First Communion of Christmas
Common Worship
Rev’d Canon Paul Maybury
Preacher: Rev’d Andrew Earwaker
Mass of the Quiet Hour | Oldroyd
All my heart this night rejoices | Trad.
In the stillness | Beamish
Silent Night | Houlder
Toccata in F | Widor
Common Worship
Rev’d Canon Paul Maybury
Preacher: Ven. Paul Ayers, Archdeacon of Leeds
Mass in G | Schubert
Psalm 96
I saw three ships | arr. Lindley
We wish you a merry Christmas | arr. Warrell
Toccata-Noel | Tambling
Common Worship
Sung by members of St Peter’s Singers
Setting: Mass for Four Voices | William Byrd
Gradual: The Three Kings | Cornelius
Anthem: Bethlehem Down | Warlock
Voluntary: Wie schön leuchtet der Morgenstern (BuxWV 223) | Dieterich Buxtehude
Common Worship
Sung by a quartet from the Choir of Leeds Minster
Gloria: from the Trinity Mass | David Thorne
Psalm: 139: 1-9
Setting: Sanctus and Agnus Dei from Messa a Quattro Voci | Giovanni Grossi
Anthem: Lead me, Lord | S. S. Wesley
Voluntary: Prelude in D (BWV 532i) | J. S. Bach
Book of Common Prayer
Sung by a Quartet from the Minster Choir
Responses: Plainsong
Psalm: 96
Canticles: Short Service | Thomas Weelkes
Anthem: In the bleak midwinter | Harold Darke
Voluntary:
Alexander Woodrow (Leeds Minster) – Organ
Admission: Free, with retiring collection
Organised by Leeds Minster
Common Worship
Setting: Messe Solennelle | Louis Vierne
Psalm: 128
Anthem: Listen Sweet Dove | Grayston Ives
Voluntary:
Book Of Common Prayer
Responses: Ebdon
Psalm: 33: 1-12
Canticles: Murrill in E
Anthem: We wait for thy loving kindness | William McKie
Voluntary: Psalm Prelude Set 1, No.2 | Herbert Howells
Book of Common Prayer
Responses: Ebdon
Psalm: 119: 41-56
Canticles: Short Service | Orlando Gibbons
Anthem: O Lord, increase our faith | Henry Loosemore
Shaun Turnbull (Leeds Minster) – Organ
Admission: Free, with retiring collection
Organised by Leeds Minster
Common Worship
Setting: Communion Service in E ‘Collegium Regale’ | Harold Darke
Psalm: 24: 1-6, 7 to end
Anthem: O thou the central orb | Charles Wood
Anthem: Nunc Dimittis in G | Charles Villiers Stanford
Voluntary: Mit Fried und Freud ich fahr dahin BWV 616 | J S Bach
A meditative service of Readings and Music for Candlemas
Held by Candlelight
Anthem: Hail gladdening light | Wood
Anthem: Veiled in darkness | Rudolph
Anthem: O Radiant Dawn | MacMillan
Anthem: When to the temple Mary went | Eccard
Canticle: Nunc Dimittis in G | Stanford
Voluntary: Fiat Lux | T. Dubois
Book of Common Prayer
Responses: Radcliffe
Psalm: 138
Setting: Fourth Service | Batten
Anthem: O Nata Lux | Tallis
Voluntary: Mein Junges Leben Hat ein End | Sweelinck
Oliver Waterer (Selby Abbey) – Organ
Admission: Free, with retiring collection
Organised by Leeds Minster
Common Worship
Gloria: ‘Trinity Mass’ | Thorne
Setting: Sanctus, Benedictus and Agnus Dei from ‘Messa a Quattro Voci’ | Giovanni Grossi
Psalm: 104: 26 – end
Anthem: See, see the word is incarnate | Gibbons
Voluntary: Praeludium in C | Böhm
Book of Common Prayer
Responses: Radcliffe
Psalm: 65
Setting: Magnificat and Nunc Dimittis | Matthew Coleridge
Anthem: Lift up your heads, o ye gates | William Mathias
Voluntary: Fanfare | Matthias
Book of Common Prayer
Responses: Radcliffe
Psalm: 18
Setting: Second Service | William Byrd
Anthem: Teach me O Lord | William Byrd
Voluntary: Passacaglia in D minor | Buxtehude
