Calendar of Liturgies & Choral Music 2024-2025
To see previous years' Music Schedules see Archived Music Schedules.
Sunday, September 8: The Sixteenth Sunday after Pentecost (Proper 18)
Family Mass (Sung) 9 a.m.
Christ, Whose Glory Fills the Skies - Richard Shephard (1949-2021)
Choral High Mass
Communion Service “Collegium Regale” - Herbert Howells (1892-1983)
I was Glad - Hubert Parry (1848-1918)
Mother of God, Here I Stand - John Tavener (1944-2013)
Sunday, September 15: The Seventeenth Sunday after Pentecost (Proper 19)
Family Mass (Sung) 9 a.m.
My Eyes for Beauty Pine - Herbert Howells (1892-1983)
Choral High Mass
Missa Brevis “Sancti Joannis de Deo” (Little Organ Mass) - Franz Joseph Hadyn (1732-1809)
Expectans expectavi - Charles Wood (1866-1926)
Beati quorum via - Charles Villiers Stanford (1852-1924)
Sunday, September 22: The Eighteenth Sunday after Pentecost (Proper 20)
Family Mass (Sung) 9 a.m.
All Manner of Thing - Sarah MacDonald (b.1968)
Choral High Mass
Communion Service in G - Percy Whitlock (1903-1946)
I Love All Beauteous Things - Judith Weir (b.1954)
Here, O My Lord - Percy Whitlock
Sunday, September 29: Saint Michael and All Angels
Family Mass (Sung) 9 a.m.
Above Him Stood the Seraphim - Richard Dering (c.1580-1630)
Choral High Mass
Messe Solennelle, Op. 67 - Jean Langlais (1907-1991)
Factum est silentium - Richard Dering (c.1580-1630)
Estote fortes in bello - Tomás Luis de Victoria (c.1548-1611)
Sunday, October 6: The Twentieth Sunday after Pentecost (Proper 22)
Family Mass (Sung) 9 a.m.
Sung congregationally
Choral High Mass
Mass for Four Voices - William Byrd (c.1540-1623)
Verleih uns Frieden - Felix Mendelssohn (1809-1847)
Ave Verum - Stephanie Martin (b.1962)
Choral Evensong, 4 p.m.
Salve Regina - Robert Pearsall (1795-1856)
Preces & Responses - Jessica French (b.1984)
Evening Service in C - Bryan Kelly (b.1934)
Let all the Peoples Praise Thee - William Mathias (1934-1992)
Sunday, October 13: The Twenty-First Sunday after Pentecost (Proper 23)
Family Mass (Sung) 9 a.m.
Vox Ultima Crucis - William H. Harris (1883-1973)
Choral High Mass
Mass for Four Voices - Thomas Tallis (1505-1585)
Behold, Thou Hast Made My Days - Orlando Gibbons (1583-1625)
O How Amiable - Thomas Weelkes (1573-1623)
Sunday, October 20: The Twenty-Second Sunday after Pentecost (Proper 24)
Family Mass (Sung) 9 a.m.
Sing, My Soul, His Wondrous Love - Sarah MacDonald (b.1968)
Choral High Mass
Missa Eliensis - Arthur Wills (1926-2020)
Behold, O God, Our Defender - Herbert Howells (1892-1983)
Love Bade Me Welcome - David Hurd (b.1950)
Sunday, October 27: The Twenty-Third Sunday after Pentecost (Proper 25)
Family Mass (Sung) 9 a.m
Litany to the Holy Spirit - Peter Hurford (1930-2019)
Choral High Mass
Communion Service in G - Bryan Dunnewald (b.1995)
Beatus Vir - Claudio Monteverdi (1567-1643)
Give Me Jesus - Larry Fleming (b.1936)
Friday, November 1: All Saints’ Day
Solemn High Mass 7 p.m.
Missa O quam gloriosum - Tomás Luis de Victoria (c.1548-1611)
And I Saw a New Heaven - Edgar Bainton (1880-1956)
Audivi vocem de caelo - Thomas Tallis (1505-1585)
Saturday, November 2: All Souls’ Day
Solemn Requiem Mass 11 a.m.
