Evensong in Germany

This is a very small world, especially in the Episcopal Church.  Recently Dr. Barbara Wheeler, a member of Holy Innocents’ Episcopal Church in Beach Haven, NJ, went to Germany to attend a conference and to lecture at a University.  While she was there, she visited a long-time friend, Doug Keith, who is the Director of Music at the Anglican/Episcopal Church of Christ the King in Frankfurt, Germany. While she was there, Dr. Wheeler was invited to attend and do one of the readings at the Evensong that the parish choir was doing at the Abbey of St. Hildegard, just outside the wine village of Rüdesheim. Dr. Keith’s father, Nate, did the other reading. The choir, thanks to its close relationship to the abbey and its community of Benedictine nuns,usually sings Evensong there once a year This was also the first service led by Markus Dünzkofer, the parish’s new priest-in-charge.