used, or an alternative canticle can be used. Rite One is based on the 1928 Prayer Book and is also found in the Anglican Book of Service, a traditional language adaptation of the 1979 Public Prayer Book.
Rite Two is substantially similar, but is translated in modern languages.
The American Book of Common Prayer also offers "Order of Worship for the Evening", which can be used as a service itself or as an introduction to Night Prayer.
Canadian Anglican Church
The Alternative Church Service Book of the Anglican Church of Canada provides a simple version of the Night Prayer. Services can be started with the Light Service or Penitential Rite. If not, it starts with Preces and Phos Hilaron. The psalm is said to be followed by one or more readings and one or more grains. The Apostles' Creed or Summary of the Law is said, and then Intercession and Thanksgiving can be offered. The Collect of the Day can follow. The service ends with the Lord's Prayer and Dismissal.
Evensong's special form, "Vigil of the Resurrection" is provided for use on Saturdays.
Music
In evensong chorus service, all the worship services except the introductions, lessons, and some last prayers are sung or sung by clerics (or lay laymen) and choirs. In the cathedral, or on very important days in the church calendar, canticles (Magnificat and Nunc dimittis) are done in more elaborate settings. In churches where the choir is absent, simpler versions of psalms and handsome are usually sung by the congregation, sometimes with responses and gathering that are pronounced rather than sung, or musical arrangements completely removed.
It is widely considered acceptable for scrolling in Latin. The earliest settings of the Magnificat alternated between polyphony and plainchant, but then the device included alternating singing between two "sides" of the choir (the singer standing on either side of the conductor, known as Decani and Cantoris), between solo and ensemble-filled players; between singers in various parts of the building. Normally the choir is not accompanied or accompanied by an organ, although it is not uncommon for the instrumental ensemble to engage in a very important event.
There are countless arrangements from scroll, but a number of composers have donated work done regularly throughout the Anglican Communion. It ranges from late Renaissance composers such as Thomas Tallis, William Byrd and Orlando Gibbons, through Victorian composers such as Charles Villiers Stanford, Thomas Attwood Walmisley to later masterful forms such as Herbert Murrill and Basil Harwood. Herbert Howells consists of 18 settings, including Magnificat and Nunc dimittis for St Paul's Cathedral. The setting from outside the core tradition of Anglican church music has also become popular, with examples by Michael Tippett, Giles Swayne and Arvo PÃÆ'¤rt who created the Magnificat and Nunc dimittis at different times.
As a regular service, Evensong will begin with the introduction and response and continue with the psalms set to the Anglican song, then the canon, with the national anthem after Collecting the Third.
Evensong may have a plainchant in place of Anglican singing and in the High Church parishes may end with the Blessed Sacrament Prayer (or a modified form of "Devotion to the Most Blessed Sacrament") and carry a protected sac under the humerus's veil from the high altar to the altar of rest , to the musical accompaniment.
The service also includes songs of praise. The first of these can be called Office Hymns, and will usually be very closely tied to the liturgical theme of the day, and may be a mediocre old-fashioned setting. It will usually be sung just before the psalms or just before the first canticle and may be sung by the chorus only. Otherwise, every hymn usually comes towards the end of the service, perhaps one side of the sermon (if any), or following the national anthem. This praise song will generally be congregational.
Church offers Evensong
English
Most cathedrals of the Church of England, where service comes from, and a number of university college chapels (eg at Cambridge University, Oxford University, Durham University and King's College London) offer this service regularly, often daily.
Canterbury Cathedral is one of several churches in the country where Evensong is sung seven days a week by their Yayasan choir. Most choirs take a break at night or use a voluntary choir for an occasional day. During the summer holidays the local and international visiting choirs do Evensong in the absence of the Yayasan choir. The majority of Evensong's services in Canterbury are performed by boys and men from the cathedral choir. There is also a female Choir who sings regularly.
In York Minster Evensong lasts six times a week with a choir formed by children (boy or girl, with mixed voices at big events) and adults singing together. These adults tend to be male, but female choir scholars have been introduced in 2016. Holy Trinity, Northwood part of Hanley Team Ministry in Stoke-on-Trent has Evensong service once a month, especially on the fourth Sunday of every month. This service is sung by the congregation, including Magnificat and Nunc Dimmitis.
