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2004
4 January
9.30am - Eucharist
Setting: Ritchie
Anthem: Exsultate Justi - Viadana
No Evensong
6 January
7.45pm - Solemn Eucharist
Setting: Missa in Simplicitate - Jean Langlais
Anthem: Omnes de Saba Venient - Jacob Handl
11 January
9.30am - Eucharist
Setting: Ritchie 'Veni Sancte Spritus'
Anthem: Tomorrow shall be my dancing day - Trad arr Paul Ritchie
6.30pm - Evensong
Psalms and readings
Anthem: Here is the little door - Herbert Howells
18 January
9.30am - Eucharist
Setting: Ritchie 'Veni Sancte Spritus'
Anthem: Come, adore this wondrous presence - Paul Ritchie
6.30pm - Evensong
Psalms and readings
Anthem: God is gone up with a merry noise - Arthur Hutchings
25 January
9.30am - Eucharist
Setting: Ritchie 'Veni Sancte Spritus'
Anthem: O send out Thy light - Philip Armes
6.30pm - Evensong
Introit: O God, the Holy Spirit - David Noble
Responses: John Reading
Psalms and readings
Canticles: Wood in D
Anthem: Be strong and of good courage - Sydney Campbell
Sunday 1 February
9.30am - Eucharist
Setting: Ritchie 'Veni Sancte Spritus'
Anthem: Open Thy gates - Julius Harrison
6.30pm - Evensong
Psalms and readings
Anthem: Blessed be the Lord God - Orlando Gibbons
Monday 2 February Presentation of Christ in the Temple
7.45pm - Eucharist
Introit: Nunc Dimittis - Paul Ritchie (Fauxbourdons)
Setting: Communion Service in F - Harold Darke
Anthem: When to the Temple Mary Went - Eccard
Sunday 8 February
9.30am - Eucharist
Setting: Winchester Service - Longthorne
Anthem: Locus Iste - Geoff Watson
6.30pm - Evensong
Psalms and readings
Anthem: Ach, arme welt- Johannes Brahms
Sunday 15 February
9.30am - Eucharist
Setting: Winchester Service - Longthorne
Anthem: O Lord at First - trad
6.30pm - Evensong
Psalms and readings
Anthem: In the Beginning - Matthew Lock
Sunday 22 February
9.30am - Eucharist
Setting: Mass in the Dorian Mode - Barrie Cabena
Anthem: Christ upon the mountain peak - Ritchie
6.30pm - Evensong
Psalms and readings
Anthem: O Thou the central orb - Charles Wood
Monday 25 February Ash Wednesday
7.45pm - Eucharist
Setting: Mass in the Dorian Mode - Barrie Cabena
Anthem: My God, my God - John Blow
Sunday 29 February
9.30am - Eucharist
Setting: Mass in the Dorian Mode - Barrie Cabena
Anthem: O for a closer walk with God - Charles Ives
6.30pm - Evensong
Introit: Let Thy merciful ears - Thomas Mudd
Responses: Tallis
Psalms and readings
Canticles: The Short Service - Orlando Gibbons
Anthem: Miserere Mei - William Byrd
Sunday 7 March
9.30am - Eucharist
Setting: Mass in the Dorian Mode - Barrie Cabena
Anthem: One thing have I desired of the Lord - David Noble
6.30pm - Evensong
Psalms and readings
Anthem: Peccantem me Quotidie - Cristobal Morales
Sunday 14 March
9.30am - Eucharist
Setting: Merbecke - arr. Paul Ritchie
Anthem: O God, Thou art my God - Ian Hare
6.30pm - Evensong
Psalms and readings
Anthem: Almighty and everlasting God - Orlando Gibbons
Sunday 21 March
9.30am - Eucharist
Setting: Merbecke - arr. Paul Ritchie
Anthem: Unser Lieben Frauen Traum - Max Reger
6.30pm - Evensong
Psalms and readings
Anthem: O Lord, the maker of all thing - William Mundy
Monday 25 March Annunciation
7.45pm - Eucharist
Introit:
Setting: Missa Dixit Maria - Hans Leo Hassler
Anthem: Ecce Concipies - Jacob Handl
Saturday 27 March at York Minster
5.00pm - Evensong
Introit:
Psalms and readings
Responses: Clucas
Canticles: Harris in A
Anthem: Solus ad Victimam - Kenneth Leighton
Sunday 28 March
9.30am - Eucharist
Setting: Merbecke - arr. Paul Ritchie
Anthem: O Lord, increase our faith - Loosemore
6.30pm - Evensong
Introit: Lead me Lord - Wesley
Responses: Robinson
Psalms and readings
Canticles: Robinson in E minor
Anthem: Thou wilt keep him - Wesley
Sunday 4 April - Palm Sunday
9.30am - Eucharist
Introit: Hosianna dem Sohne Davids - Gesius
Setting: Merbecke - arr. Paul Ritchie
Anthem: Pueri Hebraeorum - Victoria
6.30pm - Evensong
Psalms and readings
