Common worship
Setting: Requiem Mass | Maurice Durufle
Book of Common Prayer
Responses: Rose
Psalm: 43
Canticles: Magnificat and Nunc Dimittis in F | Dyson
Anthem: Holy is the True Light | Harris
Voluntary: Prelude in C | attrib. Bach
Common Worship
With Family Church for all ages.
Setting: Messe Solennelle
Voluntary: Carillon de Longpont | Vierne
The annual service organised with SCARD for those who have lost loved-ones in vehicle accidents.
Anthem: In Paradisum | Faure
Anthem: Pie Jesu | John Rutter
Anthem: A Gaelic Blessing | John Rutter
Voluntary: Largo (from Symphony No. 9) | Dvořák arr. Rawsthorne
Book of Common Prayer
Responses: Felix Riley
Psalm: 76
Canticles: Magnificat and Nunc Dimittis in D | Brewer
Anthem: Purest and Highest | Stanford
Voluntary: Trio in F | Smart
Common Worship
With Family Church for all ages.
Setting: Gloria and Sanctus | Langlais (Messe Solennelle)
Setting: Agnus Dei | Plainsong
Anthem: Let all the World | Vaughan Williams
Voluntary: Coronation March: Orb & Sceptre | Walton
Book of Common Prayer
Responses: Felix Riley
Psalm: 72
Setting: Magnificat and Nunc Dimittis in D | Dyson
Anthem: Great is the Lord | Elgar
Voluntary: Alla Marcia | Coleridge-Taylor
Common Worship
With Family Church for all ages.
Setting: Communion Service in G | Whitlock
Anthem: Matin Responsory | Palestrina
Voluntary: Wachet auf! | J. S. Bach
Common Worship
Sung by the Choir of Leeds Minster
All welcome
Refreshments served afterwards
Anthem: Matin Responsory | Palestrina
Anthem: Drop down ye heavens | Lloyd
Anthem: A Tender Shoot | Goldschmidt
Anthem: Lux Aurumque | Whitacre
Anthem: And he shall purify | Handel
Anthem: Let all mortal flesh
Voluntary: Fantasy on Helmsley | Leighton
YEP Brass
Choir of Leeds Minster
Organiser: Yorkshire Evening Post
Admission: Please sign up for your free tickets (retiring collection in aid of Martin House Children’s Hospice and Leeds Minster – minimum recommended donation £5)
Doors open 6pm
Anthem: How far is it to Bethlehem? | arr. Lindley
Anthem: Silent Night | David Houlder
Anthem: Jesus Child | John Rutter
Common Worship
With Family Church for all ages.
This service is sung by the Tenors and Basses of the Minster Choir
Setting: Messe Cum Jubilo | Duruflé
Anthem: Rorate Caeli | Plainsong
Responses, Psalm 11, and Canticles will be sung to Plainsong
Anthem: Ceremony of Carols | Benjamin Britten
This service is sung by the upper voices of the Minster Choir, with members of St Peter’s Singers. The Britten anthem is accompanied on the harp by Bethan Cole.
Organised by: NSPCC Leeds
Admission: From £11.55 Book here
More Info: Doors open 6.30pm
Common Worship
With Family Church for all ages.
This service is sung by the Children’s Choir.
Kyrie Eleison
Anthem: The Angel Gabriel | Traditional
Voluntary: Toccata on ‘Veni Emmanuel’ | Carter
The traditional readings, anthems and carols following the pattern of King’s College, Cambridge, led by the clergy and choir of Leeds Minster, with well-known carols for all to sing.
Common Worship
With Family Church for all ages.
Setting: Mass of the Quiet Hour | Oldroyd
Anthem: I sing of a maiden | Berkeley
Voluntary: Fuga sopra il Magnificat BWV 733 | J. S. Bach
At St John’s, Briggate.
A traditional service led by the clergy and choir of Leeds Minster in the oldest church in Leeds.
Please wrap up for the cold in the building.
Love came down at Christmas | Edgar Pettman.
Jesus Christ the Apple Tree | Elizabeth Poston
A Spotless Rose | Herbert Howells
In the bleak midwinter | Harold Darke
Sussex Carol | arr. Willcocks
The First Communion of Christmas with refreshments available from 10.30pm.
Setting: Messe de Minuit | Charpentier
Gradual Anthem: Silent Night | David Houlder
Anthem at Communion: My Lord has come | Will Todd
Voluntary: In dulci jubilo BWV 729 | J. S. Bach
Common Worship
We welcome the Bishop of Kirkstall as president and preacher
Setting: Communion Service in E | Darke
Anthem: I saw three ships | arr. Willcocks
Anthem: Ding Dong
Voluntary: Toccata | Widor
Common Worship
With Family Church for all ages.
This service is sung by a chamber ensemble drawn from the Minster Choir.
Gloria: Thorne (Trinity Mass, congregational)
S&B, AD: Messa da cappella a quattro voci | Monteverdi
Anthem: A New Year Carol | Britten
Voluntary: Bergamasca (Fiori Musicali) | Frescobaldi
