Birmingham Cathedral - Services and Events this week
SEPTEMBER Verse: Decani Friday 9 Charles Fuge Lowder, priest, 1880 8.00am Morning Prayer and Holy Communion Monday 5 11.00am Heritage Open Day 8.00am Morning Prayer and Holy Communion to 2.00pm Hear how the windows are produced from a stained-glass 12.30pm Free Guided Tour (meet at main door) artist, watch the figure of Emma Villiers Wilkes come alive 5.45pm Evening Prayer with dramatic performances, make a stained-glass style hanging and join a short tour of this Baroque gem in the Tuesday 6 Allen Gardiner, missionary, founder of the South American Mission Society, 1851 heart of the city (free, drop in) 8.00am Morning Prayer and Holy Communion 11.00am Lost Arts and Crafts in the city: A walking tour led by Ben Attended by Polesworth Deanery Clergy Waddington (FULLY BOOKED) 5.45pm Evening Prayer 5.45pm Evening Prayer 7.00pm Institution of Janet Chapman (former Canon Liturgist) as Rector of Northfield St Laurence. All welcome Saturday 10 9.00am Morning Prayer and Holy Communion Wednesday 7 1.00pm Wedding of Luke Brown & Jennifer Comery 8.00am Morning Prayer and Holy Communion 3.30pm Evening Prayer 10.30am Licensing Service of the Revd Dr David Cheetham as Associate Priest (SSM) at the cathedral Sunday 11 Sixteenth Sunday after Trinity/ 11.30am Free Guided Tour (meet at main door) Racial Justice Sunday Verse: Cantoris 1.10pm Holy Communion (BCP) 9.00am Holy Communion 5.45pm Evening Prayer 11.00am Choral Eucharist (Boys’ and Men’s voices)
Introit: Lord, for thy tender mercies’ sake - Anon Thursday 8 BIRTH OF THE BLESSED VIRGIN MARY Percy Whitlock 8.00am Morning Prayer and Holy Communion Psalm 14 1.10pm Wholeness and Healing Service Vovete et reddite (ii) 5.20pm “The Perfect Flower” An Introduction to Evensong Salvator mundi - Tallis by The Dean (free talk, no need to book) Preacher: Canon Dr Mukti Barton 5.45pm Shorter Choral Evensong for the Blessed Virgin Mary 3.30pm Choral Evensong (Sine Nomine) (Girls’ voices) Introit: Oculi omnium - Charles Wood Introit: Hail, O Star that pointest (Tone I) John Sanders Preces: David Lumsden Psalms 124, 125 Psalm: 132 Purcell in G minor OH 161 (385) Rejoice in the Lord always - Anon Magnificat: Marcus Huxley (Shirley) Preacher: Canon Missioner Ave Maris Stella - Dvorak 7.30pm 3D Opening Service (6.00pm Cathedral Choir sings Festival Evensong at Temple Balsall)
Dean: The Very Revd Catherine Ogle Canon Liturgist: Vacancy Canon Missioner: The Revd Canon Nigel Hand Director of Music: Canon Marcus Huxley
Birmingham Cathedral - Services and Events this week
SEPTEMBER Verse: Cantoris Friday 16 Ninian, bishop, c. 432 Edward Bouverie Pusey, priest, 1882 Monday 12 8.00am Morning Prayer and Holy Communion 8.00am Morning Prayer and Holy Communion 5.45pm Choral Evensong (Boys’ and Men’s voices) 12.30pm ‘Why I love this place’ Free Guided Tour (meet at main door) Responses: Marcus Huxley 5.45pm Evening Prayer Psalm: 39 Caustun (short service) O bone Jesu - Palestrina Tuesday 13 John Chrysotom, bishop, teacher of the faith, 407
8.00am Morning Prayer and Holy Communion Saturday 17 Hildegard, abbess, visionary, 1179 5.45pm Shorter Choral Evensong (Girls’ voices) 9.00am Morning Prayer and Holy Communion Preces: Harrison Oxley 10.30am The Pride of the Place, Guided Tour of the architecture of the Psalm: 33 cathedral by Canon Dr Terry Slater (free, but pre-booking Nunc dimittis: Martin How (ASB) essential at www.birminghamcathedral.com) Laudamus te - Vivaldi 2.00pm Birmingham and the Suffragette Movement, a talk by Dr Nicola
Gauld (One Colmore Row, £5 including refreshments, pre-booking Wednesday 14 HOLY CROSS DAY essential at www.birminghamcathedral.com) 8.00am Morning Prayer and Holy Communion 3.30pm Evening Prayer 11.30am Free Guided Tour (meet at main door) 1.10pm Holy Communion Sunday 18 Seventeenth Sunday after Trinity Verse: Decani 5.45pm Shorter Choral Evensong for Holy Cross Day 9.00am Holy Communion (Boys’ and Men’s voices) 11.00am Choral Eucharist (Men’s voices) Preces: Marcus Huxley Introit: Man blest no doubt - Tallis Psalms: 110, 150 Mass for Three Voices - Byrd OH 95 O remember not – Purcell Magnificat: Holman in F minor Tollite hostias (iv) O Saviour of the world - Bullard Ave verum corpus – Josquin des Prez
Preacher: Canon Missioner Thursday 15 Cyprian, bishop, martyr, 258 3.30pm Choral Evensong (Boys’, Girls’ and Men’s voices together with 8.00am Morning Prayer and Holy Communion members of Birmingham Cathedral Old Choristers’ Association) 5.45pm Evening Prayer Introit: Locus iste – Bruckner Responses: Sanders Psalms: 128, 129 Dyson in D The Firmament – John Sanders Preacher: The Dean
Dean: The Very Revd Catherine Ogle Canon Liturgist: Vacancy Canon Missioner: The Revd Canon Nigel Hand Director of Music: Canon Marcus Huxley
Birmingham Cathedral - Services and Events this week
SEPTEMBER Verse: Decani Friday 23 8.00am Morning Prayer and Holy Communion Monday 19 Theodore, archbishop, 690 5.45pm Choral Evensong (Boys’ and Men’s voices) 8.00am Morning Prayer and Holy Communion Responses: Philip Moore 12.30pm Free Guided Tour (meet at main door) Psalms: 57, 58 5.45pm Evening Prayer Howells (Westminster) Now abideth faith, hope and charity - Howells Tuesday 20 John Coleridge Patteson, bishop, and companions, martyrs, 1871 8.00am Morning Prayer and Holy Communion 1.10pm Tuesday Talk – new series commences 5.45pm Shorter Choral Evensong (Girls’ voices) Saturday 24 Preces: David Lumsden 9.00am Morning Prayer and Holy Communion Psalm: 49 3.30pm Evening Prayer Nunc Dimittis: Stuart Beer (1st service) O that my ways were made so direct - Greene
Wednesday 21 MATTHEW, APOSTLE AND EVANGELIST Sunday 25 Eighteenth Sunday after Trinity Verse: Cantoris 8.00am Morning Prayer and Holy Communion 9.00am Holy Communion Attended by Warley Deanery 11.00am Choral Eucharist with Healing Ministry (Girls’ & Men’s voices) 11.30am Free Guided Tour (meet at main door) Introit: Jesu, the very thought of thee – Harry Grindle 1.10pm Choral Communion (St Philip’s Singers) Missa Cantus Missae - Rheinberger Sumsion in F For he shall give his angels – Mendelssohn Hymn 305 Tu mandasti (v) Give us the wings of faith - Ernest Bullock Thee we adore - Mawby 5.45pm Shorter Choral Evensong for St Matthew (Boys’ & Men’s voices) Preacher: The Revd Steve Hollinghurst Preces: Smith & Farmer 3.30pm Choral Evensong (Boys’ and Men’s voices) Psalm: 119.33-40 & 89-96 Responses: Marcus Huxley OH: 216 Psalms: 134, 135 Nunc dimittis: Hooper (Verse service) Gibbons (2nd service) Thee will I love - Howells I am the Resurrection - Schütz Preacher: The Revd Dr David Cheetham Thursday 22 8.00am Morning Prayer and Holy Communion 5.45pm Evening Prayer
Dean: The Very Revd Catherine Ogle Canon Liturgist: Vacancy Canon Missioner: The Revd Canon Nigel Hand Director of Music: Canon Marcus Huxley
Birmingham Cathedral - Services and Events this week
SEPTEMBER Verse: Cantoris Friday 30 Jerome, translator, teacher of the faith, 420 Ember Day 8.00am Morning Prayer and Holy Communion Monday 26 Wilson Carlile, founder of the Church Army, 1942 5.45pm Choral Evensong (Boys’ and Men’s voices) 8.00am Morning Prayer and Holy Communion Responses: Tomkins & Sheppard 12.30pm Free Guided Tour (meet at main door) Psalm: 77 1.10pm Music for Lunch Recital: Greg Abrahams, organist Tomkins (5th service) (suggested donation: £4/£3 concessions) In manus tuas - Tallis 5.45pm Evening Prayer
Tuesday 27 Vincent de Paul, founder of the Lazarists, 1660 OCTOBER 8.00am Morning Prayer and Holy Communion 1.10pm Tuesday Talk 5.45pm Shorter Choral Evensong (Men’s voices) Saturday 1 Remigius, bishop, 533 Preces: Michael Walsh Anthony Ashley Cooper (Earl of Shaftesbury), social reformer, 1885 Psalm: 70 Ember Day Nunc dimittis: Marson 9.00am Wholeness and Healing Service with Holy Communion Domine non secundum – César Franck 3.30pm Evening Prayer 6.45pm Annual Treasurers’ Meeting
Wednesday 28 Ember Day 8.00am Morning Prayer and Holy Communion Sunday 2 Dedication Sunday Verse: Decani 11.30am Free Guided Tour (meet at main door) 9.00am Holy Communion 1.10pm Holy Communion (BCP) 11.00am Choral Eucharist (Boys’ & Men’s voices) 5.45pm Shorter Choral Evensong for Eve of St Michael (Boys’ voices) Introit: Locus iste - Bruckner Preces: plainchant & Marcus Huxley (Shirley) Missa Salve Intemerata - Tallis Psalm: 91 Psalm 122 (Marshall) OH 190ii Domus mea (v) Magnificat: Archer (Sarum) O Lord, arise into thy resting place – Weelkes O praise the Lord, ye angels of his - Greene Preacher: The Dean 3.30pm Choral Evensong including the installation of Honorary Canons Thursday 29 MICHAEL AND ALL ANGELS (Girls’ and Men’s voices) 8.00am Morning Prayer and Holy Communion Responses: Gastoldi & plainchant 2.00pm Celebration of the 50th Anniversary of Aston University Psalm: 132 with Ex Cathedra. Admission by invitation Sumsion in G: 5.45pm Evening Prayer Lo! God is here – Philip Moore Preacher: Bishop of Birmingham
Dean: The Very Revd Catherine Ogle Canon Liturgist: Vacancy Canon Missioner: The Revd Canon Nigel Hand Director of Music: Canon Marcus Huxley
Birmingham Cathedral - Services and Events this week
OCTOBER Verse: Decani Friday 7 8.00am Morning Prayer and Holy Communion Monday 3 George Bell, bishop, ecumenist, peacemaker, 1958 5.45pm Choral Evensong (Boys’ and Men’s voices) 8.00am Morning Prayer and Holy Communion Responses: Rose 12.30pm Free Guided Tour (meet at main door) Psalm 91 5.45pm Evening Prayer Howells (Gloucester) Praise to Thee, Lord Jesus - Schütz
Tuesday 4 Francis of Assisi, friar, deacon, 1226 8.00am Morning Prayer and Holy Communion Saturday 8 10.30am Holy Communion (Retired Clergy) 9.00am Morning Prayer and Holy Communion 1.10pm Tuesday Talk 3.30pm Evensong with Visiting Choir Chiara 5.45pm Evening Prayer Responses: Psalms: Setting: Wednesday 5 Anthem: 8.00am Morning Prayer and Holy Communion 11.30am Free Guided Tour (meet at main door) 1.10pm Holy Communion Sunday 9 Harvest/ Twentieth Sunday after Trinity 5.45pm Shorter Choral Evensong (Boys’ voices) Verse: Cantoris Preces: plainchant & Stone 9.00am Holy Communion Psalm: 89.1-19 11.00am Choral Eucharist for Harvest Thanksgiving (Girls & Men) Nunc dimittis: Marcus Huxley in A flat