Choral services on Sundays are Mass at 10:00 and Evensong at 6:30. There are extra services at major festivals. The programme of music for the current month is shown.


Parish Church of Saint Thomas of Canterbury Brentwood

MUSIC LIST August 2008

3 SundayTHE ELEVENTH SUNDAY AFTER TRINITY
 
10.00amSUNG MASS
 Setting: Mass for three voices — William Byrd
 Gloria: Lourdes
 Responsorial Psalm 145 (various vv) — Jeff Ostrowski
 Gospel Acclamation: Vulpius F
 Communion: Eat this bread, drink this cup — Jacques Berthier (Taizé)
 Hymns: NEH 436 295 289 362
 Organ: Prelude & Fugue in D minor (BWV 554) — Johann Sebastian Bach (SS)
 
6.30pmCHORAL EVENSONG & BENEDICTION
 Responses: Ferial
 Psalm 80 — Plainsong
 Canticles: Samuel Sebastian Wesley in F
 Anthem: Rejoice in the Lord alway — Henry Purcell
 Hymns: NEH 256 305
 O salutaris Hostia: NEH 269(i) Part 2
 Tantum ergo Sacramentum: NEH 268 Part 2
 Organ: Rondeau — Henry Purcell (DR)

 
10 SundayTHE TWELFTH SUNDAY AFTER TRINITY
 
10.00amSUNG MASS
 Setting: The English Mass — Leonard J White
 Responsorial Psalm 85 (vv 8-13) — Alan Smith
 Gospel Acclamation: Plainsong H
 Intercessions: O Lord hear my prayer — Taizé
 Communion: Lead me Lord — Samuel Sebastian Wesley
 Hymns: NEH 408(i) 353 385 239
 Organ: Toccata (Suite Gothique) — Léon Boëllmann (SD)
 
6.30pmCHORAL EVENSONG
 Responses: Plainsong
 Psalm 86
 Anthem: Through the day thy love has spared us — Thomas Morley
 Canticles: Thomas Morley fauxbourdons tones viii & v
 Hymns: NEH 150(ii) 363 245
 Amen: Sydney Nicholson
 Organ: Allegro Festivo — Noel Rawsthorne (SS)

 
15 FridayASSUMPTION OF THE BLESSED VIRGIN MARY
 
8.00pmSOLEMN MASS
 Setting: Mass of Saint Thomas — David Thorne
 Responsorial Psalm 45 (vv 9-11 & 15) — David Rooke
 Gospel Acclamation: Gregory Murray C (for Assumption)
 Communion: Virgin-born we bow before thee — arr Richard Greening
 Hymns: NEH 188(omit*) 184 186
 Organ: Ave Maria d’Arcadelt — Franz Liszt (SD)

 
17 SundayTHE THIRTENTH SUNDAY AFTER TRINITY
 
10.00amSUNG MASS
 Setting: A New People’s Mass — Gregory Murray
 Responsorial Psalm 67 — David Rooke
 Gospel Acclamation: Gregory Murray D
 Communion: A new commandment — Malcolm Archer
 Hymns: NEH 351 397(omit vv 4&5) 419 366
 Organ: Pageant — Malcolm Archer (SD)
 
6.30pmCHORAL EVENSONG
 Responses: Ferial
 Psalm 90 (vv 1-12)
 Canticles: Charles Hylton Stewart in C
 Anthem: Day by day — Martin How
 Hymns: NEH 257 388(i) 248(ii)
 Amen: John Sanders
 Organ: Basse de Trompette — Louis Marchand (SS)

 
24 SundayTHE FOURTEENTH SUNDAY AFTER TRINITY
 
10.00amSUNG MASS
 Setting: Mass of Saint Thomas Becket — Martin Smith
 Responsorial Psalm 138 — David Rooke
 Gospel Acclamation: Laurence Bevenot B
 Communion: Where is love and loving-kindness — Alan Rees
 Hymns: NEH 484(167) omit * 360 140 434
 Organ: Toccata in F (BuxWV 156) — Dietrich Buxtehude (SS)
 
6.30pmCHORAL EVENSONG (Men’s Voices)
 Responses: Plainsong
 Psalm 95
 Canticles: Second Service — Philip Moore
 Anthem: Gloria tibi Domine — William Byrd
 Hymns: NEH 54(i) 452 246(ii)
 Organ: Intrada — Grayston Ives (DR)

 
29 Friday
 
1.00pmLUNCHTIME MUSIC
 Ivan Redman (piano)

 
31 SundayTHE FIFTEENTH SUNDAY AFTER TRINITY
 
10.00amSUNG MASS
 Setting: Anglican Folk Mass — Martin Shaw
 Responsorial Psalm 26 (vv 1-8) — Peter Best
 Gospel Acclamation: Plainsong G
 Communion: Ubi caritas et amor — Maurice Duruflé
 Hymns: NEH 437(362i) 369 367 372
 Organ: Processional — William Mathias (DR)
 
6.30pmCHORAL EVENSONG
 Responses: Ferial
 Psalm 105 (vv 1-15)
 Canticles: Plainsong tones ii and viii
 Anthem: If ye love me, keep my commandments — Thomas Tallis
 Hymns: NEH 426 451 482
 Amen: Martin Shaw
 Organ: Romance sans Paroles — Joseph Bonnet (SS)

Services are sung by the Parish Choir unless otherwise stated

Music is a very important part of the life and worship at St Thomas'