evensong

How To Use evensong In A Sentence

• Morning prayer, known as matins, and evening prayer, known as vespers or evensong, are most common.
• It starts outside the church with the lighting of new fire and the Paschal Candle followed by a full Easter service and Festal evensong at 6.30 pm.
• It begins with snowdrops and ends with blackbirds celebrating choral evensong, and the rookeries, in whirling dervish mood. Times, Sunday Times
• The formal part of the wedding (the vows and rings) came first, and the usual particulars of evensong followed - Rose responses, a psalm to Anglican chant, Gibbons Second Service canticles, and a few hymns.
• Dr David Hope praised the Queen's ‘unstinting service, profound wisdom and unswerving faith’ during her 50-year reign at a special festal evensong at York Minster.
• Lucy longs to be on the beach too, but Barnaby has evensong in an hour and he needs a break. SEA MUSIC
• I was not merely celebrating my survival of evensong; I was escaping from the unrelieved stress of the entire day. ABSOLUTE TRUTHS
• Lucy longs to be on the beach too, but Barnaby has evensong in an hour and he needs a break. SEA MUSIC
• There is a melancholy in the modern world which looks with nostalgia to the days when magic ruled the world, and sunrise was a time of aubade, dusk a time for the canticles of evensong, when the elfin ships can be glimpsed by those with second sight against the fiery clouds, setting sail away from the mortal shores for worlds beyond the sunset, beyond the seas we know. MIND MELD: Gods by the Bushel
• I ended up sleeping for about four hours - waking up at about 6.45 pm - missing not only my fringe show, but evensong as well.