What's OnEvents at Guildford Cathedral
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All services and events are included in the diary, except Art Exhibitions (see link above). Please note that events are subject to change, especially those advertised more than a month in advance.
Sunday 4th June 2023
Trinity Sunday
- 7.45am
- Morning Prayer (said)
Lady Chapel - 8.00am
- Holy Communion (said)
Lady Chapel - 9.45am
- The Cathedral Eucharist (sung by Guildford Cathedral Singers)
Nave Altar
Missa 'Dixit Maria' - Hassler
Psalm 8
Hymn to the Trinity - Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky
Preacher: The Dean
Organ: Master Tallis's Testament - Herbert Howells - 6.00pm
- Choral Evensong (sung by Guildford Cathedral Singers)
Quire and Nave
Responses: Ayleward
Evening Service in A - Charles Villiers Stanford
Psalms 93, 150
Let the people praise thee - William Mathias
Organ: Chorale Prelude on Eventide - Charles Hubert Hastings Parry
Monday 5th June 2023
Boniface (Wynfrith) of Crediton, Bishop, Apostle of Germany, Martyr, 754
- 8.30am
- Cathedral Open Today
- 9.00am
- Morning Prayer (said)
Lady Chapel - 9.30am
- Holy Communion (said)
Lady Chapel - 5.30pm
- Choral Evensong
Quire
Responses: Moore (II)
Magnificat Secundi toni - Philippe de Monte
Nunc dimittis (Tone II) - Plainsong
O lux beata Trinitas - Tomás Luis de Vittoria
Tuesday 6th June 2023
Ini Kopuria, Founder of the Melanesian Brotherhood, 1945
- 7.30am
- Cathedral Open Today
- 8.00am
- Morning Prayer (said)
Lady Chapel - 8.30am
- Holy Communion (said)
Lady Chapel - 5.30pm
- Choral Evensong
Quire
Responses: Ayleward
Evening Service (Collegium Regale) - Joanna Forbes L’Estrange
We wait for thy loving kindness - William McKie
Wednesday 7th June 2023
- 8.30am
- Cathedral Open Today
- 9.00am
- Morning Prayer (said)
Lady Chapel - 9.30am
- Holy Communion (said)
Lady Chapel - 5.30pm
- Evening Prayer
Lady Chapel
Thursday 8th June 2023
Day of Thanksgiving for the Institution of Holy Communion (Corpus Christi)
- 8.30am
- Cathedral Open Today
- 9.00am
- Morning Prayer (said)
Lady Chapel - 9.30am
- Holy Communion (said)
Lady Chapel - 5.30pm
- Choral Eucharist for Corpus Christi (with Benediction)
High Altar
Missa Sexti toni - Giovanni Croce
Psalm 116.1-10
Ego sum panis vivus - William Byrd
O salutaris hostia - Fernand Laloux
Tantum ergo - Fernand Laloux
Adoremus in aeternum - Paul Provost
Organ: Toccata-Prelude on 'Pange lingua' - Edward Bairstow
Friday 9th June 2023
Columba, Abbot of Iona, Missionary, 597
Ephrem of Syria, Deacon, Hymn Writer, Teacher of the Faith, 373
- 8.30am
- Cathedral Open Today
- 9.00am
- Morning Prayer (said)
Lady Chapel - 9.30am
- Holy Communion (said)
Lady Chapel - 5.30pm
- Choral Evensong
Quire
Responses: Moore (II)
Evening Service in Bb - Chalres Villiers Stanford
Bogoroditse Djevo - Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky
Saturday 10th June 2023
- 8.30am
- Cathedral Open Today
- 9.00am
- Morning Prayer (said)
Lady Chapel - 9.30am
- Holy Communion (said)
Lady Chapel - 5.00pm
- Choral Evensong (The Choir of Holy Trinity, Bledlow)
Cathedral Nave
Magnificat (tertii toni) - Giuseppe Bernabei
Nunc dimittis (tertii toni) - Christobal de Morales
Sicut cervus - Giovanni Pierluigi da Palestrina
Sunday 11th June 2023
Barnabas the Apostle
- 7.45am
- Morning Prayer (said)
Lady Chapel - 8.00am
- Holy Communion (said)
Lady Chapel - 9.45am
