30th March 2025 4th Sunday of Lent & Mothering Sunday

A Mothering Sunday Service for the Leith Hill Benefice 10:30am

Organ: Voluntary in D minor Op.V/8 – John Stanley [MK]
Hymns: Tell out, my soul; How great thou art; To God be the glory
Organ: Fugue in G minor (BWV 542ii) – J S Bach [MK]

9th March 2025 1st Sunday of Lent

Choral Evensong 6:00pm

Organ: Sonata in G minor (opening) – Handel played by Laura Steele
Introit: Wash me throughly – S S Wesley
Hymns: NEH64 Be thou my guardian and my guide; NEH61 (tune NEH80) O Christ, who art the Light and Day; NEH383 (tune ii) Jesu, lover of my soul
Psalm: 119 vv81-88 (BCPp284)
Canticles: Dyson in F
Anthem: Teach me, O Lord, the way of thy statutes – Byrd
Organ: Sonata in G minor (conclusion) – Handel

2nd March 2025 The Sunday next before Lent/Quinquagesima

Parish Communion 10:30am
Organ: Voluntary in C major – William Boyce [Byrd to the Wesleys voluntary series concludes]
Introit: Call to Worship – William Byrd
Hymns: NEH473 (tune ii) When morning gilds the skies (omit*); NEH178 ‘Tis good, Lord, to be here; NEH343 Bright the vision that delighted; [IA: The Lord is my light]; NEH413 Now thank we all our God 
Anthem: O nata lux – Thomas Tallis
Organ: Prelude, Fugue and Chaconne in C (BuxWV 137) – Diderik Buxtehude

2nd February 2025 - The Presentation of Christ in the Temple (Candlemas)

Parish Communion 10:30am

Organ: Voluntary in D minor Op.VI/1 – John Stanley
Introit: Ps 122
Hymns NEH401 (omit v5) Light’s abode, celestial Salem; NEH (t312) Lift up your heads; NEH408 Love divine, all loves excelling; [IA: The Lord is my light]; NEH 286 From glory to glory advancing
Anthem: Nunc Dimittis – Joanna Forbes L’Estrange
Organ: Voluntary in F major Op.VI/4 – John Stanley

12th January 2025 - 1st Sunday of Epiphany

Choral Evensong - 6:00pm

Organ: A Fancy – Thomas Tomkins
Introit: Personent Hodie – Anon./Holst~
Hymns: NEH52 O worship the Lord; NEH50 From the eastern mountains (omit vv 3&4); ` NEH30 O come, all ye faithful (omit vv 2&3)
Psalm: 72 (BCPp221)
Canticles: Joanna Forbes L’Estrange
Anthem: Thou must leave thy lowly cradle – Berlioz
Organ: In dulci jubilo (BWV 729) – J S Bach

After the service seasonal refreshments will be served, to which all are invited.

5th January 2025 - 2nd Sunday of Christmas and Eve of The Epiphany of Our Lord

Parish Communion 10:30am

Organ: Voluntary in D minor – Thomas Tomkins
Introit: From the rising of the sun – Frederick Ouseley (b1825)
Hymns NEH47 As with gladness; NEH28 In the bleak midwinter (vv 1,2&5); We three Kings (sheet); NEH36 The first Nowell
Anthem: The Three Kings – David Hansell
Organ Praeludium in G minor (BuxWV 149) – Diderik Buxtehude [MK]

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