Opening Anthem: Memento mei  Paweł Łukaszewski (born 1968), Mark Dwyer, conductor
Memento mei, Domine, dum veneris in regnum tuum.  Remember me O Lord, when thou comest into thy kingdom. (cf Luke 23:42)

Preces, Philip Radcliffe (1905-1986), Mark Dwyer, conductor;  Jeremy Bruns, organist; Corey Dalton Hart, cantor
Psalm 19: Cœli enarrant -- Sir John Goss (1800-1880)
Psalm 46: Deus noster refugium, chant adapted from Martin Luther (1483-1546) by John Goss
First Lesson

Magnificat in A -- Healey Willan (1880-1968), Mark Dwyer, conductor;                                                            Jeremy Bruns, organist 

Second Lesson

Nunc dimittis à 5 (Gradualia), William Byrd (1540-1623) The Advent Choir,  Jeremy Bruns, conductor,  Agnes Coakley, Stephanie Buen Abad, Henry Clapp, solo trio
Versicles and Responses: Philip Radcliffe (1905-1986),  Mark Dwyer, conductor;  Corey Dalton Hart, cantors

Anthem: God is Love -- Anthony Gregory Murray, OSB (1905–1992) Mark Dwyer, conductor
Antiphon: God is love, and where true love is, God himself is there.
Here in Christ we gather, love of Christ our calling. Christ, our love, is with us, gladness be his greeting. Let us fear and love him, holy God eternal. Loving him, let each love Christ in one another. repeat Antiphon. When we Christians gather, members of one Body, let there be in us no discord but one spirit. Banished now be anger, strife and every quarrel. Christ, our God, be always present here among us. repeat Antiphon. Grant us love’s fulfillment, joy with all the blessed, when we see your face, O Savior, in its glory. Shine on us, O purest Light of all creation, be our bliss while endless ages sing your praises. repeat Antiphon.
[Ubi Caritas; Maundy Thursday hymn sung at the foot-washing ceremony: North Italian or Burgundian, c 8th cent; tr James Quinn, SJ (1919-2010)]

(On a biographical note : Dom Gregory Murray, OSB, MA, FRCO, was educated at Westminster Cathedral Choir School when Sir Richard Terry was Master of the Music, and St Benedict's, Ealing. In 1923 he became a Fellow of the Royal College of Organists and read for the historical tripos at Cambridge University, graduating in 1929. He was ordained in 1932 for Downside Abbey and spent most of the rest of his life there except for periods at Ealing during the war and as parish priest of Hindley, Lancashire, from 1948 to 1952. He was parish priest of St Benedict's, Stratton-on-the-Fosse, from 1952 to 1987)


Hymn: Lo, he comes with clouds descending
text by Charles Wesley (1707-1788) and others; from Thomas Augustine Arne (1710-1778) adapted by Ralph Vaughan Williams (1872-1958) for The 1906 English Hymnal, descant by Mark Dwyer (born 1963)

1 Lo! he comes with clouds descending,
once for our salvation slain;
thousand, thousand saints attending
swell the triumph of his train:
Alleluia! Alleluia! Alleluia! 
Christ the Lord returns to reign.
Organ voluntary, Scerzo in sol min. op. 49. no. 2
By Marco Enrico Bossi, played by Sr. Alessandro Bianchi 

The Choral Music is from the Sound Archive of the Choir of the Church of the Advent, Boston, under the Direction of Mark Dwyer by kind permission of the Rector the Revd. Fr. Douglas Anderson.

Evensong Upon the Feast of St Aelred of Rievaulx

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