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Merton College Chapel SERVICES and MUSIC Michaelmas Term 2014
Merton College Chapel
SERVICES and MUSIC
Michaelmas Term
2014
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Merton College Chapel
Merton College was founded by Walter de Merton on 14
September 1264. Worship has been offered in the College Chapel
for over seven hundred years. Today the Chapel is home to a
lively and diverse Christian community which continues this
faithful offering of worship with daily services during term.
Visitors are welcome to join members of the College at all our
services.
The Chapel is part of the Church of England, within the world-
wide Anglican Communion, and the Archbishop of Canterbury
is the College’s Visitor. All those who are communicant
members of their own church are welcome to receive Holy
Communion with us.
As part of the 750th celebrations, most of this year’s Sunday
evening preachers are Mertonians. The Revd Dr Nicholas
Cranfield (19 October) read Modern History at Merton, and also
completed a DPhil in Ecclesiastical History. Formerly Dean of
Chapel of Selwyn College, Cambridge, he has been Vicar of All
Saints’, Blackheath, in the Diocese of Southwark, since 1999.
The Revd Professor Alister McGrath (26 October) was a Senior
Scholar at Merton from 1976-1978, combining research for his
DPhil in Chemistry with study for the Final Honours School in
Theology. He has held academic posts in Cambridge, London
and Oxford. Earlier this year he became the first Andreas Idreos
Professor in Science and Religion at Oxford. Sir Martin Taylor
(26 October) became the fiftieth Warden of Merton College in
2010, having been previously Professor of Pure Mathematics at
Manchester University and a Vice-President of the Royal Society.
The Revd Mark Eminson (9 November) matriculated in 1999. He
read Modern History at Merton and stayed on for an MSt. Mark
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was the College’s first MCR welfare representative and was
confirmed in the College Chapel. Having served his curacy in
East Grinstead, he has been Vicar of St Thomas à Becket,
Pagham, in the Diocese of Chichester, since 2012.
A twenty-four hour Peace Vigil will be held on 10 and 11
November. It will begin with a shared meal at 7.00pm on
Monday 10 November in the MCR and conclude with the
Requiem Eucharist for Armistice Day. If you would like to be
involved, please email [email protected].
The College Choir sings on Sundays, Tuesdays and Thursdays,
its music enriching our worship. Members of College and
Friends of the Choir can purchase the Choir’s recordings from
the Chapel Administrator ([email protected]).
Copies are also available from the Porters’ Lodge. An important
feature of the 750th anniversary is the performance of pieces
commissioned for the Merton Choirbook. This term sees the first
performances of a number of Choirbook commissions. We are
very grateful to those whose generosity has made this possible.
Please contact me or Ben Nicholas if you would like to support
this exciting project.
The Chapel supports a number of charities. Our collections this
term will be donated to the Oxford Food Bank
(www.oxfordfoodbank.org), the Embleton Parish Church
Development Project, the Oxford Parent Infant Project
(www.oxpip.org.uk), and the Oxfam Iraq Crisis Appeal.
