Clare College Choral Evensong, Lent 2025

All members of Clare Hall are warmly welcome to Clare Choral Evensong, sung by the College Choir on Sunday 9th February 2025, at 6pm in Clare Chapel. The service will last about an hour, and music will include canticles set by Orlando Gibbons, who died 400 years ago. Responses by Cecilia McDowall and an introit by the Finnish composer Jaakko Mäntyjärvi are complemented by an arrangement of the traditional spiritual ‘Didn’t my Lord deliver Daniel?’ by the British composer Paul Ayres. We also welcome Professor Simeon Zahl from the Faculty of Divinity, speaking on ‘Encountering the unseen’ in our sermon. The service is followed by drinks in the ante-chapel, and then by a roast supper in Hall for those who would like to stay (£7.70, which can be paid on the night). We are really looking forward to welcoming you all for this special termly celebration of our links as college communities!

Clare Hallers are also welcome to attend all Chapel services at Clare, and may find it easier to enter via the Queens’ Road gate, which has an intercom to the Porters’ Lodge to request access.