Christian Worship, Rites & Ceremonies

What would it look like if women built a lectionary focusing on womens stories?What does it look like to tell the good news through the stories of ...

Our faith is full of heroes who experienced God powerfully in solitude. From Hagar and the Hebrew prophets to Jesus in the wilderness to Francis of...

This prequel to the confirmation gift book Living your Confirmation (SPCK, 2012) contains 19 ready-to-use, interactive sessions to use with young p...

A suite of 6 organ pieces based on Christmas carols: 1. A virgin unspotted; 2. Puer nobis nascitur; 3. Humility (Oxford); 4. O Jesulein suss; 5. Wi...

The earliest known copy of the original medieval rota Sumer is icumen in was discovered in Reading Abbey. The Fantasia on Sumer is icumen in for or...

Malvern Suite No.1 for organ was inspired by the town of Malvern, Worcestershire, with its iconic hills, its famous son, Edward Elgar, and its re...

John Rutter has arranged A Gaelic Blessing, one of his most popular anthems, for organ solo. Especially useful for weddings and other services wher...

Choirs love Christmas. The pleasure of revisiting the familiar and exploring the new is something singers enjoy year after year. This superb new co...

The psalms are the principal scriptural songs of the Church. They have been part of the core of Christian worship since the earliest times. The psa...

Winner of the RCO Composition Competition 2020 (over 25), setting words of St Francis of Assisi for Tenor solo and organ.

David Halls, Director of Music at Salisbury Cathedral, wrote this for the RCO competition held in 2020, in which it was the runner-up. A well const...

A few church musicians of today may recognise the names of J H Maunder, Caleb Simper and Ferris Tozer, but very few will know very much about them,...

Light on the Way is a collection of hymns based on Scripture, from Genesis to Revelation, by Timothy Dudley-Smith, one of todays leading hymn write...

David Halls, Director of Music at Salisbury Cathedral, wrote this charming and varied set of pieces to commemorate the 800th anniversary of the tra...

Bedard's variations on the Advent choral Nun Kom, der Heiden Heiland is a tour de force and very engaging.

A Fantasia for organ based on two well-known hymn tunes: Sagina (And can it be) and Cwm Rhondda (Guide me of thou great redeemer).

Where December has become so overburdened with commercial and social pressures, we can too easily lose the sense of expectation, hoping and waiting...