Services at St Stephen’s
Advent 2025 to Date
Archives: 2024-25, 2023-24, 2022-23, 2021-22, 2020-21, 2019-20
St Stephen’s has been at the centre of its community for over 900 years, and remains so today. Our mission is to equip God’s people through thoughtful worship, warm fellowship, and enriching teaching. We are a church with a thriving robed choir of an excellent standard. If you are 9 months or 90 years old, or anywhere in between, we look forward to welcoming you!
| Sunday | 10.30am | Sung Eucharist * |
| 6.00pm | Choral Evensong * | |
| Wednesday | 10.00am | Holy Communion (said) |
Lectionary Year A
The Second Sunday of Advent
Sunday 7th December 2025
10.30am Sung Eucharist
Setting: St Anne’s Mass – MacMillan
Anthem: People, look East – Besancon carol melody, arr. Shaw
Hymns: 5, 12, 14, 308, 388i
Voluntary: Herr Christ, der einge Gottessohn (BWV 601) – J. S. Bach
6.00pm Choral Evensong
Sung by the Tenors and Basses
Responses: Plainsong Psalm 75
Magnificat: Plainchant tone vi
Nunc dimittis: Plainchant tone iv-4
Anthem: The Advent Prose – Plainchant (ed. Cleobury)
Hymns: 1i , 8 (t. 128ii)
Voluntary: Rorate Caeli Choral orne – Demessieux
The First Sunday of Advent
Sunday 30th November 2025
10.30am Sung Eucharist
Setting: St Anne’s Mass – MacMillan
Anthem: The truth from above – trad. English carol, arr. Vaughan Williams
Hymns: 11, 3ii, 7, 298, 9
Voluntary: Wachet auf, ruft uns die Stimme (BWV 645) – J. S. Bach
6.00pm ‘From Darkness to Light’ — A Service for Advent
The Advent Antiphons
I look from afar – adapted from a Magnificat by Palestrina
A tender shoot – Goldschmidt
O thou the central orb – Wood
O Radiant Dawn – MacMillan
Dismissal – Barker
Hymns 19 (omit vv. 5 & 7), 7, 12, ‘O come, O come, Emmanuel’, 9
Voluntary: Toccata on ‘Veni Emmanuel’ – Carter