Choral Evensong: ‘I believe…’

WEEK 2 – Sunday 4 May

2nd Sunday after Easter

“…Incarnate from the Holy Spirit and the Virgin Mary, and was made man”

Preacher: Sister Clare-Louise

Responses: Radcliffe

Psalm: 139.1–13 (Skeats)

Canticles: Murrill in E

Readings: Isaiah 7.10–14; Luke 1.26–38

Anthem: Wood, O thou the central orb

Hymn: NEH 296

WEEK 3 – Sunday 11 May

3rd Sunday after Easter

“…For our sake He was crucified under Pontius Pilate; He suffered death and was buried”

Preacher: The Chaplain

Responses: Smith

Psalm: 114 (Tonus peregrinus)

Canticles: Purcell in A minor

1st Reading: Genesis 3.14–end

2nd Reading: John 19.25–end

Anthem: Lotti, Crucifixus

Hymn: NEH 95

WEEK 4 – Sunday 18 May

4th Sunday after Easter

“…On the third day he rose again in accordance with the Scriptures”

Preacher: The Ven Jonathan Chaffey

Responses: Smith

Psalm: 98 (Attwood)

Readings: 1 Corinthians 15.19–26; John 20.1–18

Canticles: Wood in E flat (no. 2)

Anthem: Gibbons, If ye be risen again with Christ

Hymn: NEH 375

WEEK 5 – Sunday 25 May

5th Sunday after Easter

“I believe in one holy catholic and apostolic Church. We acknowledge one baptism for the forgiveness of sins”

Preacher: The Chaplain

Responses: Smith

Psalm: 127 (Lemon)

1st Reading: 1 Corinthians 12.12–27

2nd Reading: Matthew 28.16–end

Canticles: Watson in E

Anthem: Bairstow, Blessed City

Hymn: NEH 485

WEEK 6 – Sunday 1 June

The Ascension

“…He ascended into heaven and is seated at the right hand of the Father”

Preacher: The Rev’d Josie Godfrey

Introit: White, Men of Galilee

Responses: Shephard

Psalm: 68.1–10 (Woodward)

1st Reading: Acts 1.1–11

2nd Reading: Luke 24.44–end

Canticles: Forbes-L’Estrange King’s College Service

Anthem: Finzi, God is Gone Up

Hymn: NEH 443

WEEK 7 – Sunday 8 June

Pentecost Sunday

“We believe in the Holy Spirit…who with the Father and the Son is worshipped and glorified”

Preacher: The Chaplain

Introit: Bach, Komm, heiliger Geist

Responses: Shephard

Psalm: 33 (Goss)

1st Reading: Genesis 11.1–9

2nd Reading: Acts 2.1–21

Canticles: Moore, St John’s Service

Anthem: Tallis, Audivi vocem de caelo

Hymn: NEH 419

WEEK 8

Sunday 15 June

Sunday of the Holy Trinity

“We believe in one God”

Preacher: The Rev’d Canon Josiah Abadoo

Introit: 16th-century Italian, Alta Trinita beata

Responses: Shephard

Psalm: 12 (Goss)

Readings: Genesis 18.1–14; Matthew 22.36–end

Canticles: Howells, Collegium regale

Anthem: Ireland, Greater love hath no man

Hymn: NEH 252

There will be speeches and a brief musical farewell for leaving members of the Choir after the service.

Thursday 19 June

Choral Eucharist – Corpus Christi

Celebrant and Preacher: The Rev’d Lucy Gardner

Mass setting: Plainsong

Motet: Peñalosa, Ave Verum Corpus

Hymns: NEH 294, 305, 381