FEBRUARY Verse: Cantoris Friday 24 Monday 20 Saturday 25 Tuesday 21 Wednesday 22 Morning Prayer 11.30am Holy Communion Sunday 26 Sunday next before Lent Verse: Decani Holy Communion 11.00am Sung Eucharist with Healing Ministry Preacher: Revd Canon Dr Jenny Arnold Thursday 23
FEBRUARY Monday 27 Tuesday 28 MARCH George Herbert, priest, poet,1633 Tuesday Talks: Inside Out Shorter Choral Evensong (Girls Voices) Preces: Malcolm Archer Psalms 143, 144 Nunc dimittis: Marcus Huxley in A flat Nolo mortem peccatoris - Morley Wednesday 1 ASH WEDNESDAY 11.30am Choral Communion (St Philip s Singers) Missa Brevis - Casciolini Turn thy face from my sins - Attwood Thou knowest Lord - Purcell Hymns 64, 67 7.45pm Choral Eucharist (Schola Philippi) Missa Pange lingua Josquin des Prez Miserere nostri Tallis Miserere Allegri Qui meditabitur (iii) Preacher: Revd Canon John Wilkinson Thursday 2 Chad, bishop, missionary,672 Verse: Decani Friday 3 Saturday 4 Choral Evensong (Boys' and Men's voices) Responses: Tomkins & Sheppard Psalm 7 Amner (Cesar s service) Hear my prayer - Purcell Wholeness and Healing Service with Communion Installation of Revd Andrew Lythall as Canon Liturgist (Girls & Men s voices) Responses: Philip Moore Psalm 9 Howells (Collegium Regale) - Howells Thou wilt keep him S S Wesley Preacher: Revd Canon Andrew Lythall Sunday 5 First Sunday of Lent Verse: Cantoris Holy Communion 11.00am Choral Eucharist (Girls and Men s voices) Introit: Call to Remembrance Farrant Kyrie Orbis Factor Missa Euge Bone - Tye Lent Prose Scapulis suis (iii) Miserere mei - Byrd Preacher: Acting Dean (Canon Missioner) Choral Evensong with renewal of wedding vows (Boys and Men s voices) Responses: Bernard Rose Psalm 50.1-15 Watson in E Bow thine ear - Byrd Preacher: Acting Dean (Canon Missioner)
MARCH Monday 6 5.30pm 7.00pm Verse: Cantoris Recital: Jonathan Stamp (Organ), Norwich Cathedral. Music by Bach, Dumage and Widor (Suggested donation: 4/ 3 concessions) Cadbury Lecture: Professor Candida Moss delivers the first in the series of 2017 s Edward Cadbury Lectures. (Admission free, register via www.birmingham.ac.uk/cadburylectures) Drinks reception Friday 10 Saturday 11 Ember Day Choral Evensong (Boys & Men s Voices) Responses: Marcus Huxley Psalm 25 Gibbons (short service) Lord, let me know mine end - Greene Ember Day Tuesday 7 Perpetua, Felicity and companions, martyrs, 203 1.10 Tuesday Talks: Good time and bad times Shorter Choral Evensong (Girls and Men s Voices) Preces: John Sanders Psalm 18.1-30 Nunc dimittis: Howells (Gloucester) Wash me throughly S S Wesley Wednesday 8 Edward King, bishop,1910 Felix, bishop, 647 Geoffrey Studdert Kennedy, priest, poet, 1929 11.30pm Holy Communion Shorter Choral Evensong (Boys Voices) Preces: plainchant & Stone Psalm 19 Nunc dimittis: Burgon The sorrows of my heart - Boyce Sunday 12 Second Sunday of Lent Verse: Decani Holy Communion 11.00am Choral Eucharist (Boys and Girls Voices) Adoramus te, Christe Lassus Missa Brevis Andrew Carter I will lift up mine eyes Colin Mawby Panis angelicus César Franck Preacher: Canon Liturgist Choral Evensong (Men s Voices) Responses: Conrad Eden (set 3) Psalm 135 Sheppard (1st service) Remember, O Lord - Walmisley Preacher: Canon Liturgist (6.00pm Lay Clerks & Choral Scholars sing Compline & Benediction at St Alban s Church, Highgate) Thursday 9 Wholeness and Healing Service
