(Irish music)
Revd. Charles Mullen: We welcome you to worship in St. Patrick's Cathedral.
It's the office of Evensong of the Feast of St. Thomas the Apostle.
We're very grateful to members of the University of Tennessee Chamber Choir
for singing the office this evening and yesterday evening during the Cathedral choir's summer recess.
Members of the choir, we hope that you've enjoyed visiting us in St. Patrick's Cathedral,
and that you found your visit to Dublin a welcoming one.
UT Chamber Singers (singing)
As he promised to our forefathers, may the Almighty seed be forever. Forever.
Glory be to the Father, and to the Son, and to the Holy Ghost.
As it was in the beginning. As it was in the beginning,
His righteousness shall be. World without end. World without end.
Amen. Amen.
Revd. Charles Mullen: There's something about the smell of Evensong
It's not an evangelistic service by any means.
It just catches people, and what the choir does is they offer up their music to God,
and we--if you like--catch their coat tails, and are dragged up to heaven.
We grasp the heel of heaven by listening to this beautifully-performed choral music.
UT Chamber Singers (singing)
Glory to the Highest, and to the Son, and to the Holy Ghost
As it was in the beginning. It ever shall be.
Amen. World Without End
Amen. Amen.
Revd. Charles Mullen: What we do here isn't a performance,
it's an offering of worship to God.
And lots of, for example, university choirs are used to singing to audiences.
Here is slightly different, and I think most of them seem to pick that up.
They know that what they're doing here is slightly different than the average performance,
so there are benefits for us, and benefits for them.
(Organ Music)