Choral Eucharist – Sunday next before Lent

Setting: Communion Service in E – Harold Darke
Canticle: Jubilate – John Gardner
Sermon: The Revd Canon Dr Alison Joyce, Rector of St Bride’s
Anthem: Here, O my Lord, I see thee face to face – Percy Whitlock
Organ Voluntary: Paean – Herbert Howells

Choral Evensong – Sunday next before Lent

Responses: William Byrd
Psalm: 84
Canticles: First Evening Service – John Ward
Anthem: O nata lux – Thomas Tallis
Sermon: The Revd Canon Dr Alison Joyce, Rector of St Bride’s
Organ Voluntary: Lumen ad revelationem – Marcel Dupré

 
The service will be followed by refreshments. All are most welcome.

Ash Wednesday: Choral Eucharist with Imposition of Ashes

A sung celebration of the Eucharist with Imposition of Ashes to mark the beginning of Lent.

Choral Eucharist – Lent I

Setting: Messe en l’honneur du Saint-Sacrement Op 130 – Joseph Jongen
Psalm: 32
Sermon: The Revd Canon Dr Alison Joyce, Rector of St Bride’s
Anthem: Hear my prayer, O Lord – Henry Purcell
Organ Voluntary: Fantasia in C minor BWV 562 – Johann Sebastian Bach

Choral Evensong with Sermon in Music – Lent I

Responses: Thomas Ebdon
Psalm: 50: 1-15
Canticles: Evening Service in G – John Blow
Sermon in Music: i) O Lord, look down from heaven – Jonathan Battishill; ii) Turn thee unto me, O Lord – William Boyce
Organ Voluntary: Master Tallis’s Testament – Herbert Howells

Choral Eucharist – Lent II

Setting: Missa Sancti Dominici – Edmund Rubbra
Canticle: Benedicite – George Dyson
Sermon: The Revd Canon Dr Alison Joyce, Rector of St Bride’s
Anthem: Litany to the Holy Spirit – Peter Hurford

Choral Evensong – St David’s Day

Honouring the life and witness of the great sixth‑century patron saint of Wales, St David.
Responses: James Gough
Psalm: 135: 1-14
Canticles: Evening Service in E flat – Henry Walford Davies
Anthem: Let the people praise thee, O God – William Mathias
Sermon: The Revd Dr Jeff Lake, Associate Priest of St Bride’s

Choral Eucharist – Lent III

Setting: Missa brevis “Awake, my soul” – Judith Bingham
Psalm: 95
Sermon: The Revd Canon Dr Alison Joyce, Rector of St Bride’s
Anthem: Set me as a seal upon thine heart – Eleanor Daley

Choral Evensong with Sermon in Music – Lent III

Responses: Janet Wheeler
Psalm: 40: 1-12
Canticles: Evening Service in B minor – Herbert Howells
Sermon in Music: i) Like as the hart – Herbert Howells; ii) Wash me throughly from my wickedness – Samuel Sebastian Wesley

Choral Evensong – Lent IV

Responses: Kenneth Leighton
Psalm: 23
Canticles: Evening Service – Phillip Cooke
Anthem: Geistliches Lied – Johannes Brahms
Sermon: The Revd Canon Dr Alison Joyce, Rector of St Bride’s

 
The service will be followed by refreshments. All are most welcome.