An Evensong for All Saints’ and All Souls’ Day
Sunday, November 2 at 5PM
St. Mark’s Episcopal Church 111 Oenoke Ridge, New Canaan CT.
Choral Evensong (sung Evening Prayer) is one of the most beautiful services of the Anglican/Episcopal tradition. Most of Evensong is sung by the choir, freeing the congregation to attend prayerfully to the “holiness of beauty.” The St. Mark’s Choir & Soloists offer a service of Evensong for the Feasts of All Saints & All Souls. During the service, Mary Petro Noonan will sing Maurice Ravel’s extraordinary setting of the Kaddish, chanted during Jewish prayer services in mourning for the dead. The service will also feature music of composer Franz Schubert’s Litanei auf das Feste, Allerseelen, T Tertius Noble’s Souls of the Righteous, as well as a setting of the Preces & Responses, allcomposed for the occasion by our Director of Music Ministries Edward J. Tipton. The service will be accompanied by Michael Burnette.
The congregation is invited to bring framed photographs or other mementos of those whom they love and who have died. Those mementos will be blessed during the singing of the “Kaddish.”
Please join us for this beautiful, candle-lit service. A reception will follow.