What's on - Lent/Easter

  • Sung by the Choir of Leeds Minster
    The Crucifixion | Stainer

  • Sat 1st Apr

    8.00pm - 11.00pm

    Handel’s Messiah at Easter

    Leeds Philharmonic Chorus and Skipton Camerata
    Messiah | Handel

    Sun 2nd Apr

    11.30am - 12.45pm

    Choral Eucharist for Palm Sunday

    Palm Sunday
    Common Worship
    With the Passion narrative from Matthew’s Gospel
    Ven. Paddy Benson
    Preacher: Rev’d Canon Paul Maybury

    Setting: Jackson in G
    Psalm: 32 vv9-16
    Anthem: Lift up your heads, O ye gates | Mathias
    Voluntary: Allegro Moderato e serioso (Sonata 1) | Mendelssohn

    Mon 3rd Apr

    8.00pm - 9.00pm

    Sung Compline for Monday of Holy Week

    Sung by the Choir of Leeds Minster
    Nunc dimittis | Tallis
    Adoramus te | Lassus

    Tue 4th Apr

    8.00pm - 9.00pm

    Sung Compline for Tuesday of Holy Week

    Sung by the Choir of Leeds Minster
    Nunc dimittis | Ayleward
    Christus factus est | Anerio

    Wed 5th Apr

    8.00pm - 9.00pm

    Sung Compline for Wednesday of Holy Week

    Sung by the Choir of Leeds Minster
    Nunc dimittis | Weelkes
    Ave verun corpus | Byrd

    Thu 6th Apr

    8.00pm - 9.00pm

    Choral Eucharist for Maundy Thursday

    Common Worship
    With washing of feet

    Setting: Stanfordin F and B flat
    Psalm: 116:9-end
    At the feet washing: Ubi caritas | Duruflé
    Anthem: Tantum Ergo | Duruflé
    Psalm 22

    Fri 7th Apr

    11.30am - 12.30pm

    Choral Matins for Good Friday

    Book of Common Prayer

    Responses: Ayleward
    Psalm: 69
    Benedictus: Stanford in F
    Anthem: Ecce Quomodo Moritur Justus | Jacob Handl
    Voluntary: Durch Adams Fall ist ganz vederbt | Buxtehude

    With music by the Salvation Army band, followed by refreshments in St John’s Church

    In the event of rain, the service will take place in St John’s Church

    Fri 7th Apr

    8.00pm - 9.00pm

    Music for Good Friday: Penthos

    Penthos – a new Requiem | Hannah Stone & Matthew Oglesby

    A meditation in word and music on repentance, reconciliation and forgiveness

    St Peter’s Singers
    National Festival Orchestra
    Sally Robinson leader
    Lucy Appleyard contralto
    Quentin Brown bass
    William Campbell organ
    Alexander Woodrow conductor

    Sun 9th Apr

    10.15am - 11.00am

    Easter Sunday Holy Communion

    Book of Common Prayer
    Rev’d Canon Paul Maybury

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

    Setting: Missa Brevis in C K.259 | Mozart
    Psalm: 118: vv14-24
    Anthem: Hallelujah Chorus | Handel
    Anthem: The Strife is O’er | Ley
    Voluntary: Saraband for the Morning of Easter | Howells

    Sun 16th Apr

    11.30am - 12.45pm

    Eucharist with Hymns

    Second Sunday of Easter
    Common Worship
    Rev’d Bob Brooke

    Sun 23rd Apr

    11.30am - 12.45pm

    Choral Eucharist

    Third Sunday of Easter
    Common Worship
    Rev’d Prof. Jane de Gay
    Preacher: Rev’d Canon Paul Maybury

    Setting: Missa Brevis Sancti Joannis de Deo “The Little Organ Mass” | Haydn
    Psalm: 116:1-3,10-end
    Anthem: O Taste and See | Vaughan Williams
    Voluntary: Choral-Improvisation Sur le “Victimae Paschali” | Tournemire

    Sun 30th Apr

    11.30am - 12.45pm

    Choral Eucharist

    Fourth Sunday of Easter
    Common Worship
    Ven. Paddy Benson
    Preacher: Kay Brown

    Setting: Darke in F
    Psalm: 23
    Anthem: The Lord is my shepherd | Berkeley
    Voluntary: Psalm Prelude Set 2 No. 3 | Howells

  • Sun 7th May

    11.30am - 12.45pm

    Choral Eucharist

    Fifth Sunday of Easter
    Common Worship
    Rev’d Canon Paul Maybury
    Preacher: Ven. Paddy Benson

    Setting: Coronation Mass | Mozart
    Psalm: 31:1-5
    Anthem: Ave Verum Corpus | Mozart
    Voluntary: Orb and Sceptre | Walton arr. Gowers

    Sixth Sunday of Easter
    Common Worship
    Rev’d Prof. Jane de Gay
    Preacher: Rev’d Judith Clark

    Setting: Missa Secunda | Hassler
    Psalm: 66:7-end
    Anthem: If ye love me | Tallis
    Voluntary: Prelude and Fugue in C Major BWV 531 | J. S. Bach

    This service is followed by the Election of Churchwardens and the Annual Parochial Church Meeting. We hope that all who consider themselves regular members of our worshipping community will attend these meetings.

    Thu 18th May

    8.00pm - 9.00pm

    Choral Eucharist for Ascension Day

    Ascension Day
    Common Worship
    Rev’d Canon Paul Maybury

    Setting: Ireland in C
    Psalm: 47
    Anthem: Caelos ascendit | Stanford
    Voluntary: Litanies | Alain

    Sun 21st May

    11.30am - 12.45pm

    Choral Eucharist

    Seventh Sunday of Easter
    Common Worship
    Ven. Paddy Benson
    Preacher: Rev’d Prof. Jane de Gay

    Setting: Darke in E
    Psalm: 68:1-10
    Anthem: Let all the world | Vaughan Williams
    Voluntary: 3rd movement from Organ Sonata No. 5 | Mendelssohn

  • Fri 29th Mar

    7.00pm - 9.30pm

    Music for Good Friday: St John Passion

    St John Passion | J S Bach
    Toby Ward – Evangelist
    Phil Wilcox – Christus
    St Peter’s Singers with the National Festival Orchestra
    Alexander Woodrow – conductor
    Admission: £20 online and at the door Book here
    Organised by St Peter’s Singers
    Sung in English