Anthem: Salvator Mundi - Thomas Tallis
Thursday 8 April Maundy Thursday
7.45pm - Eucharist
Introit: An upper Room - Paul Ritchie
Setting: Merbecke - arr. Paul Ritchie
Motet: Timor et Tremor - Orlando de Lassus
Friday 9 April Good Friday
11.45am -
The Litany - Thomas Tallis
The Reproaches - John Sanders
Motet: Crux Fidelis
Is it nothing to you? - Gore Ouseley
Saturday 10 April Holy Saturday
7.45pm - Eucharist
Setting: Mass in the Dorian Mode - Barrie Cabena
Anthem: Joseph of Arimathea's Easter - Paul Ritchie (first performance)
Sunday 11 April - Easter Day
9.30am - Easter Eucharist
Setting: Ritchie 'Veni Sancte Spritus'
Anthem: Easter Carol - Brian Longthorne
6.30pm - Festival of Lessons & Carols for Easter
A new service in our calendar, of readings telling the Easter story, accompanied by motets and carols;
Sing Lullaby (Willcocks),
The coming of the Lord (Paul Ritchie),
Blessed be that Lady bright (Geoffrey Burgon),
The Holy Son of God (Paul Ritchie),
Sussex Mummers Carol (trad arr John Scott),
Good Joseph had a garden (Paul Ritchie),
Joy is come (trad, arr Andrew Carter)
Variations on an Easter theme; Organ Duet (John Rutter)
Sunday 18 April
9.30am - Eucharist
Setting: Paul Ritchie
Anthem: He is risen - Percy Whitlock
6.30pm - Evensong - Psalms and readings
Anthem: How beautiful on the mountains - Stainer
Friday 23 April St George's Day
7.45pm - Eucharist
Introit: St George,
Setting: Leighton Mass
Anthem:
Sunday 25 April
9.30am - Eucharist
Setting: Paul Ritchie
Anthem: Come let us join - Paul Ritchie
6.30pm - Evensong - Psalms and readings
Introit: Come my light - Radcliffe
Responses: Radcliffe
Canticles: CV Stanford in B flat
Anthem: Ye Choirs of New Jerusalem - Charles Villiers Stanford
Sunday 2 May
9.30am - Eucharist
Setting: Barrie Cabena
Anthem: O Quam Gloriosum - Victoria
6.30pm - Evensong - Psalms and readings and Benediction
Anthem: Jesu, Dulcis Memoria - Victoria
Sunday 9 May
9.30am - Eucharist
Setting: Barrie Cabena
Anthem: A new commandment - Shephard
6.30pm - Evensong - Psalms and readings
Anthem: Here, O My Lord - Percy Whitlock
Sunday 16 May
9.30am - Eucharist
Setting: Barrie Cabena
Anthem: May the grace - Richard Lloyd
6.30pm - Evensong - Psalms and readings
Anthem: O sons & daughters - Walford Davies
Thursday 20 May - Ascension
7.45pm Eucharist
Setting: Missa Sancti Josephi - Flor Peeters
Anthem: God is gone up -
Sunday 23 May
9.30am - Eucharist
Setting: Barrie Cabena
Anthem: Ubi Caritas - Duruflé
6.30pm - Evensong - Psalms and readings
Anthem: God is gone up - Arthur Hutchings
Sunday 30 May
9.30am - Eucharist
Setting: Winton - Brian Longthorne
Anthem: O living spirit - Paul Ritchie
6.30pm - Evensong - Psalms and readings
Introit: The heavens declare - Radcliffe
Responses: William Ions
Canticles: Paul Ritchie in E minor
Anthem: Greater Love - Ireland
Sunday 6 June
9.30am - Eucharist
Setting: Winton - Brian Longthorne
Anthem: All hail adored Trinity - Michael Haynes first performance
6.30pm - Evensong - Psalms and readings and Benediction
Anthem: O Trinity of blessed light - John West
Thursday 10 June - Corpus Christi
7.45pm Eucharist
Setting: Missa Sancti Josephi - Flor Peeters
Anthem: Ave Verum - Flor Peeters
Sunday 13 June
9.30am - Eucharist
Setting: Winton - Brian Longthorne
Anthem: What ere I do believe - Paul Ritchie
6.30pm - Evensong - Psalms and readings
Anthem: Behold, bless ye the Lord - Francis Jackson
Sunday 20 June
9.30am - Eucharist
Setting: Winton - Brian Longthorne
Anthem: For I went with the multitude - Peter Aston
6.30pm - Evensong - Psalms and readings
Anthem: Now the God of peace - Gerald Knight
Sunday 27 June
9.30am - Eucharist
Setting: Winton - Brian Longthorne
Anthem: Teach me Thy way - Edmund Hooper
6.30pm - Evensong - Psalms and readings
Introit: tba
Responses: tba
Canticles: tba
Anthem: tba
24 - 25 July St George's choir sang the weekend services at Chester Cathedral,
featuring a number of works by Brian Longthorne throughout the weekend.
