2020

10.30am Parish Eucharist

6.00pm Choral Evensong

05-Jan

Responses: Sumsion

Canticles: Stanford in Bb

Anthem: Small wonder the star (Edwards)

12-Jan

Anthem: Bethlehem down (Warlock)

19-Jan

26-Jan

Anthem: Beati quorum via (Stanford)

02-Feb

Responses: Sumsion

Candlemas

Canticles: Ireland in F

Anthem: When to the temple Mary went (Eccard)

09-Feb

Anthem: There s a wideness in God s Mercy (Bevan)

16-Feb

Anthem: Ubi Caritas (Gjeilo)

23-Feb

Anthem: O nata Lux (Tallis)

26-Feb

Anthem: Thou wilt keep him (Sumsion)

Ash Wednesday

01-Mar

Responses: Ebdon

Canticles: Gibbons short service

Anthem: O vos omnes (Victoria)

08-Mar

Anthem: If ye love me (Tallis)

15-Mar

Anthem: Timor et Tremor (Lassus)

22-Mar

Anthem: Bogoroditsye Dyevo (Rachmaninov)

29-Mar

Anthem: God so loved the world (Stainer)

—–––––––––Coronavirus pandemic—–––––––––

22 March Church closes for services

22 April Virtual Choral Evensong with Goodnestone Choir (in place of visit to Canterbury Cathedral)

Preces & Responses (Ayleward), Evening Service in A (Stanford), Give us the wings of faith (Bullock)

26 July Church reopens for Restricted Benefice services

From August, services are available here: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCNkUbB6tYzHdbDPJFSkdaZA

Recordings for services

9 August If ye love me (Tallis)

16-Aug

23 August Teach me O Lord (Attwood)

30-Aug

6 September God so loved the world (Stainer)

13-Sep

20 September Ave Maria (Arcadelt)

27-Sep

04-Oct

7 October Joy’s licensing https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xEbBrj7c3ws

Locus iste (Bruckner)

Choir restarts

11 October Justorum animae (Stanford)

18 October (Harvest) Thou visitest the earth (Maurice Greene)

25 October Ave verum corpus natum (Introit), Give us the wings of faith (Ernest Bullock) & Wondrous Cross (Philip Wilby)

1 November (All Saints) I sing a song of the saints of God (Introit), Author of Life Divine (Malcolm Archer) & Nada te turbe (Taize)

2nd lockdown starts 5 November

29 November Advent Service of Light

(Recordings in live streamed service https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=A3m7yWeSOCQ)

I look from afar (Palestrina)

A tender shoot (Goldschmit)

Adam lay ybounden (Ord)

Jesus Christ the Apple Tree (Poston)

Choir restarts 11 December

20 December Service of Lessons and Carols

(Streamed live https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2Qinru1T5-o)

A Maiden most Gentle (Carter)

Glory to God from Messiah (Handel)

O Magnum Mysterium (Lauridsen)

24 December Midnight Mass

(Recordings in live streamed service https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=I3GbC7UO_5g)

In the Bleak Midwinter (Darke)

O Come all ye Faithful

3rd lockdown starts 5 January 2021

Recordings made by the choir at home for services

17 January Bethlehem Down (Warlock)

31 January When to the Temple Mary Went (Eccard)

14 February Hymns

21 February Lord for thy tender mercy s sake (Farrant)

7 March Ave verum corpus (Mozart)

14 March Mothering Sunday Hymns

21 March Passion Sunday There s a wideness in God s mercy (Bevan)

28 March Palm Sunday Drop, drop slow tears (Gibbons) & hymn

2 April Good Friday Christus factus est (Anerio) & hymn

4 April Easter Sunday This joyful Eastertide (Wood) & hymns

18 April O taste and see (Vaughan Williams) & hymn

25 April Hymns

Choir resumes 7 May

2021

10.30 Parish Eucharist

6.00 Choral Evensong

09-May

Sicut cervus (Palestrina)

16-May

God is gone up (Hutchings)

Sunday after Ascension

23-May

Introit: If ye love me (Tallis)

Pentecost

Responses: Rose

Canticles: Brewer in D

Anthem: And I saw a new Heaven (Bainton)

30-May

NO SERVICE

Trinity

06-Jun

ALL AGE SERVICE

13-Jun

Cantate Domino (Pittoni)

20-Jun

Ave Maria (Arcadelt)

Ubi caritas (Gjeilo)

27-Jun

Hear my prayer (Mendelssohn)