Messe de Requiem, Opus 48 - Gabriel Fauré (1845-1924)
Sunday, November 3: All Saints’ Sunday
Family Mass (Sung) 9 a.m.
Sung Congregationally
Choral High Mass
Communion Service in A minor - Harold Darke (1888-1976)
The Souls of the Righteous - Geraint Lewis (b.1958)
These are They Which Follow the Lamb - John Goss (1800-1880)
Choral Evensong & Benediction
Salve Regina - Josquin des Prez (c.1450/55 - 1521)
Preces and Responses - William Smith (1603 -1645)
The Second Service - William Byrd (c.1540 -1623)
The Beatitudes - Arvo Pärt (b.1935)
O salutaris hostia - Josquin des Prez
Sunday, November 10: The Twenty-Fifth Sunday after Pentecost (Proper 27)
Family Mass (Sung) 9 a.m.
Give to Jehovah - Heinrich Schütz (1585-1672)
Choral High Mass
Communion Service in F - Florence Price (1887-1953)
How Can I Keep from Singing - Robert A. Harris (b.1938)
Jesu, the Very Thought of Thee - Edward Bairstow (1874-1946)
Sunday, November 17: The Twenty-Sixth Sunday after Pentecost (Proper 28)
Family Mass (Sung) 9 a.m.
If Thou But Suffer God to Guide Thee - Georg Neumark (1621-1681)
Choral High Mass
Communion Service in F - Herbert Sumsion (1899-1995)
Dona Nobis Pacem - Mark Butler (b.1965)
Prayer to Jesus - George Oldroyd (1886-1956)
Sunday, November 24: Last Sunday after Pentecost: Christ the King
Family Mass (Sung) 9 a.m.
Let All the World in Every Corner Sing - Ralph Vaughan Williams (1872-1958)
Choral High Mass
Missa Brevis - Zoltán Kodály (1882-1967)
Judge Eternal - Gerre Hancock (1934-2012)
King of Glory, King of Peace - T. Frederick H. Candlyn (1892-1694)
Sunday, December 1: First Sunday of Advent
Family Mass (Sung) 9 a.m.
Sung Congregationally
Choral High Mass
Missa Quadragesimalis, MH 552 - Michael Hadyn (1737-1806)
I Look From Afar - Anthony Piccolo (b. 1946)
Never Weather-Beaten Sail - Hubert Parry (1848-1918)
Choral Evensong & Benediction 4 p.m. (Sung with the Saint Mark’s Singers)
Alma redemptoris mater - Mode V
Preces and Responses - Richard Shephard (1949-2021)
Evening Service in D - George Dyson (1883-1964)
How Lovely are the Messengers - Felix Mendelssohn (1809-1847)
O salutaris hostia - Malcolm Archer (b.1952)
Sunday, December 8: Second Sunday of Advent
Family Mass (Sung) 9 a.m.
There’s a Voice in the Wilderness Crying - arr. Craig Phillips (b. 1961)
Choral High Mass
Canterbury Mass - Anthony Piccolo (b. 1946)
Deus tu converntens - Joseph Fux (1660-1741)
Wach auf, du werte Christenheit - Johannes Eccard (1553-1611)
A Procession of Advent Lessons & Carols, 4 p.m.
Matin Responsory - Richard Marlow (1939-2013)
An Introduction to ‘Hark! The Glad Sound’ - Judith Bingham (b.1952)
Hymn to the Virgin - Benjamin Britten (1913-1976)
Advent Carol - Joanna Forbes L’estrange (b.1971)
Nun komm, der Heiden Heiland, BWV 61 - Johann Sebastian Bach (1685-1750)
Ave Maria - Robert Parsons (1535-1572)
E’en So, Lord Jesus, Quicky Come - Paul Manz (1919-2009)
We Wait for Thy Loving-kindness, O God - William McKie (1901-1984)
Sunday, December 15: Third Sunday of Advent
Family Mass (Sung) 9 a.m.
Zion Hears the Watchman Singing - Johann Sebastian Bach (1685-1750)
Choral High Mass
Missa canonica, WoO 18 - Johannes Brahms (1833-1897)
O Thou, the Central Orb - Orlando Gibbons (1853-1625)
Rejoice in the Lord Alway - 16th cent. anonymous English
An Advent Pageant, 4 p.m.