Sunday 29 August
9.30am - Eucharist
Setting: Barrie Cabena
Anthem: Cantique de Jean Racine - Gabriel Fauré
6.30pm - Full Choral Evensong - Psalms and readings
Introit: O Nata Lux - Thomas Tallis
Responses: Ritchie
Canticles: The St Nicholas Service - Paul Ritchie
Anthem: Te Lucis Ante Terminum - Naylor
Sunday 5 September
9.30am - Eucharist
Setting: Barrie Cabena
Anthem: O Holy Jesu - Michael Haynes
6.30pm - Evensong - Psalms and readings
Anthem: O pray for the peace of Jerusalem - Herbert Howells
Sunday 12 September
9.30am - Eucharist
Setting: Barrie Cabena
Anthem: Come my way - Tomblings
6.30pm - Evensong - Psalms and readings
Anthem: Verily, verily I say unto you - Thomas Tallis
Sunday 19 September
9.30am - Eucharist
Setting: Barrie Cabena
Anthem: Almighty God, in whom we live - Paul Ritchie
6.30pm - Evensong - Psalms and readings
Anthem: Hide not Thou Thy face - Farrant
Sunday 26 September
9.30am - Eucharist
Setting: Barrie Cabena
Anthem: Open Thy gates - Julius Harrison
6.30pm - Full Choral Evensong - Psalms and readings
Introit: O most merciful - Charles Wood
Responses: Sumsion
Canticles: Ireland in F
Anthem: Abendlied - Rheinberger
Wednesday 29 September - St Michael & All Angels
7.45pm Eucharist
Setting: Missa 'O Quam Gloriosum' - Victoria
Anthem: Done is a Battele - Paul Ritchie
Sunday 3 October - Trinity 17
9.30am - Eucharist
Setting: Barrie Cabena
Anthem: Thou art the way - Steel
6.30pm - Evensong and Benediction - Psalms and readings
Anthem: Come, my light - Radcliffe
Sunday 9 October - Harvest
9.30am - Eucharist
Setting: Barrie Cabena
Anthem: All from the sun's uprise - Tomblings
6.30pm - Evensong - Psalms and readings
Anthem: If ye love me - Thomas Tallis
Sunday 16 October - Trinity 19
9.30am - Eucharist
Setting: Barrie Cabena
Anthem: The law of the Lord - Paul Ritchie
6.30pm - Evensong - Psalms and readings
Anthem: Thou wilt keep him - Wesley
Sunday 24 October - Last in Trinity
9.30am - Eucharist
Setting: Barrie Cabena
Anthem: Ave, verum corpus - Edward Elgar
6.30pm - Evensong - Psalms and readings
Anthem: Teach me O Lord - Attwood
Sunday 31 October - All Saints' Day
9.30am - Eucharist
Setting: Barrie Cabena
Anthem: Justorum Animae - Charles Villiers Stanford
6.30pm - Full Choral Evensong and Benediction- Psalms and readings
Introit: Introit for St Michael & AA - Tim Hone
Responses: Rose
Canticles: Noble in B minor
Anthem: Give us the wings of faith - Ernest Bullock
Tuesday 2 November - All Souls
7.45pm Eucharist
Setting: Mass in D - Kenneth Leighton
Anthem: Funeral Ikos - John Taverner
Sunday 7 November - 3 before Advent
9.30am - Eucharist
Setting: Brian Longthorne
Anthem: Cantate Domino - Pitoni
6.30pm - Evensong and Benediction - Psalms and readings
Anthem: Christ whose glory - Harold Darke
Sunday 14 November - Remembrance Sunday
9.30am - Eucharist
Setting: Brian Longthorne
Anthem: Ecce quomodo moritur justus - Jacob Händl
6.30pm - Evensong - Psalms and readings
Anthem: Walk with God - Paul Ritchie
Sunday 21 November - Christ the King
9.30am - Eucharist
Setting: Brian Longthorne
Anthem: Thee will I love - Armstrong Gibbs
6.30pm - Full Choral Evensong - Psalms and readings
Introit: Domine, Jesu Christe - Henry Ley
Responses: Leighton
Canticles: Murrill in E
Anthem: King of all ages - Schütz/Ritchie
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Sunday 28 November - Advent Sunday
9.30am - Eucharist
Setting: Brian Longthorne
Anthem: Blessed are those servants - Moeran
6.30pm - The Advent Procession
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