Responses: Ayleward

Canticles: Howells Collegium Regale

Anthem: Like as the hart desireth the waterbrooks (Howells)

04-Jul

God be in my Head (Wilby)

Almighty and Everlasting God (Gibbons)

11-Jul

NO SERVICE

18-Jul

O quam gloriosum (Victoria)

King of Glory, King of Peace (Bach)

25-Jul

Jesu, dulcis memoria (Victoria)

Responses: Clucas

Give us the wings of faith (Bullock)

Canticles: Sumsion in G

Anthem: Cantique de Jean Racine (Faure)

01-Aug

ALL AGE SERVICE

08-Aug

Ave verum (Mozart)

O sing joyfully (Batten)

15-Aug

Magnificat in A (Sumsion)

22-Aug

Verily, verily I say unto you (Tallis)

Responses: Rose

Ave verum (Preece)

Canticles: Murrill in E

Anthem: Fear not O land (Harris)

29-Aug

Jubilate from Collegium Regale Service (Howells)

Lord for thy tender mercy s sake (Farrant)

05-Sep

Jesu Joy of man s desiring (Bach)

12-Sep

Rejoice in the Lord alway (anon)

19-Sep

Jubilate from Collegium Regale service (Howells)

26-Sep

God so loved the world (Stainer)

Responses: Ayleward

Thou knowest Lord (Purcell)

Canticles: Pachelbel/Victoria

Anthem: Ave Maria (Gallus attrib Victoria)

03-Oct

There s a wideness in God s mercy (Bevan)

10-Oct

NO SERVICE

Night prayer

Benefice Weekend

Anthem: For the beauty of the earth (Rutter)

17-Oct

Christus factus est (Bruckner)

How beautiful upon the mountains (Stainer)

24-Oct

Jesu, the very thought of thee (Bairstow)

Homegrown Choral Evensong

31-Oct

NO SERVICE

Service for All Souls

Anthem: Thou wilt keep him in perfect peace (Sumsion)

07-Nov

14-Nov

REMEMBRANCE SERVICE at St Mary s

Remembrance Service at St Arilda s

Remembrance Sunday

For the fallen (Irving)

For the fallen (Irving)

21-Nov

Let all the world (Vaughan Williams)

28-Nov

A tender shoot (Goldschmidt)

ADVENT SERVICE OF LIGHT

Matin responsory (Palestrina)

Advent responsory (Wilby)

Adam lay y bounden (Ord)

E en so Lord Jesus (Manz)

Nova, nova (Chilcott)

Vigilate (Byrd)

And the glory of the Lord (Handel)

05-Dec

The angel Gabriel (Pettman)

12-Dec

NINE LESSONS AND CAROLS

Christmas-tide (Chilcott)

Ecce novum gaudium (trad)

Carol of the bells (arr Wilhousky)

For unto us a child is born (Handel)

Look up sweet babe (Berkeley)

19-Dec

Magnificat (Gibbons short service)

ORGAN RECITAL incl choir items:

Tomorrow shall be my dancing day (Gardner)

Crossing the bar (Preece)

Loch Lomond (arr Quick)

24-Dec

MIDNIGHT MASS

25-Dec

ALL AGE COMMUNION

26-Dec

NO SERVICES

2022

10.30am Parish Eucharist

6.00pm Choral Evensong

02-Jan

Anthem: Quem pastores

09-Jan

Anthem: In the bleak midwinter (Darke)

Introit: Epiphany Responsory

Responses: Phillipson-Masters

Canticles: Phillipson-Masters

Anthem: From the rising of the sun (Ouseley)

16-Jan

Anthem: Author of life divine (Archer)

23-Jan

Anthem: O sing joyfully (Batten)

30-Jan

Anthem: When to the temple Mary went (Eccard)

CANDLEMAS

06-Feb

Anthem: Blessed be God and Father (SS Wesley)

13-Feb

Anthem: Brother James  Air

Responses: Ayleward

Canticles: Stanford in C

Anthem: Almighty and Everlasting God (Gibbons)

20-Feb

Anthem: I give you a new commandment (Aston)

27-Feb

Anthem: Day by day (How)

02-Mar

Anthem: Drop, drop slow tears (Gibbons)

ASH WEDNESDAY

06-Mar

Anthem: Lead me Lord (SS Wesley)

13-Mar

Anthem: Panis angelicus (Franck)

Responses: Phillipson-Masters

Canticles: Stanford in Bb

Anthem: O Lord the Maker (Joubert)

20-Mar

Anthem: Lord for thy tender mercy s sake (Farrant)