Sunday, December 22: Fourth Sunday of Advent
Family Mass (Sung) 9 a.m.
Ave Maria - Simon Lindley (b.1948)
Choral High Mass
Missa Dixit Maria - Hans Leo Hassler (1594-1612)
Ave Maris Stella - Lajos Bárdos (1899-1986)
Alma Redemptoris Mater - Giovanni Pierluigi da Palestrina (c.1525/26-1594)
Saint Mark’s Boys & Girls Choir, 1 p.m.
Ceremony of Carols - Benjamin Britten (1913-1976)
Tuesday, December 24: Christmas Eve
A Festival of Nine Lessons and Carols, 4 p.m.
Sussex Carol - arr. David Willcocks (1919-2015)
The Truth From Above - Ralph Vaughan Williams (1872-1958)
Jesus Christ the Apple Tree - Elizabeth Poston (1905-1987)
Tomorrow Shall Be My Dancing Day - John Gardner (1917-2011)
Angelus ad virginem - Matthew Martin (b.1976)
There is No Rose of Such Virtue - Simon Preston (1938-2022)
Shepherd’s Pipe Carol - John Rutter (b. 1945)
Bethlehem Down - Peter Warlock (1894-1930)
Choral & Organ Prelude, 10:30 p.m.
Solemn High Mass, 11 p.m.
Messe de minuit pour Noël, H.9 - Marc-Antoine Charpentier (1643-1704)
O magnum mysterium - William Byrd (c.1540-1623)
There is No Rose of Such Virtue - Jonathan Lane (b.1958)
Wednesday, December 25: Christmas Day
Choral High Mass, 10 a.m.
Missa Princeps Pacis - William Lloyd Webber (1914-1982)
The Blessed Son of God - Ralph Vaughan Williams (1872-1958)
The Holly and the Ivy - H. Walford Davies (1869-1941)
Sunday, December 29: The First Sunday after Christmas
Family Mass (Sung) 9 a.m.
Sung Congregationally
Choral High Mass
Mass of the Quiet Hour - George Oldroyd (1887-1956)
Coventry Carol - 15th cent. English
What Cheer? - William Walton (1902-1983)
Sunday, January 5: The Second Sunday after Christmas
Family Mass (Sung) 9 a.m.
Sung Congregationally
Choral High Mass
Missa in honorem Sancti Josephi, Op. 21 - Flor Peeters (1903-1986)
Look up, Sweet Babe - Lennox Berkeley (1903-1989)
Here is the Little Door - Herbert Howells (1892-1983)
Evensong & Benediction for the Eve of the Epiphany, 4 p.m.
Alma Redemptoris Mater - Giovanni Pierluigi da Palestrina (c.1525/26-1594)
Preces and Responses - Lucy Walker (b.1998)
Truro Service - Gabriel Jackson (b.1962)
The Three Kings - Peter Conelius (1824-1874)
O salutaris hostia - Stephanie Martin (b.1962)
Sunday, January 12: The First Sunday after the Epiphany (The Baptism of Our Lord)
Family Mass (Sung) 9 a.m.
Jesu, Joy of Man’s Desiring - Johann Sebastian Bach (1685-1750)
Choral High Mass 11 a.m.
Communion Service in D - Alec Wyton (1921-2007)
Tribus miraculis - Giovanni Pierluigi da Palestrina (1525-1594)
Jesus autem hodie - Peter Hallock (1892-1983)
Sunday, January 19: The Second Sunday after the Epiphany
Family Mass (Sung) 9 a.m.
Lord, I Trust Thee - George Frideric Handel (1685-1759
Choral High Mass 11 a.m.
Missa Brevis Sancti Pauli - Anthony Ceasar (1924-2018)
O Jesu Christ, meins Lebens Licht - Johann Sebastian Bach (1685-1750)
O Taste and See - Ralph Vaughan Williams (1872-1958)
Sunday, January 26: The Third Sunday after the Epiphany
Family Mass (Sung) 9 a.m.
O Morning Star, How Fair and Bright - Johann Schop (1590-1667)
Choral High Mass 11 a.m.
