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.
Saturday 1st July 2023
Henry, John, and Henry Venn the younger, Priests, Evangelical Divines, 1797, 1813 and 1873
- 8.30am
- Cathedral Open Today
- 9.00am
- Morning Prayer (said)
Lady Chapel - 9.30am
- Holy Communion (said)
Lady Chapel - 10.30am
- Ordination of Priests
Nave Altar
Organ: Marche in D (Op. 25, No 3) - Alexandre Guilmant
Sunday 2nd July 2023
The Fourth Sunday after Trinity
Proper 8
- 7.45am
- Morning Prayer (said)
Lady Chapel - 8.00am
- Holy Communion (said)
Lady Chapel - 10.30am
- Ordination of Deacons
Nave Altar
Organ: Alleluyas - Simon Preston - 1.30pm
- Cathedral Open Today
- 3.00pm
- Valedictory Organ Recital Given by Marcus McDevitt, Organ Scholar
Tickets (free admission with retiring collection) - 6.00pm
- First Choral Evensong of Thomas, Apostle
Quire and Nave
Responses: Howells
Evening Service in B minor - Herbert Howells
Psalm 27
Strengthen ye the weak hands - William Harris
Organ: Rhapsody No 3 - Herbert Howells
Monday 3rd July 2023
Thomas the Apostle
- 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
Mass for four voices - William Byrd
O sacrum convivium - Thomas Tallis
Organ: Wir glauben all an einen Gott (BWV 680) - Johann Sebastian Bach
Tuesday 4th July 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
Wednesday 5th July 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 6th July 2023
Thomas More, Scholar, and John Fisher, Bishop of Rochester, Reformation Martyrs, 1535
- 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: Cleobury
Fauxbourdons Evening service - Katherine Dienes-Williams
Jesu, grant me this, I pray - Philip Moore
Friday 7th July 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: Ebdon
Evening Service in B minor - Thomas Tertius Noble
Os iusti - Anton Bruckner
Saturday 8th July 2023
- 8.30am
- Cathedral Open Today
- 9.00am
- Morning Prayer (said)
Lady Chapel - 9.30am
- Holy Communion (said)
Lady Chapel - 2.00pm
- Tower Tour
Tickets £6.50 from Guildford Cathedral Online Box Office - 2.00pm
- Tower Tour
Tickets £6.50 from https://www.guildford-cathedral.org/events/boxoffice or Guildford Cathedral Online Box Office
Sunday 9th July 2023
The Fifth Sunday after Trinity
Proper 9
- 7.45am
- Morning Prayer (said)
Lady Chapel - 8.00am
- Holy Communion (said)
Lady Chapel - 9.45am
- The Cathedral Eucharist
Nave Altar
Missa Brevis - Zoltan Kodály
Psalm 145.8-15
O salutaris hostia - Thomas Tallis
Organ: Toccata (Symphonie No 5) - Charles Marie Widor - 1.30pm
- Cathedral Open Today
- 6.00pm
- Choral Evensong (With valediction and installation of choristers)
Quire and Nave
Responses: Rose
Evening Service in A - Charles Villiers Stanford
Psalm 56
The Twelve - William Walton
Organ: Finale (Symphonie No 1) - Louis Vierne
Monday 10th July 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
Tuesday 11th July 2023
Benedict of Nursia, Abbot of Monte Cassino, Father of Western Monasticism, c.550
- 7.30am
- Cathedral Open Today
- 8.00am
- Morning Prayer (said)
Lady Chapel - 8.30am
- Holy Communion (said)
Lady Chapel - 5.30pm
- Choral Evensong (attended by Diocesan Church Foundation School Governors)
Quire
Responses: Byrd
Evening service in E - Herbert Murrill
I sat down under his shadow - Edward Bairstow
Wednesday 12th July 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 13th July 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
Friday 14th July 2023
John Keble, Priest, Tractarian, Poet, 1866
- 8.30am
- Cathedral Open Today
- 9.00am
