Welcome or welcome back! It’s a good time to get back to Church at St Michael’s with our Curate’s Ordination and the Feast of Michaelmas to look forward to this month.

Thursday 29th September is Michaelmas with our Festival Sung Mass at 7pm, (note the earlier time) at which Fr Christopher Durrant will celebrate Mass for the first time. All are most welcome to this service, which will be followed by a Bring & Share Party.

Tuesday & Thursday 6pm Sung Vespers & Meditation resume. Matins & Low Mass are said at 9.30/10am on Wednesdays, and “St David’s Communion” at St Michael’s at 10.30am on Thursdays 1st & 8th – then back to St David’s. Plus there’s the Heritage Open Days, with Cream Teas on Sunday 11th, and a St Michael’s Lecture.
All are welcome to all services and events at St Michael’s.

Apparently St Michael’s, Mount Dinham, is a Pokestop in the #PokemonGO game, so please visit us, and come in and have a look around. We have some interesting characters of our own. Also the Roof Repair Fund work has started,so please be careful near the scaffolding.

Thursday 1st September, St Giles Hermit & Abbot, Eucharist at 10.30 followed by Refreshments. Plainsong Vespers resume at 6pm.

Sunday 4th September, Trinity XV, 10.45am Sung Mass. Palestrina & Tallis.
Sun 4 Sept, 6pm, Evensong and Benediction. Sumsion Responses. Psalm: 121. Canticles: Harwood in A flat. Anthem: O for a closer walk with God, by Stanford. O salutaris. Tantum Ergo.

Thurs 8 Sept at 6pm, CBS Plainsong Mass celebrating the Birthday of the Blessed Virgin Mary. All welcome, please support.

Saturday 10th September, Heritage Open Day 9am-6pm, and Devon Historic Churches Trust Ride & Stride. Guided Tour of Mount Dinham & our Church at 4.30pm with Richard Parker.

Sunday 11th September, Trinity XVI, 10.45am Sung Mass. Harwood & Lloyd.
Also Heritage Open Day 10am-5pm, with Cream Teas served during the afternoon from 3-5pm.

Tuesday 13th September at 7pm. Open Choir Practice, for anyone wanting to sing a wide variety of sacred choral music in a relaxed and friendly atmosphere with the rather good choir at St Mike’s. We would like to appoint Bass & Soprano Choral Scholars from the University following auditions. Junior Scholars, looking to gain experience while considering applying for a University or College Choral Scholarship, are also welcome. Please contact Erika Borley, Director of Music.

Wed 14 Sept is Holy Cross Day, which will be remembered at Matins and 10am Low Mass.
On Fri 16 Sept, we can remember Ninian, Bishop of Galloway (432) and Edward Bouverie Pusey, one of the founders of the Oxford Movement (1882). And on Sat 17 Sept, Hildegard, Abbess of Bingen, Visionary and Musician (1179).

Sunday 18th September, Trinity XVII, 10.45am Mass. Darke & Attwood.

Tuesday 20th September at 7pm. Another Open Choir Practice at St Mike’s.

Sunday 25th September, Trinity XVIII, NO 10.45am Mass. Because the Choir and Congregation are invited to 9.30am Ordination Service at St David’s Church, at which Bp Robert Attwell will ordain as Priests our Curate, Fr Christopher Durrant, and Rev Ann Futcher from the Holyford Mission Community based around Branscombe & Colyton in East Devon. St David’s & St Michael’s Choirs will join together to sing music by Nigel Walsh for this special service. Fr Tom will say Mass at 5pm at St Michael’s for any unable to attend the Ordination.

Wednesday 28th September, 7.30pm, St Michael’s Lecture. We welcome Professor David Horrell from University of Exeter Department of Theology & Religion to talk about “Ethnicity, Race and Religion in early Christian and Jewish Texts and Modern Biblical Scholarship.”

