Rogation Sunday Procession

Hosted by: St Michael and All Angels with members of the Choir

Rogation Sunday, 9th May 2021
(The Sunday before Ascension Day)

This is the traditional time for “beating the bounds” of the Parish and blessing the crops in the fields.At St Michael’s we mark the day by starting Sung Mass with hymns sung in procession around Mount Dinham, praying for God to bless our environment, our work and the fruits of the Earth in their seasons. This year, the 11am Service will start outside the West Doors with Prayers and a Hymn for all to join in singing – spacing at 2+ metre distancing for everyone’s safety.

Click here for readings for this Sunday
The Pew Sheet can be accessed via the green horizontal bar further down this page.

2020
Fr Nigel & Richard Parker recorded a Rogation Procession for access online here; YouTube link https://youtu.be/4cIkNEvt9fE  and the text may be downloaded here.
Music: Processional booklet, Hymns 364, 342 (t178). Missa O Quam Gloriosum, Victoria. Thou visitest the Earth & blessest it, Greene.

2019
Mass setting: Mass in C&F, C.V. Stanford
Motet: O Lord, give thy Holy Spirit, Thomas Tallis

2018
Mass Setting: Missa Brevis, Antonio Lotti
Motet: If Ye Love Me, Thomas Tallis

2016
Mass Setting: Missa Entre Vous Fille, Lassus (1532-94), published in Nuremberg in 1581, a “parody” Mass taking a well-known secular song of the time (with rather dubious words) and using its tune as the musical basis of the Mass setting.
Motet: Thou visitest the Earth and blessest it,  Maurice Greene (1696-1755), one of the few quality English composers of the 18th century
Anthem for Evensong: The Heavens are telling the Glory of God, Josef Haydn “Oratorio, The Creation”, first performed in Vienna in 1799

2015
Anthem: Greater Love hath no man, John Ireland

2014
Anthem: God looks on nature with a glorious eye, Graham S Keitch, words by John Clare (1793-1864), a world première performance

Pew Sheet for Rogation Sunday

Directions


St Michael and All Angels’ Church, Dinham Road, Mount Dinham, Exeter, EX4 4EB