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BBC Choral Evensong – July

Eton Choral Course and the Exon Singers at Buckfast Abbey complete the weekly services this month

Weds 20th July
  (rpt Sun 24th July)  
Eton Choral Course at Eton College

Introit: Never weather-beaten sail (Parry)
    Responses: Rose   
Psalm: 104 (Walmisley, Edwards)
   First Lesson: Judges 15 v1 – 16 v3
   Office Hymn: Dear Lord and Father of mankind (Repton)   
Canticles: Magnificat (Finzi) and Nunc dimittis (Holst)
   Second Lesson: Luke 18 vv15-30
   Anthem: At the round Earth’s imagined corners (Parry)   
Hymn: All creatures of our God and King (Lasst uns erfreuen)
   Organ Voluntary: Fantasia and Fugue in G major (Parry)

Weds 27th July
   (rpt Sun 31st July)
   Exon Singers at Buckfast Abbey

Introit: The Lord is my light (Gary Davison) (first broadcast)    
Responses: Plainsong 
Office hymn: Creator of the earth and sky (Deus creator) 
   Psalms: 126, 127, 128, 129, 130, 131 (Plainsong) 
   First Lesson: Romans 8 vv35, 37-39 
   Anthem: Strengthen ye, the weak hands (Harris)
   Second Lesson: Matthew 14 vv13-21
   Homily: The Rt Revd David Charlesworth, Abbot of Buckfast
   Canticle: Magnificat (Gary Davison) (first performance)  
Lord’s Prayer (Gabriel Jackson)    
Motet: Ave Maria (Bruckner)
  Hymn: O Love divine, how sweet thou art! (Cornwall)   
Organ Voluntary: Fugue sur le Carillon de la Cathédrale de Soissons (Duruflé)