Worship for October 2014
Sunday 5 – Harvest Festival
- 08.00 Said Mass.
- 10.00 Sung Mass.
- Anthem: Thou visitest the earth – Maurice Greene
- Voluntary: Music for saxophone
- 11.30 Children’s Mass.
Sunday 12 – Seventeenth Sunday after Trinity
- 08.00 Said Mass.
- 10.00 Sung Mass.
- Anthems: Plainsong Introit
- ———– Rejoice in the Lord alway – John Redford
- Voluntary: “Elevation” from Messe pour les couvents – Francois Couperin
Sunday 19 – St. Luke the Evangelist
- 08.00 Said Mass.
- 10.00 Sung Mass.
- Anthem: Give us the wings of faith – Ernest Bullock
- Voluntaries: Adelita – Francisco Tarrega
- ———– Postlude – Alfred Hollins
Sunday 26 – Dedication Festival
- 08.00 Said Mass.
- 10.00 Sung Mass.
- Anthem: Locus iste – Anton Bruckner
- Voluntaries: Music for recorder
- ———– Grand Chorus in March Form, in Gregorian Tonality (Op.52, No.2) – Alexandre Guilmant
Worship for November 2014
Sunday 2 – All Saints’ Sunday
- 08.00 Said Mass.
- 10.00 Sung Mass.
- Anthems: Let saints on earth in concert sing – Alan Ridout
- ———– O thou, the central orb – Charles Wood
- 11.30 Children’s Mass.
- 17.30 Requiem for the Feast of All Souls.
- Setting: Requiem – Gabriel Fauré
- Voluntary: Fantasia and Fugue in C minor (BWV 537) – J S Bach
Sunday 9 – Remembrance Sunday
- 08.00 Said Mass.
- 10.00 Sung Mass followed by Act of Remembrance.
- Anthems: i> Russian Contakion
- ———– God be in my head – Henry Walford Davies
- Voluntaries: Nimrod (from “Enigma” Variations) – Edward Elgar
- ———– Largo from “New World” Symphony – Antonin Dvorák
- At the Calvary: Reveille and The Last Post
Sunday 16 – Second Sunday before Advent
- 08.00 Said Mass.
- 10.00 Sung Mass.
- Anthem: Tantum ergo sacramentum – George Henschel
- Voluntaries: Music for piano
- ———– Voluntary No. 3 in G minor – Thomas Roseingrave
Sunday 23 – Christ the King
- 08.00 Said Mass.
- 10.00 Sung Mass.
- Anthems: My soul, there is a country – Hubert Parry
- ———– Hallelujah (“Messiah”) – G F Handel
- Voluntaries: Music for brass
- ———– 9/8 “Great” Prelude in C major (BWV 547) – J S Bach
Sunday 30 – First Sunday of Advent
- 08.00 Said Mass.
- 10.00 Sung Mass.
- Anthems: Plainsong Introit
- ———– The truth from above – trad. Herefordshire carol, arr. Ralph Vaughan Williams
- Voluntary: Alla Marcia (Allegro non Troppo) – John Ireland
Worship for December 2014
Sunday 7 – Second Sunday of Advent
- 08.00 Said Mass.
- 10.00 Sung Mass.
- Anthems: Prepare thyself, Zion (“The Christmas Oratorio”) – J S Bach
- ———– Rejoice in the Lord alway (The “Bell” Anthem) – Henry Purcell
- 11.30 Children’s Mass.
Sunday 14 – Third Sunday of Advent
- 08.00 Said Mass.
- 10.00 Sung Mass with Children’s Nativity Pageant.
- Anthem: This is the record of John – Orlando Gibbons
- Voluntaries: Music for violin and viola
- ———– Toccata (“Gothic Suite”) – Leon Boëllmann
Sunday 21 – Fourth Sunday of Advent
- 08.00 Said Mass.
- 10.00 Sung Mass.
- Anthem: Maria Mater gratiae – G B Crivelli
- Voluntary: Music for piano
- 18.00 Service of Readings and Carols.
- Choir carols: Legend – Peter Tchaikovsky
- ————— Myn Liking – Richard Terry
- ————— The Three Kings – Peter Cornelius
- ————— O holy night – Adolphe Adam
- ————— The Earl of Salisbury’s Carol – William Byrd
- Voluntaries: Seasonal organ preludes
Wednesday 24 – Christmas Eve
- 15.00 Christingle Service.
- 16.30 Christingle Service.
- 23.00 Carols and Christmas Music.
- 23.30 Midnight Mass.
- Anthem: Ding dong! merrily on high – 16th. century French tune, harmonised by Charles Wood
- Voluntaries: Chorale prelude – “Es ist ein’ Ros’ entsprungen” (Op.122, No.8) – Johannes Brahms
- ———– Prelude to a Te Deum – Marc-Antoine Charpentier
Thursday 25 – Christmas Day
- 10.00 Sung Mass.
- Anthem: The Coventry Carol – from the 15th. century Pageant
- Voluntaries: Lullaby – Grayston Ives
- ———– Allabreve in D (BWV 589) – J S Bach
Sunday 28 – First Sunday of Christmas
- 08.00 Said Mass.
- 10.00 Sung Mass.
- Voluntaries: Music for piano
- ———– Choral – “Jesu redemptor omnium” – Marcel Dupré
- ———– Andante Allegro (from Concerto in B flat) – G F Handel