Chapel Service Booklet Summer Term 2025

THE CHAPEL OF ST AUGUSTINE TONBRIDGE SCHOOL

CHAPEL SERVICES SUMMER TERM 2025

Principal Holy Days, Festivals and Memorials 23rd April 28th April

St George, Patron of England St Mark, Evangelist

1st May 4th May 14th May 27th May 29th May 31st May

Ss Philip and James The English Martyrs St Mathias, Apostle St Augustine of Canterbury, Patron of the Chapel Ascension of the Lord Visitation of the Blessed Virgin Mary

8th June 11th June 15th June 19th June 24th June 30th June

Pentecost St Barnabas, Apostle Trinity Sunday Corpus Christi Birth of St John the Baptist Ss Peter and Paul, Apostles

The Holy Eucharist The Holy Eucharist will be celebrated as announced.

House Prayer Weeks We pray for everyone by name in the House during their week.

Cover: Chapel of St Augustine Photo: Julian Thomas

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Wednesday 23rd April 8.35am

Beginning of Term Service

Hymn Reading

85 Lord God of Hosts John 20:11-18

The Chapel Choir will be singing Evensong for St George’s Day at Southwark Cathedral, London on Wednesday 23rd April, at 5.30pm All are welcome to attend

Friday 25th April Hymn Pilgrimage Site

249 And did those feet Jerusalem

Introduction to the Friday Services On Fridays this term, Fr Peters will talk about places of Pilgrimage. Pilgrimage involves a journey, sometimes a purely spiritual one, but often a physical journey from home to a place of particular interest or calling. Christians have travelled on pilgrimage from the very earliest years of the Church. This term we will look at a number of pilgrimage spots around the wrold and see what draws millions of pilgrims to them every year and what pilgrimage might mean to us.

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House Prayer Week: Sunday 27th April 10.30am

School Matins Welldon House and Smythe House parents invited

Introit Hymn Responses Easter Anthems First Reading Canticle Second Reading Hymn Prayers Anthem Address Hymn

68 Thine be the Glory Clucas Red Book p80 John 20:19-31 Jubilate in C - Britten A reading from a sermon by John Donne 62 Jesus Christ is Risen Today

Blessing Organ Voluntary

Let all the world - Vaughan Williams The Headmaster 56 Alleluia! Alleluia!

(During which the collection will be taken) Toccata (from Symphonie V) - Widor

The collection will be taken for the Welldon and Smythe House Charities: Welldon House is supporting Child Action Lanka, a charity that works with children in both rural and urban deprived areas, as well as women and their families. Smythe House sponsor the education of four children in Uganda, Bangladesh and Kenya through the Action Aid charity.

Benjamin Britten wrote his Jubilate in C in response to a request by the then Duke of Edinburgh for a companion piece to his Te Deum in the same key. It is a lively setting of the words of Psalm 100 interspersed with contrasting quieter sections.

Ralph Vaughan Williams’ “Five Mystical Songs” are settings of poems by the 17th century English priest-poet, George Herbert. The final one in the set “Let all the world” is a joyous outpouring of praise which resonates with the Easter message of the triumph of life over death. The words can be found in the hymnbook, number 186.

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Oakeshott House Tuesday 29th April Hymn Speaker

168 He who would valiant be Dr Jeremy King

Friday 2nd May Hymn Pilgrimage Site

80 Tell out, my soul Little Walsingham

Introduction to the Tuesday Services This term, members of the Common Room will be speaking about the Old Testament, especially referencing their favourite character from that set of books, fables, mysteries, dreams, laws, history, and visions.

