ST MARY’S CATHEDRAL MUSIC LIST
NOVEMBER 2025
Sunday 30th November 2025 / Advent
Plainsong Eucharist 9.00am
Setting: Missa XVII Deus
Offertory: Veni, veni Emmauel
Communion: O Come Redeemer of us all
Sung Eucharist 11.00am
Setting: St Anne’s Mass – James MacMillan
Communion: A Tender shoot – Charlotte Baskerville
People Look East – trad. arr. Rose
Advent Carol Service 5.00pm
Matin Responsory – Palestrina
Isaiah’s Prophecy – Alexander L’Estrange
The Angel Gabriel – trad. arr Pettman
Sans Day Carol – trad. arr. Rutter (photocopy for children / CC2 for adults)
Oh Light of Life – Mack Wilberg
Laetentur Caeli – William Byrd
DECEMBER 2025
Sunday December 7th 2025 / Advent 2
Plainsong Eucharist 9.00am
Setting: Missa XVIII Deus Genitor Alme
Communion: Creator of the stars of night
Sung Eucharist 11.00am
Setting: St Anne’s Mass – MacMillan
Communion: Canite Tuba – Guerrero
O Radiant Dawn – MacMillan
Choral Evensong 5.00pm
Introit: Canite Tuba – Guerrero
Responses: Peter Nardone
Psalm: 24
Canticles: Sumsion in A
Anthem: O Thou the Central Orb – Charles Wood
Sunday December 14th 2025 / Advent 3
Plainsong Eucharist 9.00am
Setting: Missa XVI
Communion: Throughout a world in shadow
Sung Eucharist 11.00am
Setting: St Anne’s Mass – MacMillan
Communion: Gaudent in ceolis – Victoria
This is the truth sent from above – Traditonal, arranged by Ralph Vaughan Williams
Choral Evensong 5.00pm
Introit: Gaudent in ceolis – Victoria
Responses: Peter Nardone
Psalm: 48
Magnificat: Magnificat Octavi Toni – David Bevan
Nunc Dimittis: Charles Wood in B flat
Anthem: E’en so Lord Quickly Come – Paul Manz
Sunday December 21st 2025 / Advent 4
Plainsong Eucharist 9.00am
Setting: Missa XVI
Communion: Ave, Maris Stella
Sung Eucharist 11.00am
Setting: St Anne’s Mass – MacMillan
Communion: Alma Redemptoris – Palestrina
No wind at the window – John Bell
CHRISTMAS CAROL SERVICE 5.00pm
Where Riches Everlastingly – Bob Chilcott
Ecce Novum Gaudium – Anon. 17th cent Scots
Hodie Christus Natus Est – Giovanni Perluigi da Palestrina
A Holy Feast draws nigh in grace – traditional Icelandic Carol arr. Frikki Walker
Sir Christemas – William Mathias
My Lord has Come – Will Todd
All this time – Walton
Carol of the Children – Sir John Rutter
Tuesday December 24th / Christmas Eve
Sung Eucharist 11.15pm
Setting: Missa Verbum Supernum – Rupert Jeffcoat
Communion: My Lord has Come – Will Todd
All this time – Walton
Sir Christemas – William Mathias
Wednesday December 25th / Christmas Day
Sung Eucharist 11.00am
Setting: Gloria – hymn setting, Sanctus, Benedictus and Agnus Dei from St Anne’s Mass – James MacMillan
Communion: During Communion the choir sings carols: