We welcome everybody, all ages, beliefs and backgrounds, to join us for worship at the Cathedral. The Cathedral is a place of holiness and prayer where people can come, sit quietly and simply be. It is a place also where people gather together to offer their prayers and praises to almighty God.
In the midst of noise and demands of modern day living we all need moments when we can stop, think, listen and reach out beyond our selves. People, of all ages and backgrounds come to Lichfield Cathedral and find a place where they are safe, a place where they are welcome and a place where they can not only find themselves but also glimpse the presence of the God who creates us, loves us and wants to be in relationship with us.
We offer a range of wonderful services to which you are most welcome, including Morning Prayer, Evening Prayer or Choral Evensong, a daily celebration of the Eucharist (The Communion Service). On Sundays and holy days there are further celebrations of the Eucharist, usually these are sung by our Cathedral Choir.
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As well as singing at the main Cathedral Choral Eucharist at 1030 each Sunday during termtime, the Cathedral Choir sings Choral Evensong, maintaining our part within the English choral tradition. The daily praying of the Psalms is facilitated by the Choir who also sing the regular canticles (Magnificat and Nunc Dimittis) and anthem as their offering of worship and to aid ours. The Cathedral also regularly plays host to a great variety of other musical events featuring both local and national performers.
‘Those who sing pray twice.'
OUR MUSICAL HISTORY
The Cathedral Choir that sings our services now has been a traceable Choral Foundation at Lichfield Cathedral since 1315, when Bishop Walter de Langton first provided accommodation for the Lay Vicars Choral in Vicars Close. This formal provision of Lay Vicars has over the years been expanded to include the posts of Director of Music, Organists, Choral Scholars, the Headteacher of the Cathedral School and Choristers as part of the Foundation plus an enormous singing outreach programme, MusicShare, involving local, diocesan and regional schools.