Suggested Anthems for Lent & Holy Week 2025 March 5-April 18, 2025
The First Day of Lent or Ash Wednesday
Asperges me, Domine – Josef Gruber
Blessed Are the Pure in Heart – Henry Walford Davies
Create in Me, O God – Johannes Brahms
God Be in My Head – Sydney Nicholson
Hide Not Thou Thy Face - Richard Farrant
Jesus Priceless Treasure - Johann Sebastian Bach
Lead Me Lord – Samuel Sebastian Wesley
Lord, For Thy Tender Mercy’s Sake – Farrant/Hilton
Miserere mei, Deus – Antonio Lotti
O Salutaris Hostia – Ludwig van Beethoven
O Salutaris Hostia – Edward Elgar
First Sunday in Lent
All Who Believe and Are Baptized - Johann Sebastian Bach
Give Almes of Thy Good - Christopher Tye
Let the Same Mind Be In You – Thomas Pavlechko
Our Ancient Adam - Johann Sebastian Bach
Salvation Unto Us Has Come - Johann Sebastian Bach
Second Sunday in Lent
Hide Not Thou Thy Face - Richard Farrant
Lord, Thee I Love with All My Heart - Johann Sebastian Bach
O Salutaris Hostia – Ludwig van Beethoven
O Salutaris Hostia – Edward Elgar
O Saviour of the World – John Goss
Thou Knowest, Lord, the Secrets of Our Hearts - Henry Purcell
Third Sunday in Lent
Fourth Sunday of Lent
All Who Believe and Are Baptized – Johann Sebastian Bach
O Bread of Life from Heaven - Johann Sebastian Bach
O Sacrum Convivium – Thomas Pavlechko
O Salutaris Hostia – Ludwig van Beethoven
O Salutaris Hostia – Edward Elgar
Panis Angelicus - César Franck
Salvation Unto Us Has Come – Johann Sebastian Bach
These Are They Which follow the Lamb – John Goss
Thou Knowest, Lord, the Secrets of Our Hearts - Henry Purcell
Fifth Sunday In Lent
Jesus Priceless Treasure - Johann Sebastian Bach
O Comfort Now My People - Thomas Pavlechko
O Lord Increase My Faith – Henry Loosemore
Salvation Unto Us Has Come – Johann Sebastian Bach
Since by Man Came Death, Messiah - George Friedrich Handel
The Sunday of the Passion: Palm Sunday
Adoramus te, Christe – Giovanni Perluigi da Palestrina
Adoramus te, Christe - Thomas Pavlechko
Ave Verum Corpus – Edward Elgar
Ave Verum Corpus – Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
God Be In My Head - Sydney Nicholson
God So Loved the World- John Goss
God So Loved the World – John Stainer
Let the Same Mind Be in You - Thomas Pavlechko
O Salutaris Hostia – Ludwig van Beethoven
O Salutaris Hostia – Edward Elgar
O Saviour of the World – John Goss
Tantum ergo (Genitori, Genitoque) - Déodat de Sévérac
Maundy Thursday
Adoramus te, Christe – Giovanni Perluigi da Palestrina
Adoramus te, Christe – Thomas Pavlechko
Asperges me, Domine – Josef Gruber
Ave Verum Corpus – Edward Elgar
Ave Verum Corpus – Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
O Bread of Life from Heaven - Johann Sebastian Bach
O Salutaris Hostia – Ludwig van Beethoven
O Salutaris Hostia – Edward Elgar
O Saviour of the World - John Goss
Tantum ergo (Genitori, Genitoque) – Déodat de Sévérac
Thee We Adore, O Hidden Saviour, Thee – Plainsong Mode V
Good Friday
Adoramus te, Christe – Giovanni Perluigi da Palestrina
Adoramus te, Christe – Thomas Pavlechko
Asperges me, Domine – Josef Gruber
Ave Verum Corpus – Edward Elgar
Ave Verum Corpus – Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
God So Loved the World - John Goss
God So Loved the World - John Stainer
Hide Not Thou Thy Face – Richard Farrant
Lord, Thee I Love With All My Heart - Johann Sebastian Bach
O Salutaris Hostia – Ludwig van Beethoven
O Salutaris Hostia – Edward Elgar
Salvation Unto Us Has Come – Johann Sebastian Bach