- Morning Prayer (said)
Lady Chapel - 9.30am
- Holy Communion (said)
Lady Chapel - 5.30pm
- Choral Evensong
Quire
Saturday 15th July 2023
Swithun, Bishop of Winchester, c.862
Bonaventure, Friar, Bishop, Teacher of the Faith, 1274
- 8.30am
- Cathedral Open Today
- 9.00am
- Morning Prayer (said)
Lady Chapel - 9.30am
- Holy Communion (said)
Lady Chapel
Sunday 16th July 2023
The Sixth Sunday after Trinity
Proper 10
- 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 in honorem Sancti Josephi - Flor Peeters
Psalm 65.8-13
Bogoroditse Djevo - Sergei Rachmaninoff - 1.30pm
- Cathedral Open Today
- 6.00pm
- Choral Evensong (sung by Guildford Cathedral Singers)
Quire and Nave
Responses: Sanders
Evening Service in G - Charles Villiers Stanford
Psalm 60
O thou the central orb - Charles Wood
Monday 17th July 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
Tuesday 18th July 2023
Elizabeth Ferard, first Deaconess of the Church of England, Founder of the Community of St Andrew, 1883
- 7.30am
- Cathedral Open Today
- 8.00am
- Morning Prayer (said)
Lady Chapel - 8.30am
- Holy Communion (said)
Lady Chapel - 5.30pm
- Choral Evensong
Quire
Wednesday 19th July 2023
Gregory, Bishop of Nyssa, and his sister Macrina, Deaconess, Teachers of the Faith, c.394 and c.379
- 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 20th July 2023
Margaret of Antioch, Martyr, 4th century; Bartolomé de las Casas, Apostle to the Indies, 1566
- 8.30am
- Cathedral Open Today
- 9.00am
- Morning Prayer (said)
Lady Chapel - 9.30am
- Holy Communion (said)
Lady Chapel - 5.30pm
- Choral Evensong
Quire
Friday 21st July 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
Saturday 22nd July 2023
Mary Magdalene
- 8.30am
- Cathedral Open Today
- 9.00am
- Morning Prayer (said)
Lady Chapel - 9.30am
- Holy Communion (said)
Lady Chapel
Sunday 23rd July 2023
The Seventh Sunday after Trinity
Proper 11
- 7.45am
- Morning Prayer (said)
Lady Chapel - 8.00am
- Holy Communion (said)
Lady Chapel - 9.45am
- The Cathedral Eucharist
Quire - 1.30pm
- Cathedral Open Today
- 6.00pm
- Choral Evensong
Quire and Nave
Monday 24th July 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
Tuesday 25th July 2023
James the Apostle
- 7.30am
- Cathedral Open Today
- 8.00am
- Morning Prayer (said)
Lady Chapel - 8.30am
- Holy Communion (said)
Lady Chapel - 5.30pm
- Choral Evensong
Quire
Wednesday 26th July 2023
Anne and Joachim, Parents of the Blessed Virgin Mary
- 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 27th July 2023
Brooke Foss Westcott, Bishop of Durham, Teacher of the Faith, 1901
- 8.30am
- Cathedral Open Today
- 9.00am
- Morning Prayer (said)
Lady Chapel - 9.30am
- Holy Communion (said)
Lady Chapel - 5.30pm
- Choral Evensong
Quire
Friday 28th July 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
Saturday 29th July 2023
Mary, Martha and Lazarus, Companions of our Lord
- 8.30am
- Cathedral Open Today
- 9.00am
- Morning Prayer (said)
Lady Chapel - 9.30am
- Holy Communion (said)
Lady Chapel
Sunday 30th July 2023
The Eighth Sunday after Trinity
Proper 12
- 7.45am
- Morning Prayer (said)
Lady Chapel - 8.00am
- Holy Communion (said)
Lady Chapel - 9.45am
- The Cathedral Eucharist
Quire - 1.30pm
- Cathedral Open Today
- 6.00pm
- Choral Evensong
Quire and Nave
Monday 31st July 2023
Ignatius of Loyola, Founder of the Society of Jesus, 1556
- 8.30am
- Cathedral Open Today
- 9.00am
- Morning Prayer (said)
Lady Chapel - 9.30am
- Holy Communion (said)
Lady Chapel - 5.30pm
- Choral Evensong
Quire