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We sing at the 11:00am Mass on most Sundays of the year, having a break of around four Sundays in July/August. A Music List is published each month. During Holy week we sing on Palm Sunday, Maundy Thursday, Good Friday (afternoon liturgy and Stations of the Cross), the Easter Vigil and Easter Sunday morning.

Some of us also sing Compline on Sundays at 6:20pm. Compline, the Evening Prayer of the Church, is sung in the traditional Latin form of the Dominican Rite, much of the chant and ceremony probably going back to the earliest days of the Order in the 13th century. Members of the congregation are very welcome to take part, and instruction can be given to anyone who wishes to do this regularly. See Fr Fabian or Bernard Marriott.

And some of us sing at Dominican rite Masses once a month or so. These Masses are generally at 6:00pm on weekdays, and we choose a suitable feast each month depending, amongst other things, on the availability of the celebrant and singers. These are advertised in the parish newsletter one or two weekends before each Mass.

We sang in 2010 on the feast of the Immaculate Conception when Bishop Malcolm McMahon celebrated Pontifical High Mass and consecrated our new shrine to the English Martyrs. The ceremony was video-recorded, and the result can be see by clicking here.