The editors have selected a richly varied collection of sacred pieces for this period of the Church's year, always bearing in mind practical considerations and liturgical needs. Pieces are presented in order according to the Church's calendar, moving from Ash Wednesday and Lent, through Passiontide and Palm Sunday, to Maundy Thursday, Good Friday, Easter Eve, and Easter itself. The best of the standard repertoire is included alongside fine, less familiar, works. Ranging widely from the sixteenth century to the present day, this is a complete and practical collection for church choirs of all sizes and levels of ability.

Lent Prose, Byrd: Civitas sancti tui (Bow thine ear, O Lord), Farrant/Hilton: Lord, for thy tender mercy's sake, Loosemore: The Litany (BCP), Marshall: The Litany, Morales: Peccantem me quotidie, Morley: Agnus Dei, Rawsthorne: Like as the hart, Walton: Drop, drop, slow tears, Wesley: Wash me throughly, Anerio: Christus factus est, Bairstow: The Lamentation, Bairstow/Gibbons: Jesu, grant me this I pray, Chilcott: God so loved the world, Hand: Ecce quomodo moritur justus, Lassus: Adoramus te, Christe, Stainer: God so loved the world, Bullard: The Feast of Palms, Gesius: Hosianna dem Sohne Davids, Hutchings: Hosanna to the Son of David, Ives: Ride on, Malcolm: Ingrediente Domino, Victoria: Pueri Hebraeorum, arr. Barnard: In the heart where love is abiding, Bruckner: (a) Pange lingua (b) Of the glorious Body telling, de Severac: Tantum ergo, Peeters: Ave verum corpus, Shephard: A new commandment, Shephard: Sing, my tongue, Bull: In the departure of the Lord, arr. Chilcott: Were you there?, Croce: O vos omnes, arr. Scott: O mortal man, John IV of Portugal: Crux Fidelis, Morley: Eheu, sustulerunt, Sanders: The Reproaches, Victoria: Popule meus, Anerio: Alleluia. Christus surrexit, Bairstow: Psalm 114, arr. Carter: Joy is come!, Elgar: Light of the World, Harris: Most glorious Lord of life, arr. Ledger: This joyful Eastertide, arr. Lindley: Now the green blade riseth, Rutter: Christ the Lord is risen again!, Scheidt: Surrexit Christus hodie, Scott: Easter Anthems, arr. Scott: I saw water (Vidi aquam), Shephard: The Easter Song of Praise, Stanford: Ye choirs of new Jerusalem, Walford Davies, ed. Dakers: O sons and daughters, Whitlock: He is risen