10.00: Choral Eucharist (BAS)
From the rising of the sun - Ouseley
Missa l’hora passa - Viadana
Psalm 72:1-7
Bethlehem Down - Warlock
158, 157(508),599(580), 48, 160
March - Choveaux
13 January 2019 - The Baptism of the Lord
10.00: Choral Eucharist (BCP)
O come, ye servants of the Lord - Tye
Sumsion in F
Psalm 29
Teach me, O Lord - Byrd
649(454), 163, 162, 45, 645
Praeludium in D minor - Böhm
20 January 2019 - Second Sunday after the Epiphany
10.00: Choral Eucharist (BAS)
Sacerdotes Domini - Byrd
Missa Brevis XIII (Holy Cross) - Willan
Psalm 36:5-10
O Sacred Feast - Willan
565, 58, 354, 78, 393
Grand Choeur in D - Guilmant
27 January 2019 - Third Sunday after the Epiphany
10:00: Choral Eucharist (BCP)
God be in my head - Murray
Fredericton Missa Brevis - Murray
Psalm 19
The Spirit of the Lord is upon me - Elgar
8, 484(343), 101, 240, 362
March: Pomp and Circumstance No. 4 - Elgar
10.00: Choral Eucharist (BAS)
Great Litany
Missa Secunda - Hassler
Psalm 25:1-9
Rejoice in the Lord alway - Anon. 16th century
88, 178 (439), 546, 96, 560
Passacaglia in C minor BWV 582 - Bach
4.00: Advent Procession with the Great “O” Antiphons
Matin Responsory - Palestrina
Canite tuba in Sion - Guerrero
There is a flower springing - Praetorius
People, look east - arr. Martin Shaw
Dixit Maria - Hassler
E’en so, Lord Jesus, come quickly - Manz
Vesper Responsory - Praetorius
Hymns on Ordo
Fantasia on Wachet auf - Karg-Elert
December 9 - Second Sunday of Advent
10.00: Choral Eucharist (BCP)
There is a stream whose waters rise - Gibbons
Gibbons’ Short Service
Benedictus - Gibbons
This is the record of John - Gibbons
486, 103, 93, 445, 467
Processional - Mathias
December 16 - Third Sunday of Advent
10.00: Choral Eucharist (BAS)
O Sing joyfully - Batten
Wood in C minor
O Lord, I will praise thee - Jacob
How beautiful upon the mountains - Stainer
98, 112, 109, 59, 106
Sonata in F (4th movement) - Mendelssohn
December 23 - Fourth Sunday of Advent
10.00: Choral Eucharist (BCP)
Hail, Blessed Virgin Mary - Italian Carol arr. Wood
Missa Brevis III - Willan
Magnificat - Gibbons’ Short Service
O Wondrous Love - Kuhnau
89, 90, 354, 117, 318
Prelude on Nun komm’ der Heiden Heiland BWV 661 - Bach
4.00: Service of Nine Lessons and Carols
Hodie - Poulenc
Adam lay ybounden - Ord
Al and som - Drinkell
My Dancing Day - W. Noble
Gabriel’s Message - Pettman
Ding! Dong! Merrily on high - Wood
The Virgin’s Cradle Hymn - Rubbra
Psallite unigenito - Praetorius
In the bleak midwinter - Darke
Sir Christemas - Mathias
Hymns on Ordo
Toccata-Prelude on Vom Himmel hoch - Edmundson
December 24 - Christmas Eve
11.00pm: Choral Eucharist of Christmas (BCP)
Ding! Dong! Merrily on high - arr. Wood
Messe de Minuit de Nöel - Charpentier
Psalm 98
Carols
118, 121, 132, 122, 138
Dieu parmi nous - Messiaen
December 30 - First Sunday after Christmas
10:00 a.m. Carols for Christmastide
Special Order of Service
November 4 - In the Octave of All Saints - Twenty-fourth Sunday after Pentecost
10.00: Choral Eucharist with Baptism (BAS)
Christ hath a garden - Drinkell
German Mass - Schubert
Psalm 24:1-6
Give us the wings of faith - Bullock
285(245), 515, 306, 350, 48, 276
Incantation pour un jour saint - Langlais
4.00: Choral Evensong (BCP) Smith Responses
Psalms 148 and 150
Gibbons’ Short Service
O quam gloriosum - Victoria
275, 370, 116
Homage to Perotin - Roberts
November 11 - Remembrance Day - Twenty-fifth Sunday after Pentecost
