Ordinariate Use Evensong at UST - Houston
  • 7.30pm
    Tuesday in the Eighteenth Week after Trinity MMXVIII
    St Basil's Chapel
    The University of St Thomas - Houston
    Solemn Evensong for the Memorial of the Holy Guardian Angels
    According to the Use of the Ordinariate of the Chair of St Peter

    Officiant - The Very Rev Timothy Perkins, Vicar General of the Ordinariate
    Verger - Dr Clinton A Brand, Chair of the English Department, Acolyte and Verger at OLW

    The University Singers
    Dr Brady Knapp, Chair of the Music Department, Choirmaster
    Dr Jeong-Suk Bae, University Organist
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    Introit - 'O Lord, Increase Our Faith' - - - Henry Loosemore
    Organ Processional - Salve Regina - - - Naji Hakim

    The Preces and Responses - - - Iain Quinn

    The Office Hymn - 'O Gladsome Light' - - - David Ashley White
    The Psalter - Psalm XII, Salvum me fac - - - Chant, Richard Clark

    The First Canticle - Magnificat, Evening Service in B-flat - - - Sir Charles Villiers Stanford
    The Second Canticle - Nunc Dimittis, Evening Service in B-flat - - - Sir Charles Villiers Stanford

    The Responses and Suffrages - - - Iain Quinn

    The Anthem - In Paradisum, from Requiem in D minor - - - Gabriel Faure

    The Marian Anthem - Salve Regina - - - Plainsong, Mode V with ison

    Hymn - 'Ye Holy Angels Bright' - - - Darwall's 148th, Descant, Sir Sydney Hugo Nicholson
    Organ Voluntary - Final, from Symphony No. 1, Op. 1 - - - Louis Vierne
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    Brady Knapp has taken to having the University Singers (who are excruciatingly good!) sing periodic evensong in the chapel rather than a 'sacred concert'. This is about the third evensong. The evensongs are very well attended and the congregation are rapt and responsive.