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House Prayer Week: Sunday 4th May – Exeat Weekend

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Hill Side Tuesday 6th May Hymn Speaker

169 (i) How shall I sing that majesty Mr Nicholas Rendall

Friday 9th May Hymn Pilgrimage Site

70 Assisi

Ye Choirs of new Jerusalem

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House Prayer Week: Sunday 11th May 7.15pm

School Evensong

Introit Hymn Responses Psalm First Reading Canticle Second Reading Hymn Prayers Anthem Sermon Hymn Blessing Organ Voluntary

157 (ii) Glorious things of thee are spoken Smith 33 Red Book p40 John 10:22-30 Nunc dimittis Collegium regale - Howells A reading from a sermon of St Augustine 149 Dear Lord and Father of mankind Most glorious Lord of Life - Harris Fr David Peters, Senior Chaplain 103 The day Thou gavest Postlude on a theme of Orlando Gibbons (Op.105, no.2) - Stanford

At the start of this year’s Christian Aid week, the collection this evening (which will be a retiring collection) will be for the work of Christian Aid, a charity which works with local partners and communities to fight injustice, respond to humanitarian emergencies, campaign for change, and help people claim the services and rights they are entitled to: www.christianaid.org.uk Most glorious Lord of life, that on this day, Didst make thy triumph over death and sin: And having harrow’d hell, didst bring away Captivity thence captive, us to win: This joyous day, dear Lord, with joy begin, And grant that we for whom thou diddest die, Being with thy dear blood clean wash’d from sin, May live for ever in felicity.

And that thy love we weighing worthily, May likewise love thee for the same again: And for thy sake, that all like dear didst buy, With love may one another entertain.

So let us love, dear love, like as we ought, Love is the lesson which the Lord us taught.

Music: William Harris (1883-1973) Text: Edmund Spenser (1552-1599)

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Judde House Tuesday 13th May Hymn Speaker

64 Love’s redeeming work is done Mr Julian Dobson

Friday 16th May Hymn Pilgrimage Site

Libera me - Fauré (Red Book p105) Lourdes

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House Prayer Week: Sunday 18th May 7.15pm

Choral Evensong Friends & Patrons invited

Responses Psalm First Reading Hymn Canticle Second Reading Canticle Creed Hymn Responses Anthem Prayers Hymn Blessing Organ Voluntary

Clucas 105 (vv.1-15) John 13:31-35 57 At the Lamb’s High Feast we sing (omit *) Magnificat in D - Dyson A reading from a sermon of St Peter Damian Nunc dimittis in D - Dyson Red Book p10 229 The Lord’s my Shepherd Clucas Thou wilt keep him in perfect peace - SS Wesley 178

Jerusalem the Golden

Voluntary in D - Dyson

The Collection (which will be a retiring collection) will be taken for Music in Hospitals & Care, a charity that improves the health and wellbeing of children and adults through the healing power of live music: www.mihc.org.uk

Thou wilt keep him in perfect peace whose mind is stayed on Thee.

The darkness is no darkness with Thee, but the night is as clear as the day.

The darkness and the light to Thee are both alike.

God is light and with Him is no darkness at all.

O let my soul live and it shall praise Thee.

For Thine is the Kingdom, the power and the glory, for evermore.

Music: Samuel Sebastian Wesley (1810-1876) Text: Isaiah 26:3, Psalm 139:11, 1 John 1:5b, Psalm 119:175, Matthew 6:13.

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School House Tuesday 20th May Hymn Speaker

186 Let all the world Mr Henry Swales

Friday 23rd May Hymn Pilgrimage Site

219 Rejoice, the Lord is King!

Canterbury

5.00pm

Leavers’ Service for Boys and Parents

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House Prayer Week: Half Term

Sunday 8th June sees the Feast of Pentecost or Whitsunday, the day on which Christians recall the sending out by God of the Holy Spirit to the world. There are many different names for this Spirit. The one which I prefer is Paraclete, which comes from the Greek ‘paracleetos’ is often further translated as ‘Advocate’ or ‘Comforter’.

