ST MARY’S CATHEDRAL MUSIC LIST
Sunday 15th February 2026 / Epiphany 6
Plainsong Eucharist 9.00am
Setting: Missa IV Cunctipotens Genitor Deus
Communion: Blest are the pure in heart
Sung Eucharist 11.00am
Setting: St Thomas’ Mass – David Thorne
Communion: Here, O my Lord, I see thee face to face – Percy Whitlock
Exsultate Deo – Palestrina
Choral Evensong 5.00pm
Introit: Exsultate Deo – Palestrina
Responses: William Smith
Psalm: 149
Canticles: Stanford in Bflat
Anthem: Jubilate Deo – John Sanders
Wednesday 18th February 2026 / Ash Wednesday
Choral Eucharist 7.30pm
Setting: Mass for four voices – William Byrd
Psalm: 51.1-3 Miserere Mei – William Byrd
Communion: Sancte Deus – Thomas Tallis
Sunday 22nd February 2026 / Lent 1
Plainsong Eucharist 9.00am
Setting: Missa XI – Orbis Factor
Communion: Now is the healing time decreed
Sung Eucharist 11.00am
Setting: Eastern Orthodox Mass
Psalm: 32
Communion: Hide not thou thy face – Farrant
Almighty and everlasting God – Gibbons
Choral Evensong 5.00pm
Introit: Miserere Mei – William Byrd (OxBTA)
Responses: Richard Shephard
Psalm: 119.1-16
Canticles: The Short Service – Richard Ayleward
Anthem: Lord, let me know mine end – Maurice Greene
ST MARY’S CATHEDRAL MUSIC LIST
MARCH 2026
Sunday 1st March 2026 / Lent 2 / Transfiguration
Plainsong Eucharist 9.00am
Setting: Missa XVIII Deus Genitor Alme
Communion: More ancient than the primal world
Sung Eucharist 11.00am
Choristers / Children’s Choir
Setting: Eastern Orthodox
Communion: If ye love me – Thomas Tallis
Love Divine – Howard Goodall
Choral Evensong 5.00pm
Introit: If ye love me – Thomas Tallis
Responses: Thomas Tomkins
Psalm: 56
Canticles: Evening Service with Fauxbourdons – Matthew Larkin
Anthem: Lucy Walker – O Nata Lux
Sunday 8th March 2026 / Lent 3 / Women Composers Day
Plainsong Eucharist 9.00am
Setting: Missa IV Cunctipotens Genitor Deus
Communion: Lord Jesus, think on me HPP 145 (first tune) (text can be found at NEH 70)
Sung Eucharist 11.00am
Setting: Eastern Orthodox
Communion: Peace I leave with you – Amy Beach
Crux Fidelis – Sarah MacDonald
Choral Evensong 5.00pm
Introit: Crux Fidelis – Sarah MacDonald
Responses: Joanna Forbes L’Estrange
Psalm: 6
Canticles: Sarah MacDonald in A flat
Anthem: Media Vita – Kerensa Briggs
Sunday 15th March 2026 / Lent 4
Plainsong Eucharist 9.00am
Setting: Missa XVI in feriis per annum
Communion: Salve Mater misericordiae
Sung Eucharist 11.00am
Setting: Eastern Orthodox
Communion: The Secret of Christ – Richard Shephard
Open Thou mine eyes – John Rutter
Choral Evensong 5.00pm
Introit: Sicut Cervus – Palestrina
Responses: Thomas Tomkins
Psalm: 119.73-88
Canticles: The Second Service – Orlando Gibbons
Anthem: Ave Maria – Robert Parsons (OxBTA
Sunday 22nd March 2026 / Lent 5 (Passion Sunday)
Plainsong Eucharist 9.00am
Setting: Missa IV Cunctipotens Genitor Deus
Communion: Christ’s banner guides us on Christ’s way HPP 149 (omit vv4&5)
Sung Eucharist 11.00am
Setting: Eastern Orthodox
Communion: Verily, verily I say unto you – Thomas Tallis
Would you ever have believed it (The Servant) – trad Scottish tune arranged by John L Bell and Frikki Walker
Choral Evensong 5.00pm
Introit: Sicut Cervus – Palestrina
Responses: Piers Maxim
Psalm: 142
Canticles: Service in the style of a fauxbourdon – Percy Whitlock
Anthem: Christus Factus est – Anton Bruckner
Sunday 29th March 2026 / Palm Sunday
Plainsong Eucharist 9.00am
Setting: Missa XVIII Deus Genitor Alme
Communion: The regal, dark, mysterious cross HPP 150
Sung Eucharist 11.00am
Setting: Eastern Orthodox
Introit: Hosanna to the Son of David – Thomas Weelkes
Gradual: Ride on Ride on in Majesty NEH 511
Communion: Tree of life – Marty Haugen, arr. Frikki Walker
Lift up your heads, O ye gates – William Mathias
Choral Evensong 5.00pm
Introit: Hosanna to the Son of David – Thomas Weelkes
Responses: Piers Maxim
Psalm: Lamentations of Jeremiah – Sir Edward Bairstow
Canticles: Gray in f minor
Anthem: Miserere Mei – Allegri