Thanks to all who journeyed with us through Holy Week & Easter, especially to Fr Christopher for such purposeful Liturgy & Sermons, to Fr Nigel for Spy Wednesday’s Stations of the Cross (one of my highlights with our Liszt Via Crucis) and to Amy Down for organising & conducting our dedicated choir in 7 varied & beautiful choral services that week.

May offers a whole host of Feasts, Processions & special events – please support what you can. We welcome back Nigel Browne as Organist and Neil Page as honorary Director of Music.

Regular weekday services continue with Tuesday & Thursday Vespers at 6pm, and Wednesday Matins & Low Mass at 9.30/10am.

Ascension Day, Thursday 10th May, begins a time of evangelistic prayer “#ThyKingdom_Come” called for by our Archbishops. In Devon this culminates in a Diocesan event at Exeter Cathedral starting at 6.30pm on Pentecost Sunday, 20th May.

Thurs 3 May, St David’s Church at 7.30pm, Exeter College Choral Society Concert.

Sun 6 May, Rogation Sunday. 11am Sung Mass & Procession. Lotti. If ye love me, Tallis.

Sun 6 May, 6pm Choral Evensong & Benediction. Responses: Sumsion. Psalm 45. Office Hymn: 126. Canticles: Sumsion in G. Anthem: Thou visitest the Earth, Greene. Tantum Ergo: Fauré.

Wed 9 May, 7.30pm. In association with Exeter Pride, we are screening Florence Browne’s documentary about LGBT people in the Church of England, “Just as I am”, with an introductory talk by Dr David Beadle. All welcome.

Thurs 10 May, we celebrate the Ascension of our Lord Jesus Christ into Heaven. Plainsong Matins is sung at 7.30am from the West Gallery, followed by breakfast.

Thurs 10 May at 7.30pm, Sung Mass for Ascension Day. Stanford in C&F. Ascendens Christus, by Jacob Handl. Please support.

Sat 12 May – Exeter Pride. We welcome all who wish to show solidarity with Exeter’s LGBT+ communities to join us at St Michael’s for Sung Matins at 9.30am, followed by brunch. Join the Christian group in the Pride Parade from the St Sidwell’s Centre at 12noon.

Sat 12 May, 7-10pm at Exeter Cathedral. UPLOAD! A free Event for 13-18 year olds.

Sun 13 May, Easter 7. 11am Sung Mass. Darke in E. O God the King of Glory, Purcell. This is also the start of Christian Aid Week.

Pentecost/Whitsunday, 20 May, 11am Sung Mass. The lovely Wood in F. Come Holy Ghost, Attwood.

Sun 20 May, 6.30pm in Exeter Cathedral, “Thy Kingdom Come”, a diocesan service of prayer & thanksgiving.

Wed 23 May, 7.30pm. St Michael’s Lectures welcome Nicola Field, founding member of Lesbians & Gays Support the Miners, as featured in the 2014 film “Pride”.

Thurs 24 May 12noon, Parish Lunch at Exeter College’s @34 Restaurant – sign up in church.

Sat 26 May, 9am Men’s Breakfast jointly with St David’s in the Orangery at The Imperial.

Sun 27 May, Trinity Sunday. 11am. Sung Mass. Missa Brevis, Lotti. Hymn to the Trinity, Tchaikovsky.

Thurs 31 May at 7.30pm, Corpus Christi Procession & Sung Mass. Casciolini in A minor. Ave verum corpus, Byrd.

Sun 3 June, Trinity I, 11am Sung Mass, and 6pm Choral Evensong & Benediction.

And finally, our nest box camera is online on the Peregrine page. Donations welcome.

Richard Barnes

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Our nest box camera is online on the Peregrine page, and we hope that the 4 eggs laid in the last week of March will hatch during the first few days of May. Donations always welcome.

Ascension Day, Thursday 25th May, marks the start of a time of evangelistic prayer “#ThyKingdom_Come” called for by our Archbishops. In Devon this culminates in a Diocesan event at Exeter Cathedral starting at 6.30pm on Pentecost Sunday, 4th June.

Thurs 4th May at 12 noon, you may wish to join the Parish Lunch Club at Exeter College’s @34 Restaurant on the Hele Road site.

Sun 7 May, Easter 4. 10.45am Sung Mass. Service in F by Harris. Psalm 23 by Schubert.

Sun 7 May, 6pm First Sunday Choral Evensong & Benediction. Responses: Sumsion. Psalm 29 vv 1-10. Office Hymn: 103. Canticles: Stanford in C. Anthem: Ye Choirs of New Jerusalem – a thrilling composition by C V Stanford. O salutaris: Rossini. Tantum Ergo: Fauré.

Sat 13 May – Exeter Pride. We welcome any who want to show solidarity with Exeter’s LGBTQ+ communities to join us for Sung Matins at 10am at St Michael’s. There is a music practice at 9am for singers, and brunch will be served afterwards. Or join the Christian group in the Pride Parade from the St Sidwell’s Centre at 12noon.

Sun 14 May, Easter 5. 10.45am Sung Mass. Setting: Darke in F. O taste and see, by Vaughan Williams. This is also the start of Christian Aid Week.

Thurs 18 May at St Boniface Church Whipton at 7.30pm. Concert by Exeter Police & Community Choir. Tickets £6 on the door.

