Please note: Durham Cathedral Museum will be closed until Monday October 21st as we install our next exhibition.
All day
Holy Communion
8:00am to 8:30am
A service of prayers and Bible readings, in which we offer bread and wine to God in thanksgiving for his goodness to us, which we receive back as the body and blood of Christ. The service lasts around 30 minutes.
Sung Eucharist
10:00am to 11:00am
sung by the Lay Clerks and Scholars
President: Canon Michael Hampel
Preacher: Canon Simon Oliver
Hymns CP 398, 311 (t. 310), 372
Mass for three voices Byrd
Ave verum corpus Grayston Ives
A service of prayers, Bible readings, hymns, and Choral music, in which we offer bread and wine to God in thanksgiving for his goodness to us, which we receive back as the body and blood of Christ. The service lasts around 1 hour.
Refreshments in the Galilee Chapel
11:00am to 11:30am
Join us for tea and coffee in the Galilee Chapel in between Sung Eucharist and Matins service.
Matins
11:30am to 12:15pm
sung by the Lay Clerks and Scholars
Hymns 415 (t. 346), 365
Psalms 133, 134, 137. 1-6
William Drakett Te Deum and Jubilate (from the Wells Service)
Great Lord of Lords Wood
Preacher: Canon Michael Hampel
Evensong
3:30pm to 4:30pm •The Nave
sung by the Lay Clerks and Scholars
Hymns 388i, 413
Psalm 141
Simon Niemiński Evening Service ‘Virgo parens Christi’
Lord, thou hast been our refuge Walker
Flourish for an Occasion Harris
Evensong is a service of bible readings, psalms and prayers. The Choir sing for us accompanied, usually, by organ music. We follow the service using the Book of Common Prayer of 1662 giving thanks for the day that has past. The service lasts around 45 minutes.