Choral services
Sung prayer has been offered in Westminster Abbey nearly every day for over a thousand years. Today, services are sung daily during term time by the world-renowned Choir of Westminster Abbey, and by visiting choirs when the Abbey Choir is in recess.
The music sung ranges from Gregorian chant dating from the first millennium to contemporary music and encompasses the remarkable richness and variety of the Anglican choral tradition.
This week's choral services
| Sunday, 29th September 2024 | ||||||||
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| Eighteenth Sunday after Trinity | ||||||||
| 10.00am | Matins | Quire | ||||||
| sung by the Westminster Abbey Special Service Choir | Ayleward Responses |
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| 11.15am | Sung Eucharist | Quire | ||||||
| sung by the Westminster Abbey Special Service Choir | Guerrero Missa Surge propera Preacher: The Reverend Mark Birch MVO Precentor |
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| 3.00pm | Evensong | Quire | ||||||
| sung by the Westminster Abbey Special Service Choir | Tye Give almes of thy goods Preacher: The Reverend Dr James Hawkey Canon in Residence |
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| 6.00pm | Sung Eucharist | St Margaret's Church | ||||||
| sung by the St Margaret's Choristers | Chaminade Messe pour deux voix égales Preacher: The Reverend Mark Birch MVO Precentor |
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| Monday, 30th September 2024 | ||||||||
| ST MICHAEL AND ALL ANGELS | ||||||||
| 5.00pm | Sung Eucharist | Quire | ||||||
| sung by the Choir of Westminster Abbey | This service will be live-streamed Tye Missa Euge bone Preacher: The Reverend Dan Warnke Priest Vicar |
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| Tuesday, 1st October 2024 | ||||||||
| Anthony Ashley Cooper, 7th Earl of Shaftesbury, social reformer, 1885 | ||||||||
| Thérèse of Lisieux, religious, 1897 | ||||||||
| 5.00pm | Evensong | Quire | ||||||
| sung by the Choir of Westminster Abbey; attended by HE The High Commissioner for Cyprus | Purcell Thou knowest, Lord, the secrets of our hearts |
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| Thursday, 3rd October 2024 | ||||||||
| George Bell, Bishop of Chichester, ecumenist, peacemaker, 1958 | ||||||||
| 5.00pm | Evensong | Quire | ||||||
| sung by the Choristers | plainsong Lucis Creator optime |
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| Friday, 4th October 2024 | ||||||||
| St Francis of Assisi, friar, deacon, founder of the Friars Minor, 1226 | ||||||||
| 5.00pm | Evensong | Quire | ||||||
| sung by the Choir of Westminster Abbey | Purcell Thou knowest, Lord, the secrets of our hearts |
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| Saturday, 5th October 2024 | ||||||||
| 3.00pm | Evensong | Quire | ||||||
| part of the Chorister Experience Day; sung by the Choir of Westminster Abbey | Vaughan Williams The Call |
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