9.45: Choral Eucharist (BCP)
The souls of the righteous - Murray
Darke in F
Psalm 127
My soul, there is a country - Parry
573, 112, 374, 61, 528
Sarabande in modo elegiaco - Howells
November 18 - Twenty-sixth Sunday after Pentecost
10.00: Choral Eucharist (BAS)
Oculi omnium - Wood
Wood in C minor
Psalm 16
Ave verum - Willan
613, 619, 92, 57, 516
Prelude & Fugue in C major BWV 547 - Bach
November 25 - Last Sunday after Pentecost - The Reign of Christ
10.30: Holy Eucharist
Missa Brevis XIII - Willan
E’en so, Lord Jesus, quickly come - Manz
October 7 - Twentieth Sunday after Pentecost - Harvest Thanksgiving
10.00: Choral Eucharist (BAS)
This is the day - Anon. 16th century
Missa Secunda - Hassler
Psalm 126
Jubilate Deo - Britten
262, 398, 258, 37, 399
Carillon de Longpont - Vierne
October 14 -Twenty-First Sunday after Pentecost
10.00: Choral Eucharist (BCP)
Almighty God, which hast me brought - Ford
Sumsion in G
Psalm 22:1-15
Ave verum corpus - Elgar
628, 604, 319, 49, 245
Finale Jubilante - Willan
October 21 - Twenty Second Sunday after Pentecost
10.00: Choral Eucharist (BAS)
I sat down under his shadow - Bairstow
Stanford in B flat
Psalm 104:1-9, 25
Behold, the tabernacle - Harris
627(362), 629, 374, 551, 364
Postlude in D minor - Stanford
4.00: Choral Evensong & Installation (BCP)
Drinkell Responses
Psalms 114, 115
Brewer in D
Blessed be the God and Father - S.S. Wesley
23, 505, 278
Imperial March - Elgar
October 28 - Twenty-Third Sunday after Pentecost
10:00: Choral Eucharist (BCP)
A Communion Prayer - Morrison/Capon
Missa collegium regale - Howells
Psalm 34:1-8
Like as the hart - Howells
101, 293, 375, 596, 529
Psalm Prelude Set 2, No. 3 - Howells
Choral Evensong is held monthly at 4:00 p.m. in the Cathedral. Check our calendar to confirm dates.
The article below, written in 2018 by former Cathedral Organist and Director of Music David Drinkell, answers the question, "What is Evensong?" Evensong is often livestreamed on our YouTube channel.
The Daily Offices are an important, but perhaps little-known, part of the Cathedral’s ministry. At Morning and Evening Prayer, each parish and organisation in the Diocese is remembered in the Mother Church, and prayer is offered for the wider Church and for the world.
Evening Prayer is one of the most balanced, logical and simple of our Anglican liturgies and is based on the monastic offices of Vespers and Compline. There is a penitential opening and a set of Responses to set the scene. The core of the Office lays out God’s Promise in the Psalms and Old Testament, the Wonder of God’s Coming to Earth in the Magnificat, Christ’s Life on Earth or the Holy Spirit working through the disciples in the New Testament, and the recognition and joyful acceptance of the Messiah in the Nunc Dimittis. This Faith is summed up in the Creed, and is followed by specific and general prayer.
Evening Prayer is a powerful devotion, even when read simply in private or quietly in the Cathedral alone or with a few people present. But one of the glories of Anglican worship is that, over nearly five centuries since it came into use, the Office has been sung in choral foundations in England and later throughout the world, clothed in some of the finest music ever inspired for worship. Choral Evensong sung in the Cathedral is an opportunity to experience this music-clothed service as a meditation on the mysteries of faith.
