On Worship

March 16, 2020
In compliance with Yale’s efforts to slow the spread of COVID-19, daily services in Marquand Chapel are suspended until further notice. Though we lament that we cannot gather...
December 20, 2019
On Wednesday, December 4th Yale Divinity School gathered in Marquand Chapel for a highly creative liturgy. This year’s Advent Service was entitled “A New Heaven and a New...
August 7, 2019
The Spirit helps us in our weakness; for we do not know how to pray as we ought, but that very Spirit intercedes with sighs too deep for words.(Romans 8:26) “Don’t be fooled...
Student JaQuan Beachem reading during Advent Service
January 14, 2019
The Advent Service is the largest Marquand Chapel event each year. It marks the end of the fall semester and is followed by a festive celebration. The Advent Service liturgy...
December 18, 2018
Marquand Chapel introduces unfamiliar music within the context of worship almost daily. The ecumenical nature of Marquand’s worship demands a vast library of musical pieces...
November 28, 2018
Earlier this month, Marquand Chapel had the privilege of hosting poet laureate Tracy K. Smith. She shared a poem from her new book Wade in the Water during our Thursday Sung...
July 17, 2018
Language is a powerful tool. How we employ it in theology matters because we are attempting to articulate truth as we find it. But liturgical language has a particular power...