Date: 21.12.2025 Advent 4 Yr A
Mass setting: Plainchant mass XVII for Advent
Propers: Lalemant pp. 10, 12
Psalm: Psalms for Sunday p. 20
Gospel sentence: ‘The virgin will conceive and give birth to a son; and they will call him Emmanuel, a name which means ‘God is with us’.’
Gospel acclamation: 4-part Alleluia (sheet)
Hymns:
I: 14 tune: 341
O: 11
C: 3 second tune
F: 10
Anthem: The Magnificat Thomas Morley (1557 – 1602)
Postlude: Virgo Dei Genetrix from op. 45
Marcel Dupre (1887 – 1959)
Date: 24.12.2025 Christmas Midnight Year A
Mass setting: The Addington Service
Richard Shephard (1949 – 2021)
Propers: Lalemant pp. 16, 18
Psalm: Psalms for Sunday p. 23
Gospel sentence: ‘I bring you news of great joy: today a saviour has been born to us, Christ the Lord.’
Gospel acclamation: Psalms for Sunday p. 202, no. 3
Hymns:
P: 33
O: 32 omit *
C: 29
F: Silent Night (booklet)
Date: 25.12.2025 Christmas Day Year A
Mass setting: The Salisbury Setting Hubbard/Cocking
Propers: Lalemant pp. 22, 24
Psalm: Psalms for Sunday p. 24
Gospel sentence: ‘Come, you nations, worship the Lord; for today a great light has shone down upon the earth.’
Gospel acclamation: Psalms for Sunday p. 202, no. 3
Hymns:
P: 30
O: 19 (ii)
C: 23
F: 26 omit *
Postlude: In dulci jubilo FW Zachau (1663 – 1712)
Date: 28.12.2025 Holy Innocents Year A
Mass setting: The Salisbury Setting Hubbard/Cocking
Propers: Lalemant pp. 25 – 27
Psalm: Psalms for Sunday p. 141
Gospel sentence: ‘Your words are spirit, Lord, and they are life: you have the message of eternal life.’
Gospel acclamation: Psalms for Sunday p. 203, no. 4
Hymns:
P: 34
O: 21
C: 31
F: 39
Postlude: Allein Gott in der Höh sei Ehr
JG Walther (1684 – 1748)