“Evensong is a very tiny fragment of something else: it is a fragment of the worship which is offered to God by Christian people every hour in every part of the world. When you come to Evensong it is as if you were dropping in on a conversation already in progress — a conversation between God and people which began long before we were born and will go on long after we are dead.”
2 September 2018 - Fifteenth Sunday after Pentecost
10.00: Choral Eucharist (BAS)
Call to remembrance - Farrant
Festive Eucharist - Rawsthorne
Psalm 45:1-2, 7-10
View me, Lord, a work of thine - Lloyd
1, 605, 624, 76, 393
Exurgat Deus - Hurford
9 September 2018 - Sixteenth Sunday after Pentecost
10.30: Eucharist on the Green (BAS)
Missa Brevis XIII (Holy Cross) - Willan
O taste and see - Vaughan Williams
O sing joyfully - Batten
Hymns on Ordo
16 September 2018 - Seventeenth Sunday after Pentecost
10.00: Choral Eucharist (BAS)
Jesu, the very thought is sweet - Wood
Wood in C minor
Psalm 19
O thou, the central orb - Wood
2, 271, 466, 450, 602
Sonata No. 3 (1st movement) - Mendelssohn
23 September 2018 - Eighteenth Sunday after Pentecost
10.00: Choral Eucharist (BCP)
For Guds folk er hvilen tilbake - Sløgedal
Short Service - Ayleward
Psalm 1
Sacerdotes Domini - Byrd
649, 506, 500,61, 576
Sinfonia (Cantata 29) - Bach
30 September 2018 - Nineteenth Sunday after Pentecost
10.00: Choral Matins (BCP)
God be in my head - Murray
Smith Responses
Venite
Psalm 124
Ireland in F
7, 97, 592, 379
Prelude on Darwall - Whitlock
10.00: Choral Eucharist (BAS)
Lord, for thy tender mercy’s sake - Hilton
Missa Secunda - Hassler
Psalm 51:1-13
Ave verum corpus - Byrd
282, 447, 10, 83, 529
Psalm Prelude, Set 2, No. 3 - Howells
Sunday 12 August - Twelfth Sunday after Pentecost
10.00: Choral Eucharist (BCP)
God so loved the world - Goss
Harris in F
Psalm 130
Tantum ergo sacramentum - Séverac
355, 431, 645, 49, 565
Toccata on Lasst uns erfreuen - Choveaux
Sunday 19 August - Thirteenth Sunday after Pentecost
10.00: Choral Eucharist (BAS)
Hide not thou thy face - Farrant
Missa Brevis XIII (Holy Cross) - Willan
Psalm 111
From the rising of the sun - Ouseley
381, 561, 84, 72, 438
Prelude and Fugue in G BWV 541 - Bach
Sunday 26 August - Fourteenth Sunday after Pentecost
10:00: Choral Eucharist (BCP)
O sacrum convivium - Mudd
Wood in the Phrygian Mode
Psalm 84
Rejoice in the Lord alway - Anon. 16th cent.
