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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 October 2022
Ember Day
Remigius, Bishop of Rheims, Apostle of the Franks, 533 Anthony Ashley Cooper, Earl of Shaftesbury, Social Reformer, 1885
- 8.30am
- Cathedral Open Today
- 9.00am
- Morning Prayer (said)
Lady Chapel - 9.30am
- Holy Communion (said)
Lady Chapel
Sunday 2nd October 2022
The Sixteenth Sunday after Trinity
Proper 22
- 7.45am
- Morning Prayer (said)
Lady Chapel - 8.00am
- Holy Communion (said)
Lady Chapel - 9.45am
- The Cathedral Eucharist
Nave Altar
Hymns: 334, 309, 319
Missa aeterna Christi munera - Giovanni Pierluigi da Palestrina
Psalm 37. 1-9
The Pilgrimes Travels - Judith Bingham
Organ: Psalm Prelude (Set 2, No 3) - Herbert Howells - 1.30pm
- Cathedral Open Today
- 6.00pm
- Choral Evensong (with the installation of Honorary Canons)
Quire and Nave
Responses: Forbes l’Estrange
Hymns: 15, 375
Merton College Evening service - Cheryl Frances-Hoad
Psalm 142
The Holy Spirit - Philip Moore
Monday 3rd October 2022
George Bell, Bishop of Chichester, Ecumenist, Peacemaker, 1958
- 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: Harris
Second Evening service - Philip Moore
Lord Jesus Christ - Philip Moore
Tuesday 4th October 2022
Francis of Assisi, Friar, Deacon, Founder of the Friars Minor, 1226
- 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: Forbes l’Estrange
Second Evening service - William Byrd
To thee, O Lord - Sergei Rachmaninoff
Wednesday 5th October 2022
- 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 October 2022
William Tyndale, Translator of the Scriptures, Reformation Martyr, 1536
- 8.30am
- Cathedral Open Today
- 9.00am
- Morning Prayer (said)
Lady Chapel - 9.30am
- Holy Communion (said)
Lady Chapel - 5.30pm
- Choral Evensong
Quire
Evening service in C - Charles Villiers Stanford
We wait for thy loving kindness - William McKie
Friday 7th October 2022
- 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 B minor - Thomas Tertius Noble
There is a land of pure delight - Grayston Ives
Saturday 8th October 2022
- 8.30am
- Cathedral Open Today
- 9.00am
- Morning Prayer (said)
Lady Chapel - 9.30am
- Holy Communion (said)
Lady Chapel
Sunday 9th October 2022
The Seventeenth Sunday after Trinity
Proper 23
- 7.45am
- Morning Prayer (said)
Lady Chapel - 8.00am
- Holy Communion (said)
Lady Chapel - 9.45am
- The Cathedral Eucharist
Nave Altar
Hymns: 275, 253, 262, 270
O sacrum convivium - Thomas Tallis - 1.30pm
- Cathedral Open Today
- 6.00pm
- RSCM Guildford Area Festival Evensong (with presentation of RSCM awards)
Quire and Nave
Monday 10th October 2022
Paulinus, Bishop of York, Missionary, 644
Thomas Traherne, Poet, Spiritual Writer, 1674
- 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: McGregor
Fauxbourdons Evening service - Katherine Dienes-Williams
The Hill (Sun, Moon, and Stars) - Elizabeth Maconchy
Tuesday 11th October 2022
Ethelburga, Abbess of Barking, 675 James the Deacon, companion of Paulinus, 7th century
- 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: Tomkins
Fauxbourdons Evening service - Thomas Tallis
Homo quidam - Thomas Tallis
Wednesday 12th October 2022
Wilfrid of Ripon, Bishop, Missionary, 709
Elizabeth Fry, Prison Reformer, 1845; Edith Cavell, Nurse, 1915
- 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 October 2022
Edward the Confessor, King of England, 1066
- 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 in F - George Dyson
View me, Lord - Richard Lloyd
Friday 14th October 2022
- 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
Sixth Evening service - Thomas Weelkes
Judas mercator - Edmund Rubbra
Saturday 15th October 2022
Teresa of Avila, Teacher of the Faith, 1582
- 8.30am
- Cathedral Open Today
- 9.00am
- Morning Prayer (said)
Lady Chapel - 9.30am
- Holy Communion (said)
Lady Chapel
Sunday 16th October 2022
The Eighteenth Sunday after Trinity
Proper 24