Introit: A Psalm of Thanksgiving – Marcus Huxley Like as we do put our trust – Charles Wesley jun Missa Sancti Wilhelmi - Taverner Jubilate Deo - Walton De Fructu (vi) Thou visitest the earth - Greene Thursday 6 William Tyndale, translator, martyr, 1536 Preacher: The Revd Dr David Cheetham 8.00am Morning Prayer and Holy Communion 3.30pm Choral Evensong for Trinity 20 (Boys’ and Men’s voices) 5.45pm Annual Justice Service (Girls’ and Men’s voices) Responses: Moore Preces: Byrd & Stone Psalm: 111 Psalm: 1 Murrill in E Nunc dimittis: Byrd (Great service) O give thanks - Greene O praise God - White Preacher: Canon Missioner Preacher: The Rt Revd David Urquhart, Bishop of Birmingham
Dean: The Very Revd Catherine Ogle Canon Liturgist: Vacancy Canon Missioner: The Revd Canon Nigel Hand Director of Music: Canon Marcus Huxley
Birmingham Cathedral - Services and Events this week
Thursday 13 Edward the Confessor, king, 1066 OCTOBER Verse: Cantoris 8.00am Morning Prayer and Holy Communion 1.10pm Wholeness and Healing Service Monday 10 Paulinus, bishop, missionary, 644 5.45pm Evening Prayer Thomas Traherne, poet, spiritual writer, 1674 8.00am Morning Prayer and Holy Communion 12.30pm Free Guided Tour (meet at main door) 1.10pm Music for Lunch Recital: Domonokos Csabay, piano Friday 14 (suggested donation: £4/£3 concessions) 8.00am Morning Prayer and Holy Communion 5.45pm Evening Prayer 5.45pm Evening Prayer
Tuesday 11 Ethelburga, abbess, 675 James the Deacon, companion of Paulinus, 7th cent. Saturday 15 Teresa of Avila, teacher of the faith, 1582 8.00am Morning Prayer and Holy Communion 9.00am Morning Prayer and Holy Communion 1.10pm Tuesday Talk 3.30pm RSCM Festival Service 5.45pm Evening Prayer Preacher: Bishop of Aston
Wednesday 12 Wilfrid, bishop, missionary, 709 Elizabeth Fry, prison reformer, 1845 Edith Cavell, nurse, 1915 Sunday 16 Twenty first Sunday after Trinity Verse: Decani 8.00am Morning Prayer and Holy Communion 9.00am Holy Communion attended by Coleshill Deanery 11.00am Choral Eucharist (Men’s voices) 11.30am Free Guided Tour (meet at main door) Introit: Psalm 121 – McKie 1.10pm Choral Communion (St Philip’s Singers) Mass for Four Voices - Byrd Little Organ Mass - Haydn Psalm 119.97-104 Hymn 280 (omit v.2) Ego clamavi (viii) My eyes for beauty pine - Howells Music during HC: 5.45pm Shorter Choral Evensong (Boys’ voices) Domine non sum dignus - Victoria Preces: plainchant & Marcus Huxley (Shirley) Preacher: Canon Missioner Psalm: 105.1-22 3.30pm Choral Evensong (Boys’, Girls’ and Men’s voices) Magnificat: Timothy Noon (2nd service) Introit: Jesu, the very thought of thee – Harry Grindle With my whole heart – S S Wesley Responses: Byrd & Stone 7.30pm Birmingham Literature Festival Psalms: 98, 99, 100 Q & A Session with Writing West Midlands £12/£10 Antony le Fleming The Wilderness – S S Wesley
Dean: The Very Revd Catherine Ogle Canon Liturgist: Vacancy Canon Missioner: The Revd Canon Nigel Hand Director of Music: Canon Marcus Huxley
Birmingham Cathedral - Services and Events this week
Preacher: The Dean OCTOBER Verse: Decani Thursday 20 8.00am Morning Prayer and Holy Communion 5.45pm Evening Prayer
Monday 17 Ignatius, bishop, martyr, c107 8.00am Morning Prayer and Holy Communion 12.30pm Free Guided Tour (meet at main door) Friday 21 5.45pm Evening Prayer 8.00am Morning Prayer and Holy Communion 5.45pm Choral Evensong (Men’s voices) Responses: Conrad Eden (set 3) Psalm: 119.153-176
Sheppard (1st service) Tuesday 18 ST LUKE THE EVANGELIST O Lord, Thou hast searched me out - Croft 8.00am Morning Prayer and Holy Communion 1.10pm Tuesday Talk
5.45pm Shorter Choral Evensong for St Luke (Girls’ and Men’s voices) Preces: Rose Psalms: 99, 100, 101 Saturday 22 OH: 466 9.00am Morning Prayer and Holy Communion Nunc dimittis: Walmsley in D minor 3.30pm Evening Prayer How lovely are the messengers - Mendelssohn
Sunday 23 Last Sunday after Trinity/Bible Sunday Wednesday 19 Henry Martin, translator, missionary, 1812 9.00am Holy Communion 8.00am Morning Prayer and Holy Communion 11.00am Sung Eucharist with Healing Ministry *12.30pm Holy Communion (*note time: Radio Broadcast) Preacher: The Dean 11.30am Free Guided Tour (meet at main door) 12.30pm to 3.00pm Cathedral Community Day 3.30pm Choral Evensong – Live BBC Radio Broadcast A fair on Cathedral Square raising funds for the Please be Introit: Jesu, the very thought of thee – Harry Grindle Malawi-Birmingham Partnership seated by Responses: Byrd & Stone 3.30pm Evening Prayer 3.15pm Psalms: 98, 99, 100, 101 Antony le Fleming The Wilderness – S S Wesley Hymns: 54, 449
Dean: The Very Revd Catherine Ogle Canon Liturgist: Vacancy Canon Missioner: The Revd Canon Nigel Hand Director of Music: Canon Marcus Huxley
Birmingham Cathedral - Services and Events this week
OCTOBER Sunday 30 All Saints Day Verse: Cantoris 9.00am Holy Communion 11.00am Choral Eucharist (Schola Philippi) Monday 24 Introit: O quam gloriosum - Victoria 8.00am Morning Prayer and Holy Communion Missa O quam gloriosum - Victoria 12.30pm Free Guided Tour (meet at main door) O sing unto the Lord a new song - Tomkins 4.00pm Evening Prayer Beati mundo corde (i) Faire is the Heaven - Harris Preacher: The Ven Simon Heathfield, Archdeacon of Aston 3.30pm Choral Evensong for 4 Before Advent (Men’s voices) Tuesday 25 Crispin & Crispinian, Martyrs, c287 Responses: Tallis, Psalm: 145 8.00am Morning Prayer and Holy Communion Marcus Huxley (falso bordone) 1.10pm Tuesday Talk Out of the deep - Tomkins 4.00pm Evening Prayer Preacher: Canon Missioner
Monday 31 Wednesday 26 Albert, King, Scholar, 899; Cedd, abbot, bishop, 664 8.00am Morning Prayer and Holy Communion 8.00am Morning Prayer and Holy Communion 12.30pm Free Guided Tour (meet at main door) 11.30am Free Guided Tour (meet at main door) 5.45pm Evening Prayer 1.10pm Holy Communion 4.00pm Evening Prayer NOVEMBER
Tuesday 1 All Saints Thursday 27 8.00am Morning Prayer and Holy Communion 8.00am Morning Prayer and Holy Communion 4.00pm Evening Prayer 1.10pm Tuesday Talk 5.45pm Shorter Choral Evensong for All Saints (Girls’ and men’s voices)
Wednesday 2 All Souls Friday 28 ST SIMON & ST JUDE, APOSTLES 8.00am Morning Prayer and Holy Communion 8.00am Morning Prayer and Holy Communion 4.00pm Evening Prayer 11.30am Free Guided Tour (meet at main door) 1.10pm Holy Communion 5.45pm Evening Prayer 7.45pm Choral Requiem Eucharist for The commemoration of the Saturday 29 Faithful Departed (Schola Philippi) 9.00am Morning Prayer and Holy Communion This service includes the opportunity to name those known to 3.30pm Evening Prayer you or those connected with the cathedral who have died.
Preacher: Revd Canon Susannah Izzard Dean: The Very Revd Catherine Ogle Canon Liturgist: Vacancy Canon Missioner: The Revd Canon Nigel Hand Director of Music: Canon Marcus Huxley