364, 496, 497, 70, 461
Marche aux Flambeaux - Scotson Clark
10.00: Choral Eucharist (BAS)
If ye love me - Tallis
Missa l’hora passa - Viadana
Psalm 130
O sacred feast - Willan
573, 293, 84, 75, 438
Fantasie sur O Canada - Bédard
July 8: Seventh Sunday after Pentecost
10.00: Choral Eucharist (BCP)
O come, ye servants of the Lord - Tye
Sumsion in F
Psalm 48
Ave verum corpus - Elgar
628, 527, 364, 71, 433
Pomp and Circumstance March No. 4 - Elgar
July 15: Eighth Sunday after Pentecost
10.00: Choral Eucharist (BAS)
A Prayer of King Henry VI - Ley
Barnard in G
Psalm 24
Bread of the world in mercy broken - Bancroft
12, 277, 369, 76, 381
Marche triomphale: Nun danket - Karg-Elert
July 22: Ninth Sunday after Pentecost
10.00: Choral Eucharist (BCP)
O Lord, increase our faith - Loosemore
Darke in F
Psalm 89:20-36
Jesu, joy of man’s desiring - Bach
491, 575, 520, 629, 300
Two Trumpet Tunes and an Air - attr. Purcell
July 29: Tenth Sunday after Pentecost
10.00: Choral Matins (BCP)
Cantate Domino - Pitoni
Drinkell Responses
Psalm 14
Stanford in B flat
8, 619, 564, 434
Toccata & Fugue in modo doricio BWV 538 - Bach
Junior Choristers
Children from the age of 8 are able to attend Choir School, with the consent of a parent or guardian (they must turn eight by the end of the current year). Overnight accommodations usually consist of two people per room, in the dormitory-styled residence buildings. The days are very busy, so we encourage parents who are unsure about what is involved to contact the Administrative Director. A typical day begins at 7:45, and ends at 9:00pm, and includes chapel services, several rehearsals, classroom time, recreation, meals (of course!), an early afternoon rest period, and some free time.
Arrival time on the first day is between 3:00 p.m. and 5:00 p.m. on Sunday afternoon with supper at 5:30. Please come to the Dining Hall to register (follow the signs). For the benefit of all choristers, please do not send cell phones as it can create problems for those who are homesick, and others around them. Any cell phones found will be confiscated until the end of the week.
Thursday evening, we offer a Choral Evensong service at a parish church, to which all are invited. The last Sunday afternoon, at 3:30, is our final Choral Evensong service. Family and friends are encouraged to attend this service, which takes place at a large church or cathedral, children can then be picked up after the service. This service is very well attended.
recreation, chapel worship services, rest time, and special fun activities
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For best seating, please arrive at the church just after 3:00pm, when the choirs finishes its rehearsal.
Adult Choristers
Adults who are attending Choir School are encouraged to come to the Thursday night Evensong service. From there, you can go directly to RNS (Rothesay Netherwood School) where you can settle into a room at Kirk House, on the RNS campus. registration takes place the following morning after breakfast at the Dining Hall. Some adults, however, are only able to join us on Friday, which is OK, too!
Choir School takes place every year in the first full week of July on the beautiful campus of Rothesay-Netherwood private school. Some stay in the residence buildings, while local choristers sometimes live at home, and come for the full day of activities. Each day is very full, and sleep becomes a rather precious thing by the end of the week. Through the week, the chorister's day is filled with choir rehearsals, a classroom session of Christian Education, Christian culture, as well as recreation, chapel worship services, rest time, and special fun activities.
10.00: Choral Eucharist (BAS)
God be in my head - Murray
Festive Eucharist - Rawsthorne
Psalm 139:1-5, 12-17
Jesu dulcis memoria - Victoria
515, 459, 434, 476, 526(318)
Praeludium in D BuxWV 139 - Buxtehude
10 June - Third Sunday after Pentecost
10.00: Choral Eucharist (BCP)
Thou knowest, Lord - Purcell
Darke in E
Psalm 138
Behold, the tabernacle - Harris
574(Old 124th), 620, 631, 57, 306
Tuba Tune - Cocker
17 June - Fourth Sunday after Pentecost
10.00: Choral Eucharist (BAS)
Let thy merciful ears, O Lord - Mudd
Wood in C minor
Psalm 20
O sacrum convivium - Tallis
10, 478, 546, 617, 362
Litanies - Alain
24 June - The Birth of St. John the Baptist
10.00: Choral Eucharist (BCP)
The great forerunner - Vaughan Williams
Gibbons’ Short Service
Psalm 85:7-13
This is the Record of John - Gibbons
282, 12, 106, 52, 276
Incantation pour un jour saint - Langlais
4.00: Ordination (BAS)
Missa Brevis XIII (Holy Cross) - Willan
Psalm 87:7-13
Ave verum - Willan
349, 466, 59, 48, And can it be?
Dance Suite (1st movement) - Ridout
