After Candlemas there’s a long wait for Lent, with Ash Wednesday on 6th March, but there’s plenty of good Liturgy and Music to celebrate and enjoy as we follow mainly the Gospel of St Luke in Year C of he Lectionary. Sun 17 Feb, Septuagesima. 11am Sung Mass. Hymns: 333: 294:…
St Michael’s offers an inclusive welcome. Worship is traditional, music is excellent and people are friendly. You may like to know that on Fri 1 Mar, St David’s Day, at 7pm at Little St Mary’s Church, Cambridge, a new set of Stations of the Cross are being dedicated, in memory of…
Ash Wednesday, the First Day of Lent, is Wednesday 6th March this year, rather late in the calendar. It is marked at St Michael’s both morning and evening with Mass and Imposition of Ashes. As usual on a Wednesday, Matins will be said at 9.30am followed by Low Mass at 10am. Solemn…
The next monthly Parish Lunch is arranged for 12 noon on Thursday 7th March taking place at Exeter College’s @34 Restaurant. All are welcome at these friendly social gatherings over a first rate Lunch served for £10 or less. Exeter College’s @34 Restaurant is in the Laurence Building on the Hele…
Wednesdays at 6.00-6.50pm during Lent (13,20,27 March & 3,10 April 2019) the Stations of the Cross are prayed at St Michael’s. “Powerful and evocative use of scripture,” said Curate Christopher Durrant. You might also like to stay for our Lent Reading Group at 7.00-8.15pm on these 5 Wednesdays, which will…
The important Feast of Candlemas, or the Presentation of Christ in the Temple, takes place 40 days after Christmas (2nd Feb). But this year we transfer it to Sunday 3rd February, with Sung Mass in the morning at 11am and Evensong & Benediction in the evening at 6pm. Visitors are…
Saturday 2 February, at St Mary’s Church, Mary Tavy, Tavistock, PL19 9PE. 5pm Sung Mass for Candlemas with Fr Steven Martin and St Michael’s Choir. We sing Byrd 4-part Mass, Eccard “When to the Temple Mary went” and a Nunc Dimittis as well as Congregational Hymns etc.. The important Feast…
These first few Sundays of 2019, we celebrate the Epiphany – the visit of the Wise Men with their Gifts for the Infant Jesus – and then follow the early Ministry of Jesus, his Baptism by his cousin John, the Wedding at Cana, and his reading in the Synagogue. The…
The first major Festival of 2019, the Feast of the Epiphany or the Manifestation of Christ to the Gentiles (as the Book of Common Prayer has it), will be celebrated on Sunday 6th January. Mass will be sung at 11am and there will be Choral Evensong & Benediction at 6pm as…
There will be no weekday Masses for St Stephen, St John or Holy Innocents at St Michael’s – you might like to try the Cathedral, and St David’s Church will have Holy Communion on Thursday 27th Dec at 10.30am. And the final Service of 2018 will be Sun 30 Dec, Christmas…
Please join us on Christmas Day morning at 10.30am (half an hour earlier than usual – Turkey time!) for Sung Mass and Prayers at the Crib, as we greet the Baby Jesus. All are welcome at St Michael’s. Our Celebrant & preacher is Fr Christopher Durrant. Music for 2018 – Hymns:…
Visitor or regular, you will be most welcome to join us at 11pm on Christmas Eve as the Choir sings Carols, or at 11.30pm for the start of our joyful Midnight Mass of the Nativity of our Lord Jesus Christ. Sung Mass and Blessing of the Crib, by candlelight, with…
The 3rd Sunday of Advent is kept as Gaudete Sunday, from the Introit words “Rejoice in the Lord alway”, and the rose candle of the Advent wreath is lit. The Liturgical colour is ROSE RED for which we have a special set of Vestments. We sing Mass in Phrygian Mode by…
Thursday 13th December at 7.30pm. we are delighted to welcome Exeter’s Swedish community & choir for their Celebrations of St Lucia Day. This traditional pre-Christmas Festival will involve a Singing Procession with Candles, with special customs and saffron buns, bringing light to the darkest time of the year. All are welcome to…
The Advent Procession is on Sunday 9th December at 6pm. Prayers, Readings, Hymns, Carols and Candles illuminate the plainsong Great O Antiphons, which we also hear in the Advent Hymn “O come, O come Emmanuel”, and culminate in a choral setting of the Magnificat. The final hymn is “Lo, he…