Simon Jones
Chaplain
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MICHAELMAS TERM 2014
OCTOBER
12 The Seventeenth Sunday after Trinity (1st week)
9.00am College Eucharist
5.45pm Freshers’ Service Prelude Sonata in E minor (Introduction
& Passacaglia) Rheinberger
Introit We wait for thy loving kindness McKie
Responses Smith
Psalm 139.1-11
Canticles Stanford in A
Anthem And I saw a new heaven Bainton
Hymns ‘O God, beyond all praising’, 353, 408
Preacher The Chaplain
Voluntary Sonata in A (Con moto maestoso) Op 65 No 3
Mendelssohn
13 Monday
St Edward 8.15am Morning Prayer the Confessor
14 Tuesday
8.15am Morning Prayer
12.30pm Eucharist
5.45pm Roman Catholic Mass
a 750th anniversary celebration Prelude Voluntary in A minor Byrd
Setting Mass for Four Voices Byrd
Psalm 45.11-end
Motet Ave verum corpus Byrd
Hymns ‘Mary Immaculate’, 381
Preacher The Most Revd Bernard Longley
Archbishop of Birmingham
Voluntary Praeludium in C BuxWV 137 Buxtehude
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15 Wednesday
St Teresa 8.15am Morning Prayer
of Avila 6.30pm Evening Prayer
16 Thursday
8.15am Morning Prayer
6.15pm Choral Evensong
sung jointly with
Tewkesbury Abbey Schola Cantorum Prelude Andante with variations in D Mendelssohn
Responses Smith
Psalm 78.41-end
Canticles Stanford in A
Anthem Give unto the Lord Elgar
Hymn 427
Voluntary Sonata on the 94th Psalm (Fugue) Reubke
17 Friday
St Ignatius 8.15am Morning Prayer
of Antioch 6.30pm Evening Prayer
18 St Luke the Evangelist (Saturday)
4.00pm Sung Eucharist and
Ordination to the Priesthood of
The Revd Eric Lobsinger Prelude Vesper Voluntary VIII Elgar
Setting Mass for Four Voices Byrd
Psalm 147.1-7
Motet s Sacerdotes Domini Byrd
The Spirit of the Lord Elgar
Preacher The Rt Revd George Wayne Smith
Bishop of Missouri
Voluntary Toccata Dubois
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19 St Frideswide, Patron of Oxford (Sunday of 2nd week)
9.00am Morning Prayer
5.45pm College Eucharist Prelude Unfinished Symphony Schubert (arr Briggs)
Setting Mass in G Schubert
Psalm 84
Motet The Lord is my shepherd Schubert
Hymns 197, 271,’Glory to you, O God’
Preacher The Revd Dr Nicholas Cranfield (1974)
Vicar, All Saints’, Blackheath
Voluntary Sonata II (Allegro maestoso e vivace & Fuga)
Mendelssohn
20 Monday
8.15am Morning Prayer
6.30pm Evening Prayer
21 Tuesday
8.15am Morning Prayer
12.30pm Eucharist
6.15pm Choral Evensong Prelude Psalm Prelude Set 1 No 1 Howells
Responses Ayleward
Psalm 89.20-end
Canticles Watson in E
Anthem Ubi caritas Duruflé
Hymn 467
Voluntary Fugue on a theme of Corelli BWV 579
Bach
22 Wednesday
8.15am Morning Prayer
6.30pm Evening Prayer
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23 Thursday
8.15am Morning Prayer
6.15pm Choral Evensong Prelude Sonata III (Andante tranquillo) Mendelssohn
Responses Ayleward
Psalm 94
Canticles Wood in E flat No 2
Anthem My soul, there is a country Parry
Hymn ‘Who would true valour see’
Voluntary Miroir Wammes
24 Friday
8.15am Morning Prayer
6.30pm Evening Prayer
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26 The Last Sunday after Trinity (3rd week)
8.10am Sunday Worship
broadcast live on BBC Radio 4 Anthems Kyrie (Collegium Regale) Howells
My soul, there is a country Parry
And I saw a new heaven Bainton
Hymns ‘Who would true valour see’,
