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Easter Sunday

Mass: Missa O quam gloriosum est regnum (Victoria)

Gloria: Missa brevis (Palestrina)

Sequence: Victimae paschali laudes (plainchant)

Motets: O filii et filiae (plainchant/O'Donnell); Surrexit Christus hodie (Scheidt)

Hymns: Jesus Christ is risen today; Alleluia, sing to jesus

Postlude: Hymn d'action de grâce: Te Deum (Langlais)

Easter Vigil

Exsultet: Roman Missal

Gloria: Missa brevis (Palestrina)

Litany of the Saints: Roman Missal

Liturgy of Baptism: Sicut cervus (Palestrina); Vidi aquam (Victoria)

Offertory: O filii et filiae (plainchant/O'Donnell)

Communion: Surrexit Christus hodie (Scheidt)

Recessional: Alleluia, sing to Jesus

Postlude: Hymn d'action de grâce: Te Deum (Langlais)

Good Friday

During the reading of the passion: Jerusalem, convertere ad Dominum Deum tuum (Bewerunge)

Veneration of the Cross: Reproaches (O'Donnell); O vos omnes (Victoria); When I behold the wondrous cross

Preparation of communion: Christus factus est (Anerio)

Communion: Salvum fac populum tuum (Bruckner); Love divine, all loves excelling

Recessional: O sacred head

Mass of the Lord's Supper

Mass: Missa de angelis (plainchant)

Motets: Ave vernm corpus (Byrd); Peccantem me quotidie (Morales)

Hymn: The king of love my shepherd is

Procession to altar of repose: Pange lingua gloriosi (plainchant); Tantum ergo (Bruckner)

Passion Sunday

Procession with palm: Pueri Hebraeorum (Victoria)

Mass: Missa quarti toni (Victoria)

Motets: Christus factus est (Anerio); Aver verum corpus (Corelli)

Hymn: O sacred head

Postlude: Toccata in D minor, BWV 532 (Bach)

Fifth Sunday of Lent

Mass: Missa quarti toni (Victoria)

Motet: Ave verum corpus (Byrd)

Hymns: Attende Domine et miserere; Love divine, all loves excelling; Be thou my vision

Postlude: O Mensch, bewein' dein' Sünde groß, BWV 622 (Bach)

Fourth Sunday of Lent

Mass: Missa quarti toni (Victoria)

Motets: Lead me, Lord (Wesley); Ave verum corpus (Elgar)

Hymns: Dear Lord and father of mankind; O sacred head

Postlude: Choral in B minor (Franck)

Third Sunday of Lent

Mass: Missa quarti toni (Victoria)

Motets: Ave verum corpus (Mozart); Salvum fac populum tuum (Bruckner)

Hymns: Attende Domine et miserere; Lord of al hopefulness

Postlude: Partitia on Sei gegrüßet, Jesu gütig, BWV 768 (Bach)

St Patrick, Patron of Ireland

Mass: Aifreann (Whelan)

Motets: A Íosa mhilis (Ahern); Ave verum corpus (Corelli)

Hymns: Dóchas linn Naomh Pádraig; Rian Phádraig

Postlude: Suile an choilm (traditional)

First Sunday of Lent

Mass: Aifreann (Whelan)

Motets: Jesu rex admirabilis (Palestrina); Ave verum corpus (Saint-saëns)

Hymns: Dear Lord and father of mankind; All my hope on God is founded

Postlude: Sonata in C minor, BWV 526, first movement (Bach)

Eighth Sunday in Ordinary Time

Mass: Aifreann (Whelan)

Motets: Lead me, Lord (Wesley); My eyes for beauty pine (Howells)

Hymns: All people that on earth do dwell; Christ be near at either hand

Postlude: Hymn d'action de grâce: Te Deum (Langlais)

Seventh Sunday in Ordinary Time

The Cathedral Choir does not sing this morning, due to the Solemn Novena.

Sixth Sunday in Ordinary Time

Mass: Mass for three voices (Byrd)

Motets: Beatitudes (Glenstal); Magnificat in B flat (Stanford)

Hymns: Praise my soul the king of heaven; Christ be with me

Postlude: Sonata in in C minor, BWV 526, first movement

Fifth Sunday in Ordinary Time

Mass: Mass for three voices (Byrd)

Motets: Jesu rex admirabilis (Palestrina); Ave verum (Saint-Saëns)

Hymns: All people that on earth do dwell; O Mary of graces

Postlude: Passacaglia in D minor (Buxtehude)

Fourth Sunday in Ordinary Time

Mass: Mass for three voices (Byrd)

Motets: Cantate Domino (Pitoni); O Lord the maker of all things (Mundy)

Hymns: Dear Lord and father of mankind; Christ be with me

Postlude: Passacaglia in C minor, BWV 582 (Bach)

Third Sunday in Ordinary Time

Mass: Missa brevis (O'Donnell)

Motets: Ave maris stella (plainchant/Monteverdi); Oh for a closer walk with God (Stanford)

Hymns: Praise to the Lord; Now thank we all our God

Postlude: Hymn d'action de grâce: Te Deum (Langlais)

Second Sunday in Ordinary Time

Mass: Missa brevis (O'Donnell)

Motets: O sacrum convivium (Farrant); My eyes for beaurty pine (Howells)

Hymns: All my hope on God is founded; Christ is made our sure foundation

Postlude: Sonata in C minor, BWV 526, 1st movt (Bach)

The Baptism of the Lord

Mass: Missa brevis (O'Donnell)

Motets: Ave maris stella (plainchant/Monteverdi); Vidi aquam (Victoria)

Hymns: Praise to the holiest in the height; Lord of all hopefulness

Postlude: Pièce Héroïque (Bach)

The Epiphany of the Lord

Mass: Missa brevis (O'Donnell)

Motets: Coventry carol (arr. Shaw); O magnum mysterium (Victoria)

Hymns: We three kings of Orient; The first nowell

Postlude: In dir ist Freude, BWV 615 (Bach)

Feast of the Holy Family

Mass: Mass of St John of God (Haydn)

Motets: Sussex Carol (arr.Willcocks); Oíche Nollaig (arr. O'Donnell)

Hymns: Angels we have heard on high; Hark the herald angels sing

Postlude: Von Himmel hoch da komm' ich her (Pachelbel)