Sun 1st Dec, 11am. ADVENT SUNDAY. Sung Mass. Litany in Procession, 11, 15. Missa Brevis, Lotti. Matin Responsory, Palestrina. 12Noon Bountiful Table of Bakes, Preserves & Produce.
N.B. No Evensong on Sun 1st Dec.

Sat 7th Dec, 10 – 12. Church Cleaning Morning – please come & help if you can.

Sun 8th Dec, 11am. Advent II. Hymns: 5: 10: 16. Mass in the Dorian Mode, Tallis. People Look East, Trad.
6pm ADVENT PROCESSION & CAROL SERVICE, followed by Mulled Wine & Mince Pies.

Fri 13th Dec, 7pm. Swedish Choir Santa Lucia Day celebration. All welcome.

Sun 15th Dec, 11am. Gaudete, Advent III. 7: 12: 499 . Mass in Phrygian Mode, Wood. E’en so, Lord Jesus, quickly come, Manz.

Sun 15th Dec, 6pm at St David’s Church. Service of Readings & Carols.

Wed 18th Dec, 7.30pm.  The Revd. Dr. Alastair Logan “In Search of Ancient Gnostics”

Sun 22nd Dec, 11am. Advent IV. 21: 57: 186. Missa Brevissima, Casciolini. Ave Maria, Arcadelt.

Tue 24th Dec, 11.30pm. Midnight Mass of the Nativity. With Carols from the Gallery at 11pm. Hymns: 26: 29: 30. Mass in F, Sumsion. O magnum mysterium, Byrd.

Wed 25th Dec, 10.30am (N.B. earlier time) Christmas Day Sung Mass. 24: 32: 30 (v1,2,6,7). Mass in F, Darke. Ding, dong, Merrily on High, arr. Woodward.
Sun 29th Dec, 11am. Christmas I. 25: 39: 42. Merbecke/Shaw. O men from the fields, Cooke.

Sunday 5th January 2020. Christmas II/Epiphany. Sung Mass. 50: 47: 52. Mass in F, Wood. Whence is that goodly fragrance, arr. Willcocks.

6pm Choral Evensong & Benediction for Epiphany. Smith Responses. Psalm 98 (&100). Hymn 49. Stanford in C. Anthem: Christus, Mendelssohn. O salutaris 269 Tantum Ergo 268.

Sun 12th Jan, 11am. Epiphany I/Baptism of the Lord. 56: 495: 58. Missa l’Hora passa, Viadana. Lully, Lullay – Keitch

Sun 19th Jan, 11am. Epiphany II. 55: 294: 467. Missa Sancti Nicolai, Nicholson. The Lamb, Tavener.

Sat 25th Jan, 9.30am. Men’s Breakfast at the Farmers’ Union, Queen’s Terrace.

Sun 26th Jan, 11am. Epiphany III. 36: 302: 57. Mass in F, Darke. Beati Quorum Via, Stanford.

Wed 29th Jan, 7.30pm Lecture. Dr. Robert Guyver will speak on John Coleridge Patteson, the martyred Bishop of Melanesia.

Sunday 2nd February, 11am. Candlemas. Sung Mass. 439: 408: 44. Mass in C&F, Nunc Dimittis in B flat, both by Stanford.

6pm Choral Evensong & Benediction for Candlemas. Reading Responses. Psalm 122 (&132). Hymn: 475. Stanford in B flat. Anthem: O nata lux, Lauridsen. O salutaris, Tantum Ergo.

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Sat 5 October. Visit to Tyntesfield, National Trust property, former home of William Gibbs. We will sing Evensong in the splendid Chapel there at 3pm.

Sun 6 Oct, Harvest Festival 11am. Choral Mass Hymns:259: 262: 493. Mass in F, Sumsion. Motet:Thou visitest the earthm Greene. Bountiful Table of Baking, Preserves & Produce at 12noon.

6pm Choral Evensong & Benediction. Responses: Reading. Psalm 142. Hymn 205. Canticles: Tallis Short Service. Anthem: Locus Iste, Bruckner O salutaris: 269. Tantum Ergo: 268.

Tue 8 Oct, 5.30pm at Exeter Cathedral. Choral Evensong with Dedication of Memorial to St Wilfrid’s Community.

