Monthly Music List

MAY 2025

Sunday 25^th May 10:00 a.m. – The Sixth Sunday of Easter
Mass setting: Mass of the Quiet hour – Oldroyd
Hymns:
381 Jerusalem the golden
364 God is love, let heaven adore him (Tune Blaenwern)
342 Breathe on me, Breath of God (Tune 178 Carlisle)
346 City of God, how broad and far
Anthem: If ye love me – Tallis
Regina Cæli
Voluntary: Tuba Tune – C. S. Lang

Sunday 25^th May 6:00 p.m. – Solemn Choral Evensong and Benediction
Introit: If ye love me – Tallis
Responses: Ayleward
Canticles: Gibbons ‘Short’ Evening Service
Hymns:
366 God of mercy, God of grace
310 We hail thy presence glorious
Anthem: The Lord hath been mindful of us – S.S. Wesley
Voluntaries:
Before Service: Voluntary 1 – Weekles
After Service: Fantasia in D minor – Byrd

Thursday 29^th May 7:30 p.m. – Ascension Day
Mass setting: Sumsion in F – Sung Lord’s Prayer
Hymns:
109 Hail thee, festival day
134 The head that once was crowned with thorns
271 Alleluia, sing to Jesus
308 Thee we adore
(sheet) Christ triumphant, ever reigning
Anthem: God is gone up – Finzi
Voluntary: Heut’ triumphieret Gottes Sohn, BWV 630 – J.S. Bach

JUNE 2025

Sunday 1^st June 10:00 a.m. – Sunday after Ascension Day (Seventh Sunday of Easter)
Mass setting: Sumsion in F
Hymns:
388 Jesus shall reign (Tune I – Truro)
130 Hail the day that sees him rise (Tune I – Llanfair)
302 O thou, who at thy Eucharist didst pray
296 Lord, enthroned in heavenly splendour (Tune I – St Helen)
Anthem: Come Holy Ghost – Attwood
Regina Cæli
Voluntary: Toccata – Theodore Dubois
Organist – Josh Cahm

Sunday 8^th June 10:00 a.m. – Pentecost (Whitsunday)
Mass setting: White in E flat
Sung Lord’s Prayer
Hymns:
138 Come, Holy Ghost
Be still for the presence of the Lord (sheet)
137 Come down, O love divine
431 O Thou who camest from above
Anthem: Litany to the Holy Spirit – Hurford
Angelus
Voluntary: Choral Varié sur le thème du Veni Creator Op.4 – Maurice Duruflé

Sunday 15^th June 10:00 a.m. – Trinity Sunday
Mass setting: Darke in F
Hymns:
146 Holy, Holy, Holy, Lord God Almighty
373 How shall I sing that majesty (Tune Coe Fen – sheet)
278 Christ be with me
466 Thou whose Almighty word
Anthem: Hymn to the Trinity – Tchaikovsky
Angelus
Voluntary: Fugue in E flat (St Anne) BWV 552 – J.S. Bach

Saturday 21^st June 11.00 a.m. – Patronal Festival of St Alban
Mass setting: Darke in E (Collegium Regale)
Sung Lord’s Prayer
Hymns:
St Alban’s Hymn
208 In our day of thanksgiving
282 Faithful Shepherd, feed me
204 Blessed city, heavenly Salem (Tune 205)
Anthem: Te Deum in B flat – Stanford
Angelus
Voluntary: Dankpsalm Op 145 – Max Reger
Organist – Aled Liddington

Sunday 22nd June 10:00 a.m. – Corpus Christi, transferred (First Sunday after Trinity)
Mass setting: Anglican Folk Mass – Martin Shaw
Hymns:
83 Glory be to Jesus
295 Let all mortal flesh keep silence
307 Sweet Sacrament Divine
310 We hail thy presence glorious
Anthem: O taste and see – R Vaughan Williams
Angelus
Voluntary: Jesus Christus unser Heiland BWV 626 – J.S. Bach

Sunday 22^nd June 6:00 p.m. – Solemn Choral Evensong and Benediction
Introit: O taste and see – R Vaughan Williams
Responses: Rose
Canticles: Stanford in B flat
Hymns:
70 Lord Jesus, think on me (Tune I Southwell)
345 Christ is the King! O friends rejoice
Anthem: Let all the world in every corner sing – R Vaughan Williams
Voluntary: TBA
Organist George Moloney

Sunday 29^th June 10:00 a.m. – SS Peter and Paul, Apostles (Second Sunday after Trinity)
Mass setting: Ireland in C
Sung Lord’s Prayer
Hymns:
336 Angel voices ever singing
360 Firmly I believe and truly
378 Immortal love, for ever full
359 Fight the good fight (Tune 322 Duke Street)
Anthem: Greater love – Ireland
Angelus
Voluntary: Pièce Héroique – César Franck

Choir Rehearsals

Thursdays: 7:15 p.m.
Sundays: 9:00 a.m.
Patronal Fetival: 9.30 a.m.
Solemn Choral Evensong and Benediction: 4:30 p.m.

Director of Music: Angela Sones

E-mail: angelasones@hotmail.co.uk

Music Secretary: Bryce Somerville

E-mail: Bryce@thesomervilles.biz