Thursday 29th September is Michaelmas and we have our Festival Sung Mass at 7pm, (note the earlier time) at which Fr Christopher Durrant will celebrate Mass for the first time. All are most welcome to this service, which will be followed by a Bring & Share Party – please join us. Music will include the Introit “Angeli Archangeli” by Andrea Gabrieli, movements from Haydn’s St Nicolas Mass, and the Anthem “Faire is the Heaven where happy soules have rest”, by Sir William Harris.

Sunday 2nd October, Dedication Sunday, 10.45am Mass. Rheinberger & Bruckner.

Sunday 2nd October at 3.40pm, ExeVox Chamber Choir, directed by Peter Adcock, will give a half-hour mini-Concert at St Michael’s, followed by Refreshments. This will be one of three mini-concerts featuring classical, modern and traditional music in an afternoon of music making across Exeter city centre in aid of Hospiscare.
Starting at 2.00pm in St Stephen’s Church on the High Street, continuing at 2.45pm in St Pancras Church in the Guildhall Centre and coming to St Michael’s at 3.40pm.  Entry at each venue is free, with voluntary collections for Hospiscare. You may like to stay at or return to St Michael’s for…

Sun 2 Oct, 6pm, Choral Evensong and Benediction. Clucas Responses. Psalm: 142. Canticles: Dyson in F. Anthem: Behold the Tabernacle of God, by Harris. O salutaris: Elgar. Tantum Ergo: Faure.

Richard Barnes.

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Tuesday 1st September at 6pm. CBS Mass for the Feast of St Giles of Provence (710), Hermit, with Hymns and Plainsong Propers. All welcome. N.B. No Choir Practice this Tuesday; please be prompt on Sunday.

Each Wednesday morning there is Prayer Book Matins at 9.30 and Low Mass is said at 10am.
Tuesday & Thursday Vespers & Meditation at 6pm resume on Thursday 3rd September.

Sunday 6th September, Trinity XIV, 10.45am Sung Mass. Setting: Mass for Three Voices, Byrd. Motet: Sicut Cervus, Palestrina. Some beautiful a cappella Byrd and a motet from Psalm 42; Like as the deer desires springs of water.

Sun 6 Sept, 6pm, Evensong and Benediction.
Responses: Reading. Psalm: 119 vv 41-56. Office Hymn: 241. Canticles: Noble in B minor.
Anthem: Verleih Uns Frieden, Mendelssohn. O salutaris: Elgar. Tantum Ergo: Fauré (G flat).
A Romantic Choral Evensong pretty much all the way. The German text is Luther’s translation of a Latin Response which Cranmer renders as “Give peace in our time, O Lord: because there is none other that fighteth for us, but only Thou, O God.”

Wed 9 Sept, remember Father Charles Fuge Lowder (1820-80), Founder of the Society of the Holy Cross and pioneering Anglo-Catholic priest in Wapping & London Docks.

Saturday 12th September, Heritage Open Day 8am-6pm, and Devon Historic Churches Trust Ride & Stride. Also, Installation of Rt Revd Sarah Mullally as our new Bishop of Crediton in Exeter Cathedral at 4pm.

Sunday 13th September, Eve of Exultation of the Holy Cross.
Heritage Open Day 10am-6pm, Guided Tour of Mount Dinham & our Church at 2.30pm with Richard Parker.
10am in Exeter Cathedral, Ordination of Deacons, including Chris Durrant and Stephen Martin.
No choir for 10.45am Low Mass.
6pm Parish Sung Mass and Bring & Share Party at St Michael’s to Welcome Chris Durrant (and his wife Jenny) as our newly Ordained Deacon and Curate. All welcome, from St David’s, St James’ and further afield.
Hymns include Lift High the Cross. Setting: Missa Super Dixit Maria, Hans Leo Hassler.
Motet: Salvator Mundi, Thomas Tallis. O Saviour of the world, save us, who by thy cross and blood hast redeemed us, help us, we pray thee, our God.

