Events at Guildford Cathedral
See also Art Exhibitions
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.
Wednesday 1st June 2022
Justin, Martyr at Rome, c.165
- 7.30am
- Cathedral Open Today
- 8.00am
- Morning Prayer (said)
Lady Chapel - 8.30am
- Holy Communion (said)
Lady Chapel - 10.30am
- Family Fun Day - 10.30am Session Book Free Tickets
Tickets - free of charge but places are limited and must be booked in advance (possession of a ticket does not guarantee entry to the broadcast); available from from Guildford Cathedral Online Box Office - 11.15am
- Family Fun Day - 11.15am Session Book Free Tickets
Tickets - free; booking essential - from Guildford Cathedral Online Box Office - 5.30pm
- Evening Prayer (said)
Lady Chapel
Thursday 2nd June 2022
- 7.30am
- Cathedral Open Today
- 8.00am
- Morning Prayer (said)
Lady Chapel - 8.30am
- Holy Communion (said)
Lady Chapel - 5.30pm
- Evening Prayer (said)
Lady Chapel
Friday 3rd June 2022
The Martyrs of Uganda, 1885–7 and 1977
- 7.30am
- Cathedral Open Today
- 8.00am
- Morning Prayer (said)
Lady Chapel - 8.30am
- Holy Communion (said)
Lady Chapel
Saturday 4th June 2022
Petroc, Abbot of Padstow, 6th century
- 7.30am
- Cathedral Open Today
- 8.00am
- Morning Prayer (said)
Lady Chapel - 8.30am
- Holy Communion (said)
Lady Chapel
Sunday 5th June 2022
Day of Pentecost (Whit Sunday)
- 7.45am
- Morning Prayer (said)
Lady Chapel - 8.00am
- Holy Communion (said)
Lady Chapel - 10.15am
- Patronal Festival Eucharist (sung by the Cathedral Choir with Guildford Cathedral Singers)
Nave Altar
Hymns: 399, 179 (omit *), 418
Mass - Andrew Watson
Psalm 104.26-end
Loquebantur variis linguis - Thomas Tallis
Preacher: The Very Reverend Dianna Gwilliams
President: The Right Reverend Andrew Watson
Organ: Sortie (Messe de la Pentecôte) - Olivier Messiaen - 1.30pm
- Cathedral Open Today
- 3.00pm
- The Queen's Platinum Jubilee A Service of Thanksgiving and Celebration
Tickets from Guildford Cathedral Online Box Office
Monday 6th June 2022
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: Millington
Evening service in F# - Humphrey Clucas
Ave Maria - Franz Biebl
Tuesday 7th June 2022
- 7.30am
- Cathedral Open Today
- 8.00am
- Morning Prayer (said)
Lady Chapel - 8.30am
- Holy Communion (said)
Lady Chapel - 12.00pm
- National Volunteer Week - Volunteer Tower Tour
Tickets Free for volunteers from Cathedral Box Office or Guildford Cathedral Online Box Office - 5.30pm
- Choral Evensong
Quire
Responses: Rose
Truro Evening service - Gabriel Jackson
Though I speak with the tongues of men - Edward Bairstow
Wednesday 8th June 2022
Thomas Ken, Bishop of Bath and Wells, Nonjuror, Hymn Writer, 1711
- 7.30am
- Cathedral Open Today
- 8.00am
- Morning Prayer (said)
Lady Chapel - 8.30am
- Holy Communion (said)
Lady Chapel - 5.30pm
- Evening Prayer (said)
Lady Chapel
Thursday 9th June 2022
Columba, Abbot of Iona, Missionary, 597
Ephrem of Syria, Deacon, Hymn Writer, Teacher of the Faith, 373
- 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: Rose
Evening Service in D - Charles Wood
O pray for the peace of Jerusalem - Herbert Howells
Friday 10th June 2022
- 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: Rose