- The Cathedral Eucharist
Nave Altar
Missa simplex - Katherine Dienes-Williams
Cantique de Jean Racine - Gabriel Fauré
Preacher: The Revd Canon Chris Hollingshurst
Organ: Fantasia in G (BWV 572) - Johann Sebastian Bach - 6.00pm
- Choral Evensong
Quire and Nave
Responses: Ayleward
Chichester Evening service - William Walton
Psalm 147
And I saw a new heaven - Edgar Bainton
Organ: Prelude and Fugue in G (BWV 541) - Johann Sebastian Bach
Monday 12th June 2023
- 8.30am
- Cathedral Open Today
- 9.00am
- Morning Prayer (said)
Lady Chapel - 9.30am
- Holy Communion (said)
Lady Chapel - 5.30pm
- Choral Evensong
Quire
Responses: Byrd
Short Evening Service - Thomas Weelkes
O Lord, give thy Holy Spirit - Thomas Tallis
Tuesday 13th June 2023
- 7.30am
- Cathedral Open Today
- 8.00am
- Morning Prayer (said)
Lady Chapel - 8.30am
- Holy Communion (said)
Lady Chapel - 5.30pm
- Choral Evensong
Quire
Responses: Byrd
Evening service in F - Michael Wise
O sing joyfully - Adrian Batten
Wednesday 14th June 2023
Richard Baxter, Puritan Divine, 1691
- 8.30am
- Cathedral Open Today
- 9.00am
- Morning Prayer (said)
Lady Chapel - 9.30am
- Holy Communion (said)
Lady Chapel - 5.30pm
- Evening Prayer
Lady Chapel
Thursday 15th June 2023
Evelyn Underhill, Spiritual Writer, 1941
- 8.30am
- Cathedral Open Today
- 9.00am
- Morning Prayer (said)
Lady Chapel - 9.30am
- Holy Communion (said)
Lady Chapel - 5.30pm
- Choral Evensong
Quire
Responses: Rose (ATB)
Evening service in D - John Madden
Let my complaint - Thomas Morely
Friday 16th June 2023
Richard, Bishop of Chichester, 1253
- 8.30am
- Cathedral Open Today
- 9.00am
- Morning Prayer (said)
Lady Chapel - 9.30am
- Holy Communion (said)
Lady Chapel - 5.30pm
- Choral Evensong
Quire
Responses: Forbes L’Estrange
First Evening service - Thomas Weelkes
It is a thing most wonderful - Philip Moore
Saturday 17th June 2023
Samuel and Henrietta Barnett, Social Reformers, 1913 and 1936
- 8.30am
- Cathedral Open Today
- 9.00am
- Morning Prayer (said)
Lady Chapel - 9.30am
- Holy Communion (said)
Lady Chapel - 3.00pm
- Hand Bell Festival Service
Sunday 18th June 2023
The Second Sunday after Trinity
Proper 6
- 7.45am
- Morning Prayer (said)
Lady Chapel - 8.00am
- Holy Communion (said)
Lady Chapel - 9.45am
- The Cathedral Eucharist
Nave Altar
Missa Brevis - Grayston Ives
Psalm 100
O salutaris hostia - Edward Elgar
Preacher: The Revd Canon Mavis Wilson
Organ: Toccata - Georgi Mushel - 11.30am
- Service for Celebration for National Armed Forces Day
Quire & Nave
Organ: Alla Marcia - John Ireland - 4.00pm
- Evening Prayer (said)
Quire and Nave - 6.00pm
- Choral Evensong (Sung by the choir of Holy Trinity Guildford with the Cathedral Choir)
Holy Trinity Church, Guildford
Responses: Forbes L’Estrange
Evening Service in D - George Dyson
Psalm 43
Greater love - John Ireland
Monday 19th June 2023
Sundar Singh of India, Sadhu (holy man), Evangelist, Teacher of the Faith, 1929
- 8.30am
- Cathedral Open Today
- 9.00am
- Morning Prayer (said)
Lady Chapel - 9.30am
- Holy Communion (said)
Lady Chapel - 5.30pm
- Choral Evensong
Quire
Responses: Millington
Evening Service in D minor - Richard Doveton
Holy is the true light - William Harris
Tuesday 20th June 2023
- 7.30am
- Cathedral Open Today
- 8.00am
- Morning Prayer (said)
Lady Chapel - 8.30am
- Holy Communion (said)
Lady Chapel - 5.30pm
- Choral Evensong
Quire
Responses: Smith
