This coming Sunday marks the Patronal Festival at the Cathedral - the feast of The Conversion of St Paul (on the road to Damascus). The morning service starts with Bruckner's motet Locus Iste (a motet for the Feast of the Dedication) and we celebrate a Festive Eucharist with the music of English organist, David Briggs accompanied by guest organist, Michael Bloss.
On Sunday afternoon, we have another of our Diocesan Evensong services, at which the Cathedral Choir is joined by members of parish choirs in the locality. This is part of our diocesan musical outreach and allows these choir members to sing, in their cathedral, music which would not generally be sung in their home parishes.
Another aspect of our diocesan musical outreach is the Cathedral Choir's Sunday afternoon trips to sing cathedral-style evensong in many of the parishes of the Diocese of Huron. Since 2009, the choir has sung in some eleven or twelve parishes each year. Apart from being a very good social outing for the choir, it has reconnected many parishes to the cathedral and enabled diocesan parishioners to experience the traditional Book of Common Prayer Office of Evensong - something that many have reported not having been able to attend in some twenty years or more.
All the activities of the music programme are published here on our Blog and our Facebook page (www.facebook.com/musicatstpauls).
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