10th December 2023, 2nd Sunday of Advent

Choral Evensong 6pm

Prelude: Sonata in F 1st movement – Handel
Introit: Creator of the stars of night (NEH1) – Plainchant hymn
Hymns: NEH10 Long ago, prophets knew; NEH6 Hark the glad sound; NEH11 O come, O come, Emmanuel
Psalm: 85
Canticles: Stanford in B flat/Plainchant
Anthem: This is the record of John – Gibbons
Conclusion: Sonata in F 2nd movement – Handel

Prelude and Conclusion played by Laura Steele violin

Dec 3rd 1st Sunday of Advent,

Parish Communion 10:30am

Organ: Wachet auf! (BWV 645) – J S Bach
Introit: Remember, O thou man – Thomas Ravenscroft
Hymns: NEH7 Hills of the north; NEH3 Come, thou long-expected Jesus; NEH16 Wake, O wake; NEH11 Lo, he comes with clouds descending
Anthem: The Lord at first did Adam make – Traditional Carol
Organ: Praeludium in Eminor – Nicolaus Bruhns

3rd December 2023, 1st Sunday of Advent

Parish Communion 10:30am

Organ: Wachet auf! (BWV 645) – J S Bach
Introit: Remember, O thou man – Thomas Ravenscroft
Hymns: NEH7 Hills of the north; NEH3 Come, thou long-expected Jesus
NEH16 Wake, O wake; NEH11 Lo, he comes with clouds descending
Anthem: The Lord at first did Adam make – Traditional Carol
Organ: Praeludium in E minor – Nicolaus Bruhns

12th November 2023 ,3rd Sunday before Advent

10.30am Service for Remembrance Sunday

Organ: Elégie – Vierne
Introi:t Kontakion for the Dead (from the Ukranian Orthodox Tradition)
Hymns: NEH333 All my hope on God is founded; NEH391 King of glory, king of peace; Make me a channel of your peace (sheet); Lord for the years (sheet); 489 National Anthem (2vv)
Anthem: Requiem Aeternam (1916) – Walford Davies
Organ: Fanfare for the Common Man (1942) – Aaron Copland

8th October 2023 - 18th Sunday after Trinity

Choral Evensong 18:00pm

Organ: Prelude and Fugue in E minor (BWV 533) – J S Bach
Introit: O Lorde, the maker of al thinge – John Joubert
Hymns: NEH388 Jesus shall reign; NEH74 Be thou my guardian and my guide; NEH434 Oft in danger, oft in woe
Psalm: 136 (selected verses) 
Canticles: Plainchant/Stanford in B flat
Anthem: Like as the hart desireth the waterbrooks – Herbert Howells
Organ: Prelude and Fugue in A minor (BWV 559) – attrib. J S Bach

1st October 2023

Joint Communion for Harvest Thanksgiving 10:30am St James'

Organ: Voluntary in C, Op.V.1 – John Stanley
Introit: Psalm 65
Anthem: For the beauty of the earth – Philip Stopford
Hymns: NEH264 (omit 5); All things bright & beautiful; Gloria substitute: NEH262 We plough the fields and scatter;  NEH397 Let us with a gladsome mind; Great is thy faithfulness; NEH263 (omit 5&6) All creatures of our God and King
Organ: God of Grace – Paul Mance

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