Join us for the Feast of Saint Michael and All Angels (Michaelmas) for our first Congregational Evensong of 2024-2025. Our Guest Preacher this Evening will be Fr. Kino Vitet, Rector of Saint Mark's Episcopal Church in Brooklyn. The Service will be followed by a festive reception and an opportunity to learn about the Saint Michael's Conference for High School and College Age You Adults.
About Michaelmas
Michaelmas (rhymes with “nickel” and pronounced like “Christmas”) is the traditional English name for the feast day of Saint Michael and All Angels, observed on September 29. This date was selected because it is the anniversary of the dedication of the 6th Century Church of Saint Michael and All Angels in Rome. In England and in some schools elsewhere, Michaelmas is one of the quarter days, traditionally marked by the election of magistrates, the beginning of the legal and university terms, and the collection of quarterly rents.
About Evensong & Our Guest Preacher at 5pm
Tonight we offer a sung service of Evening Prayer called Evensong. Evensong has been offered for nearly 600 years in Anglican and Episcopal cathedrals, city churches, and country parishes around the world. The format for Anglican Evensong can be traced directly to the first Book of Common Prayer and Archbishop Thomas Cranmer who crafted robust services of Morning Prayer (Matins) and Evening Prayer (Evensong) from the smaller monastic offices that had been in use before the Reformation. Anglican Evensong is often the last major service on a Sunday and is said or sung by and for the people. Evensong often includes a sermon, familiar evening hymns, and, when possible, a choir. Tonight’s service is Rite I from the Book of Common Prayer 1979.
Tonight we welcome as our preacher the Reverend Kino Germaine Lockheart Vitet, Rector of Saint Mark’s Episcopal Church, Brooklyn, New York. He was born in Vieux-Fort, Saint Lucia, West Indies, and raised in St. Lucia and Brooklyn, N.Y. He received a B.S. degree in Civil Engineering in 1999 from Lehigh University; a M.Sc. in City Design and Social Science from the London School of Economics and Political Science in 2000, and an M.A. in Economics from Fordham University in 2002. He worked for many years at the Port Authority of NY & NJ in Economics, Infrastructure and Planning before receiving a M. Div. degree from Yale University in 2011, and a Diploma in Anglican Studies from Berkeley Divinity School that same year. He was ordained to the priesthood on February 2, 2012. He served as Priest-in-Charge at St. Joseph’s Episcopal Church in Queens Village from 2012 to 2015 and as as Rector of Saint Mark’s Episcopal Church in Brooklyn since 2015. We also welcome members of the Saint Michael’s Conference for high school and college age youth. Father Mead and Father Vitet served as faculty members at this summer’s Conference.
Music & Lectionary for Evensong
- Processional Prelude: Improvisation
- Phos hilaron: Glad Light of Worship, Caelites plaudant
- Psalms 24 & 150 (said responsively)
- Old Testament: 2 Kings 6:8-17
- Magnificat: 438, Tell out my soul, Woodlands
- New Testament: Mark 13:21-27
- Canticle Hymn: L-226, Mine eyes have seen the glory of the coming of the Lord, Battlehymn of the Republic
- Office Hymn: 324, Let all mortal flesh keep silence, Picardy
- Offering Hymn: 618, Ye watchers and ye holy ones, Lasst uns erfreuen
- Processional Voluntary: 2nd Improvisation on Michael by Bischof