Communion Service in F - Harold Darke (1888-1976)
Cantique de Jean Racine - Gabriel Fauré (1845-1924)
Sing, My Soul, His Wondrous Love - Ned Rorem (1923-2022)
Sunday, February 2: The Presentation of Our Lord Jesus Christ (Candlemas)
Family Mass 9 a.m.
Sung congregationally
Solemn High Mass
Mass in the Dorian Mode - Herbert Howells (1892-1983)
Nunc Dimittis - Gustav Holst (1874-1934)
When to the Temple Mary Went - Johann Eccard (1553-1611)
O Nata Lux - Thomas Tallis (1505-1585)
Solemn Evensong & Benediction, 4p.m.
Alma Redemptoris Mater à 5 - Tomás Luis de Victoria (c.1548-1611)
Preces and Responses - Gerre Hancock (1934-2012)
Evening Canticles in F - Peter Aston (1938-2013)
O Nata Lux - Morten Lauridsen (b.1943)
O Salutaris - Marcel Dupré (1886-1971)
Sunday, February 9: The Fifth Sunday after the Epiphany
Family Mass (Sung) 9 a.m.
Behold, Now, Praise the Lord - William H. Harris (1883-1973)
Choral High Mass 11 a.m.
Missa Ave Jesu - George Oldroyd (1886-1956)
In the Year that King Uzziah Died - David McKinley Williams (1887-1978)
God be in My Head - June Nixon (b. 1942)
Sunday, February 16: The Sixth Sunday after the Epiphany
Family Mass (Sung) 9 a.m.
Day by Day - Martin How (1931-2022)
Choral High Mass 11 a.m.
Mass in C Major - Everett Titcomb (1884-1968)
Beati pauperes spiritu - Jan Pieterszoon Sweelinck (1562-1621)
Blessed are the Pure in Heart - Henry Walford Davies (1869-1941)
Sunday, February 23: The Seventh Sunday after the Epiphany
Family Mass (Sung) 9 a.m.
Christ is the World’s True Light - Walter Kendall Stanton (1891-1978)
Choral High Mass 11 a.m.
Missa Brevis - Lennox Berkeley (1903-1989)
If Ye Be Risen be Risen Again with Christ - Orlando Gibbons (1583-1625)
He That is Down Need Fear No Fall - John Dowland (1563-1626)
Sunday, March 2: The Last Sunday after the Epiphany
Family Mass (Sung) 9 a.m.
Sung congregationally
Choral High Mass 11 a.m.
Missa Alme Pater - Andrew Millington (b.1952)
Christ is the Morning Star - Cecilia MacDowall (b. 1951)
Jesu, dulcis memoria - Richard Shephard (1949-2021)
Choral Evensong & Benediction 4 p.m.
Ave Regina Caelorum - Alonso Lobo (c.1555-1617)
Preces and Responses - Bruce Neswick (b. 1956)
King’s College Service - Joanna Forbes-L'Estrange (b.1971)
Christ, Whose Glory Fills the Skies T. Frederick Candlyn (1892-1964)
O Salutaris hostia - T. F. Candlyn
Sunday, March 5: Ash Wednesday
Choral High Mass
Mass for Five Voices - William Byrd (1543-1623)
Miserere mei - Gregorio Allegri (1582-1652)
Domine non secundum peccata nostra - James MacMillan (b.1959)
Hear My Prayer, O Lord - Henry Purcell (1659-1695)
Sunday, March 9: The First Sunday in Lent
Family Mass
I cannot tell - David Iliff (b.1939)
Choral High Mass
Five-part Litany – Thomas Tallis (c. 1505-1585)
Short Communion Service - Adrian Batten (c.1590-1637)
Wash Me Throughly - Samuel Sebastian Wesley (1810-1876)
Jesu, Grant Me This I Pray - Percy Whitlock (1903-1946)
Sunday, March 16: The Second Sunday in Lent
Family Mass
Ex Ore Innocentium - John Ireland (1879-1962)
Choral High Mass
Missa La bataille - Clément Janequin (c.1485-1558)
Civitas sancti tui - William Byrd (1543-1623)
Hide Not Thou Thy Face - Richard Farrant (1525-1580)