Sat 20 May at 7.30 pm, Exevox Chamber Choir Concert of a cappella music entitled ‘Northern Lights’. Tickets £10 on the door.

Rogation Sunday, 21 May, 10.45am Sung Mass and Procession around Mount Dinham. Missa Brevis by Lotti. If ye love me, by Tallis.

Tues 23 May at 6pm – Rogation Day and CBS Plainsong Mass for May.

Thurs 25 May, 40 days after Easter, we celebrate the Ascension of our Lord Jesus Christ into Heaven.
Ascension Day Plainsong Matins is sung at 7.30am from the West Gallery, followed by breakfast.

Thurs 25 May at 7.30pm, Sung Mass for Ascension Day. Little Organ Mass by Haydn. O clap your hands, by Gibbons. This is a joint Parish service – All welcome.

Sat 27 May, 9am at the Farmers’ Union for the monthly Men’s Breakfast jointly with St David’s.

Sun 28 May, Easter 7. 10.45am. Sung Mass. Setting: Sumsion in F. O God the king of glory, by Purcell.
Our Archbishops are asking all Christians to pray especially this week for better Witness and Evangelism to our secular society. St Michael’s offers welcome to all – a traditional Church for today!

Thurs 1 June at 7.45pm. The Canon John Thurmer Memorial Lecture, given by Dr Bruce Coleman of Exeter University History Dept on “The Oxford Movement in Church and Society”.

Sun 4 June, Whitsunday/Pentecost, 10.45am Sung Mass, and 6pm Choral Evensong & Benediction.
Also Sun 4 June, from 6.30pm in Exeter Cathedral, “Thy Kingdom Come”, a diocesan service in response to the Archbishops’ call to prayer, led by Bishop Sarah.

Richard Barnes.

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Our nest box camera is online on the Peregrine page of this website, with the 4 eggs laid around Easter now being incubated and due to hatch at end of April/start of May – enjoy watching, and donate if you feel able.

The intricacies of Julian & Gregorian Calendars and Paschal Moons mean that Orthodox Easter is on 1st May this year, a full 5 weeks after the West, by which time we will be reaching Rogation Sunday.

Monday 4 April please come to the Feast of the Annunciation transferred from Holy Week. Sung Mass at 7.30pm. Missa “Aeterna Christi Munera” by Palestrina. Ave Maria, by Parsons.

Plainsong Vespers & Meditation every Tuesday & Thursday at 6pm in Church. No Choir Practice Tues 5 Apr.

Sunday 10 April, Easter 3/II, 10.45am Mass singing Harris in F and Surrexit Christus Dominus by Michael Praetorius.

Sunday 17 April, Easter 4/III, 10.45am. Missa “O Quam Gloriosum” by Victoria and Exultate Deo by Palestrina.

At St David’s Church on Wednesday 20 April at 7.30pm, preceded by Holy Communion at 7pm. This year’s Annual Parish Church Meeting, reviewing 2015 and looking prayerfully to the future for both St David’s and St Michael’s Churches.

At St David’s Church on Thursday 21 April at 7.30pm – The Revd Harri Williams from St David’s Cathedral, Pembrokeshire, on St David, his Ministry and Influence. One of a series of Heritage Lectures about the Church and its churchyard as part of the St David’s Transformation Project, supported by the Heritage Lottery Fund.

Saturday 23 April at 9.30am, there is a joint St David’s/St Mike’s Men’s Breakfast at the Farmers’ Union by the Clock-tower at the north end of Queen Street.

Saturday 23 April, St George’s Day and Jewish Passover. 7.30pm at Exeter Cathedral a rare opportunity to hear Benjamin Britten’s War Requiem, performed by EMG Symphony Orchestra and Choirs. Written for the Consecration of the new Coventry Cathedral in May 1962, it is a sign of reconciliation and hope in a damaged world.

Sunday 24 April, Easter 5/IV, 10.45am. Mass in the Phrygian Mode by Charles Wood and the splendid multi-verse Anthem “Ye Choirs of new Jerusalem” by C V Stanford.

Wed 27 April at 7.30pm, St Michael’s Lectures are delighted to welcome Rt Revd Dame Sarah Mullally, Bishop of Crediton, to talk on the topic “Should the Church be involved in the Health of our Communities?” Continuing our theme of religious reflection on current social concerns.

Rogation Sunday, 1st May, 10.45am Sung Mass and Procession around Mount Dinham. Missa “Entre vous filles” by Lassus, and “Thou visitest the Earth and blessest it” by Greene.

Sunday 1st May, we also have our 6pm First Sunday Choral Evensong & Benediction. To mark the day, the Anthem will be “The Heavens are telling the Glory of God” by Franz Joseph Haydn from his Oratorio, The Creation. Come & see why Choral Evensong is the fastest growing service in the C of E.

Thurs 5 May, 40 days after Easter, we celebrate the Ascension of our Lord Jesus Christ into Heaven. At 7.30am, we have Ascension Day Plainsong Matins sung from the West Gallery, followed by breakfast. At 7.30pm there is a Sung Mass for the Feast Day.

Please also put Friday 27 May at 7.30pm in your Diaries, when we are privileged to welcome Professor Nicholas Orme, who will distil his extensive knowledge of Church History to give a lecture in memory of Canon John Thurmer, entitled “A Brief History of England’s Cathedrals.” Free entry, all welcome.

Richard Barnes.

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