Sunday, April 3rd, 7:30pm at St. Christopher’s in West Vancouver, Music Director, Lesley Sutherland and Incumbent, Archdeacon Lou Rivers welcomed the congregation to a unique worship experience called The Prayer List. This was a liturgy built around the extensive “prayer list” of this church, a prayer list that encompasses the community both inside the parish and outside the parish into the neighbourhoods beyond. St. Christopher’s members focused on ‘prayer” for their Lenten discipline and more specifically the prayers of post-modern Roman Catholic theologian, Michel Quoist.
The service consisted of readings from Quoist’s 1954 book, Prayers and contemplative recitations of sections of the St. Christopher’s prayer list all appropriately punctuated with music provided by the Contemporary and Senior Choirs of St. Christopher’s under the direction of Lesley Sutherland.
Much of the music contained in the service was either or arranged or written by Lesley and the material was the perfect compliment to the reflective, prayeful atmosphere of the liturgy.
Lesley has agreed to write a feature article about The Prayer List and other innovative evening services that have been celebrated at St. Christopher’s for the June (Summer) issue of TOPIC, the monthly newspaper of the Diocese of New Westminster. We look forward to it.
The service consisted of readings from Quoist’s 1954 book, Prayers and contemplative recitations of sections of the St. Christopher’s prayer list all appropriately punctuated with music provided by the Contemporary and Senior Choirs of St. Christopher’s under the direction of Lesley Sutherland.
Much of the music contained in the service was either or arranged or written by Lesley and the material was the perfect compliment to the reflective, prayeful atmosphere of the liturgy.
Lesley has agreed to write a feature article about The Prayer List and other innovative evening services that have been celebrated at St. Christopher’s for the June (Summer) issue of TOPIC, the monthly newspaper of the Diocese of New Westminster. We look forward to it.
In the image above, Lesley Sutherland conducts with Archdeacon Lou Rivers in the background, below, the St. Christopher's Senior Choir.