Tuesday 15th September at 7pm. Open Choir Practice, for anyone wanting to sing a wide variety of sacred choral music in a relaxed and friendly atmosphere with the rather good choir at St Mike’s. We hope to appoint three Junior Choral Scholars following an audition. This could be of particular interest to anyone considering applying for a University or College Choral Scholarship and looking to gain experience. Please contact Erika Borley, Director of Music, if you know of anyone interested in this.

Wed 16 Sept, remember Ninian, Bishop of Galloway (432) and Edward Bouverie Pusey, one of the founders of the Oxford Movement (1882).

Thur 17 Sept, remember Hildegard, Abbess of Bingen, Visionary and Musician (1179).

Sunday 20th September, Trinity XVI, 10.45am Mass. Setting: Mass in A minor, Casciolini. Motet: Ubi Caritas, Duruflé. Where Care and Love are, there God is. Gregorian chant beautifully re-imagined in 1960 Paris.

Tuesday 22nd September at 7pm. Another Open Choir Practice at St Mike’s. We hope to appoint an Ouseley Trust Scholar and two Senior Choral Scholars from Exeter University students following auditions.

Sunday 27th September, Trinity XVII, 10.45am Mass. Setting: Mass in the Phrygian Mode, Wood. Motet: View Me Lord, Lloyd. Two 20th century composers looking back to medieval sacred music and an Elizabethan poem by Thomas Campion.

Tuesday 29th September, Michaelmas is celebrated with 7.30pm Sung Mass, followed by a Bring & Share Party – please join us. Our Guest Preacher is Ven David Gunn-Johnson.
Setting: Mass in F, Josef Rheinberger – Liechtenstein’s famous contemporary of Queen Victoria. Motet: Faire is the Heaven, Sir William Harris – A high point of 20th century Anglican music from an Organist of Sr George’s Chapel, Windsor, setting a 16th century poem by Edmund Spenser.

While we often shorten our church’s title to St Michael’s, it’s good also to let the “and All” Angels remind us that God values us all as his children, wherever we are on the pilgrimage of faith; and all are welcome here, quiet, confident or questioning.

Wednesday 30th September, 7.30pm, St Michael’s Lecture. The Venerable David Gunn-Johnson considers Crusader Spirituality, 11th Century Radicalisation, and whether there be any lessons for or parallels with our times.

South Aisle Window commemorating Rev John Inckson Woollcott who died in Rangoon 1931

Sun 4 Oct, 6pm, Choral Evensong and Benediction.
Responses: Smith. Psalm: 125, 126. Office Hymn: 242. Canticles: Walmisley in D minor. Anthem: O Lord the Maker of All Thing, Mundy. O salutaris: 269, Tantum Ergo: 268.

Richard Barnes.

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At the start of the new academic year it’s good to welcome back our students and others, and we offer a warm invitation to any to explore this unique corner of Exeter with its fine music, Anglo-catholic worship and friendly fellowship.

On Saturday 13th and Sunday 14th Sep, St Michael’s will be open all day, 9am-6pm, for the Heritage Open Days weekend, but please avoid 12noon-3pm on Saturday as there is a Wedding.

Wednesday 17th Sep at 7.30pm, the St Michael’s Recitals 2nd Season starts with our Organist, Dr Nigel Browne, demonstrating the many facets of our new pipe organ. “Everything you ever wanted to know about the new organ but were afraid to ask!” Entrance fee on the door, £5 (£3 concessions), to support music at St Michael’s.

Any friends in the West Midlands might like to note that on Saturday 20th September the Choir is making a trip to St Leonard’s Chapel, Newland, Worcester, WR13 5AX, to sing Evensong & Benediction at 4.00pm. This is part of the Beauchamp Community’s 150th Anniversary programme; the founder of St Michael’s, William Gibbs, is commemorated in the nave of the Chapel, alongside his daughter, Albinia.