I prefer the term ‘Paraclete’, more than the other more usual terms of Holy Ghost or Holy Spirit, precisely for those two terms Advocate and Comforter, which seem to sum up the workings of the Holy Spirit in our lives best of all. For what Pentecost really represents, is the comforting realisation that God in the person of the Father, in the person of the Son and in the person and movements of the Paraclete, is with us on earth and that it did not all end at the crucifixion, or at the resurrection or indeed at the Ascension.

Pentecost allows us to see through that Easter text so often misunderstood around churches; the text ‘He is Risen. He is not here!’ For through the workings of the Holy Paraclete so we can feel the strength of God helping us in our dealings with and in the world as his Advocate’s and in his advocacy of ourselves as his people. We can also feel the Comfort of his presence here on earth both in the world and, most especially, at the Holy Eucharist. The Collect for Pentecost in the Book of Common Prayer tells us this when it says, ‘God, who at this time didst teach the hearts of thy faithful people, by the sending to them the light of thy Holy Spirit; Grant us by the same Spirit to have a right judgment in all things, and evermore to rejoice in his holy comfort.’

That isn’t just some meaningless phrase in quaint olde-worlde English but a profound statement of the great love of God for his people and our immense privilege in being able to recognise and gain comfort from that knowledge. For yes, we are indeed sinners, but we are sinners whose God has come down and lived as one of us, has died for us, harrowed the depths of hell for us, risen from the dead for us, ascended into heaven for us and now grants his ever-presence for us. That is what we mean when we describe the Holy Paraclete as Comforter. For what could be more comforting than the ever-presence of God? Fr David Peters

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Smythe House Tuesday 3rd June Hymn Speaker

194 (i) Love Divine, all loves excelling Mr John Bleakley

Friday 6th June Hymn Pilgrimage Site

188 Taizé

Lift up your hearts!

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House Prayer Week: Sunday 8th June 7.15pm

School Evensong for Pentecost

Introit Hymn Responses Psalm First Reading Canticle Second Reading Hymn Prayers Anthem Sermon Hymn Blessing Organ Voluntary

74 Come Down, O Love Divine Thomas 104 Red Book p45 Acts 2:1-11 Nunc dimittis in G - Sumsion A reading from the sermons of St Ambrose 208 O Thou who camest from above The Spirit of the Lord - Elgar 103

The day Thou gavest

Komm, heiliger Geist, Herre Gott (BuxWV199) - Buxtehude

The Collection (which will be a retiring collection) will be taken for the Scotts Project, a Tonbridge-based charity which supports adults with learning disabilities to strive to reach their aspirations and make choices about how they want to live their lives: www.scottsproject.org.uk

The Spirit of the Lord is the opening section of a large-scale oratorio by Sir Edward Elgar (1857-1934) called The Apostles. It focuses on the Calling of the Apostles and their commission to go out into the world and spread the Word through the gift of the Holy Spirit; hence the appropriateness of it as today’s anthem on the Feast of Pentecost.

The Spirit of the Lord is upon me, because He hath anointed me to preach the Gospel to the poor: He hath sent me to heal the broken-hearted to preach deliverance to the captives and recovery of sight to the blind – to preach the acceptable year of the Lord; to give unto them that mourn a garland for ashes, the oil of joy for mourning, the garment of praise for the spirit of heaviness; that they might be called the trees of righteousness, the planting of the Lord, that He might be glorified. For as the earth bringeth forth her bud, and as the garden that causeth the things that are sown in it to spring forth; so the Lord God will cause righteousness and praise to spring forth before all the nations. The Spirit of the Lord is upon me, because He hath anointed me to preach the Gospel.

Music: Edward Elgar (1857-1934) Text: Isaiah 61: vv.1-3,11

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Park House Tuesday 10th June Hymn Speaker

161 God is our strength and refuge Fr David Peters

Friday 13th June Instead of a talk this morning, some members of the school will give a musical reflection for the day.

