Saturday 11th April 2026

2.00pm Rehearsal (starting in the Song School)

5.30pm CHORAL EVENSONG
Responses: Ayleward
Psalm: 60
Canticles: Sumsion in A
Anthem: Arise in us – Shaw
Hymn: NEH 114 ‘Now is eternal life’

Sunday 12th April 2026
THE SECOND SUNDAY OF EASTER

9.00am Rehearsal (in the Song School)

10.15am CHORAL MATTINS
Responses: Ayleward
Easter Anthems – Barker
Psalm: 81 vv. 1–10
Canticles: Stanford in B-flat
Anthem: Christ the Lord is risen again – Barker
Hymn: NEH 102 ‘A brighter dawn is breaking’

11.15am SUNG EUCHARIST
Mass Setting: Johannesburg Service – Bertalot
Psalm 16
Motet: Now the green blade riseth – French melody, arr. Lindley
Hymns: NEH 117 ‘The day of resurrection’; NEH 296i ‘Lord enthroned in heavenly splendour’; NEH 112 ‘Jesus lives, thy terrors now’; NEH 119 (t. 107) ‘The strife is o’er’

2.00pm Rehearsal

3.00pm CHORAL EVENSONG
Responses: Ayleward
Psalm: 30 vv. 1–5
Canticles: Brewer in D
Anthem: Good Christians all rejoice and sing – Archer
Hymns: NEH 118 ‘The Lord is risen indeed’; NEH 206 ‘Christ is our corner-stone’

 It is your responsibility to book accommodation for this trip. There are several places around Chichester that are within walking distance to the Cathedral, including a Travel Lodge, Premier Inn, and several B&Bs.

Please make your own way to Chichester, and leave plenty of time to arrive for the first 2pm rehearsal. If you are travelling from Canterbury then I would appreciate some help in taking robes and/or music as I now have to fit all the things that come with Oscar in the boot!

For those of you who are regular singers with St Stephen’s, please take your own robes with you. It would be lovely if you could wash your whites in advance too.

For those of you joining us as guests, please let me know you approximate height and I’ll bring all the spare robes hopefully enough for everyone. If you have robes from elsewhere, it might be worth bringing those with you too, just in case.

Where ever you’re coming from, don’t forget your black shoes!

We have reserved a large table at Côte for Saturday evening, but we need to pre-order! If you would like to join us, please message or email me your choice from this group menu now!

On Sunday there won’t be a lot of time for lunch as the Eucharist will finish at approximately 12.30pm, and then we have to rehearse no later than 2pm for an early Evensong, so I would recommend bringing a sandwich with you, or possibly finding something in the Cathedral tea room.