The St Michael’s Lectures resume on Wednesday 24th Sep at 7.30pm with with Revd Dr Susan Durbar, Theology Coordinator at Christian Aid. The monthly lectures explore contemporary issues connected with faith, Christianity and society. These are still free with a retiring collection to cover costs.

Our Michaelmas Celebration Weekend starts on Friday evening, 26th September at 7.30pm. Hymns & Pimms – a fun Fund-raising variation on Songs of Praise. Relax with Drinks & nibbles, sponsor & vote for your favourite Hymns, then sing them lustily accompanied by our new Pipe Organ.

Our Monday 29th Sep at 7.30pm Sung Mass for Michaelmas will be followed by a Bring & Share Party.

And the Answer to the previous post’s Question – that carving of St Michael is above the entrance to a large brick building in Star Street, London W2, a short walk from Paddington Station towards the Edgeware Road. It looks like it may have been a religious house or school, and now houses an International Community School.

ICS, Star Street, Paddington, London

It is adjacent to the empty site of the former St Michael & All Angels Church, Paddington, designed by Major Rohde Hawkins and funded by William Gibbs, built in 1861 at the opposite end of the Great Western Railway from Exeter. This “sister” church of our St Michael’s was bomb-damaged in 1941, closed around 1965, its Parish re-amalgamated with St John’s, Hyde Park, and demolished a few years later. I have not been able to find any images of it online.

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I particularly liked our Sunday morning motet “O Lord increase our faith” by Henry Loosemore (brother of John Loosemore, builder of the 1665 post-Restoration Exeter Organ), a youthful little piece written in 1627 when he was about 25.

St Michael’s Choir at St Martin’s Exeter

Our singing of the Gibbons Short Service Canticles at Evensong was “cheeky”, as requested by Alex. The congregation joined in the unaccompanied hymns strongly, and passing tourists were attracted in too. Thanks to Revd Sheila Swarbrick for the music-themed Readings and moving Sermon and Prayers. Evensong – over 450 years old and going strong.

Now that the new Website is launched, and this Blog within it, the old WordPress blog at http://stmichaelsmountdinham.wordpress.com/ is a bit superfluous going forward. We will try to keep the 2 in step for a few weeks, but thereafter the old blog will remain as an archive of our HLF Project activities since February 2013.

St Martin’s, Exeter – C17 Monument

We now look forward to September’s Music List, and hopefully to some new voices and faces joining us, in the choir or in the congregation, in enjoyment of the great church music which enlivens our worship. A reminder also that Tuesday and Thursday Plainsong Vespers at 6pm resume on the 2nd and 4th.

Sunday, 7 September Trinity XII, 10.45am Mass
Hymns: 390: 449: 366, Setting: Mass in F, Sumsion, Motet: Cantate Domino, Pitoni

Sunday, 7 September, 6pm Evensong and Benediction
Responses: Reading, Psalm: 105 1-15, Office Hymn: 248ii
Canticles: Noble in B minor, Anthem: O Lorde the maker of al thing, Joubert, Tantum Ergo & O Salutaris: Liszt

Sunday, 14 September Holy Cross Day, 10.45am Mass
Hymns: 338: 439: 79, Setting: Missa “L’hora passa” Viadana, Motet: Wie lieblich sind deine Wohnungen, Brahms (How lovely are Thy dwellings, from Ein deutsches Requiem)

Sunday, 21 September St Matthew Apostle & Evangelist, 10.45am Mass
Hymns: 224t178: 189: 374, Setting: Missa “Lauda Sion” Palestrina, Motet: Almighty and everlasting God, Gibbons

Sunday, 28 September Trinity XV, 10.45am Mass
Hymns: 335: 74: 443, Setting: Wood in F, Motet: O thou the central orb, Wood

Monday, 29 September St Michael & All Angels, 7:30pm Mass followed by a Bring&Share Party.
Hymns: 205: 296: 206, Setting: Missa “O quam gloriosum” Victoria, Motet: And I saw another angel, Stanford.

Question: Where would you find the above depiction of St Michael? Answer next post.

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