- Organ: Adagio (from Choral No. 3 in A minor) – César Franck
- Opening Hymn 361 “Surely it is God who saves me” (Ecce, Deus)
- Service Music: New Plainsong – David Hurd
- Psalm 95 (sung to Anglican chant)
- Gospel Acclamation
Choir: Praise to you O Christ, King of eternal glory.
Praise to you O Christ, King of eternal glory.
All: Praise to you O Christ, King of eternal glory.
Praise to you O Christ, King of eternal glory.
Choir: Lord, you indeed are the Saviour of the world.
Give me the living water, that I may thirst no more.
All: Praise to you O Christ, King of eternal glory.
Praise to you O Christ, King of eternal glory.
- Offertory Hymn 508 “I heard the voice of Jesus say” (Kingsfold)
- Anthem: The Ways of Zion do Mourn – Michael Wise (1648–1687)
- Communion Hymn 49 “Draw nigh and take” (Song 46)
- Chorale: O haupt voll Blut und Wunden
- Organ: Chorale Prelude on ‘O haupt voll Blut’ – Max Reger (1873-1916)
The ways of Zion do mourn because none come to the solemn feasts, all her gates are desolate, her priests sigh, her virgins are afflicted and she is in bitterness. For these things I weep, mine eyes runneth down with water. Her adversaries are the chief, her enemies prosper, for the Lord hath afflicted her for the multitude of her transgressions. See, O Lord, and consider, for I am become vile. Is it nothing to you, all ye that pass by? behold and see if there be any sorrow like my sorrow. The Lord hath trodden under foot all my mighty men in the midst of me. He hath called an assembly against me to crush my young men. The Lord hath trodden under foot the virgin, the daughter of Judah. For these things I weep, mine eye runneth down with water, because the comforter that should relieve my soul is far from me. See, O Lord, and consider, for I am become vile.
O sacred head, surrounded by crown of piercing thorn! O royal head, so wounded, reviled and put to scorn! Death’s shadows rise before you, the glow of life decays, yet angel hosts adore thee and tremble as they gaze.
Michael Wise (1648–1687) was an English organist and composer. He sang as a child in the choir of the Chapel Royal and served as a countertenor in St George's Chapel, Windsor, from 1666 until, in 1668, he was appointed organist and choirmaster at Salisbury Cathedral. In 1676 he became a Gentleman of the Chapel Royal, and in the last year of his life was Master of the Children at St Paul's Cathedral. During a violent struggle with a Salisbury night watchman following a domestic dispute, he sustained a blow to the head "which broke his skull, of the consequence whereof he died." Wise’s anthem The ways of Zion do mourn is considered to be his masterpiece. The text is from Lamentations 1: 4, 5, 11, 12, 15, 16.
At each of the five Lenten Sundays our service will end in a slightly different way. Following the blessing and in place of a concluding hymn, the choir will sing one verse of a chorale (a Lutheran hymn) taken from either the St. Matthew Passion or St. John Passion by J.S. Bach. This will be followed by a short piece of organ music that is based on that chorale by a different composer each week; after that, the dismissal and a quiet procession of clergy and choir from the sanctuary. It is hoped that these few minutes of music will provide you with an opportunity for reflection in keeping with the more sombre mood of Lent.
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