Sunday, March 23: The Third Sunday in Lent
Family Mass
Wash Me Throughly - George Frideric Handel (1685-1759)
Choral High Mass
Missa Da pacem - Josquin des Prez (1450-1521)
I Sat Down Under His Shadow - Edward Bairstow (1874-1946)
Prayer to Jesus - George Oldroyd (1886-1956)
Tuesday, March 25: The Annunciation
Choral High Mass
Cantus Missae - Josef Gabriel Rheinberger (1839-1901)
Bogoroditse Devo - Sergei Vasilyevich Rachmaninoff (1873-1943)
Faire in Face - Healey Willan (1880-1968)
Sunday, March 30: The Fourth Sunday in Lent (Laetare)
Family Mass
My Song is Love Unknown - Malcolm Archer (b.1952)
Choral High Mass
Short Communion Service - Everett Titcomb (1884-1968)
I Will Arise - Charles Wood (1866-1926)
Nolo mortem peccatoris - Thomas Morley (1557-1602)
Sunday, April 6: The Fifth Sunday in Lent
Family Mass
Sung congregationally
Choral High Mass
Missa Syllabica - Arvo Pärt (b. 1935)
Jesu, meine Freude, BWV 227 - Johann Sebastian Bach (1685-1750)
Evensong and Benediction
Ave regina caelorum - Peter Philips (1597-1628)
Preces and Responses - Maggie Burk (b. 1990)
Evening Canticles in A - Herbert Sumsion (1899-1995)
Hear my Prayer - Felix Mendelssohn Bartholdy (1809-1847)
O salutaris hostia - Gioachino Rossini (1792–1868)
Sunday, April 13: Sunday of the Passion: Palm Sunday
Family Mass
Stabat Mater - Giovanni Battista Pergolesi (1710-1736)
Choral High Mass
Missa Brevis - Jackson Hill (b. 1941)
Hosanna to the Son of David - Arthur Hutchings (1906-1989)
Requiem: Salvator mundi - Herbert Howell (1892-1983)
O Mortal Man - trad. English, arr. John Scott (1956-2015)
Wednesday, April 16: Tenebrae
Tenebrae Responsories - Carlo Gesualdo (1566-1613)
Thursday, April 17: Maundy Thursday
Choral High Mass
Communion Service in C (Kyrie & Gloria) - John Ireland (1879-1962)
Missa Brevis in f minor (Sanctus, Benedictus, & Agnus Dei) - Healey Willan (1880-1968)
Anthems at the Mandatum - Nicholas White (b. 1967)
Ubi caritas - Maurice Duruflé (1902-1986)
A Litany - William Walton (1902-1983)
Ave verum corpus - Flor Peeters (1903-1986)
Friday, April 18: Good Friday
Solemn Liturgy, Noon
The Passion According to Saint John - Plainsong & Tomás Luis de Victoria (1548-1611)
Christus factus est - Felice Anerio (1560-1614)
Reproaches - John Sanders (1933-2003)
Crux fidelis - Matthew Glandorf (b. 1972)
Crucifixus à 6 - Antonio Lotti (1667-1740)
Saturday, April 19: The Great Vigil of Easter
Communion Service in E (Collegium Regale) - Harold Darke (1888-1976)
Sing Ye to the Lord - Edward Bairstow (1874-1946)
Rise up, my love - Healey Willan (1880-1968)
Sunday, April 20: Easter Day
Family Mass
Most glorious Lord of life - William Harris (1883-1973)
Choral High Mass
Festal Communion Service in B-Flat, Op. 128 - Charles Villiers Stanford (1852-1924)
My Beloved Spake - Patrick Hadley (1899-1973)
Easter Light - Cecilia McDowall (b. 1951)
Sunday, April 27: The Second Sunday of Easter
Choral High Mass
Missa Christi Ecclesia - McNeil Robinson (1943-2015)
Most Glorious Lord of Life - David Lord (b.1944)
O Sacred Feast - Healey Willan (1880-1968)
Wednesday, April 30: St. Mark’s Day
Solemn High Mass
Communion Service in C - Bryan Kelly (b. 1934)
And When the Builders - Richard Shephard (1949-2021)
