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Events 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.

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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