We celebrate the start of Pride Month with Choral Evensong for Trinity Sunday, a service that celebrates the all-embracing love of God. The organ prelude begins at 3:50 pm and is played by Saint George's Assistant Organist, Alfred Yoon who offers music by by Bach, Messiaen, and Gigout. Choral music includes works by Mendelssohn and Stopford. A reception follows in the Parish Hall.
Evensong marks the end of the day and prepares for the approaching night. The roots of this service come out of ancient monastic traditions of Christian prayer. Thomas Cranmer, Archbishop of Canterbury in the 16th century, created this form as part of the simplification of services within the newly-reformed Church of England. The Episcopal Church, as part of the worldwide Anglican Communion, has inherited this pattern of evening prayer.
In this service, we are invited to reflect, pray for the world and for ourselves, and to commend all into God’s hands as words of Holy Scripture are said and sung. The beauty of the music is offered to help us set our lives in the light of eternity; the same light which dwelt among us in Jesus, and which now illuminates us by the Spirit.