Latin Evensong at Stanford University

03/16/2017

Due to an unfortunate double-booking, Latin Evensong this evening will be cancelled. Beware the Ides, and we will see you next month!

09/19/2016

As we witness another academic year commencing on The Farm, may we live out the words of the Venerable Bede (d. 735 CE). Here's to an adventurous new year!

04/11/2016

Join us for the first Evensong of Spring quarter! This Wednesday, 13 April, at 5:15pm. As always, located in the side chapel of Memorial Church. (Image: Conques, France)

03/08/2016

It's that time of the quarter once more! Join us for Evensong, tomorrow (Weds.) evening at 5:15pm, side chapel of Memorial Church. (Image: Whitby Abbey, N. Yorkshire, UK)

01/15/2016

A happy Friday, one and all. "Our hearts were made for you, O Lord, and they are restless until they rest in you." ~St. Augustine of Hippo (354-430)

01/13/2016

It's tonight! Stanford's Winter Evensong is at 5:15pm, in the side chapel of Memorial Church. (Image: wall painting from St Stephen's Royal Chapel, Westminster, c.1350, British Museum).

01/12/2016

Join us for the first Evensong of 2016! Tomorrow (Wed.) evening at 5:15pm, in the side chapel of Stanford's Memorial Church. (Image: the mediaeval choirstalls of Wi******er Cathedral, UK).

11/30/2015

Happy feast of St Andrew, patron saint of Scotland, this 30th of November!

Omnipotens Deus, qui dedisti beato Andreæ Apostolo tuo, ut acerbam et ignominiosam crucis mortem duceret pro magna gloria, tribue ut omnia nobis adversa pro nomine tuo ducamus profutura (et) ad æternam vitam conducibilia. Per Christum Dominum nostrum. Amen. (1560 Liber Precum Publicarum)

Almighty God, which hast given such grace to thy Apostle Saint Andrew, that he counted the sharp and disgraceful death of the cross to be a great glory; Grant us to take and esteem all adversities which shall come unto us for thy name, as things profitable toward the obtaining of everlasting life; through Christ our Lord. Amen. (1549 Book of Common Prayer)

Image: "The Calling of St Peter & St Andrew" from a 15th c. Italian choirbook (London, British Library, MS 18196, f. 84r)

11/23/2015

As we enter Thanksgiving week, we are reminded to give thanks for our many blessings and pray for those hurting in our world. (Image of harvest from a tripartite south German mahzor/festival prayerbook, c. 1320).

11/12/2015

Check out the Latin transcription of St Martin of Tours' (d. 397) vita, as penned by Sulpicius Severus (ca. 363-425).

http://dcc.dickinson.edu/sulpicius-severus/introduction

This site contains the Life of St. Martin, Bishop of Tours (AD 316 or 317-397), written by Sulpicius Severus (ca. AD 363 - ca. 425), with notes, vocabulary, audio recordings, and other digital enhancements. It is intended for students of Latin, who are assumed to be learning to translate themselves,…

11/12/2015

Thank you for joining us last night. We had a lovely turnout at Evensong--a fitting honor to our veterans and St Martin of Tours (a soldier himself).

11/10/2015

Come join us tomorrow (11 November) at 5:15pm, for Evensong in Stanford's Memorial Church. (Image of misericord supporter, Wi******er Cathedral, UK)