The Chorister Academy of St. John's Episcopal Church, Waterbury Connecticut, sang during the Evensong service at St. Mark's Episcopal Church in Bridgewater, Connecticut, on Sunday, May 6, 2007, at 4 p.m.
St. Mark's will donate the offering from that service to The Dominican Literacy Project, which was established to help Haitian children living in the Dominican Republic to help pay expenses such as building maintenance and midday meals for 120 children trying to receive an education. Haitian children in the Dominican Republic are denied status, birth certificates, and public education, according to St. Mark's.
Evensong, one of the oldest services in the Anglican tradition, dates back to the original Book of Common Prayer of 1549, and combines the monastic offices of Vespers and Compline. It is drawn almost entirely from the Bible and includes Psalms, Hymns, Anthems, and the Magnificat and Nuc dimittis. The service is a sacred method of singing praise to God, according to St. Mark's.