Apart from the cathedral and the college chapel, Evensong is also sung in many parish churches around England where there is a choral tradition. There may be choir service every Sunday or less often, such as every month or just on holidays in the liturgical calendar. Many central London churches have professional choirs and have weekly Choral Evensong services, among them All Saints, Margaret Street, Holy Trinity Sloane Square, and St Bride, Fleet Street.
Scotland
A number of Episcopalian churches and cathedrals in Scotland that retain the choir tradition hold evensong choir services, including St. Mary's Cathedral, Edinburgh, St Mary's Cathedral, Glasgow, Old Saint Paul's, Edinburgh and St Margaret's, Gallowgate in Aberdeen. Due to the history of the different Scottish churches, Evensong is a tradition in the Scottish Episcopal Church, not the Church of Scotland.
ireland
Most of the larger churches and churches in Ireland offer evensong. The song is sung six times a week at St. Patrick's Cathedral, Dublin, twice at Christ Church Cathedral, Dublin, and once at Trinity College, Dublin. In addition, although rarely, some parish churches hold Evensong, however, this is most often replaced by Night Prayer.
United States
Canada
- Chapel of Trinity College, Toronto
- Cathedral of Saint John the Baptist (St. John's)
- Christ Church Cathedral, Vancouver
- St. Cathedral of James' (Toronto)
- St. Anglican Church of Thomas (Toronto)
- Church of the Redeemer Cathedral, Calgary
- St. Cathedral of Paul (London, Ontario).
- Royal St. George's College, Toronto
- St. Church of Barnabas, Apostle and Martyr Anglican, Ottawa
- St. George's Cathedral (Kingston, Ontario)
West Africa
- Church of Christ Cathedral, Lagos
South Africa
- St. Cyprian's Cathedral, Kimberley
- St. Michael and St. George Cathedral, Grahamstown
- St Michael & amp; All Angels, Observatory, Cape Town
- Christ Church Arcadia, Pretoria
Australia
New Zealand
- Holy Trinity Cathedral, Auckland
- Saint Paul Cathedral, Wellington
- Transitional pro Cathedral, Christchurch
- St Michael's Church and All Angels, Christchurch
- St Paul's Cathedral, Dunedin
Hong Kong
- St John's Cathedral, Hong Kong (Third week of the month)
Singapore
- St Andrew's Cathedral, Singapore
Malaysia
- St Mary's Cathedral, Kuala Lumpur
Japanese
- Rikkyo All Saints' Chapel, Tokyo (Friday during university semester)
- Rikkyo St. Paul's Chapel, Saitama (first Monday of the month during the university semester)
Non-Anglican churches
Evensong's popularity has spread to other churches, especially Presbyterian Church churches (USA) and United Methodist churches using formal liturgical worship style. Examples in the Presbyterian Church include the Fourth Presbyterian Church (Chicago) and the Independent Presbyterian Church (Birmingham, Alabama) both offering Evensong services on a seasonal basis, such as Peachtree Road United Methodist Church in Atlanta, Georgia.
There are several Roman Catholic churches and monasteries in England that offer evensong choirs: These include Ampleforth Abbey, Liverpool Metropolitan Cathedral, Birmingham Oratory, Ealing Abbey, Leeds Cathedral, Downside Abbey, London Oratory and Westminster Cathedral.
In Scotland, some of the larger churches (and the former Cathedral of the Church of Scotland) hold evensong, including Glasgow Cathedral, Paisley Abbey (2nd week of the month), and Edinburgh Cathedral.
St. Basilica Nicholas in Amsterdam held a Choral Evensong on Saturday.
Broadcast
The BBC has, since 1926, broadcast the weekly Choral Evensong service. It is broadcast (usually live) on BBC Radio 3 on Wednesday at 15:30 and is often repeated the following Sunday. Between February 2007 and September 2008, the service was broadcast on Sunday only. This service comes from an English cathedral or a college institution. However, sometimes recording or being replaced by different forms of service or service from church elsewhere in the world or from other denominations. The latest broadcast is available on BBC iPlayer up to a week after the original broadcast. There are also archives available.
See also
- Morning Prayer (Anglican)
- Matin
- Vespers
- Anglican chant
- Anglican church music
- Service (music)
- Magnificat
- Nunc dimittis
- Anglican devotion
Note
Further reading
External links
- Choral Evensong
- How to Pray at the Daily Office of the General Prayer Book
- The daily prayer of the Church of England
- BBC Radio 3 weekly broadcast from choral evensong
- Master's Thesis: Rafaela Weinz, Evensong. Historische Konfigurationen einer liturgischen Form (2006) (in German)
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