MARCH Monday 13 Verse: Decani Friday 17 Patrick, bishop, missionary, patron of Ireland, c.460 Choral Evensong for St Patrick (Boys & Men s Voices) Responses: Smith & Farmer Psalm 40 OH 159 (om 3,4) [& 278 (Choir only)] Gibbons (2 nd service) Beati quorum via - Stanford Tuesday 14 Tuesday Talks: The end is Shorter Choral Evensong (Men s Voices) Preces: Michael Walsh Psalm 34 Magnificat: Lassus (iv) Domine non secundum César Franck Wednesday 15 11.30pm Holy Communion Shorter Choral Evensong (Boys Voices) Preces: plainchant & Stone Psalm 36 Nunc dimittis: Noon (2 nd service) O turn away mine eyes Boyce Saturday 18 Cyril, bishop, teacher of the faith, 386 Sunday 19 Third Sunday of Lent Verse: Cantoris Holy Communion 11.00am Choral Eucharist (Boys and Men s Voices) Introit: The sacrifice of God Greene Misas brevis - Palestrina The Lamentation (Pts 1 & 2) Bairstow Passer invenit (i) Sicut cervus - Palestrina Preacher: Acting Dean (Canon Missioner) Choral Evensong (Girls and Men s Voices) Responses: Gastoldi & plainchant Psalm 40 Palestrina (8 voices) & Zacharia (i) Vide Domine afflictionem - Byrd Preacher: Canon Liturgist Thursday 16
MARCH Monday 20 Verse: Cantoris Joseph of Nazareth Recital: Birmingham Conservatoire Harpists. (Suggested donation: 4/ 3 concessions) Tuesday 21 Thomas Cranmer, archbishop, Reformation martyr, 1556 Tuesday Talks: It was the best of times Shorter Choral Evensong (Girls Voices) Preces: Harold Darke Psalm 50 OH 217 (19ii) Nunc dimittis: Marcus Huxley (ASB) Kyrie eleison - Britten Wednesday 22 Choral Communion (St Philip s Singers) Messe solennelle - Vierne O for a closer walk with God - Stanford Hymn 294 Shorter Choral Evensong for St Thomas (Boys and Men s Voices) Preces: Bernard Rose Psalms 52,53,54 Magnificat: Harris in A O Lord. look down - Battishill Thursday 23 7.00pm Wholeness and Healing Service Cello concert: Selena Farnsworth (Birmingham Conservatoire) 5 Friday 24 Saturday 25 Walter Hilton, mystic,1396. Paul Couturier, priest, ecumenist, 1953. Oscar Romero, archbishop, martyr, 1980 Choral Evensong of the Annunciation (Boys' and Men's voices) Introit: Hail, O Star (i) Responses: Smith & Farmer Psalm 85 OH 161 (385) Holman in F minor Ave Maria - Parsons Annunciation of Our Lord to the Blessed Virgin Mary Sunday 26 Fourth Sunday of Lent Verse: Decani Holy Communion 11.00am Choral Eucharist with Healing Ministry (Girls and Men s Voices) Introit: O nata lux Tallis Kyrie: Mendelssohn Missa Salve Intemerata - Talis Brother James Air arr Gordon Jacob Jerusalem quae aedificatur (iv) Like as the hart Bryan Kelly Preacher: Revd Elaine King Choral Evensong (Boys and Men s Voices) Responses: Byrd & Stone Psalm 31.1-18 Morley (2 nd service) The King of Love - Bairstow Preacher: Acting Dean (Canon Missioner)
MARCH Verse: Decani APRIL Monday 27 Tuesday 28 Tuesday Talks: Discipleship for today Wednesday 29 Holy Communion Shorter Choral Evensong (Boys Voices) Preces: plainchant & Stone Psalm 73 Nunc dimittis: Marcus Huxley in D flat The Lord is my shepherd (a 2 v) - Schubert Thursday 30 7.30pm Birmingham Conservatoire Baroque Orchestra Concert Tickets 12/ 10, available on Eventbrite in advance and on the door Saturday 1 Fredrick Denison Maurice, priest, teacher of the faith, 1872 Wholeness and Healing Service with Communion 5.00pm Bach s St Matthew Passion in English Tickets 15 (concessions 12.50), on Eventbrite or from the Cathedral Office Sunday 2 Passion Sunday Verse: Cantoris Holy Communion 11.00am Choral Eucharist (Men s Voices) Introit: Adoramus te (4 voices) Lassus Mass for Four Voices - Byrd De Profundis Josquin des Prez Hoc corpus (viii) Defecit in dolore - Byrd Preacher: TBC Choral Evensong (Girls and Men s Voices) Responses: Bernard Rose Psalm 30 Howells (Worcester) Daughters of Zion - Mendelssohn Preacher: TBC Friday 31 John Donne, priest, teacher of the faith, 1872 Shorter Choral Evensong (Boys and Men s Voices) Preces: Tomkins & Sheppard Psalm 78; 1-40 Nunc dimittis: Clucas (Paisley) Bring us, O Lord God - Harris