- 7.45am
- Morning Prayer (said)
Lady Chapel - 8.00am
- Holy Communion (said)
Lady Chapel - 9.45am
- The Cathedral Eucharist
Nave Altar
Mass in G minor - Ralph Vaughan Williams
Psalm 121
Love bade me welcome (Five mystical songs) - Ralph Vaughan Williams
Organ: Hyfrydol - Ralph Vaughan Williams - 11.30am
- Choral Eucharist (Traditional Rite)
Nave Altar
Hymns: 175, 321, 309, 232 (1, 2, 5, 6, 8)
Messe d’escalquens - Jean Langlais
O taste and see how gracious the Lord is - Ralph Vaughan Williams - 1.30pm
- Cathedral Open Today
- 6.00pm
- Choral Evensong
Quire and Nave
Responses: Tomkins
Evening Service in Eb (No 2) - Charles Wood
Psalm 149
Five Mystical Songs - Ralph Vaughan Williams
Monday 17th October 2022
Ignatius, Bishop of Antioch, Martyr, c.107
- 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 October 2022
Luke the Evangelist
- 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 October 2022
Henry Martyn, Translator of the Scriptures, Missionary in India and Persia, 1812
- 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 October 2022
- 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 October 2022
- 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 October 2022
- 8.30am
- Cathedral Open Today
- 9.00am
- Morning Prayer (said)
Lady Chapel - 9.30am
- Holy Communion (said)
Lady Chapel
Sunday 23rd October 2022
The Last Sunday after Trinity
Proper 25
- 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' - Hans Leo Hassler
O sacrum convivium - Thomas Tallis - 1.30pm
- Cathedral Open Today
- 6.00pm
- Choral Evensong (sung by Guildford Cathedral Singers)
Quire and Nave
Responses: Ayleward
Evening service in G - Charles Villiers Stanford
Psalm 149
Geistliches Lied - Johannes Brahms
Monday 24th October 2022
- 8.30am
- Cathedral Open Today
- 9.00am
- Morning Prayer (said)
Lady Chapel - 9.30am
- Holy Communion (said)
Lady Chapel - 5.30pm
- Evening Prayer (said)
Quire
Tuesday 25th October 2022
Crispin and Crispinian, Martyrs at Rome, c.287
- 7.30am
- Cathedral Open Today
- 8.00am
- Morning Prayer (said)
Lady Chapel - 8.30am
- Holy Communion (said)
Lady Chapel - 5.30pm
- Evening Prayer (said)
Quire
Wednesday 26th October 2022
Alfred the Great, King of the West Saxons, Scholar, 899
Cedd, Abbot of Lastingham, Bishop of the East Saxons, 664
- 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 October 2022
- 8.30am
- Cathedral Open Today
- 9.00am
- Morning Prayer (said)
Lady Chapel - 9.30am
- Holy Communion (said)
Lady Chapel - 5.30pm
- Choral Evensong (First Evensong of Simon and Jude, Apostles)
Quire
Responses: Rose
Evening service in F - Michael Wise
Psalms 124, 125, 126
Friday 28th October 2022
Simon and Jude, 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 El Ojo - Francisco de Peñalosa
O quam gloriosum - Tomás Luis de Victoria
Saturday 29th October 2022
James Hannington, Bishop of Eastern Equatorial Africa, Martyr in Uganda, 1885
- 8.30am
- Cathedral Open Today
- 9.00am
- Morning Prayer (said)
Lady Chapel - 9.30am
- Holy Communion (said)
Lady Chapel
Sunday 30th October 2022
The Fourth Sunday before Advent
- 7.45am
- Morning Prayer (said)
Lady Chapel - 8.00am
- Holy Communion (said)
Lady Chapel - 9.45am
- The Cathedral Eucharist
Nave Altar
Hymns: 490 (i), 278, 604
Missa Sexti toni - Giovanni Croce
Psalm 32. 1-8
O salutaris hostia - Thomas Tallis - 1.30pm
- Cathedral Open Today
- 6.00pm
- Choral Evensong
Quire and Nave
Responses: Rose
Hymns: 600, 10
Evening service in D - George Dyson
Psalm 145. 1-9
Save us, O Lord - Edward Bairstow
Organ: Church bells beyond the stars - Cecilia McDowall
Monday 31st October 2022
Martin Luther, Reformer, 1546
- 8.30am
- Cathedral Open Today
- 9.00am
- Morning Prayer (said)
Lady Chapel - 9.30am
- Holy Communion (said)
Lady Chapel - 5.30pm
- Choral Evensong (First Evensong of All Saints)
Quire
Responses: Rose
Evening service in E - Herbert Murrill
Psalms 1, 5
Hallelujah (Messiah) - George Frederic Handel