The next service of Evensong in the Chapel of the Good Shepherd will be on Sunday, July 11, at 5 p.m. The service is for the Sixth Sunday after Trinity. The music booklet can be downloaded here: Booklet for Trinity VI.
Those wishing to practise at home in advance may find the following recordings useful. Psalm 31 is very long, and my webhost wouldn’t let me upload the whole thing in one recording, so it is here divided into two:
Ant. Deliver me, O Lord – Psalm 31 (part 1)
Here is the Magnificat, with its antiphon (the Nunc is the same as in recent weeks):
Ant. Be ye therefore merciful – Magnificat
Finding this antiphon was a bit of an adventure. The traditional Gospel reading for this Sunday is Matt. 5. 20–26 (Except your righteousness shall exceed the righteousness of the Scribes and Pharisees, ye shall in no case enter into the Kingdom of Heaven). But the 1962 Canadian Prayer Book assigns Luke 6. 27–36 instead (Jesus said, ‘Love your enemies, do good to them which hate you, bless them that curse you, and pray for them which despitefully use you.’). The 1962 Gospel doesn’t occur in the old Roman liturgy, but a single verse of it (v. 36) overlaps with the Gospel for the First Sunday after Pentecost (Luke 6. 36–42). And it just so happens that verse 36 supplied the text for a medieval antiphon used as a commemoration of the Octave of Pentecost when this was displaced by comparatively recent feast of Trinity Sunday. It was formerly the Benedictus antiphon at Lauds of the Octave of Pentecost. So I leave myself the problem of what I’ll assign to the Benedictus of Trinity VI when (Deo volente) I finish all the Sunday Evensongs and start setting Mattins.
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