Choral Evensong with Sermon in Music – Harvest Sunday

Choral Evensong is one of the glories of traditional Anglican worship and the nation’s cultural heritage. All are welcome to attend this beautiful and reflective weekly event.

The service is peaceful and prayerful, steeped in history and tradition and full of wonderful music which is performed by our professional St Bride’s Choir and organist. It lasts under one hour.

Instead of a spoken sermon, this service features a Sermon in Music sung by the choir – an extended piece or pieces of music on a relevant theme.

To mark Harvest Sunday, tonight’s Sermon in Music includes William Walton’s setting of Cantico del sole – a hymn in praise of Nature and God’s Creation, written by St Francis of Assisi as he recovered from illness in the glorious hills of Umbria.

Music at the service

Responses: Orlando Gibbons
Psalm: 139: 1-11
Canticles: Short Evening Service – Orlando Gibbons
Sermon in Music: i) Thou visitest the earth – Maurice Greene; ii) Cantico del sole – William Walton
Organ Voluntary: Alleluya, Festal Postlude on ‘Lasst uns erfreuen’ – William Faulkes

Find out more about the service of Choral Evensong.

Additional Information

Directions to St Bride’s Church and information about accessibility are available on our Visit Us page. Attendees are free to come and go quietly as they wish.

Online Worship

This service will not be available online. However, a specially created short reflection in words and music is released each Sunday morning on our social media channels (scroll down for the links).