Short Evening Service - William Byrd
Psalms 1, 15
O Quam Gloriosum - Tomas Luis de Vittoria
Saturday 11th June 2022
Barnabas the Apostle
- 7.30am
- Cathedral Open Today
- 8.00am
- Morning Prayer (said)
Lady Chapel - 8.30am
- Holy Communion (said)
Lady Chapel - 3.00pm
- Handbell Festival Service (30th Festival Service)
Cathedral Nave
Sunday 12th June 2022
Trinity Sunday
- 7.45am
- Morning Prayer (said)
Lady Chapel - 8.00am
- Holy Communion (said)
Lady Chapel - 9.45am
- The Cathedral Eucharist
Nave Altar
Hymns: 202, 383, 368, 474
A Mass for the People of Guildford - Philip Moore
O taste and see how gracious the Lord is - Ralph Vaughan Williams
Preacher: The Reverend Canon Chris Hollingshurst
President: The Venerable Stuart Beake
Organ: Fugue in Eb (BWV 552.ii) - Johann Sebastian Bach - 1.30pm
- Cathedral Open Today
- 6.00pm
- Evensong (sung by the Cathedral Choir, together with Holy Trinity Church choir)
Quire & Nave
Responses: Rose
Hymns: 392, 377
Evening Service in D - George Dyson
Psalms 73.1-3, 16-end
Ascribe unto the Lord - Samuel Sebastian Wesley
Preacher: The Reverend Canon Robert Cotton, Holy Trinity, Guildford
Organ: Alleluyas - Simon Preston
Monday 13th June 2022
- 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: Jackson
Evening Service in G - Herbert Sumsion
Great Lord of Lords - Charles Wood
Tuesday 14th June 2022
Richard Baxter, Puritan Divine, 1691
- 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
Short Evening Service - Thomas Weelkes
Ave Maria - Edward Elgar
Wednesday 15th June 2022
Evelyn Underhill, Spiritual Writer, 1941
- 7.30am
- Cathedral Open Today
- 8.00am
- Morning Prayer (said)
Lady Chapel - 8.30am
- Holy Communion (said)
Lady Chapel - 5.30pm
- Evening Prayer (said)
Lady Chapel
Thursday 16th June 2022
Day of Thanksgiving for the Institution of Holy Communion (Corpus Christi)
Richard, Bishop of Chichester, 1253
Joseph Butler, Bishop of Durham, Philosopher, 1752
- 7.30am
- Cathedral Open Today
- 8.00am
- Morning Prayer (said)
Lady Chapel - 8.30am
- Holy Communion (said)
Lady Chapel - 5.30pm
- Choral Evensong
Quire - 7.00pm
- Festal Eucharist with Benediction (Sung by the Cathedral Choir with the Choir of St Nicolas, Guildford)
St Nicolas' Church
Missa brevis 'Sancti Ioannis de Deo' - Josef Haydn
Psalm 116. 10-end
O taste and see - Ralph Vaughan Williams
Ave verum - Ben Parry
O salutaris hostia - Edward Elgar
Tantum ergo - Maurice Duruflé
Friday 17th June 2022
Samuel and Henrietta Barnett, Social Reformers, 1913 and 1936
- 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: Sanders
Third Evening service - Philip Moore
O Lord, increase our faith - Henry Loosemore
Saturday 18th June 2022
Bernard Mizeki, Apostle of the MaShona, Martyr, 1896
- 7.30am
- Cathedral Open Today
- 8.00am
- Morning Prayer (said)
Lady Chapel - 8.30am
- Holy Communion (said)
Lady Chapel
Sunday 19th June 2022
The First 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
Hymns: 1, 411, 427
Messe cum iubilo (Op. 11) - Maurice Duruflé
Psalm 22. 19-28
Ave verum - Gerald Hendrie
Preacher: The Reverend Canon Chris Hollingshurst
Organ: Choral varié sur le theme du Veni Creator (Op. 4) - Maurice Duruflé - 11.30am
- Service of Celebration for National Armed Forces Day
