CHAPEL ROYAL HAMPTON COURT PALACE. Services for February 2013

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1 CHAPEL ROYAL HAMPTON COURT PALACE Services for February 2013 Carl Jackson MVO MA ARAM FRCO Director of Music Rufus Frowde MA MMus ARCO (DipCHD) Organist Canon Denis Mulliner MA Canon of Her Majesty s Chapel Royal Deputy Priest in Ordinary David Wright Honorary Clerk of the Chapel 1

2 February 2013 Friday 1 St Brigid or Bride, Abbess of Kildare, c. 525 Saturday 2 The Presentation of Christ Sunday 3 Sexagesima Monday 4 St Gilbert, Abbot of Sempringham, c Tuesday 5 St Agatha, Sicilian Martyr, c. 304 Wednesday 6 The Martyrs of Japan, seventeenth century Thursday 7 Feria Friday 8 Feria Saturday 9 Feria Sunday 10 Quinquagesima Monday 11 Feria Tuesday 12 Feria Wednesday 13 Ash Wednesday Thursday 14 St Valentine, priest and Martyr, c. 220 Friday 15 Feria in Lent Saturday 16 Feria in Lent Sunday 17 Lent I Monday 18 St Simeon, second Bishop of Jerusalem after St James, kinsman of our Lord, Martyr under the Emperor Hadrian, c. 107 Tuesday 19 Feria in Lent Wednesday 20 Feria in Lent Thursday 21 St Peter Damian, Bishop of Ravenna, Doctor of the Church, 1072 Friday 22 The See of St Peter Saturday 23 St Polycarp, Bishop and Martyr, c. 155 Sunday 24 Lent II Monday 25 Saint Matthias, Apostle (transferred) Tuesday 26 Feria in Lent Wednesday 27 Feria in Lent Thursday 28 St Oswald, Benedictine monk and Bishop of Worcester, 995 2

3 FROM THE CHAPLAIN As Lent begins this month in preparation for quite an early Easter on the 31st of March (and consequently for more Sundays after Trinity than usual twenty-six of them this year!), it behoves us to reflect about the place our religion has in our lives, and to allow the cycle of Sunday and weekday services which we attend to help us to understand and value more deeply the manner of God s dealings with us: his gracious and loving concern for each one of us, whom by means of our Baptism he has adopted into his family the Church. Great art, great literature and great music always move us and are always understood, for they have to do with the unchanging heart of life. And it is there, especially as they impinge on our worship, and not on the surface of reality, that God makes himself known to us, too. Those of us who have no regard for such deep things, and leave them out of account in our view of what is true and worthwhile, do not make any difference to the truth itself: we just have a very incomplete understanding of reality, a sort of world which has an outside but no inside! But God, in the human, suffering and dying person of our Lord Jesus Christ, will not let go of us for long, for his love for us is too great for that, so great that he chose to identify himself with us as he embraced his passion and cruel death. We can recover our forefathers sense of belonging to Christ, being truly the branches of the vine which is he, the limbs of the body of which he is the head, perhaps using some famous words of Saint Patrick, the apostle of Ireland: I bind this day to me for ever by power of faith Christ s Incarnation, his Baptism in Jordan s river, his death on Cross for my salvation, his bursting from the spicèd tomb, his riding up the heavenly way, his coming at the day of doom, I bind unto myself today. Confirmation instruction for younger candidates begins this month on Tuesday the 19th at 6.15 p.m., and for adults on Saturday the 23rd at 12 noon. The dates of each session and the topics to be studied are listed in the schedules, of which those who are interested may collect a copy at the end of Sunday services in the Chapel Royal. Yours in Dño, Denis Mulliner 3

