FEBRUARY Verse: Cantoris Friday 24 8.00am Morning Prayer and Holy Communion 5.45pm Evening Prayer Monday 20 8.00am Morning Prayer and Holy Communion 12.30pm Free Guided Tour (meet at main door) Saturday 25 5.45pm Evening Prayer 9.00am Morning Prayer and Holy Communion 11.00am Readers’ Licensing Service 3.30pm Evening Prayer Tuesday 21 8.00am Morning Prayer and Holy Communion 5.45pm Evening Prayer Sunday 26 Sunday next before Lent Verse: Decani 9.00am Holy Communion 11.00am Sung Eucharist Preacher: Revd Dr Jenny Arnold 3.30pm Evening Prayer Wednesday 22 8.00am Morning Prayer 11.30am Free Guided Tour (meet at main door) 1.10pm Holy Communion 5.45pm Evening Prayer Thursday 23 8.00am Morning Prayer and Holy Communion 5.45pm Evening Prayer Dean (Acting): The Revd Canon Nigel Hand Canon Liturgist: The Revd Canon Andrew Lythall Director of Music: Canon Marcus Huxley FEBRUARY Verse: Decani Friday 3 8.00am Morning Prayer and Holy Communion Monday 27 George Herbert, priest, poet,1633 5.45pm Choral Evensong (Boys' and Men's voices) 8.00am Morning Prayer and Holy Communion Responses: Tomkins & Sheppard 5.45pm Evening Prayer Psalm 7 Amner (Cesar’s service) Tuesday 28 Hear my prayer - Purcell 8.00am Morning Prayer and Holy Communion 5.45pm Shorter Choral Evensong (Girls’ Voices) Preces: Malcolm Archer Saturday 4 Psalms 143, 144 9.00am Wholeness and Healing Service with Communion Nunc dimittis: Marcus Huxley in A flat 3.30pm Installation of Revd Andrew Lythall as Canon Liturgist Nolo mortem peccatoris - Morley (Girls’ & Men’s voices) Responses: Philip Moore MARCH Psalm 9 Howells (Collegium Regale) - Howells Thou wilt keep him – S S Wesley Wednesday 1 ASH WEDNESDAY Preacher: Revd Canon Andrew Lythall 8.00am Morning Prayer and Holy Communion 11.30am Free Guided Tour (meet at main door) 1.10pm Choral Communion (St Philip’s Singers) Missa Brevis - Casciolini Sunday 5 FIRST SUNDAY OF LENT Verse: Cantoris Turn thy face from my sins - Attwood 9.00am Holy Communion Thou knowest Lord - Purcell Hymns 64, 67 11.00am Choral Eucharist (Girls’ and Men’s voices) 5.45pm Evening Prayer Introit: Call to Remembrance – Farrant 7.45pm Choral Eucharist (Schola Philippi) Kyrie Orbis Factor Missa Pange lingua – Josquin des Prez Missa Euge Bone - Tye Miserere nostri – Tallis Lent Prose Miserere – Allegri Scapulis suis (iii) Qui meditabitur (iii) Miserere mei - Byrd Preacher: Revd Canon John Wilkinson Preacher: Acting Dean (Canon Missioner) Thursday 2 Chad, bishop, missionary,672 3.30pm Choral Evensong (Boys’ and Men’s voices) 8.00am Morning Prayer and Holy Communion Responses: Bernard Rose 5.45pm Evening Prayer Psalm 50.1-15 Watson in E Bow thine ear - Byrd Preacher: Acting Dean (Canon Missioner) Dean (Acting): The Revd Canon Nigel Hand Canon Liturgist: The Revd Canon Andrew Lythall Director of Music: Canon Marcus Huxley MARCH Verse: Cantoris Friday 10 Ember Day Monday 6 8.00am Morning Prayer and Holy Communion 8.00am Morning Prayer and Holy Communion 5.45pm Choral Evensong (Boys’ & Men’s Voices) 12.30pm Free Guided Tour (meet at main door) Responses: Marcus Huxley 1.10pm Recital: Jonathan Stamp (Organ), Norwich Cathedral. Music by Psalm 25 Bach, Dumage and Widor Gibbons (short service) (Suggested donation: £4/£3 concessions) Lord, let me know mine end - Greene 5.45pm Evening Prayer Saturday 11 Ember Day Tuesday 7 Perpetua, Felicity and companions, martyrs, 203 9.00am Morning Prayer and Holy Communion 8.00am Morning Prayer and Holy Communion 3.30pm Evening Prayer 5.45pm Choral Evensong (Girls’ and Men’s Voices) Preces: John Sanders Sunday 12 Second Sunday of Lent Verse: Decani Psalm 18.1-30 9.00am Holy Communion Nunc dimittis: Howells (Gloucester) 11.00am Choral Eucharist (Boys’ and Girls’ Voices) Wash me throughly – S S Wesley Adoramus te, Christe – Lassus Missa Brevis – Andrew Carter Edward King, bishop,1910 Wednesday 8 I will lift up mine eyes – Colin Mawby Felix, bishop, 647 Geoffrey Studdert Kennedy, priest, poet, 1929 Panis angelicus – César Franck 8.00am Morning Prayer and Holy Communion Preacher: TBC 1.10pm Holy Communion 5.45pm Choral Evensong (Boys’ Voices) 3.30pm Choral Evensong (Men’s Voices) Preces: plainchant & Stone Responses: Conrad Eden (set 3) Psalm 19 Psalm 135 Nunc dimittis: Burgon Sheppard (1st service) The sorrows of my heart - Boyce Remember, O Lord - Walmisley Thursday 9 (6.00pm Lay Clerks & Choral Scholars sing Compline & Benediction at St 8.00am Morning Prayer and Holy Communion Alban’s Church, Highgate) 1.10pm Wholeness and Healing Service 5.45pm Evening Prayer Dean (Acting): The Revd Canon Nigel Hand Canon Liturgist: The Revd Canon Andrew Lythall Director of Music: Canon Marcus Huxley MARCH Verse: Decani Saturday 18 Cyril, bishop, teacher of the faith, 386 Monday 13 9.00am Morning Prayer and Holy Communion 8.00am Morning Prayer and Holy Communion 3.30pm Evening Prayer 12.30pm Free Guided Tour (meet at main door) 5.45pm Evening Prayer Sunday 19 Third Sunday of Lent Verse: Cantoris Tuesday 14 9.00am Holy Communion 8.00am Morning Prayer and Holy Communion 11.00am Choral Eucharist (Boys’ and Men’s Voices) 1.10pm Tuesday Talks Introit: The sacrifice of God – Greene 5.45pm Shorter Choral Evensong (Men’s Voices) Misas brevis - Palestrina Preces: Michael Walsh The Lamentation (Pts 1 & 2) – Bairstow Psalm 34 Passer invenit (i) Magnificat: Lassus (iv) Sicut cervus - Palestrina Domine non secundum – César Franck Preacher: TBC Wednesday 15 3.30pm Choral Evensong (Girls’ and Men’s Voices) 8.00am Morning Prayer and Holy Communion Responses: Gastoldi & plainchant 1.10pm Choral Communion Psalm 40 5.45pm Shorter Choral Evensong (Boys’ Voices) Palestrina (8 voices) & Zacharia (i) Preces: plainchant & Stone Vide Domine afflictionem - Byrd Psalm 36 Preacher: TBC Nunc dimittis: Noon (2nd service) O turn away mine eyes – Boyce Thursday 16 8.00am Morning Prayer and Holy Communion 5.45pm Evening Prayer Friday 17 Patrick, bishop, missionary, patron of Ireland, c.460 8.00am Morning Prayer and Holy Communion 5.45pm Choral Evensong (Boys’ & Men’s Voices) Responses: Smith & Farmer Psalm 40 OH 159 (om 3,4) [& 278 (Choir only)] Gibbons (2nd service) Beati quorum via - Stanford Dean (Acting): The Revd Canon Nigel Hand Canon Liturgist: The Revd Canon Andrew Lythall Director of Music: Canon Marcus Huxley Friday 24 Walter Hilton, mystic,1396. Paul Couturier, priest, ecumenist, 1953. Oscar Romero, archbishop, MARCH Verse: Cantoris martyr, 1980 Monday 20 Joseph of Nazareth 8.00am Morning Prayer and Holy Communion 8.00am Morning Prayer and Holy Communion 5.45pm Choral Evensong of the Annunciation (Boys' and Men's voices) 12.30pm Free Guided Tour (meet at main door) Introit: Hail, O Star (i) 1.10pm Recital: Birmingham Conservatoire Harpists. Responses: Smith & Farmer (Suggested donation: £4/£3 concessions) Psalm 85 5.45pm Evening Prayer OH 161 (385) Holman in F minor Ave Maria - Parsons Tuesday 21 Thomas Cranmer, archbishop, Reformation martyr, 1556 8.00am Morning Prayer and Holy Communion 5.45pm Shorter Choral Evensong (Girls’ Voices) Saturday 25 Annunciation of Our Lord to the Blessed Virgin Mary Preces: Harold Darke 9.00am Morning Prayer and Holy Communion Psalm 50 3.30pm Evening Prayer OH 217 (19ii) Nunc dimittis: Marcus Huxley (ASB) Kyrie eleison - Britten Sunday 26 Fourth Sunday of Lent (Mothering Sunday) Verse: Wednesday 22 Decani 8.00am Morning Prayer and Holy Communion 9.00am Holy Communion 1.10pm Choral Communion (St Philip’s Singers) 11.00am Choral Eucharist for Lent with Healing (Girls’ and Men’s Voices) Messe solennelle - Vierne Introit: O nata lux – Tallis O for a closer walk with God - Stanford Kyrie: Mendelssohn Hymn 294 Missa Salve Intemerata - Talis 5.45pm Shorter Choral Evensong (Boys’ and Men’s Voices) Brother James’ Air – arr Gordon Jacob Preces: Bernard Rose Jerusalem quae aedificatur (iv) Psalms 52,53,54 Like as the hart – Bryan Kelly Magnificat: Harris in A Preacher: TBC O Lord. look down - Battishill 3.30pm Choral Evensong (Boys’ and Men’s Voices) Thursday 23 Responses: Byrd & Stone 8.00am Morning Prayer and Holy Communion Psalm 31.1-18 1.10pm Wholeness and Healing Service Morley (2nd service) 5.45pm Evening Prayer The King of Love - Bairstow 7.00pm Concert - Selena Farnsworth (Birmingham Conservatoire student) - solo cello Dean (Acting): The Revd Canon Nigel Hand Canon Liturgist: The Revd Canon Andrew Lythall Director of Music: Canon Marcus Huxley MARCH Verse: Decani Monday 27 8.00am Morning Prayer and Holy Communion 12.30pm Free Guided Tour (meet at main door) 5.45pm Evening Prayer APRIL Saturday 1 Fredrick Denison Maurice, priest, teacher of the faith, 1872 9.00am Wholeness and Healing Service with Communion Tuesday 28 3.30pm Evening Prayer 8.00am Morning Prayer and Holy Communion 5.00pm Bach’s St Matthew Passion in English 1.10pm Tuesday Talk Admission £15 (concessions £12.50) 5.45pm Evening Prayer Sunday 2 Fifth Sunday of Lent Verse: Cantoris Wednesday 29 9.00am Holy Communion 8.00am Morning Prayer and Holy Communion 11.00am Choral Eucharist (Men’s Voices) 1.10pm Holy Communion Introit: Adoramus te (4 voices) – Lassus 5.45pm Shorter Choral Evensong (Boys’ Voices) Mass for Four Voices - Byrd Preces: plainchant & Stone De Profundis – Josquin des Prez Psalm 73 Hoc corpus (viii) Nunc dimittis: Marcus Huxley in D flat Defecit in dolore - Byrd The Lord is my shepherd (a 2 v) - Schubert Preacher: TBC 3.30pm Choral Evensong (Girls’ and Men’s Voices) Thursday 30 Responses: Bernard Rose 8.00am Morning Prayer and Holy Communion Psalm 30 5.45pm Evening Prayer Howells (Worcester) 7.30pm Birmingham Conservatoire Baroque Orchestra Concert Daughters of Zion