The Collegiate & Civic Church of

St Mary, Swansea

The Parish of Central Swansea

Services & Music – April 2012

 

 

SUNDAY 1st April       Palm Sunday

11.00am Choral Eucharist, with Procession of Palms

Celebrant & Preacher: Fr Simon Griffiths, Team Rector

Hymns: 128, Who is this, 112, 565

Bartholomäus Gesius             Hosianna dem Sohne Davids

Antonio Lotti                         Missa brevis            Lent Prose

Arthur Hutchings Hosanna to the Son of David

William Mathias                     Processional

 

6.00pm Choral Evensong

Preacher: Revd Canon Peter Williams, College of St Mary

Hymns: 129, 582, 499 (verses1-7)

Thomas Tallis Responses                        Ps 69, 1-19(Stanford)

Charles Wood in D

Grayston Ives                         Ride on

 

Holy Week

 

Tuesday in Holy Week 3rd

8.30am Morning Prayer

12.30pm Holy Eucharist

5.30pm Choral Evensong – Boys’ Choir

Plainsong Responses                                              Ps 27

J. H. Arnold            A Plain Magnificat & Nunc dimittis

Orlando Gibbons    Drop, drop slow tears            Hymn 123

 

Maundy Thursday 5th

8.30am Morning Prayer

12.30pm Holy Eucharist

7.30pm Mass of the Last Supper, with Foot Washing & Stripping of the Altar

Celebrant & Preacher: Fr Simon Griffiths, Team Rector

Hymns: 130, Will you let (393), Love is his word, 322, 316

Joseph Haydn         Missa brevis Sti Joannes de Deo

Plainsong                Ubi caritas               Ps 116, 11-16 (292)

Orlando Gibbons    Drop, drop slow tears

Thomas Tallis          If ye love me          Ps 88 (plainsong)

 

Good Friday 6th

2.00pm Liturgy of the Passion

Preacher: Fr Simon Griffiths, Team Rector

Hymns: 123, 127, 557 (i)                                    Ps 22, 1-21

John Sanders    The Reproaches

John Bull                     In the departure of the Lord

 

Holy Saturday 7th

8.30pm Easter Vigilsung by Cantors

Celebrant & Preacher: Fr Simon Griffiths, Team Rector

Hymns: 568, 138, 148

Plainsong                      Missa de Angelis

 

SUNDAY 8th April      Easter Day

11.00am Choral Eucharist

Celebrant & Preacher: Fr Simon Griffiths, Team Rector

Hymns: 149 (pt 1 & Dox), 147, 160, 157

Barry Rose              I am the first and the last

Franz Schubert      Mass in G   Easter Anthems (Middleton)

Marco Antonio Ingegneri Haec dies

Jean Langlais          Hymne d'actions de grâces 'Te deum'

 

2.30pm Wedding

 

4.00pm Festal Choral Evensong

Preacher: Fr Ian Drew-Jones, Assistant Curate

Hymns: 154 (omit *), 147, 162

William Reynolds Responses     Pss 114 (286), 117 (Elvey)

Charles Villiers Stanford in C

Samuel Sebastian Wesley      Blessed be the God and Father

 

Following Evensong on Easter Day St Mary's Choirs will be in recess until Tuesday 17th April

 

Friday 13th

8.30am Morning Prayer

11.30am Archidiaconal Mothers' Union Eucharist

12.30pm Holy Eucharist

5.30pm Evening Prayer

 

SUNDAY 15th April     Easter Two

Low Sunday

11.00am HolyEucharist

Celebrant & Preacher: Fr Simon Griffiths, Team Rector

Hymns:   145, 158, 150, 155

 

6.00pm Evening Prayer (said)

Preacher: Mr John Anthony, Lay Reader

 

Tuesday 17th

8.30am Morning Prayer

12.30pm Holy Eucharist

5.30pm Choral Evensong – Boys’ Choir

Ian Fox Responses                                  Ps 68, 19-26

Ralph Vaughan Williams in C

French Trad., arr. Shaw    Now the green blade riseth                                                                      Hymn 148

 

Saturday 21st

8.30am Morning Prayer

12.30pm Holy Eucharist

5.30pm St Mary's Choir sing Choral Evensong at Exeter Cathedral

Hymns :NEH 101 (i), 119

William Reynolds Responses                 Ps 106

William Mathias     St David's Service

William Mathias     Let the people praise thee, O God

 

SUNDAY 22nd April    Easter Three

11.00am Choral Eucharist

Celebrant & Preacher Fr Ian Drew-Jones, Curate

Hymns: 159, 154, 162, 152                                    Ps 4 (239)

Harold Darke in F

Ralph Vaughan Williams       O taste and see

Johann Sebastian Bach           Prelude in E minor, BWV 548

 

6.00pm Choral Evensong

Preacher: Revd Sue Knight, Team Vicar

Hymns: 141 (i, omit 4), 158, 152

Thomas Tallis Responses                                     Ps 142 (Paul)

Herbert Sumsion in G

H Walford Davies  O sons and daughters

 

Tuesday 24th Eve of St Mark, Evangelist

8.30am Morning Prayer

12.30pm Holy Eucharist

5.30pm Choral Evensong – Boys’ Choir

Harry Bramma Responses                                     Ps 19

Charles Hylton Stewart in C

Orlando Gibbons    Now shall the praises             Hymn 212

 

SUNDAY 29th April     Easter Four

11.00am Choral Eucharist

Celebrant & Preacher

Hymns:                   593, 594, 311, 600               Ps 23 (Walford Davies)

Herbert Sumsion in F

William Byrd          Ave verum corpusJohann Sebastian Bach    Fugue in E minor (The Wedge), BWV 548

 

6.00pm Choral Evensong

Preacher: Mr Robert Leonard, Lay Reader

Hymns: 158, 148,   144

Bernard Rose Responses                       Ps 81, 9-17 (254)

Ernest J. Moeran in D

Charles Villiers Stanford       Ye choirs of new Jerusalem