4 Sunday 3rd February am Holy Communion Sexagesima am Choral Eucharist Hymn 358ii Father of heaven, whose love profound Setting Missa Brevis Berkeley Epistle II Corinthians 11: Gradual Hymn 414 O for a closer walk with God Gospel Luke 8: 4-15 The Nicene Creed (NEH page 562) Sermon Offertory Hymn 294 Just as I am, without one plea Motet See what love hath the Father Mendelssohn Hymn 439i Praise to the Holiest in the height Voluntary (C Jackson) Fugue from Sonata No. 2 Mendelssohn See what love hath the Father Felix Mendelssohn ( ) See what love hath the Father bestow d on us in his goodness, yea, in his goodness, that we should be called God s own children. [From the chorus from Saint Paul] 4

5 Sunday 3rd February 2013 Sexagesima 3.30 pm Choral Evensong Hymn 463ii Thine for ever! God of love Shephard Psalm 25 Turle First Lesson Genesis 3: 1-24 Magnificat in E Watson Second Lesson Matthew 6: Nunc dimittis in E Watson Anthem How dear are thy counsels Crotch Offertory Hymn 353 Dear Lord and Father of mankind Voluntary (R Frowde) Allegretto grazioso Frank Bridge How dear are thy counsels William Crotch ( ) How dear are thy counsels unto me, O God: O how great is the sum of them! Try me, prove me, and examine my thoughts, O God, and seek the ground of my heart. Look well if there be any way of wickedness in me; and lead me in the way everlasting. 5

6 Sunday 10th February am Holy Communion Quinquagesima am Choral Matins Hymn 346 City of God, how broad and far Shephard Venite Psalm 15 Alcock First Lesson Genesis 12: 1-9 Te Deum Moore Second Lesson I Corinthians 12: 1-13 Jubilate Moore Anthem Ubi caritas Mealor Hymn 513 Here in Christ, we gather, love of Christ our calling Sermon Offertory Hymn 364 God is Love: let heav n adore him (t 408i) Voluntary (R Frowde) Hymne d Actions de graces Langlais Ubi caritas Paul Mealor (b. 1975) Ubi caritas et amor, Deus ibi est. Congregavit nos in unum Christi amor. Exsultemus et in ipso jucundemur. Timeamus et amemus Deum vivum. Et ex corde diligamus nos sincero. Ubi caritas et amor, Deus ibi est. Amen. Where charity and love are, there is God. The love of Christ hath united us in one, Let us exult and rejoice in him. Let us fear and love the living God, and let us adore him with a true heart. Where charity and love are, there is God. Amen. 6

7 Sunday 10th February 2013 Quinquagesima 3.30 pm Choral Evensong Hymn 385 Jesu, the very thought of thee Shephard Psalm 30 Smart, Hayes First Lesson Genesis 6: 5-22 Magnificat in F Dyson Second Lesson Luke 17: Nunc dimittis in F Dyson Anthem Where thou reignest Schubert Offertory Hymn 368 Guide me, O thou great Redeemer Voluntary (C Jackson) Sonata No. 2 (1st movt) Hindemith Whe thou reignest Franz Schubert ( ) Where thou reignest, King of glory, throned in everlasting light, in thy courts no more is needed sun by day nor moon by night. Soon may we those portals enter, when this earthly strife is o er, there to reign with Saints and Angels in thy presence evermore. Praise to God the Eternal Father, praise to God the Eternal Son, praise to God the Eternal Spirit, One in Three and Three in One. Honour, praise, thanksgiving, blessing now and evermore be done; God most holy, we adore thee, ever-blessed Trinity. [Benjamin Webb, adapted by F A W Docker] 7

8 Wednesday 13th February 2013 Ash Wednesday 7.30 pm Choral Eucharist Hymn 73i My God, I love thee Setting Mass for five voices Byrd Lesson Joel 2: Gradual Hymn 71 Maker of earth, to thee alone Gospel Matthew 6: Sermon Imposition of Ashes Miserere mei Byrd Offertory Hymn 75 O thou who dost accord us Motet Lent Prose (NEH 507) Hymn 74 O for a heart to praise my God Voluntary (C Jackson) Erbarm dich mein, O Herre Gott J S Bach Sunday 17th February am Holy Communion Lent I am Choral Matins (Men s voices) Hymn 64 Be thou my guardian and my guide Plainsong Venite Psalm 51 Plainsong First Lesson Genesis 13: 1-18 Benedicite Short Service Batten Second Lesson Luke 5: Benedictus Plainsong Litany Book of Common Prayer page 30 Loosemoore Hymn 404 (omit *) Lord of our life, and God of our salvation Sermon Offertory Hymn 67 Forty days and forty nights Voluntary(R Frowde) Prelude and Fugue in A minor (BWV 543) J S Bach 8