27-Mar

Anthem: Cantate Domino (Pitoni)

03-Apr

Anthem: If ye love me (Tallis)

PASSION SUNDAY

10-Apr

Anthem: God so loved the World (Stainer)

ST ARILDA S

PALM SUNDAY

Responses: Phillipson-Masters

Canticles:  Short  Evening Service (Morley)

Anthem: God so loved the World (Stainer)

11-Apr

Anthems:

Crown of Roses (Tchaikovsky)

God so loved the World (Stainer)

Crux fidelis (John IV)

If ye love me (Tallis)

This joyful Eastertide (Wood)

Christe Redemptor (Monteverdi)

15-Apr

Anthem: Crown of Roses

GOOD FRIDAY

17-Apr

Out of Darkness, God has called us (Christopher Walker)

EASTER DAY

Anthem: This joyful Eastertide (Wood)

24-Apr

No anthem

01-May

Now the green blade riseth (French carol)

08-May

Responses: Phillipson-Masters

Canticles: Brewer in D

Anthem: The strife is o er (Ley)

15-May

Come, ye faithful (Thatcher)

22-May

Out of Darkness, God has called us (Christopher Walker)

O sing joyfully (Batten)

26-May

7.00pm

ASCENSION DAY

Anthem: God is gone up (Hutchings)

29-May

SHEPPERDINE

Outdoor Baptism

05-Jun

Civic Service

12-Jun

Responses: Ferial/MJF

Canticles: Stanford in C

Anthem: Hymn to the Trinity (Tchaikovsky)

19-Jun

Anthem: Let thy merciful ears (Mudd)

26-Jun

Anthem: Stanford in Bb Jubilate

03-Jul

Anthem: O Lord increase my faith (Loosemore)

10-Jul

Psalm 122

Responses: William Smith

Canticles: Morley Short Service

Anthem: Rejoice in the Lord alway (Anon)

17-Jul

Anthem: I give you a new Commandment (Aston)

24-Jul

Anthem: Teach me, O Lord (Attwood)

31-Jul

SONGS OF PRAISE

07-Aug

Anthem: None

14-Aug

Anthem: None

CONGREGATIONAL EVENSONG WITH CHOIR

Anthem: Day by day (Martin How)

21-Aug

Anthem: O come, ye servants of the Lord (Tye)

28-Aug

Anthem: If ye love me (Tallis)

04-Sep

Anthem: Rejoice in the Lord alway (anon)

11-Sep

Anthem: Thou wilt keep him in perfect peace (Redman)

CONGREGATIONAL EVENSONG WITH CHOIR

(following the death of QEII)

Anthem: Thou wilt keep him in perfect peace (Redman)

Recessional: Close thine eyes (Plumstead)

18-Sep

Anthem: Thou knowest, Lord (Purcell)

25-Sep

Anthem: View me, Lord (Lloyd)

02-Oct

Anthem: O Lord, increase our faith (Loosemore)

09-Oct

10am HARVEST FESTIVAL

Responses: Smith

Canticles: hymns

Anthem: Thou visitest the earth (Greene)

16-Oct

Anthem: Ave verum (Mozart)

23-Oct

Anthem: There s a wideness in God s mercy (Bevan)

BIBLE SUNDAY

30-Oct

Benefice Service for ALL SOULS AND ALL SAINTS at Oldbury

Anthem: Oculi omnium (Wood)

06-Nov

Anthem: Deck thyself, my soul, with gladness (Crüger)

ALL SOULS  DAY

13-Nov

CIVIC SERVICE

REMEMBRANCE at Oldbury

REMEMBRANCE SUNDAY

Anthem: Call to remembrance (Farrant)

20-Nov

Anthem: Lead me, Lord (Wesley)

CHRIST THE KING

27-Nov

Anthem: Adam lay ybounden (Ord)

ADVENT CAROLS

ADVENT

Choir items:

Remember O thou man (Ravenscroft)

Creator of the stars of night (Plainchant)

04-Dec

Anthem: Remember, O thou man (Ravenscroft)

11-Dec

Anthem: My eyes for beauty pine (Howells)

18-Dec

Anthem: Myn lyking (Terry)

LESSONS & CAROLS

Communion Service: Harold Darke

Choir items:

Sans day carol

I saw a maiden

Torches

24-Dec

11.15pm with the Bishop

CHRISTMAS EVE

Anthems: I saw a maiden (arr Pettman), Sans day carol (Rutter)

25-Dec

Anthem:

CHRISTMAS DAY