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