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, 28th April 2024 | ||
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| Fifth Sunday of Easter | ||
| 10.00am | Matins | Quire |
| sung by the Choir of Westminster Abbey | Rose Responses |
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| View Order of Service | ||
| 11.15am | Sung Eucharist | Quire |
| sung by the Choir of Westminster Abbey | Rheinberger Mass in E flat Preacher: The Reverend Mark Birch MVO Precentor |
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| 3.00pm | Evensong | Quire |
| sung by the Choir of Westminster Abbey; attended by HE The High Commissioner for Zambia | Byrd Terra tremuit et quievit Preacher: The Venerable Tricia Hillas Canon in Residence |
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| 6.00pm | Sung Eucharist | St Margaret's Church |
| sung by the St Margaret's Choristers | Rheinberger Missa puerorum Preacher: The Reverend Mark Birch MVO Precentor |
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| Monday, 29th April 2024 | ||
| St Catherine of Siena, teacher of the faith, 1380 | ||
| 5.00pm | Evensong | Quire |
| sung by the Lay Vicars | plainsong Ad coenam Agni providi |
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| Tuesday, 30th April 2024 | ||
| 5.00pm | Evensong | Quire |
| sung by the Choir of Westminster Abbey; attended by HE The High Commissioner for Sierra Leone | Wood Haec dies quam fecit Dominus |
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| Thursday, 2nd May 2024 | ||
| St Athanasius, Bishop of Alexandria, teacher of the faith, 373 | ||
| 5.00pm | Evensong | Quire |
| sung by the Choir of Westminster Abbey; attended by HE The High Commissioner for South Africa | Wood Haec dies quam fecit Dominus |
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| Friday, 3rd May 2024 | ||
| 5.00pm | Evensong | Quire |
| sung by the Choir of Westminster Abbey; attended by the Acting High Commissioner for Togo | Wood Haec dies quam fecit Dominus |
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| Saturday, 4th May 2024 | ||
| English saints and martyrs of the Reformation era | ||
| 5.00pm | Evensong | Quire |
| sung by the Choir of Westminster Abbey | Wood Haec dies quam fecit Dominus |
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| View Order of Service | ||
