The Grosvenor Chapel
The Grosvenor Chapel

      EASTER SERVICES

MAUNDY THURSDAY, 17th April

6.30 pm Sung Eucharist of the Lord’s Supper

with the washing of feet, stripping of the altars, and watch until 10pm

Francisco Guerrero  Missa

Inter vestibulum

C.V.Stanford  Gloria in C

Maurice Duruflé  Ubi caritas

Ralph Vaughan Williams 

Love bade me welcome

William Byrd  Ave verum corpus

Thomas Tallis  The Lamentation

of Jeremiah

 

GOOD FRIDAY, 18th April

12.00pm Solemn Liturgy of the Lord’s Passion

Plainsong  The St John Passion

John of Portugal  Crux Fidelis

John Sanders  The Reproaches

Antonio Lotti  Crucifixus etiam

pro nobis

 

HOLY SATURDAY  -

Easter Eve, 19th April

7pm The Easter Vigil

with the lighting of the new fire and the first Eucharist of Easter,

followed by refreshments

Francis Jackson  Communion

Service in G major

John Taverner  Dum transisset sabbatum 

Hernert Howells Paean

 

EASTER DAY, 20th April

11am Festival Sung Eucharist

with orchestra, followed by celebratory refreshments

Walford Davies  O sons

and daughters

W.A.Mozart Coronation Mass

in C major K317

W.A.Mozart Regina coeli  K276

J.S.Bach  Prelude & Fugue in G major BWV 541

 

TUESDAY 22nd April 

9am Morning Prayer

12.30pm The Eucharist

1.10pm Mayfair Organ Concert 

at St George’s

Eben Eyres

 

THURSDAY 24th April

9am Morning Prayer

 

FRIDAY 25th April

8.45am Morning Prayer

9am Act of Collective Worship

St George’s School (parents and carers only)

 

SUNDAY 27th April – 

The Second Sunday of Easter

11:00am Sung Eucharist 

With Cantor and Organ

 

The Champniss Organ Scholarship

2025-26

Applications are invited for the Organ Scholarship at Grosvenor Chapel for the academic year 2025/6.

Details on the music page of this website.

 

CHAPEL OPENING TIMES

The Chapel is normally open to visitors Monday - Friday 8am to 3pm. Exceptons are public holidays and private bookings.

The Chapel is also open on

Saturdays for Occasional Offices and on Sundays for the 11am Sung Eucharist.

 

ACCESSIBILITY

Step-free access to the Chapel is via a ramp through the main entrance. Please arrange in advance by contacting the Chapel office.

 

Audability:  The Chapel's soundsystem is suitably fitted with

a loop system for pews directly

beneath the south gallery.

Sunday Services

This service is called the Eucharist”. This is a Greek word and means thanksgiving”. We gather to give thanks to God, the Source of life and love, and to pray that our lives may be refreshed and deepened by His truth. At the beginning of the service we acknowledge our failures and excesses, our selfishness and pride, and ask God to forgive us and strengthen us for the future. We then listen to readings from the Bible, learning more about the nature of God and the spiritual experiences of our ancestors in faith. The sermon tries to apply critical reflection to what we have heard and to see how we might apply it to our 21st century lives

 

Prayers are offered and then peace is shared amongst all who have gathered here. The priest then leads the people in the main thanksgiving, recalling the gracious acts of God through time and especially the night in which Jesus took bread and wine and shared it amongst his disciples. We are then invited to share in this bread and wine, to receive his body and blood into ours, so that we can then live in friendship and as his body, his visible presence in the world. As we remember him so we re-member him as his body on earth. The last words we hear are go in the peace of Christ” – we are sent out in Christs name. Those who have shared in this Christian service are invited to live lives of Christian service

 

 

  

Throughout the service music enriches our offering and expresses the soul in ways that words often fail. Incense, an ancient symbol of prayer rising to the heavens, invokes the mystery and holiness of God. It asks God to prepare and sanctify the centres of liturgical action in our Eucharistic Service, the places where we meet God: the altar; the proclamation of the Gospel; and then all that comes together to make up the offering of our Eucharist - bread, wine, water, and priest and people.

 

 

PRAYERS OF PREPARATION FOR THE SERVICE

 

O supreme and unapproachable Light! O entire and blessed Truth! How far off art Thou from me, who am so near to Thee! How far removed art Thou from my sight, who am wholly present to Thine? Thou art everywhere wholly present, yet I see Thee not. In Thee I move, in Thee I have my being; yet can I not approach unto Thee. Thou art within me and about me, yet I perceive Thee not. Anselm of Canterbury, 1033- 1109.

 

Whether I kneel or stand or sit in prayer I am not caught in time nor held in space, But, thrust beyond this posture, I am where Time and eternity are face to face; Infinity and space meet in this place Where crossbar and upright hold the One In agony and in all Love’s embrace. The power in helplessness which was begun When all the brilliance of the flaming sun Contained itself in the small confines of a child Now comes to me in this strange action done In mystery. Break time, break space, O wild and lovely power. Break me: thus I am dead, Am resurrected now in wine and bread. Madeline L’Engle. 

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