An overview of what’s happening at the Cathedral during the next few weeks.
Daily Calendar
This week
W/C 21 April
W/C 28 April
W/C 05 May
Sunday 14 April
Choral Eucharist
9:45
Choral Eucharist - The Liturgy of Palms; followed by Choral Eucharist including the reading of the Luke Passion
Girls, Boys and Adults
Hosanna to the son of David - Thomas Weelkes
Missa Brevis - Richard Rodney Bennett
Pueri hebraeorum - Tomas Luis da Vittoria
Fantasia super: Valet will ich dir geben BWV 735 - Johann Sebastian Bach
10:00
Special Service - Palm Sunday service
11:15
Special Event - 'Gather up the fragments that nothing be lost'
16:00
Performance - St John Passion
Monday 15 April
Choral Evensong
17:30
Choral Evensong
Girls and Adults
Responses - Plainsong
Psalm 25
Plainsong
Crucifixus - Antonio Lotti
19:30
Special Service - Address by Canon Dr Mike Williams with organ music played by Organ Scholar Hamish Fraser.
Tuesday 16 April
9:00
Cathedral closed for sightseeing - For Bishop of Ebbsfleet Chrism Eucharist
9:00
Exhibition - CWF - Display/Assessment of Carving
Choral Evensong
17:30
Choral Evensong
Girls and Adults
Responses - Plainsong
Psalm 55 (13-24)
Plainsong
O saviour of the world - John Goss
19:30
Special Service - Address by Canon Dr Mike Williams with devotional music from the St Peter’s Singers.
Wednesday 17 April
9:00
Exhibition - Display/Exhibition of Carving by CWF
12:30
Special Event - Passion and Practices of a Master Carver
Choral Evensong
17:30
Choral Evensong
Lay Vicars and Choral Scholars
Responses - Plainsong
Psalm 88
Plainsong
The Lamentations of Jeremiah (Part 2) - Thomas Tallis
19:30
Special Service - Address by Canon Dr Mike Williams. Including a performance of Nicolas Gombert’s Lugebat David Absalon sung by the lay vicars and choral scholars.
Thursday 18 April
Solemn Eucharist
10:30
Solemn Eucharist - Diocesan Chrism Eucharist
Boys and Adults
John Ireland in C
The spirit of the Lord - Edward Elgar
Kyrie, Gott heiliger Geist BWV 671 - Johann Sebastian Bach
Solemn Eucharist
19:30
Solemn Eucharist - Eucharist of the Lord's Supper followed by the Watch
Boys and Adults
In ieiunio et fletu - Thomas Tallis
Missa Brevis - Jonathan Dove
Ubi caritas - David Briggs
Like as the hart - Herbert Howells
Tantum ergo - Maurice Duruflé
Friday 19 April
9:00
Cathedral closed for sightseeing - All are welcome to attend our services for Good Friday
9:00
Cathedral Shop - Closed All Day
9:00
Cathedral Café - Closed All Day
10:00
Special Service - Passion for Exeter Service
11:30
Special Service - CTAX service of readings
Choral Eucharist
13:30
Choral Eucharist - The Celebration of the Lord's Passion
Boys and Adults
Christus factus est - Anton Bruckner
The Lamentation - Edward Bairstow
The Reproaches - John Sanders
Salvator mundi - Thomas Tallis
19:30
Special Service - Devotional performance of Stainer Crucifixion (sung by the University of Exeter Chapel Choir)
Saturday 20 April
Sunday 21 April
5:45
Special Service - Dawn Liturgy ceremony of light
9:00
Cathedral Café - Closed All Day
9:00
Cathedral Shop - Closed All Day
Choral Eucharist
10:00
Choral Eucharist
Girls, Boys and Adults
This joyful Eastertide - arr. Charles Wood
Mass in G - Franz Schubert
Ecce vicit Leo - Peter Philips
Prelude and Fugue in B major - Marcel Dupré
Choral Mattins
11:45
Choral Mattins
Girls, Boys and Adults
Responses - Bernard Rose
Psalms 114, 117
Collegium Regale - Herbert Howells
Blessed be the God and Father - Samuel Sebastian Wesley
Saraband for the Morning of Easter - Herbert Howells
Choral Evensong
16:00
Choral Evensong
Girls, Boys and Adults
Responses - Bernard Rose
Psalm 66 (1-11)
C. V. Stanford in A
Hallelujah - George Frederic Handel
Toccata (Symphonie V) - Charles-Marie Widor
Monday 22 April
Solemn Eucharist
11:30
Solemn Eucharist - Service attended by the Cathedral Old Choristers
Girls, Boys, Adults + Old Choristers
Messe pour deux choeurs op. 36 - Charles-Marie Widor
