Please join us for Summer Sunday Masses at 10.45am which continue as follows:-

Sunday 9th July Trinity IV, we welcome Prebendary Francis Coles again as our Celebrant & Preacher. Hymns: 377 : 261 : 392. Mass in E, by Harold Darke (the church’s Sanctus Bell is tuned to E). Motet: Lead Me, Lord, by Samuel Sebastian Wesley, who is buried in the Cemetery across the Valley just below the Exeter Catacombs.

Sunday 25th June Trinity II – after Mass today there will be a Bring&Share Reception with Bishop Robert Atwell who is Licensing Rev Alison Whiting to the Parish of St David’s with St Michael & All Angels as a self-supporting Curate.
Celebrant & Preacher; Ven David Gunn-Johnson. Hymns: 439 : 471 : 358. Setting: Mass in C, by John Ireland, and his moving Anthem, written just before the 1st World War, Greater Love – the text is selected from the following Bible chapters: Song of Solomon 8, St John 15, I Peter 2, I Corinthians 6; Romans 12
Many waters cannot quench love,
neither can the floods drown it. Love is strong as death.
Greater love hath no man than this,
that a man lay down his life for his friends.
Who his own self bare our sins in his own body on the tree,
That we, being dead to sins, should live unto righteousness.
Ye are washed, ye are sanctified,
ye are justified in the name of the Lord Jesus.
Ye are a chosen generation, a royal priesthood, a holy nation;
That ye should show forth the praises of him
who hath call’d you out of darkness into his marvellous light.
I beseech you brethren, by the mercies of God,
that you present your bodies, a living sacrifice, holy,
acceptable unto to God, which is your reasonable service.

Sunday 2nd July Trinity III, Hymns: 238 : 461 : 239.Mass in C & F, by Charles Villiers Stanford, and his Motet: Beati Quorum Via. Our Celebrant & Preacher, Prebendary Francis Coles.
Psalm 119:1. Beati quorum via integra est, qui ambulant in lege Domini. Blessed are they whose way is integrity/wholeness, who walk in the law of the Lord.

Sun 2nd July, we also have Choral Evensong & Benediction at 6pm (Choir Rehearsal from 4.45pm)
Responses: Graham Keitch. Psalm 50. Office Hymn 244. Canticles in G, by Herbert Sumsion. Anthem: Abendlied, by Josef Rheinberger.
Luke 24:29. Bleib bei uns, denn es will Abend werden, und der Tag hat sich geneiget.
Bide with us, for evening shadows darken, and the day will soon be over. (Is an adequate paraphrase which fits the German word pattern.)
O salutaris: 269. Tantum Ergo: 268.

Sunday 9th July Trinity IV, we welcome Prebendary Francis Coles again as our Celebrant & Preacher. Hymns: 377 : 261 : 392. Mass in E, by Harold Darke (the church’s Sanctus Bell is tuned to E). Motet: Lead Me, Lord, by Samuel Sebastian Wesley, who is buried in the Cemetery across the Valley just below the Exeter Catacombs.