What's on - Christmas

  • Thu 1st Dec

    7.00pm - 8.30pm

    Yorkshire Evening Post Carol Service

    Featuring the Choir of Leeds Minster, Yorkshire Evening Post Brass and Andrew Edwards (BBC Radio Leeds)

    Tickets are free on Eventbrite

    Sussex Carol | arr. Willcocks
    Sir Christemas | Mathias
    My Lord has come | Todd

    Tue 6th Dec

    7.00pm - 8.30pm

    BBC Radio Leeds Carol Service

    Featuring the Choir of Leeds Minster and Yorkshire Evening Post Brass, with music by Will Todd, William Mathias and David Willcocks.

    This service will be recorded for broadcast on Radio Leeds. Starting at 7pm prompt – no latecomers will be admitted.

    Sussex Carol | arr. Willcocks
    Sir Christemas | Mathias
    My Lord has come | Todd

    Thu 8th Dec

    7.30pm - 9.30pm

    Mediæval Bæbes

    MydWynter Tour 2022
    Doors open at 7pm
    Tickets available online

    Sun 11th Dec

    5.30pm - 6.30pm

    Carol Service

    Third Sunday in Advent

    Veiled in Darkness | Rudolph
    And the Glory of the Lord | Handel
    The Angel Gabriel | arr. Archer
    Away in a Manger
    Sussex Carol | Ledger

    Thu 15th Dec

    6.30pm - 10.00pm

    Lord Mayor’s Carol Concerts

    Leeds Philharmonic Chorus
    Rothwell Temperance Band
    Concerts organized by Leeds International Concert Season

    Fri 16th Dec

    1.00pm - 2.05pm

    Messiaen Organ recital

    William Campbell (Leeds Minster)
    La Nativité du Seigneur | Messiaen

    Admission FREE with a Retiring Collection

    Sat 17th Dec

    4.00pm - 5.00pm

    Christmas Voices

    Featuring the Joy Choir, directed by Libby Harborne

    This service will be recorded for broadcast on Premier Christian Radio

    Sun 18th Dec

    7.30pm - 8.30pm

    Nine Lessons and Carols

    Fourth Sunday in Advent

    E’en So Lord Jesus, Quickly Come | Manz
    People Look East | arr. Ferguson
    Magnificat in C | Stanford
    Silent Night | Houlder
    The Holly and the Ivy | Nixon
    My Lord has come | Todd
    The Three Kings | Cornelius
    The Lamb | Tavener
    Sir Christemas | Mathias

    Voluntary: Dieu Parmi Nous | Messiaen

    Wed 21st Dec

    6.00pm - 9.30pm

    Candlelight Concerts: Christmas films

    String Infusion
    Music from Love Actually, Home Alone and more
    Concert organized by Fever

    Fri 23rd Dec

    6.00pm - 9.30pm

    Candlelight Concerts: Christmas films

    String Infusion
    Music from Love Actually, Home Alone and more
    Concert organized by Fever

    Sat 24th Dec

    11.30pm - 12.30am

    Midnight Mass

    Common Worship
    Preacher: Rev’d Canon Paul Maybury

    Setting: Little Organ Mass | Handel
    Psalm: 98
    Dormi Jesu | Rutter
    Silent Night | Houlder

    Sun 25th Dec

    9.15am - 10.00am

    Holy Communion

    Book of Common Prayer
    Rev’d Canon Paul Maybury

    Sun 25th Dec

    10.30am - 11.30am

    Christmas Day Eucharist

    Common Worship
    Presiding: Rev’d Canon Paul Maybury
    Preaching: Rt Rev’d Arun Arora, Bishop of Kirkstall

    Setting: Stanford in B♭ and F
    Psalm 96
    Sir Christemas | Mathias
    We wish you a merry Christmas | arr. Warrell

  • Sun 1st Jan

    10.30am - 11.30am

    New Year’s Day Eucharist

    Common Worship
    Preacher: Ven. Paddy Benson

    Sun 8th Jan

    5.30pm - 6.30pm

    Epiphany Carol Service

    First Sunday of Epiphany

    Omnes de Saba venient | Handl
    Here is the Little Door | Howells
    There shall a star from Jacob come forth (from Christus) | Mendelssohn
    Bethlehem Down | Warlock
    Voluntary: Les Mages (from La Nativité du Seigneur) | Messiaen

  • Thu 30th Nov

    7.00pm - 8.30pm

    Yorkshire Evening Post Carol Service

    YEP Brass and the Choir of Leeds Minster

    Free entry (collection on the door)
    Please book here

    Nativity Carol | John Rutter
    In the stillness | Sally Beamish
    Sussex Carol | arr. Philip Ledger

  • Sun 3rd Dec

    5.30pm - 7.00pm

    Advent Procession

    A Processional Service with readings and music to mark the start of Advent

    Matin Responsory | Palestrina
    Canite Tuba | Guerrero
    How beautiful upon the mountains | Stainer
    Angelus ad virginem | arr. Carter
    O thou, the central orb | Wood
    E’en so, Lord Jesus, quickly come | Manz

    Toccata on ‘Veni, veni Emmanuel’ | Carter

    Otley Brass Band
    Rock Choir
    Unity: The After Cure Choir

    £10 (free for under 12s) | Book online

    Sat 9th Dec

    4.00pm - 5.00pm

    Christmas Voices

    A service of readings and contemporary carols led by the Joy Choir

    Free entry with retiring collection

    Readings and Carols at St John’s Church on New Briggate, led by the clergy and choir of Leeds Minster. Please bring extra clothing to keep warm!

    The truth from above | Vaughan Williams
    A great and mighty wonder | harm. Praetorius
    The Three Kings | Cornelius
    Infant Holy, Infant Lowly | Trad.
    In the stillness | Beamish