Our first Choral Evensong of the season is at 5 p.m. on Sunday, September 27 for the Feast of St. Michael & All Angels.

We celebrate our parish feast day with this traditional evening service featuring the singing of psalms, canticles, responses, and hymns led by the St. Michael’s Singers. Music will include a beautiful sung introit in Spanish and Renaissance composer Orlando Gibbons’ “Short Service,” as well as a favorite anthem in French, Gabriel Fauré’s Cantique de Jean Racine. Although not written specifically for Michaelmas, the anthem reflects on divine light, strength, and peace, harmonizing with the feast’s themes of angelic light and protection:

“Word of the Highest, our only hope, 

Eternal day of earth and the heavens,

We break the silence of the peaceful night;

Savior Divine, cast your eyes upon us!”