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St. John’s to present traditional Nine Lessons and Carols on Friday

By: Tracy Simmons

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December 12, 2016

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St John’s Cathedral will present its traditional Anglican Service of Nine Lessons and Carols Friday at 7 p.m.

Lessons & Carols is a candlelight service of choral music and readings of Scriptures in Spokane’s only Gothic cathedral.

Together with the Cathedral organ, an instrumental quartet of flute, oboe, English horn and cello will be advent music presented by St John’s Cathedral Choir, conducted by Music Director Timothy Westerhaus. Music will include Boris Ord’s “Adam Lay Ybounden,” “My Song in the Night,” and Knut Nystedt’s “Cry Out and Shout.” The Cathedral Junior Choir will sing two anthems, and the Cathedral Bell Choir will play an arrangement of “Veni Creator.”

Tracy Simmons

Tracy Simmons is an award-winning journalist specializing in religion reporting and digital entrepreneurship. In her approximate 20 years on the religion beat, Simmons has tucked a notepad in her pocket and found some of her favorite stories aboard cargo ships in New Jersey, on a police chase in Albuquerque, in dusty Texas church bell towers, on the streets of New York and in tent cities in Haiti. Simmons has worked as a multimedia journalist for newspapers across New Mexico, Texas, Connecticut and Washington. She is the executive director of FāVS.News, a digital journalism start-up covering religion news and commentary in Spokane, Washington. She also writes for The Spokesman-Review and national publications. She is a Scholarly Associate Professor of Journalism at Washington State University.

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