Liturgical Music Schedule

September to December, 2023

Sunday, September 17 (Pentecost 16)

Setting: Short communion service (Phrygian) – Charles Wood
Motet:   Prayer to Jesus – George Oldroyd

September 24 (Pentecost 17)

Setting: Missa Rex genitor – Kevin Allen
Motet:   Plainsong propers

Thursday, September 28 (Vigil of Michaelmas) – 6:30 PM

Setting: Mass in F – Andrea Gabrieli
Motet:   Tibi Christe splendor Patris – Orlando di Lasso

Sunday, October 1 (Dedication)

Setting: Communion service in F – William H. Harris
Motet:  St Aiden’s Prayer – Roxanna Panufnik

Sunday, October 8 (Harvest Thanksgiving)

Setting: Missa brevis – Lennox Berkeley
Motet:   Thou visitest the earth – Maurice Greene

Sunday, October 15 (Pentecost 20)Evensong & Benediction – 4:00 PM

Canticles:  Magnificat & Nunc dimittis in C – Charles Villiers Stanford
Introit: Te lucis ante terminum – Thomas Tallis / Preces & Responses: Herbert Sumsion
Anthem: Like as the hart – Herbert Howells / Motet: O sacrum convivium – Olivier Messiaen

Sunday, October 22 (Pentecost 21)

Setting: Missa Mariae – Cecilia McDowall
Motet:   Lift thine eyes – Felix Mendelssohn

Sunday, October 29 (Pentecost 22)

Setting: Missa brevis – PJ Janson
Motet:   Oh! For a closer walk with God – Charles Villiers Stanford

Thursday, November 2 (All Souls) – 5:45 PM call / 6:30 PM Mass

Setting: Missa pro defunctis – Giovanni Francesco Anerio

Sunday, November 5 (All Saints Sunday)

Setting: Missa aeterna Christi munera – G P da Palestrina
Motet:   O quam gloriosum est regnum – Jacobus Vaet

Sunday, November 12 (Pentecost 24)

Setting: Mass for three voices – Antonio Lotti
Motet:   Ave verum corpus – Gabriel Fauré

Sunday, November 19 (Pentecost 25)

Setting: Missa brevis – Grayston Ives
Motet:   O taste and see – Ralph Vaughan Williams

Sunday, November 26 (Reign of Christ)

Setting: Communion service in F – Herbert Sumsion
Motet:   Jubilate Deo – Orlando di Lasso

Sunday, December 3 – Advent Lessons & Carols – 4:00 PM

Carols: Matins & Vespers Responsories – Gabriel Jackson / The Lord at first did Adam make – Barry Ferguson / Veiled in darkness – Glenn Rudolph / This is the record of John – Orlando Gibbons / Maria durch ein Dornwald ging – Hugo Distler

Sunday, December 10 (Advent 2)

Setting: Missa brevis no. 8 – Eleanor Daley
Motet:   Veiled in darkness – Glenn Rudolph

Sunday, December 17 (Advent 3)

Setting:   Missa brevis – Matyas Seiber
Canticle: Magnificat (Short service) – Orlando Gibbons
Motet:     This is the record of John – Orlando Gibbons

Sunday, December 24 (Christmas Eve) – 10:00 PM prelude / 10:30 PM Mass

Setting: Missa ‘O magnum mysterium’
Motet:   What sweeter music – John Rutter

Monday, December 25 (Christmas Day)

Setting: TBA / Motet: TBA