Draw Us in the Spirit’s Tether - Harold Friedell (1905-1958)
Sunday, May 4: The Third Sunday of Easter
Family Mass
Risen Lord - Barry Rose (b.1943)
Choral High Mass
Missa ‘Aeterna Christi Munera’ - Giovanni Pierluigi da Palestrina (c.1525-1594)
Christ lag in Todesbanden, BWV 4.ii - Johann Sebastian Bach (1685-1750)
Little Lamb - John Tavener (1944-2013)
Evensong & Benediction
Regina coeli - Giovanni Pierluigi da Palestrina (c.1525-1594)
Preces & Responses - Kenneth Leighton (1929-1988)
Fourth Evening Service - Adrian Batten (1591-1637)
Now the Greenblade Riseth - Bob Chilcott (b. 1955)
O salutaris hostia - Pierre Villette (1926-1998)
Sunday, May 11: The Fourth Sunday of Easter
Family Mass
Little Lamb - H. Walford Davies (1869-1941)
Choral High Mass
Communion Service in B minor - T. Tertius Noble (1867-1953)
Loving Shepherd of Thy Sheep - John Rutter (b.1945)
The King of Love - Edward Bairstow (1874-1946)
Sunday, May 18: The Fifth Sunday of Easter
Family Mass
Christ is Risen - Martin How (1931-2022)
Choral High Mass
Communion Service in C - Sowerby
Ubi caritas - Ola Gjeilo (b. 1978)
O sacrum convivium - Olivier Messiaen (1908-1992)
Sunday, May 25: The Sixth Sunday of Easter
Family Mass
The Song of the Tree of Life - R. Vaughan Williams (1872-1958)
Choral High Mass
Mass in F - Charles Wood (1866-1926)
If Ye Love Me - Philip Wilby (b.1949)
Ave verum corpus - William Byrd (1543-1623)
Thursday, May 29: Ascension Day
Choral High Mass
Missa Brevis - Grayston Ives (b. 1948)
God is Gone Up - Gerald Finzi (1901-1956)
O sacrum convivium - Kenneth Leighton (1929-1988)
Sunday, June 1: The Seventh Sunday of Easter
Family Mass
Sung congregationally
Choral High Mass
Missa Secunda - Hans Leo Hassler (1564-1612)
Set Me as a Seal - William Walton (1902-1983)
Laudate Dominum - Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart (1756-1791)
Evensong & Benediction
Regina Coeli - Cristóbal de Morales (1500-1553)
Preces and Responses - Philip Radcliffe (1905-1986)
Evening Canticles in G - Charles Villiers Stanford (1852-1924)
Blessed be the God and Father - Samuel Sebastian Wesley (1766-1837)
O salutaris hostia - Ēriks Ešenvalds (b.1977)
Sunday, June 8: Day of Pentecost
Family Mass
Come, thou Holy Spirit - The Dublin Troper (c.1360) arr. John Scott
Choral High Mass
Missa Brevis “Tongues of Fire” - Cecilia McDowall (b. 1951)
Loquebantor variis linguis - Thomas Tallis (1505-1585)
Listen, sweet dove – Grayston Ives (b. 1948)
Wednesday, June 11: St. Barnabas Day
Solemn High Mass
Missa Sancti Pauli – Stanley Vann (1910-2010)
O Lord Support Us - David Briggs (b.1962)
God Be in My Head - Herbert Howells (1892-1983)
Sunday, June 15: Trinity Sunday
Family Mass
O, Praise God in His Holiness - C. Armstrong Gibbs (1889-1960)
Choral High Mass
Missa Brevis in F - Franz Joseph Haydn (1732-1809)
Great Lord of Lords - Orlando Gibbons (1583-1625)
Laus Trinitati - Frank Ferko (b. 1950)
Te Deum (Collegium Regale) - Herbert Howells (1892-1983)
Sunday, June 22: Corpus Christi
Choral High Mass
Missa Sanctae Mariae Magdalenae - William Lloyd Webber (1914-1982)
Ave verum corpus – Colin Mawby (b. 1936)
Oculi omnium - Charles Wood (1866-1926)
O salutaris hostia - Sydney Nicholson (1875-1947)