Fauxbourdons Evening service - Healey Willan
Through the day - Philip Moore
Wednesday 21st June 2023
- 8.30am
- Cathedral Open Today
- 9.00am
- Morning Prayer (said)
Lady Chapel - 9.30am
- Holy Communion (said)
Lady Chapel - 5.30pm
- Evening Prayer
Lady Chapel
Thursday 22nd June 2023
Alban, first Martyr of Britain, c.250
- 8.30am
- Cathedral Open Today
- 9.00am
- Morning Prayer (said)
Lady Chapel - 9.30am
- Holy Communion (said)
Lady Chapel - 5.30pm
- Choral Evensong
Quire
Responses: Smith
Evening Service in G - Herbert Sumsion
Day is done - Daniel Elder
Friday 23rd June 2023
Etheldreda, Abbess of Ely, c.678
- 8.30am
- Cathedral Open Today
- 9.00am
- Morning Prayer (said)
Lady Chapel - 9.30am
- Holy Communion (said)
Lady Chapel - 5.30pm
- First Choral Evensong of John the Baptist
Quire
Responses: Rose
Magnificat primi toni - David Bevan
Nunc dimittis - Hreidar Ingi Thorsteinsson
Psalm 71
Fuit homo missus a Deo - Giovanni Pierluigi da Palestrina
Saturday 24th June 2023
The Birth of John the Baptist
- 8.30am
- Cathedral Open Today
- 9.00am
- Morning Prayer (said)
Lady Chapel - 9.30am
- Holy Communion (said)
Lady Chapel
Sunday 25th June 2023
The Third Sunday after Trinity
Proper 7
- 7.45am
- Morning Prayer (said)
Lady Chapel - 8.00am
- Holy Communion (said)
Lady Chapel - 9.45am
- The Cathedral Eucharist
Nave Altar
Missa Euge Bone - Christopher Tye
Psalms 69.8-11, 18-20
Ego sum panis vivus - William Byrd
Preacher: The Revd Canon Rachel Young
Organ: Litanies - Jehan Alain - 6.00pm
- Choral Evensong
Quire and Nave
Responses: Rose
Evening Service in G - Herbert Howells
Psalm 46
Faire is the heaven - William Harris
Organ: Præludium in C (BuxWV 137) - Dietrich Buxtehude
Monday 26th June 2023
- 8.30am
- Cathedral Open Today
- 9.00am
- Morning Prayer (said)
Lady Chapel - 9.30am
- Holy Communion (said)
Lady Chapel - 5.30pm
- Choral Evensong
Quire
Responses: Woodside
Magnificat Quinti toni - Cristóbal de Morales
Nunc dimittis (Tone V) - Plainsong
God so loved the world - Henry Ley
Tuesday 27th June 2023
Cyril, Bishop of Alexandria, Teacher of the Faith, 444
- 7.30am
- Cathedral Open Today
- 8.00am
- Morning Prayer (said)
Lady Chapel - 8.30am
- Holy Communion (said)
Lady Chapel - 5.30pm
- Choral Evensong
Quire
Responses: Howells
Short Evening Service - Robin Orr
They that put their trust in the Lord - Robin Orr - 6.30pm
- Open Night for Girl Choristers
Tickets from Guildford Cathedral Online Box Office
Wednesday 28th June 2023
Irenæus, Bishop of Lyons, Teacher of the Faith, c.200
- 8.30am
- Cathedral Open Today
- 9.00am
- Morning Prayer (said)
Lady Chapel - 9.30am
- Holy Communion (said)
Lady Chapel - 5.30pm
- First Choral Evensong of Peter and Paul, Apostles (Sung by Hall Grove School Choir)
Quire & Nave
Responses: David Halls
First Evening service - David Halls
Psalms 66, 67
Thursday 29th June 2023
Peter and Paul, Apostles
- 8.30am
- Cathedral Open Today
- 9.00am
- Morning Prayer (said)
Lady Chapel - 9.30am
- Holy Communion (said)
Lady Chapel - 5.30pm
- Choral Eucharist
High Altar
Missa brevis 'Sancti Ioannis de Deo' - Josef Haydn
Tu es Petrus - Maurice Duruflé
Organ: Paean - Kenneth Leighton
Friday 30th June 2023
- 8.30am
- Cathedral Open Today
- 9.00am
- Morning Prayer (said)
Lady Chapel - 9.30am
- Holy Communion (said)
Lady Chapel - 5.30pm
- Choral Evensong
Quire
Responses: McDowall
Evening Service in C - Bryan Kelly
Salve Regina - Francis Poulenc