‘Awake, our souls’, 381
Preacher The Revd Professor Alister McGrath (1976)
Andreas Idreos Professor of Science and Religion
Voluntary Sonata in A (Con moto maestoso) Op 65 No 3
Mendelssohn
12 noon College Eucharist
5.45pm Choral Evensong and
Commemoration of Benefactors Prelude Mein Jesu, der du mich Brahms
Introit Locus iste Gant (Merton Choirbook)
Responses Ayleward
Psalm 145
Canticles Purcell in G minor
Anthem Wie lieblich sind deine Wohnungen Brahms
Hymns 436, ‘Almighty Father of all things’, 333
Address Professor Sir Martin Taylor
Warden
Voluntary Symphonie II (Allegro Risoluto) Vierne
27 Monday
8.15am Morning Prayer
6.30pm Evening Prayer
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28 St Simon & St Jude, Apostles (Tuesday)
8.15am Morning Prayer
12.30pm Eucharist
6.15pm Sung Eucharist Prelude Kyrie, Gott Vater BWV 669 Bach
Setting Missa Brevis Willcock (Merton Choirbook)
Psalm 119.89-96
Hymns 195, 231
Voluntary Kyrie Gott, heiliger Geist BWV 671 Bach
29 Wednesday
8.15am Morning Prayer
6.30pm Evening Prayer
30 Thursday
8.15am Morning Prayer
6.15pm Evensong Prelude Six Short Preludes No 5 Op 105 Stanford
Responses Ayleward
Psalms 114, 116, 117
Canticles Stanford in B flat
Anthem Prologue Wilson (Merton Choirbook)
Hymn ‘Last of the great prophetic line’
Voluntary Six Short Preludes No 2 Op 105 Stanford
31 Friday
8.15am Morning Prayer
6.30pm Evening Prayer
for the eve of All Saints’ Day
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NOVEMBER
1 All Saints’ Day (Saturday)
12.30pm Eucharist
2 The Fourth Sunday before Advent (4th week)
9.00am Morning Prayer
5.30pm Requiem Eucharist Setting Requiem Mass Mozart
Sospiri Elgar
Hymns ‘Be still my soul’, 331
3 Monday
8.15am Morning Prayer
6.30pm Evening Prayer
10.00pm Compline Prelude Liebster Jesu, wir sind hier BWV 731 Bach
Hymn Te lucis ante terminum Tallis
Motet Ave Maria Parsons
4 Tuesday
8.15am Morning Prayer
12.30pm Eucharist
6.15pm Choral Evensong Prelude Pari Intervallo Pärt
Responses Tomkins
Psalms 98, 99, 100
Canticles Fourth Service Batten
Anthem Funeral Ikos Tavener
Hymn 462
Voluntary Passacaglia in D minor BuxWV 161 Buxtehude
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5 Wednesday
8.15am Morning Prayer
6.30pm Evening Prayer
6 Thursday
8.15am Morning Prayer
6.15pm Choral Evensong Prelude In manus tuas Demessieux
Responses Tomkins
Psalm 118
Canticles Short Service Gibbons
Anthem When David heard Weelkes
Hymn 457
Voluntary Voluntary IV Op 7 Stanley
7 Friday
St Willibrord 8.15am Morning Prayer
6.30pm Evening Prayer
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9 Remembrance Sunday (5th week)
9.00am College Eucharist
10.50am Act of Remembrance
at the Fitzjames Arch
5.45pm Choral Evensong Prelude Prelude in C minor BWV 546 Bach
Introit They shall grow not old Guest
Responses Smith
Psalms 20, 82
Canticles Collegium Regale Howells
Anthem Lord, thou hast been our refuge
Vaughan Williams
Hymns 377, 461, 252
Preacher The Revd Mark Eminson (1998)
Vicar, St Thomas à Becket, Pagham
Voluntary Fugue in C minor BWV 546 Bach
10 Monday
St Leo 8.15am Morning Prayer
the Great PEACE VIGIL
8.00pm Prayers for Peace
11.45pm Compline
11 Tuesday
St Martin 8.15am Morning Prayer
of Tours 12.30pm Prayers for Peace
6.00pm Requiem Eucharist
for Armistice Day Prelude In paradisum Daniel-Lesur
