music & SERVICES

St John's is home to a large library of traditional (and some not so traditional) Anglican choral repertoire.

There are three choral services each Sunday, except the first Sunday of the month when there is no Matins.

St John's, by Paul Boxley

For details of forthcoming music, please follow us on Facebook and Twitter.  The church's regular choral services on Sundays are as follows:

9.30 am - choral matins 
(excluding the first Sunday of month)

Matins (or sometimes "Mattins") combines the monastic services of prime, lauds and matins.  The services follows the same format each week comprising preces and repsonses, a setting of two morning canticles (te deum, jubilate, benedicite, benedictus es), psalm, anthem and two hymns.  St John's is one of the few churches in Scotland singing Matins on a regular basis.  

10.30 am - eucharist

The weekly family service which depending on the time of years contains a selection of hymns, anthems, motets, psalms and mass/communion settings.  

6.00 pm - choral evensong

Not dissimilar to Matins,  the traditional service of choral evensong contains hymns, preces and responses, psalms, setting of the evening canticles (Magnificat and Nunc Dimmitis) and an anthem. At certain times of the year, evensong is replaced with a different, but similar service.   

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CHOIR OF THE CHURCH OF ST JOHN THE EVANGELIST, EDINBURGH