14/03/2026
🌼 Mothering Sunday at the Cathedral – Sunday 15 March
Join us for worship this Mothering Sunday:
🕢 7:30am Morning Prayer (said)
🕗 8:00am Holy Communion (said)
We are delighted to welcome Dr David Hill, who will be conducting the Cathedral Choir at both the 9:45am Eucharist and 6:00pm Choral Evensong, following a choral workshop with our choristers this weekend.
🕘 9:45am Cathedral Eucharist
At the Eucharist we give thanks for all who have mothered us. Daffodils will be available to take during the morning as part of our Mothering Sunday celebration. Music will include Ralph Vaughan Williams’ Mass in G minor (1921), dedicated to Gustav Holst and inspired by the sound-world of Renaissance polyphony. Often described as the first English Mass setting in Latin since the 16th century, it has become one of Vaughan Williams’ most loved choral works. The communion motet is Ave verum corpus by the English Catholic composer Peter Philips, who left England in 1582 and later worked as an organist in Rome and Brussels.
🎶 Following the service, our Girl Choristers will present a short informal instrumental concert at the west end of the Cathedral during refreshments, featuring music for piano, violin and ’cello, including an original composition.
📖 After the concert, do join us for the final Lent Talk, “Lent and Self-Discipline”, in the Chapter House with Canon Chris.
🕕 6:00pm Choral Evensong
We extend a warm welcome to The Revd Peter Nevins, Area Dean of Dorking Deanery, who will be our visiting preacher. The music includes the B minor canticles by Herbert Howells, written for the Golden Jubilee of the Church Music Society and first performed at Westminster Abbey in 1956. The anthem is Ne irascaris and Civitas sancti tui by William Byrd, a powerful two-part motet for five voices setting words from Isaiah that lament the desolation of Jerusalem, reflecting both the biblical exile and the troubled religious climate of Byrd’s time.
All are very welcome to join us this Mothering Sunday.
📸 Kathy H 2025
Diocese of Guildford | St John's Church, North Holmwood