Setting Requiem Mass Duruflé
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12 Wednesday
8.15am Morning Prayer
6.30pm Evening Prayer
13 Thursday
8.15am Morning Prayer
6.15pm Choral Evensong Prelude Lux aeterna Kokkonen
Responses Smith
Psalms 42, 43
Canticles Third Service Moore
Anthem Versa est in luctum Lobo
Hymn ‘Above the voices of the world around me’
Voluntary Praeludium in D minor BuxWV 140
Buxtehude
14 Friday
8.15am Morning Prayer
6.30pm Evening Prayer
15 Saturday
4.00pm Choral Evensong Prelude Symphony V (Adagio) Widor
Responses Smith
Psalm 84
Canticles Sumsion in G
Anthem Like as the hart Howells
Hymn 488
Voluntary Toccata Dubois
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16 Second Sunday before Advent (6th week)
9.00am College Eucharist
5.45pm Choral Evensong Prelude Passacaglia in C minor BWV 582 Bach
Introit Sunset and Evening Star Parry
Responses Leighton
Psalm 89.20-36
Canticles Walmisley in D minor
Anthem Te Deum Tallis
Hymns 440 (omit*), 456, 339
Preacher Dr Steven Gunn (1979)
Fellow and Tutor in Modern History
Voluntary Prelude in E minor BWV 548 Bach
17 Monday
St Hugh 8.15am Morning Prayer
of Lincoln 6.30pm Evening Prayer
18 Tuesday
St Elizabeth 8.15am Morning Prayer
of Hungary 12.30pm Midday Prayer and Benediction
5.45pm Sung Eucharist
with Baptism and Confirmation Prelude The snow is dancing Debussy (arr Shepherd)
Setting Mass Stravinsky
Motets I will take you from the nations MacMillan
Ave verum corpus Byrd
Hymns 476, 431, 296, 420
Preacher The Rt Revd Michael Marshall
formerly Rector of Holy Trinity, Sloane Street
and Bishop of Woolwich
Voluntary Fugue sur le thème du Carillon des Heures de la
Cathédrale de Soissons Op 12 Duruflé
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19 Wednesday
St Hilda 8.15am Morning Prayer
of Whitby 6.30pm Evening Prayer
20 Thursday
St Edmund 8.15am Morning Prayer
king and 6.15pm Choral Evensong martyr Prelude Sonata III (2nd movement) Guilmant
Responses Leighton
Psalms 74, 76
Canticles Noble in B minor
Anthem Let all the world Leighton
Hymn ‘Christ, in whose passion once was sown’
Voluntary Alleluyas Preston
21 Friday
8.15am Morning Prayer
6.30pm Evening Prayer
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23 Christ the King (7th week)
9.00am Morning Prayer
5.45pm Corporate Communion Prelude Prélude Modale Langlais
Setting Messe Solennelle Langlais
Agnus Dei Mass IX
Psalm 95.1-7
Hymns ‘Christ triumphant’, ‘In Christ alone’, 352,
394
Motet Christe, adoramus te Monteverdi
Preacher The Revd Luke Hopkins
Junior Chaplain
Voluntary Te Deum Demessieux
24 Monday
8.15am Morning Prayer
6.30pm Evening Prayer
25 Tuesday
8.15am Morning Prayer
12.30pm Eucharist followed by a talk
on the work of Christian Aid
6.15pm Choral Evensong Prelude Verse Zipoli
Responses Byrd
Psalms 99, 101
Canticles Second Service Byrd
Anthem Diliges Dominum Byrd
Hymn 386
Voluntary Master Tallis’s Testament Howells
26 Wednesday
8.15am Morning Prayer
6.30pm Evening Prayer
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27 Thursday
8.15am Morning Prayer
6.15pm Choral Evensong Prelude Prière Franck
Responses Byrd
Psalms 131, 132, 133
Canticles Dyson in F
Anthem Geistliches Lied Brahms
Hymn 172
Voluntary Herr Jesu Christ, dich zu uns wend BWV 632 Bach
28 Friday
8.15am Morning Prayer
