ST MARY’S CATHEDRAL MUSIC LIST
NOVEMBER 2026
Sunday 1st November 2026 / All Saints/All Souls
Plainsong Eucharist 9.00am
Setting: Missa XI – Orbis Factor
Communion: Father, in whom thy saints are one
Organ Voluntary: Lux Aeterna – Egil Hovland
Choral Eucharist 11.00am
Children’s Choir / Baptisms
Setting: A Little Jazz Mass – Bob Chilcott
Communion: A Gaelic Blessing – Sir John Rutter
Let us Rejoice with all our saints – Frikki Walker
Organ Voluntary: Toccata from ‘Suite Gothique’ – Boellmann
Choral Requiem 5.00pm
Setting: Officium Defunctorum a 6 by Tomás Luis de Victoria
Sunday 8th November 2026 / Pentecost 24 / Remembrance
Plainsong Eucharist 9.00am
Setting: Missa IV Cunctipotens Genitor Deus
Communion: Give thanks for life
Organ Voluntary: Prelude on “Eventide” – Healey Willan
Sung Eucharist 11.00am
Setting: A People’s Eucharist – Anthony Greening
Communion: The Holy Eucharist – Sir William Harris
Crossing the bar – Sir Charles H.H. Parry
Organ Voluntary: Chorale Prelude on “St Anne” – Charles H. H. Parry
Choral Evensong 5.00pm
Introit: Crossing the bar – Sir Charles H.H. Parry
Responses: Geoffrey Woollatt
Psalm: 121
Canticles: Dyson in F
Anthem: My Soul there is a country – Sir Charles H.H. Parry
Organ Voluntary: Adagio in E – Frank Bridge
Sunday 15th November 2026 / Pentecost 25
Plainsong Eucharist 9.00am
Setting: Missa VIII (Missa de Angelis)
Communion: The Spirit of the Lord revealed
Organ Voluntary: Dialogue sur Les Grands Jeux from Messe pour les Paroisses
Agnus Dei: No. 3 – François Couperin
Sung Eucharist 11.00am
Setting: A People’s Eucharist – Anthony Greening
Communion: O Praise the Lord – Adrian Batten
God be in my Head – Sir John Rutter
Organ Voluntary: Voluntary for Organ – Andrew Campling
Choral Evensong 5.00pm
Introit: A Gaelic Blessing – Sir John Rutter
Responses: Geoffrey Woollatt
Psalm: 150
Canticles: The King’s College Service – Joanna Forbes L’Estrange
Anthem: Upon my heart – Eleanor Daley
Sunday 22nd November 2026 / Christ the King / St Cecilia
Plainsong Eucharist 9.00am
Setting: Missa IV Cunctipotens Genitor Deus
Communion: Jesu, rex admirabilis
Organ Voluntary: Christus Vincit – Phillip Cooke
Sung Eucharist 11.00am
Setting: A People’s Eucharist – Anthony Greening
Communion: Christus Factus Est – Felice Anerio
Lift up your heads O ye Gates – Matthias
Organ Voluntary: Fantasy on “Hanover” – Kenneth Leighton
Choral Evensong 5.00pm
Installation of canons
Introit: Let all mortal flesh – Sir Edward Bairstow
Responses: Geoffrey Woollatt
Psalm: 108
Canticles: Collegium Regale – Herbert Howells
Anthem: To St Cecilia A Song for St Cecilia’s Day – David Bednall
Organ Voluntary: Ceremonial March – Herbert Sumsion
Sunday 29th November 2026 / Advent
Plainsong Eucharist 9.00am
Setting: Missa XVII
Communion: Veni, veni Emmanuel
Organ Voluntary: Fantasia on Veni Emmanuel – Alec Rowley
Sung Eucharist 11.00am
Setting: St Anne’s Mass – Sir Jame MacMillan
Communion: This is the truth sent from above – trad. Arr. Ralph Vaughan Williams
People Look East – trad. arr. Barry Rose
Organ Voluntary: Fantasia on Veni Emmanuel – Alec Rowley
Advent Carol Service 5.00pm
Choir Carols
Matin Responsory – Palestrina
A Holy Feast draws nigh in grace – traditional Icelandic Carol arr. Frikki Walker
People look East – arr. Barry Rose
O thou the central orb – Charles Wood
Ave Maria – Robert Parsons
Tomorrow Shall be my dancing Day – trad. arr David Willcocks
Organ Voluntary: Fantasy on “Veni Emmanuel” – Andrew Carter
DECEMBER 2026
Sunday 6th December 2026 / Advent 2
Plainsong Eucharist 9.00am
Setting: Missa XVIII Deus Genitor Alme
Communion: O Come redeemer of us all
Organ Voluntary: Meditation on “Conditor alme” – Alec Rowley
Sung Eucharist 11.00am
Setting: St Anne’s Mass – Sir James MacMillan
Communion: Canite Tuba – Francesco Guerrero
O Radiant Dawn – Sir James MacMillan
Organ Voluntary: Chorale Prelude on “Nun komm der Heiden Heiland” BWV661 –
Johann Sebastian Bach
Choral Evensong 5.00pm
Introit: Canite Tuba – Francesco Guerrero
Responses: Peter Nardone
Psalm: 24
Canticles: Sumsion in A
Anthem: E’en so Lord, quickly come – Paul Manz
Organ Voluntary: Conditor alme – Jean Titelouze
Sunday 13th December 2026 / Advent 3
Plainsong Eucharist 9.00am
Setting: Missa XVI
Communion: Throughout a world in shadow
Organ Voluntary: Gottes Sohn ist kommen BWV 600 – J.S. Bach
Sung Eucharist 11.00am
Setting: St Anne’s Mass – Sir James MacMillan
Communion: Almighty and everlasting God – Orlando Gibbons
Gaudent in ceolis – Victoria
Organ Voluntary: Hymn-Prelude on Christ be our Light – Phillip Cooke
Choral Evensong 5.00pm
Introit: Almighty and everlasting God – Orlando Gibbons
Responses: Peter Nardone
Psalm: 26
Canticles: The Short Service – Christopher Tye
Anthem: Laetentur caeli – William Byrd OxBTA
Organ Voluntary: Toccata on Helmsley – James Vivian
Sunday 20th December 2026 / Advent 4
Plainsong Eucharist 9.00am
Setting: Missa XVI
Communion: Ave, Maris Stella
Organ Voluntary: Ave Maris Stella (Hymnus) – Jean Titelouze
Sung Eucharist 11.00am
Setting: St Anne’s Mass – Sir James MacMillan
Communion: Alma Redemptoris – Palestrina
No wind at the window – John Bell
Organ Voluntary: Toccata on “Ave Maris Stella” – Flor Peeters
Christmas Carol Service 5.00pm
Choir Carols:
Gaudete! Gaudete! – 15th?century anon
The Waiting is Over – Frikki Walker
We three Kings – arr. Michael Higgins
My Guardian Angel – Judith Wier
A Child is born in Bethlehem – Samuel Scheidt
Benedicamus Domino – Peter Warlock
In Dulci Jubilo – traditional, arranged by Robert Pearsall
Sussex Carol –??Trad. arr Willcocks