Quire & Nave - 1.30pm
- Cathedral Open Today
- 6.00pm
- Evensong at St Nicolas, Cranleigh
St Nicolas' Church, Cranleigh
Responses: Byrd
Evening service Sancti Ioannis Cantabrigiense - Herbert Howells
Psalm 57
O pray for the peace of Jerusalem - Herbert Howells
Organ: Epilogue (Hovingham Sketches) - Herbert Howells - 6.00pm
- Choral Evensong
Quire and Nave
Responses: Woodside
Hymns: 13, 475
Berkshire Evening service - Thomas Hewitt-Jones
Psalm 57
Three Canons for Winsome - Imogen Holst
Preacher: The Reverend Duncan Myers
Organ: Fugue on a theme of Corelli (BWV 579) - Johann Sebastian Bach
Monday 20th June 2022
- 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: Cleobury
Fauxbourdons Evening service - Katherine Dienes-Williams
Exsultate justi - Lodovico Grossi da Viadana
Tuesday 21st June 2022
- 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: Shephard
Evening Service in F - Michael Wise
And I saw a new heaven - Edgar Bainton
Wednesday 22nd June 2022
Alban, first Martyr of Britain, c.250
- 7.30am
- Cathedral Open Today
- 8.00am
- Morning Prayer (said)
Lady Chapel - 8.30am
- Holy Communion (said)
Lady Chapel - 5.30pm
- Evening Prayer (said)
Lady Chapel
Thursday 23rd June 2022
Etheldreda, Abbess of Ely, c.678
- 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: Shephard
Second Evening service - Orlando Gibbons
Psalm 71
This is the record of John - Orlando Gibbons
Friday 24th June 2022
The Birth of John the Baptist
- 7.30am
- Cathedral Open Today
- 8.00am
- Morning Prayer (said)
Lady Chapel - 8.30am
- Holy Communion (said)
Lady Chapel - 5.30pm
- Choral Eucharist
High Altar
Hymns: 235, 34
Communion Service in G - Francis Jackson
The Canticle of Zachariah - James Macmillan
Organ: Impromptu - Francis Jackson
Saturday 25th June 2022
- 7.30am
- Cathedral Open Today
- 8.00am
- Morning Prayer (said)
Lady Chapel - 8.30am
- Holy Communion (said)
Lady Chapel - 5.00pm
- Choral Evensong (Attended by 12 Bells Competition participants)
Quire & Nave
Responses: Rose
Evening Service in D - George Dyson
Psalm 150
Ring out, wild bells (The Passing of the Year) - Jonathan Dove
Organ: Carillon de Westminster (24 Pièces de Fantaisie) - Louis Vierne
Sunday 26th June 2022
The Second Sunday after Trinity
Proper 8
- 7.45am
- Morning Prayer (said)
Lady Chapel - 8.00am
- Holy Communion (said)
Lady Chapel - 9.45am
- The Cathedral Eucharist
Nave Altar
Hymns: 555, 622, 442 (278)
Psalm 16 - 1.30pm
- Cathedral Open Today
- 6.00pm
- Choral Evensong
Quire and Nave
Hymns: 595, 507
Psalm 60
Monday 27th June 2022
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
Tuesday 28th June 2022
Irenæus, Bishop of Lyons, Teacher of the Faith, c.200
- 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 29th June 2022
Peter and Paul, Apostles
- 7.30am
- Cathedral Open Today
- 8.00am
- Morning Prayer (said)
Lady Chapel - 8.30am
- Holy Communion (said)
Lady Chapel - 5.30pm
- Choral Eucharist (Sung by the Schola Cantorum of St Teresa’s School)
High Altar
Hymns: 236 (ii), 376
Thursday 30th June 2022
- 7.30am
- Cathedral Open Today
- 8.00am
- Morning Prayer (said)
Lady Chapel - 8.30am
- Holy Communion (said)
Lady Chapel - 5.30pm
- Choral Evensong
Quire