Choral Evensong returns to Farnley after many years

For the first time in many years, Evensong will be sung at St Lucius' on Sunday, May 1 at 6.30pm.

Music, readings and prayers are interwoven In this ancient service, as a reflection on the day past and in preparation for the night.

​This is one of its evocative prayers: 'Lighten our darkness, we beseech thee, O Lord; and by thy great mercy defend us from all perils and dangers of this night; for the love of thy only Son, our Saviour, Jesus Christ.'

The music will be led by a choir of Huddersfield University students, directed by Daniel Bezkorowajnyj, a member of our congregation and, when at home in Wales, a lay clerk at Bangor Cathedral.

The choir will sing the responses, a setting by Sir Charles Stanford of the Magnificat and Nunc Dimittis and the motet, Ave Verum Corpus by Mozart.  

Three hymns and a psalm, below, will be sung by everyone. And refreshments will be served at the end of the service. Please join us.

Picture of sunset over Castle Hill from Farnley Tyas by Ian Marshall.

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