Children take part in Mother's Day national radio broadcast at Lancaster school

An episode of 'Sunday Worship' is being recorded for BBC Radio 4 at Ripley St Thomas C of E Academy

Pupils from Lancaster schools will be part of a special national radio programme to celebrate Mother's Day.

BBC Radio 4 are recording their Mothering Sunday edition of 'Sunday Worship' today (March 7) in the school chapel at Ripley St Thomas C of E Academy.

The programme will air from 8.10am on Sunday with the Bishop of Lancaster, Jill Duff, leading the service.

She will be joined by the Revd Leah Vasey-Saunders, vicar of Lancaster, Michael Reynolds, school chaplain, and pupils from the school who will help lead the service.

Music will come from the school choirs and the choir from St Luke’s Church of England Primary School, Slyne-with Hest.

The conductor is Don Gillthorpe and the organist is Ian Pattinson. 

Ripley St Thomas posted a photo of the BBC outside broadcast truck at the school on Thursday.

The service is as follows:

Christ be with Me (Oliver Tarney)

Sing we of the blessed Mother (t: Abbot’s Leigh)

Kyrie (St Anne’s Mass – James Macmillan)

Psalm 34 vv11-20 (t: Mawby)

In the silence and the darkness (t: Garnett)

1 Samuel 2.1-10

Magnificat (t: Owen Alstott)

John 19.16-27; Lord of all hopefulness (t: Slane)

Upon your heart  (Eleanor Daley)

Tell out my soul, (t: Woodlands)

Gigue (Jacquet de la Guerre)

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