Hymn

214

Praise, my soul, the King of heaven

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House Prayer Week: Sunday 15th June 9.00pm

Compline for Trinity Sunday

Preparation Hymn Psalm Reading Canticle Prayers Anthem Hymn

Hymn Book p531 99 God that madest Earth and Heaven Hymn Book p532 John 16:12-15 Nunc dimittis with fauxbourdons - Morley If ye love me - Tallis 77 Holy, holy, holy! Lord God Almighty!

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Ferox Hall Tuesday 17th June Hymn Speaker

131 All my hope on God is founded The Headmaster

Friday 20th June Hymn Pilgrimage Site

217 Praise to the Lord, the Almighty (omit *) Santiago de Compostela

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House Prayer Week: Sunday 22nd June – Exeat weekend

On the 19th June we celebrated the Feast of Corpus Christi, on which the Church commemorates and gives thanks for the foundation of the Eucharist. This day was one of the great festivals of the pre-reformation Church in England, with feasts and celebrations.

The Skinners’ Company still keeps to the annual tradition of electing its Master for the coming year on the day, and boys from Tonbridge sing at the service in the City of London.

He bore him up, he bore him down, He bore him into an orchard brown.

Lully, lullay, lully, lullay!

The falcon has borne my mate away.

In that orchard there was a hall That was hanged with purple and pall; Lully, lullay, lully, lullay!

The falcon has borne my mate away.

And in that hall there was a bed: It was hanged with gold so red; Lully, lullay, lully, lullay!

The falcon has borne my mate away.

And in that bed there lies a knight, His wounds bleeding day and night; Lully, lullay, lully, lullay!

The falcon has borne my mate away.

By that bed’s side there kneels a maid, And she weeps both night and day; Lully, lullay, lully, lullay!

The falcon has borne my mate away.

And by that bed’s side there stands a stone, “The Body of Christ” written thereon.

Lully, lullay, lully, lullay!

The falcon has borne my mate away.

A medieval Corpus Christi Carol

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Manor House Tuesday 24th June Hymn Speaker

142 Christ is the King Mr Bryn Bennet

Friday 27th June Hymn Pilgrimage Site

238 Rome

Ye holy angels bright

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House Prayer Week: Sunday 29th June 7.15pm

School Evensong

Introit Hymn Responses Psalm First Reading Canticle Second Reading Hymn Prayers Anthem Sermon Hymn Blessing Organ Voluntary

166 Guide me, O Thou Great Redeemer Thomas 145 Red Book p77 Luke 9:51-62 Nunc dimittis in D - Brewer A reading from St Athanasius 138 Be Thou my vision Blessed be the God and Father - SS Wesley 207

O Praise ye the Lord!

Hymn d’Actions de grâces “Te Deum” - Langlais

The Collection (which will be a retiring collection) will be taken for Alzheimer’s Society, a charity which is working towards a world where dementia no longer devastates lives. They do this by giving help to those living with dementia today, and providing hope for the future: www.alzheimers.org.uk

Blessed be the God and Father is one of Samuel Sebastian Wesley’s (1810-1876) most well-known choral works and rightly so. It was written during Wesley’s time as organist at Hereford Cathedral for a performance on Easter Day when only trebles and a bass were available. It consists of five linked sections: an unaccompanied choral opening, a dialogue between solo treble and the treble chorus, with passages for lower voices before and after it, and a final rousing chorus heralded by a dramatic organ chord.

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Whitworth House Tuesday 1st July Hymn Practice for Skinners’ Day

Saturday 5th July 10:00am

Skinners’ Day Service

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THE CHAPLAINCY Senior Chaplain:

The Rev’d David Peters Clare House 57 London Road Tonbridge TN10 3AD david.peters@tonbridge-school.org Tel: 01732 365555 (School) Tel: 01732 364476 (Home)

Choirmaster:

Mr Julian Thomas julian.thomas@tonbridge-school.org

Chapel Prae:

George Holder (Sc)

Verger:

Mr Pietro Greco verger@tonbridge-school.org Tel: 01732 365555 Extn. 4273

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