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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.
Monday 1st May 2023
Philip and James, Apostles
- 8.30am
- Cathedral Open Today
- 9.00am
- Morning Prayer (said)
Lady Chapel - 9.30am
- Holy Communion (said)
Lady Chapel - 4.00pm
- Evening Prayer (said)
Lady Chapel
Tuesday 2nd May 2023
Athanasius, Bishop of Alexandria, 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: Lloyd (II)
Second Evening service - William Byrd
This is the record of John - Grayston Ives
Wednesday 3rd May 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 4th May 2023
English Saints and Martyrs of the Reformation Era
- 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: Lloyd (II)
Evening Service in D - Charles Wood
My beloved spake - Patrick Hadley
Friday 5th May 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: Rose
Fourth Evening service - Adrian Batten
Cessate tympana, cessate praelia - Maria Xaveria Peruchona
Saturday 6th May 2023
Coronation of King Charles III and Queen Camilla
- 8.30am
- Cathedral Open Today
- 9.00am
- Morning Prayer (said)
Lady Chapel - 9.30am
- Holy Communion (said)
Lady Chapel
Sunday 7th May 2023
The Fifth Sunday of Easter
- 7.45am
- Morning Prayer (said)
Lady Chapel - 8.00am
- Holy Communion (said)
Lady Chapel - 9.45am
- The Cathedral Eucharist
High Altar
Missa Alma redemptoris - Giovanni Pierluigi da Palestrina
Psalm 31.1-5
Angelus Domini - Giovanni Pierluigi da Palestrina
Organ: Jubiläum - Ronald Watson - 1.30pm
- Cathedral Open Today
- 3.00pm
- County Service to mark the Coronation of King Charles III and Queen Camilla
Quire and Nave
Magnificat (Chichester Evening service) - William Walton
I was glad - Charles Hubert Hastings Parry
Organ: Crown Imperial - William Walton
Monday 8th May 2023
Julian of Norwich, Spiritual Writer, c.1417
- 8.30am
- Cathedral Open Today
- 9.00am
- Morning Prayer (said)
Lady Chapel - 9.30am
- Holy Communion (said)
Lady Chapel - 4.00pm
- Evening Prayer (said)
Lady Chapel
Tuesday 9th May 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: Lloyd (I)
Short Evening Service - Orlando Gibbons
Set me as a seal - Charlotte Bray
Wednesday 10th May 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 11th May 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: Lloyd (I)
Second Evening service - Orlando Gibbons
Rise, heart (Five Mystical Songs) - Ralph Vaughan Williams
Friday 12th May 2023
Gregory Dix, Priest, Monk, Scholar, 1952
- 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: Clucas
Evening Service in D - Herbert Brewer
Rise up, my love - Healey Willan
Saturday 13th May 2023
- 8.30am
- Cathedral Open Today
- 9.00am
- Morning Prayer (said)
Lady Chapel - 9.30am
- Holy Communion (said)
Lady Chapel
Sunday 14th May 2023
The Sixth Sunday of Easter
- 7.45am
- Morning Prayer (said)
Lady Chapel - 8.00am
- Holy Communion (said)
Lady Chapel - 9.45am
- The Cathedral Eucharist
Nave Altar
A Mass for the People of Guildford - Philip Moore
Ubi caritas - Ola Gjeilo
Organ: Diversion for Mixtures - Francis Jackson - 11.30am
- Choral Eucharist (Traditional Rite)
Nave Altar
Hymns: 543, 516 (ii), 175 (i), 442 (278)
Mass for four voices - William Byrd
Non vos relinquam - William Byrd
Organ: Fugue in Eb (BWV 552.ii) - Johann Sebastian Bach - 1.30pm
- Cathedral Open Today
- 6.00pm
- First Choral Evensong of Mathias (with Winchester Cathedral Girl Choristers and Lay Clerks)
Quire and Nave
Responses: Leighton
Evening Service in D - George Dyson
Psalm 147
Hail, gladdening light - Charles Wood
Organ: Praeludium (Suite for Violin and Organ, Op. 166) - Josef Rheinberger
Monday 15th May 2023
Matthias 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 three voices - William Byrd
Iste Sanctus - Tomás Luis de Victoria
Organ: Allabreve (BWV 589) - Johann Sebastian Bach
Tuesday 16th May 2023
Rogation Day
Caroline Chisholm, Social Reformer, 1877
- 7.30am
- Cathedral Open Today
- 8.00am
- Morning Prayer (said)
Lady Chapel - 8.30am
- Holy Communion (said)
Lady Chapel - 5.30pm
- Choral Eucharist for the Feast of Consecration (Sung on the Eve of the Consecration, with Charterhouse Junior Chapel Choir)
High Altar
Introit: Locus iste - Anton Bruckner