6.30pm Evening Prayer
29 Saturday
5.45pm Advent Carol Service I
Carols Matin Responsory Palestrina
Adam lay-y bounden Ord
Tomorrow shall be my dancing day
arr Willcocks
Advent Calendar Lark (Merton Choirbook)
Es ist ein Ros Sandström
O Rex Gentium Martin (Merton Choirbook)
Ave Maria Parsons
Voluntary Symphonie VI (Final) Vierne
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30 The First Sunday of Advent (8th week)
9.00am College Eucharist
5.45pm Advent Carol Service II
Carols Matin Responsory Palestrina
Adam lay-y bounden Ord
Tomorrow shall be my dancing day
arr Willcocks
Advent Calendar Lark (Merton Choirbook)
Es ist ein Ros Sandström
O Rex Gentium Martin (Merton Choirbook)
Ave Maria Parsons
Voluntary Symphonie VI (Final) Vierne
DECEMBER
1 St Andrew the Apostle (Monday)
8.15am Morning Prayer
6.30pm Evening Prayer
2 Tuesday
8.15am Morning Prayer
12.30pm Eucharist
6.15pm Choral Evensong Prelude Rorate Coeli Demessieux
Responses Byrd
Psalms 74, 75
Canticles Collegium Regale Howells
Anthem A spotless rose Howells
Hymn 14
Voluntary Nun komm der Heiden Heiland BWV 661 Bach
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3 Wednesday
8.15am Morning Prayer
4 Thursday
8.15am Morning Prayer
8.30pm Christmas Carol Service
Carols Silent Night arr Rutter
Sussex Carol arr Ledger
A Christmas Carol Chilcott
(Merton Choirbook)
A Nywe Werk Seán Doherty
I saw three ships arr Lloyd
The word made flesh Wilby
Voluntary Vom Himmel hoch Edmundson
5 Friday
8.15am Morning Prayer
Chapel services resume on
Thursday 15 January 2015
The first Choral Service of the Hilary Term
will be the Epiphany Carol Service
at 5.45pm on Sunday 18 January 2015
FRIENDS OF THE CHOIR
OF MERTON COLLEGE
The Friends of the Choir of Merton College support the Choir’s
current and future activities.
Friends receive regular newsletters from the Organist and
Director of Music, reduced ticket prices on selected concerts and
invitations to Friends’ events.
For further details, contact the Chapel Administrator, Timothy
Coleman ([email protected]).
CHAPEL SERVICES
Sundays
9.00am College Eucharist / Morning Prayer
followed by breakfast
5.45pm Choral Evensong / College Eucharist
followed by drinks in the Ante-Chapel
Weekdays
8.15am Morning Prayer (Monday to Friday)
12.30pm Eucharist (Tuesday)
followed by lunch
6.15pm Choral Evensong (Tuesday and
Thursday)
6.30pm Evening Prayer (Monday, Wednesday
and Friday)
SHRINE PRAYERS
Evening Prayer on Wednesday will normally take place at the
image of Mary, Seat of Wisdom, in the Ante-Chapel. At this
service, we will offer requests for prayer which have been made
by members of College and visitors during the preceding week.
If you have particular requests for intercession, please contact
the Chaplain ([email protected]).
CHAPEL OFFICERS
Chaplain
The Revd Dr Simon Jones
Junior Chaplain
The Revd Luke Hopkins
Reed Rubin Organist and Director of Music
Benjamin Nicholas
Reed Rubin Director of Music
Peter Phillips
Organ Scholars
Charlie Warren & Peter Shepherd
Chapel Wardens
Liz Milne, Freddie Money & Alex Weate
Sacristans
Tristan Franklinos, Charles Graham & Joe Hutchinson
Chapel Clerk
Tim Foot
Pastoral Assistants
Simon Berry, Robert Wainwright & Jonathon Wright
Verger
Leah Stead
Chapel Administrator
Timothy Coleman
Cover:
Mary, Seat of Wisdom
by Peter Eugene Ball (2014)
