Choral Services resume Sunday 2nd September with our monthly Choral Evensong at 6pm as well as Sung Mass at 11am. Plainsong Vespers on Tuesdays & Thursdays at 6pm also restart after their August break. Sunday, 2nd September, Trinity XIV. 11am Choral Mass. Hymns: 456 : 285 : 420. Setting: Mass in…
As we approach our 150th Anniversary, St Michael’s Church on Mount Dinham will be open to visitors on the following 4 dates/times. Saturday 8th September from 8am-6pm. At 3pm raptor expert Nick Dixon talks about the Peregrine Falcons that are such a special feature of St Michael’s. Today also sees the Annual…
As most of you will know it is St Michael’s 150th anniversary this year and, to celebrate our continuing, splendid existence (Praise be to God!), we are to be enjoying a whole series of wonderful events. Principal among these is a magnificent celebratory High Mass on Saturday 29th September.…
We scale back a little over August. with the holiday season; Tuesday & Thursday Vespers take a break. Tuesday 7pm Choir Practices continue as we have important music in September for Nativity of BVM and Michaelmas to prepare, but will be shorter and more social. The Choir will also meet at…
Ordinary Time rolls on, or Sundays after Trinity in old money for the Plainsong Propers that choir and congregation sing at the Introit, Gradual, Offertory & Communion in the Mass. Here are the dates and music for Sundays VI – X after Trinity this year, 2018. We hope you can join…
Sunday 1st July, Trinity V, 6pm Choral Evensong and Benediction. First Sunday of the month, please support our service of BCP Evensong with Benediction. Competent singers are welcome to join us to rehearse the music at 4.45pm. Choral Evensong led by Rev Alison Whiting. Responses: Byrd. Psalm 53. Office Hymn 253.…
The Liturgical Year enters Ordinary Time. At St Michael’s we use Sundays after Trinity to keep in step with the Plainsong Propers that choir and congregation sing at the Introit, Gradual, Offertory and Communion points in the Mass. Here are the dates and music for the first five Sundays after Trinity…
Sunday 17th June is designated by the Royal School of Church Music (RSCM) as Music Sunday, and our 11am Mass will feature music a little more elaborate than usual. Hymns 336 : 420 : 368. Introit: Cantate Domino, Pitoni. Setting: Missa Brevis in D, Mozart. Motet: Insanae et Vanae Curae, Haydn. We…
Please join us on Sunday 3rd June at 6pm for Choral Evensong & Benediction. Reading Responses; Psalm 35; Hymn 247; Gibbons Short Service Mag & Nunc; Anthem, Almighty & everlasting God, also by Orlando Gibbons. Led by Rev Alison Whiting. Benediction of the Blessed Sacrament will be led by Fr Christopher…
Thursday 31st May, the Thursday after Trinity Sunday, we celebrate the Feast of Corpus Christi with Sung Mass at 7.30pm and a joyful Procession with the Monstrance containing the Blessed Sacrament under an ornate Canopy around Mount Dinham (weather permitting) accompanied by Hymns and the scattering of flower petals. Hymns: 302…
Sunday 27th May at 11am, we celebrate the core Christian insight into the nature of God, the Holy Trinity; Father, Son & Holy Spirit. Creator, Redeemer, & Inspirer. Our Celebrant is Fr Nigel Guthrie and Preacher is Rev Alison Whiting. Three Persons, One God – not a logical or mathematical puzzle…
Sunday 20th May at 11am, Sung Mass for Pentecost Sunday. 50 days after Easter, we recall the sending of the Holy Spirit on the first disciples and the preaching of Peter which peoples understood in their varied languages. Fr Christopher Durrant is our Celebrant and Preacher. Our Music is the tuneful…
Sunday 13th May, Sung Mass at 11am for Easter 7, the Sunday after Ascension. Hymns from New English Hymnal are 165 : 296 : 214. The Mass Setting is by Charles Wood (1866-1926) in the Dorian Mode, and the Motet “God is gone up” by Arthur Hutchings (1906-89). The Celebrant…