Missa brevis 'Sancti Ioannis de Deo' - Josef Haydn
Psalm 122
Ave verum corpus - Gabriel Fauré
Organ: Prelude in Eb (BWV 552.i) - Johann Sebastian Bach
Wednesday 17th May 2023
Anniversary of Consecration
Rogation Day
- 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 18th May 2023
Ascension Day
- 8.30am
- Cathedral Open Today
- 9.00am
- Morning Prayer (said)
Lady Chapel - 9.30am
- Holy Communion (said)
Lady Chapel - 5.30pm
- Evening Prayer (said)
Lady Chapel - 7.00pm
- Choral Eucharist
Nave Altar
Introit: Coelos ascendit hodie - Charles Villiers Stanford
Missa brevis in C, 'Spatzenmesse' (K.220) - Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
Psalm 47
Omnes gentes - Christopher Tye
Organ: Transports de joie (L'Ascension) - Olivier Messiaen
Friday 19th May 2023
Dunstan, Archbishop of Canterbury, Restorer of Monastic Life, 988
- 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
Evening Service in B minor - Thomas Tertius Noble
Vertue - Judith Weir
Saturday 20th May 2023
Alcuin of York, Deacon, Abbot of Tours, 804
- 8.30am
- Cathedral Open Today
- 9.00am
- Morning Prayer (said)
Lady Chapel - 9.30am
- Holy Communion (said)
Lady Chapel
Sunday 21st May 2023
The Seventh Sunday of Easter
- 7.45am
- Morning Prayer (said)
Lady Chapel - 8.00am
- Holy Communion (said)
Lady Chapel - 9.45am
- The Cathedral Eucharist
Nave Altar
Messe d’escalquens - Jean Langlais
Psalm 68.1-10
As the apple tree - Robert Walker
Organ: Presto (comodo) (Sonata in G, Op. 28) - Edward Elgar - 1.30pm
- Cathedral Open Today
- 6.00pm
- Choral Evensong
Quire and Nave
Responses: Lloyd (I)
Evening service Sancti Ioannis Cantabrigiense - Michael Tippett
Psalm 47
Set me as a seal - William Walton
Organ: Organ+! Series (II)
Monday 22nd May 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: Bawden
Evening Service (St Paul's) - Mark Blatchly
If ye love me - Thomas Tallis
Tuesday 23rd May 2023
- 7.30am
- Cathedral Open Today
Tickets from Guildford Cathedral Online Box Office - 8.00am
- Morning Prayer (said)
Lady Chapel - 8.30am
- Holy Communion (said)
Lady Chapel - 5.30pm
- Choral Evensong
Quire
Responses: Tomkins
Evening Service in E - Sydney Watson
Jesu, the very thought of thee - Edward Bairstow
Wednesday 24th May 2023
John and Charles Wesley, Evangelists, Hymn Writers, 1791 and 1788; Rogation Day
- 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 25th May 2023
The Venerable Bede, Monk at Jarrow, Scholar, Historian, 735
Aldhelm, Bishop of Sherborne, 709
- 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: Tomkins
Evening Service (Collegium Regale) - Herbert Howells
Linguae ignis - Cecilia McDowall
Friday 26th May 2023
Augustine, first Archbishop of Canterbury, 605
John Calvin, Reformer, 1564 Philip Neri, Founder of the Oratorians, Spiritual Guide, 1595
- 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: Leighton
Evening Service in G - Edward Bairstow
The Holy Spirit - Philip Moore
Saturday 27th May 2023
- 8.30am
- Cathedral Open Today
- 9.00am
- Morning Prayer (said)
Lady Chapel - 9.30am
- Holy Communion (said)
Lady Chapel
Sunday 28th May 2023
Pentecost
Whit Sunday
- 7.45am
- Morning Prayer (said)
Lady Chapel - 8.00am
- Holy Communion (said)
Lady Chapel - 10.30am
- Patronal Festival Eucharist (sung by the Cathedral Choir with Guildford Cathedral Singers)
Nave Altar
Gracious Spirit, Holy Ghost - Richard Lloyd
Organ: Feria Pentecosts (Sept Improvisations) - Camille Saint-Saëns - 1.30pm
- Cathedral Open Today
- 6.00pm
- Festal Evensong with Te Deum
Quire and Nave
Responses: Leighton
Evening service Collegium Magdalenae Oxoniense - Kenneth Leighton
Psalms 67, 133
What love is this of thine? - Kenneth Leighton
Organ: Organ+! Series (III)
Monday 29th May 2023
- 8.30am
- Cathedral Open Today
- 9.00am
- Morning Prayer (said)
Lady Chapel - 9.30am
- Holy Communion (said)
Lady Chapel - 5.30pm
- Evening Prayer (said)
Lady Chapel
Tuesday 30th May 2023
Josephine Butler, Social Reformer, 1906
Joan of Arc, Visionary, 1431; Apolo Kivebulaya, Priest, Evangelist in Central Africa, 1933
- 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
Wednesday 31st May 2023
The Visit of the Blessed Virgin Mary to Elizabeth
- 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