Grand choeur "alla Händel" - Alexandre Guilmant
Choral Evensong
15:00
Choral Evensong - Service attended by the Cathedral Old Choristers
Girls, Boys, Adults + Old Choristers
Responses - Bernard Rose
Psalm 135
Thomas Attwood Walmisley in D minor
Like as the hart - Herbert Howells
Allegro (Symphonie II) - Louis Vierne
Tuesday 23 April
10:00
Special Event - Spotlight on Shakespeare
15:00
Special Event - Cafe Closes for Private Function
Wednesday 24 April
Thursday 25 April
Friday 26 April
Choral Evensong
17:30
Choral Evensong
Chapel Choir of King's School, Bruton, Somerset
Responses: Richard Smith (five part)
Psalm 119:145-160
Canticles: Collegium Regale - Herbert Howells
King of glory, King of peace - Alexander L'Estrange
Saturday 27 April
10:00
Performance - Organ demonstration to Oxford and District Organist Association
Sunday 28 April
12:00
Special Service - Baptism of Maximilian Potlogea
14:00
Special Service - Scouts St George's Day Service
Choral Evensong
16:00
Choral Evensong
All Saints Barry
Responses - Richard Ayleward
Psalm 16
Herbert Brewer in D
Ye choirs of new Jerusalem - Charles Villiers Stanford
Monday 29 April
Choral Evensong
17:30
Choral Evensong
Girls and Adults
Responses - Bernard Rose
Psalms 142, 143
Basil Harwood in A flat
Give us the wings of faith - Ernest Bullock
Tuesday 30 April
Solemn Eucharist
17:30
Solemn Eucharist - St Mark (transferred from 25 April)
Boys and Adults
Missa in Temporem Paschali - Philip Moore
Wednesday 01 May
Solemn Eucharist
17:30
Solemn Eucharist - St Philip and St James
Lay Vicars and Choral Scholars
Missa aeterna Christe munera - Giovanni Pierluigi da Palestrina
Thursday 02 May
Choral Evensong
17:30
Choral Evensong
Boys and Adults
Responses - Bernard Rose
Psalms 12-14
Herbert Brewer in D
Awake, thou wintry earth - J. S. Bach
Friday 03 May
Choral Evensong
17:30
Choral Evensong
Girls and Adults
Responses - Bernard Rose
Psalm 18
Edward Naylor in A
When Mary through the garden went - C. V. Stanford
Saturday 04 May
Choral Evensong
17:30
Choral Evensong
Boys' Voices
Responses - Nia Llewelyn Jones
Psalm 23
Ben Parry in A
Walking in a garden - arr. Timothy Noon
Sunday 05 May
Choral Eucharist
10:00
Choral Eucharist
Boys and Adults
Now the green blade riseth - Traditional
Missa Bell' Amfitrit' altera - Orlandus Lassus
Alleluia, I heard a voice - Thomas Weelkes
Praeludium in D BuxWV 139 - Dietrich Buxtehude
Choral Evensong
16:00
Choral Evensong
St Peter's Singers and Choral Scholars
Responses - Bernard Rose
Psalm 86
The Edington Service - Grayston Ives
Easter - Ralph Vaughan Williams
Triptico del Buen Pastor (Triptych of the Good Shepherd) Jesús Guridi
Monday 06 May
14:00
Performance - Lunchtime Concert
Tuesday 07 May
Choral Evensong
17:30
Choral Evensong
Boys and Adults
Responses - Herbert Sumsion
Psalm 37
Harold Darke in F
I got me flowers - Ralph Vaughan Williams
Wednesday 08 May
9:30
Special Event - Being a Christian and speaking well: the craft of good words
Choral Evensong
17:30
Choral Evensong
Lay Vicars and Choral Scholars
Responses - Thomas Tallis
Psalms 41-43
Fauxbourdon Service - William Byrd
Upon this holy Eastertide - Johannes Eccard
Thursday 09 May
9:00
Special Event - Bishop of Exeter Quiet Day - Lady Chapel closed for sightseeing all day
Choral Evensong
17:30
Choral Evensong
Boys and Adults
Responses - Herbert Sumsion
Psalms 47-49
Henry Purcell in G minor
Love bade me welcome - Ralph Vaughan Williams
Friday 10 May
Choral Evensong
17:30
Choral Evensong
Boys and Adults
Responses - Herbert Sumsion
Psalms 53-55
Alan Gray in F minor
Set me as a seal - William Walton
19:00
Performance - Albion Quartet at the Honeymead Festival
Saturday 11 May
11:55
Special Service - VIPs arrive - To be greeted by member of Chapter
Choral Evensong
17:30
Choral Evensong
Girls' Voices
Responses - Timothy Noon
Psalm 59
Carolus Andreas in fauxbourdon
The Call - Ralph Vaughan Williams