9 Sunday 17th February 2013 Lent I 3.30 pm Choral Evensong (Men s voices) Hymn 59 Now is the healing time decreed (t 128ii) Plainsong Psalm 6 Plainsong First Lesson Genesis 8: 15-9: 17 Magnificat Short Service Tallis Second Lesson Mark 14: 1-26 Nunc dimittis Short Service Tallis Anthem Let my complaint Morley Offertory Hymn 398 Lift up your hearts! (t 395) Voluntary (C Jackson) Voluntary Weelkes Let my complaint Thomas Morley (1557/58?-1602) Let my complaint come before thee, O Lord, give me understanding according to thy word. Let my supplication come before thee, deliver me according to thy word. My lips shall speak of thy praise when thou hast taught me thy statutes. Yea, my tongue shall sing of thy word, for all thy commandments are righteous. Let thine hand help me; for I have chosen thy commandments. I have longed for thy saving health, O Lord, and in thy law is my delight. O let my soul live and it shall praise thee, and thy judgments shall help me. I have gone astray like a sheep that is lost; O seek thy servant, for I do not forget thy commandments. Glory be to the Father, and to the Son: and to the Holy Ghost; as it was in the beginning, is now, and ever shall be, world without end. Amen. 9

10 Sunday 24th February am Holy Communion Lent II am Choral Matins Hymn 453 Stand up! Stand up for Jesus! Tomkins Venite Psalm 119 vv Woodward, Pye, Dupuis First Lesson Genesis 18: 1-16 Benedicite in G Francis Jackson Second Lesson Luke 15: 1-10 Benedictus in G Sumsion Anthem Wash me throughly S S Wesley Hymn 357 Father, hear the prayer we offer Sermon Offertory Hymn 450 Soldiers, who are Christ s below Voluntary (C Jackson) Fantasia in C minor BWV 562 J S Bach Wash me throughly Samuel Sebastian Wesley ( ) Wash me throughly from my wickedness, and forgive me all my sin. For I acknowledge my faults, and my sin is ever before me. 10

11 Sunday 24th February 2013 Lent II 3.30 pm Choral Evensong Hymn 61 Oh Christ, who art the Light and Day Tomkins Psalm 119 vv33-56 Elvey, Rhodes, G Elvey First Lesson Genesis 11: 1-9 Magnificat Short Service Gibbons Second Lesson Luke 15: Nunc dimittis Short Service Gibbons Anthem Civitas sancti tui Byrd Offertory Hymn 70i Lord Jesus, think on me Voluntary (R Frowde) A Fancy in Gamut flatt Gibbons Civitas sancti tui William Byrd ( ) Civitas sancti tui facta est deserta. Sion deserta facta est. Ierusalem desolata est. Bow down thine ear, O Lord, and hear: let thine anger cease from us. Sion, thy Sion is wasted and brought low, Jerusalem is wasted quite, desolate and void. 11

12 Dates for your diaries Sunday 24th February, 1 pm Lunchtime organ recital by Rufus Frowde Friday 8th March, 7.45 pm Evening concert featuring James Bowman singing English songs from Dowland to Britten. Tickets from available from the Hampton Court Palace ticket office online at or by calling Sunday 17th March, 1 pm Lunchtime organ recital by Carl Jackson chapelroyal@hrp.org.uk Telephone: The Choral Foundation The Chapel Royal Hampton Court Palace East Molesey, Surrey KT8 9AU Telephone: choral.foundation@hrp.org.uk Registered Charity Number: