Solemn Latin Mass:
Mass in C RR Terry
O Salutaris hostia Fernand Laloux
Adoramus te, Christe Orlando Lassus
Organ: Prelude & Fugue in G, BWV 550 (JS Bach)
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Sunday, 1st February 2026 4th Sunday (A)
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Sunday, 25th January 2026 3rd Sunday
Introit: Cantate Domino canticum novum Giuseppe Pitoni
Kyrie/Gloria: 459/460
Offertory hymn: 738 Thou whose almighty word
Communion motet: Salve lux mundi Josquin des Prez
Organ: Toccata Joseph Jongen
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Sunday 18th January 2026 2nd Sunday (A)
Entry hymn: 891 Christ be our light
Kyrie: 459 Gloria: 467
Offertory motet: The Lamb John Tavener
Communion motet: The Lord is my Shepherd Martin How
Communion hymn: 111 Christ is the world’s light
Organ: Prelude, Fugue & Variation César Franck
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Sunday 11th January 2026 Baptism of the Lord
Entrance hymn: 661 Songs of thankfulness and praise (vv.1,2,5)
Kyrie/Gloria: 459/460
Offertory motet: Tribus miraculis GP da Palestrina
Communion motet: O Lord, give Thy Holy Spirit Thomas Tallis
Communion hymn: 106 Christ be beside me
Organ: Concerto in A minor (3rd mvt) Vivaldi/Bach
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Sunday 4th January 2026 2nd Sunday after the Nativity
Solemn Latin Mass:
Missa de Angelis (K,G,S,B)
Offertory: The Three Kings Peter Cornelius arr. Atkins
Communion: Dormi, Jesu! Edmund Rubbra
Organ: Fantasia on Christmas carols John E West
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The Nativity of the Lord 25th December 2025
Midnight Mass:
11.30 BEFORE MASS:
Choir: Creator of the stars of night (arr. John Scott)
All: O come, O come, Emmanuel
Choir: Adam lay Ybounden John Ireland
All: O little town of Bethlehem
Choir: People look east Christopher Steele
All: Lo he comes with clouds descending
12.00: MASS:
Entry – Once in royal David’s city
Choir unacc. v1 (nb we stop for the blessing of the crib after v1 or v2)
Kyrie: Missa ad Praesepe George Malcolm
Offertory: O come, all ye faithful
Sanctus: Gathering Mass Paul Inwood
Agnus dei Mass 18
Communion: O magnum mysterium Morten Lauridsen
The three kings Peter Cornelius arr. Atkins
All: Silent Night
Final carol: Hark, the herald angels sing
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Sunday 21st December 2025 Advent 4
Introit (choir): Rorate coeli desuper (plainsong)
Kyrie: Missa ‘Dixit Maria’ HL Hassler
Offertory motet: Ave Maria Louis Vierne
Communion motet: Ecce concipies Jakob Handl
Communion hymn: 243 Hark! A herald voice is calling
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Sunday 14th December 2025 Advent 3 (Gaudete)
Entry hymn: 522 O come, O come Emmanuel
Offertory motet: Canite tuba in Sion GP da Palestrina
Communion motet: Confortamini et iam O Lassus
Communion hymn: 133 Come thou long-expected Jesus
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Sunday, 7th December 2025 Advent 2
Solemn Latin Mass
Kyrie: Mass 18 (plainchant)
Offertory motet: Jerusalem surge Giovanni Battista Martini
Sanctus/Benedictus/Agnus Dei: Missal tones (Mass 18)
Communion: From the ‘O’ Antiphons (plainchant):
O sapientia: O Adonai; O radix Jesse
Organ: Veni Redemptor gentium Samuel Scheidt
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Sunday, 30th November 2025 Advent 1 (A)
Entry: Ad te levavi Johann Aiblinger
Kyrie: 468 Missa Orbis Factor
Offertory motet: Ad te, Domine, levavi JJ Fux
Communion motet: Creator alme siderum (plainsong arr. John Scott)
Communion hymn: 762 Wait for the Lord
Organ: Prelude on ‘Wachet auf’. Flor Peeters
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