Anglican Choral Evensong was celebrated in St Peter’s Basilica at the Vatican for the first time on Monday.
The service was presided over by Anglican Archbishop David Moxon, director of the Anglican Centre in Rome, while Archbishop Arthur Roche, Vatican Secretary of the Congregation for Divine Worship and the Discipline of the Sacraments, preached a homily. Music was sung by the choir of Merton College, Oxford.
According to the Anglican Centre's website, the service was held in honour of St Gregory the Great on the nearest day to his old feast day.