APRIL Monday 3 Tuesday 4 Verse: Cantoris Recital: Birmingham Conservatoire Harpists. (Suggested donation: 4/ 3 concessions) Tuesday Talks: Tough Times Shorter Choral Evensong (Girls Voices) Preces: David Lumsden Psalm 88 Nunc dimittis: Stuart Beer (1 st service) Ex Ore Innocentium - Ireland Wednesday 5 11.30pm Holy Communion Shorter Choral Evensong (Boys & Men s Voices) Preces: Bernard Rose Psalm 89.20-36 Nunc dimittis: Harris in A Praise to Thee, Lord Jesus - Schütz Friday 7 Saturday 8 Choral Evensong (Boys and Men s Voices) Responses: John Sanders Psalms 92,93 Walmisley in D minor Christe, adoramus te - Monteverdi Sunday 9 Palm Sunday Verse: Decani Holy Communion 11.00am Choral Eucharist (Girls and Men s Voices) Introit: Hosanna to the Son of David Weelkes Mass for Holy Trinity Antony le Fleming Christus factus est Bruckner St Matthew Passion John Bertalot Pater si non potest (viii) Salvator mundi - Blow Choral Evensong (Boys and Men s Voices) Responses: Tomkins & Sheppard Psalm 80 Tomkins (5 th service) It is a thing most wonderful Philip Moore Preacher: Revd Canon John Craig Thursday 6
APRIL Monday 10 Monday of Holy Week Verse: Decani 7.45pm Holy Week Eucharist Tuesday 11 7.45pm Tuesday Of Holy Week Shorter Choral Evensong (Girls and Men s Voices) Preces: plainsong Psalm 55.12-23 Nunc dimittis: Palestrina (8 voices) O vos omnes (a 5v) Robert White Holy Week Eucharist Wednesday 12 Wednesday of Holy week 11.30pm Choral Communion (St Philip s Singers) Sumsion in F O Saviour of the world - Goss 7.45pm Hymn 84 Shorter Choral Evensong (Boys Voices) Preces: plainsong & Stone Psalm 88 Nunc dimittis: Marcus Huxley (ASB) When I survey the wondrous cross arr Marcus Huxley Holy Week Eucharist Thursday 13 Maundy Thursday 11.00am Choral Eucharist (Boys and Men s Voices) Introit: O word immortal Gibbons Ubi caritas Duruflé Tantum ergo Duruflé Precher: Bishop Anne Wholeness and Healing Service 7.45pm Friday 14 12.00pm 7.00pm Saturday 15 7.00pm Holy Week Choral Eucharist with washing of feet and watch of silent prayer (Girls and Men s Voices) Introit: If ye love me - Tallis, Missa Praeter Rerum Seriem - de Rore, Responsorial Psalm 116 - Marcus Huxley, Ubi caritas - Duruflé, Drop, drop, slow tears - Gibbons, Dominus Jesus (ii), Adoro te - Simon Brown, Psalm 22.1-21 Preacher: Revd Canon Richard Wharton Good Friday The Three Hours - Reflections on Christ's Passion (Boys' and Men's voices) Were you there? arr Bob Chilcott, The Reproaches John Sanders, Salvator mundi Tallis, Truly this was J S Bach Preacher: Revd Canon Anna Norman-Walker, Canon Chancellor of Exeter Cathedral Tenebrae (Schola Philippi) Easter Eve Compline and Easter Vigil Sunday 16 Easter Sunday Verse: Cantoris 7.00am Easter Liturgy and Holy Communion (in the cathedral and on Cathedral Square) 11.00am Choral Eucharist (Boys and Men s Voices) Introit: This joyful Eastertide arr C Wood Blair in G, The Angel rolled the stone away Pascha nostrum (vi) Dum transisset Sabbatum - Taverner Preacher: Bishop David Choral Evensong (Girls and Men s Voices) Introit: This joyful Eastertide arr C Wood Responses: Kenneth Leighton Psalm 66.1-11, Wesley in E Christ is risen from the dead! Randall Svane Te Deum: Stanford in A Preacher: Canon Liturgist
APRIL Monday 17 Tuesday 18 Monday of Easter Holy Communion Tuesday of Easter Week Wednesday 19 Wednesday of Easter week 11.30pm Holy Communion Thursday 20 Thursday of Easter week Friday 21 Saturday 22 Sunday 23 11.00am Friday of Easter week Saturday of Easter week Second Sunday of Easter Holy Communion Sung Eucharist with Healing