Sun 13 Oct, Trinity XVII. 11am Sung Mass. Hymns 324: 439: 445. Missa Lauda Sion, Palestrina. Motet: Ave verum corpus, Pearsall.

Wed 16 Oct, 7.30pm. St Michael’s Lecture. Prof James Clark. Re-thinking the Dissolution of the Monasteries. Author of several studies on late mediaeval religion and culture, Prof Clark was consultant for the BBC TV series, Tudor Abbey Farm.

Sun 20 Oct, Trinity XVIII. 11am Mass. Hymns 440: 310: 358. :4-part Mass, Byrd. Hear my prayer O Lord, Purcell.

Tue 22 Oct, 7pm for 7.30. Deanery Synod Meeting at St James’ Church, Mount Pleasant. Main Topic – Music & Psalms in Worship, led by Canon James Mustard, Cathedral Precentor. Open to all

Sun 27 Oct Saints Simon & Jude, Apostles. 11am Mass. Hymns:195: 214: 359. Mass in A minor, Casciolini. Give us the wings of faith, Bullock.

Sat 2 Nov, 7.30pm at St David’s Church. An Evening of Poetry & Music. Tickets £12, including canapés & drink.

Sun 3 November, All Saints. 11am Mass. Hymns 197: 226: 396. Missa ‘O quam gloriosum’, Luis de Victoria. Justorum animae, Stanford. 12noon Bountiful Table.

6pm All Souls’ Requiem Mass. Setting: Missa pro defunctis, Casciolini.
At St Michael’s, worship is traditional, music is excellent, people are friendly, and all are welcome. Please join us.

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Sun 7 July, 11am Sung Mass with Bountiful Table in aid of Mission to Seafarers. Trinity III. Hymns: 137: 52: 467. Mass in A minor, Casciolini. Panis Angelicus, Casciolini.

6pm Choral Evensong & Benediction. Responses: Byrd Ps: 65 Hymn: 242. Canticles: Wood in E flat No 2. Anthem: They that go down to the sea in ships, Sumsion. O salutaris & Tantum Ergo.

Sun 14 July, TrinityIV /Sea Sunday. 11am Mass. Hymns: 354: 495: 461. Missa ‘Ave Maris Stella’, Victoria. Crossing the bar, Parry.

Wed 17 July, 7.30pm. St Michael’s Lecture. Dr Alun Williams (Dept of History, Univ of Exeter & Server at St Michael’s) will talk on “Islam & Iberia; the Struggle for Supremacy in the Early Middle Ages.”

Sun 21 July, Trinity V. 11am Mass. Hymns: 238: 338: 431. Mass in C, Jubilate in F, both by John Ireland.

Sat 27 July, 9am. Men’s Breakfast in the Orangery at The Imperial.

Sun 28 July Trinity VI. 11am Mass. Hymns: 390: 358: 64. Mass in F, Darke. Notre Père, Durufle.

Thurs 1 Aug, 12noon. Parish Lunch Club at the Farmers’ Union. Please sign up in Church or see Sue Wilson at Srt David’s

Wednesday 7th August at 7pm, we welcome Jean-René André, Director of Music at Rennes Cathedral, to give a Recital of popular European Organ pieces from across the centuries. The city of Rennes , Brittany in France, has been twinned with Exeter since the 1950s.

No Evensong on Sun 4 Aug, and no Vespers on Tuesdays & Thursdays in August.

11am Sung Masses in Sundays 4, 11, 18, 25 August will feature Congregational Mass Settings and simple Choir Motets on an ad hoc basis depending on resources on the day.

At St Michael’s, worship is traditional, music is excellent, people are friendly, and all are welcome. Please join us. Pray for our continuing life & mission, and support your church with time, talents and giving.
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Richard Barnes

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Regular times:- Sunday Sung Mass 11am. Choir Practice 7-8.30pm Tuesdays – new singers always welcome. Vespers is sung Tuesdays & Thursdays at 6pm. Matins & Low Mass take place Wednesdays at 9.30/10am.

Sun 23 Dec, Advent IV. 11am Sung Mass. Missa Brevissima, Casciolini. Ave Maria, Arcadelt.

Mon 24 Dec. Christmas Eve. 11.30pm. Midnight Mass of the Nativity & Blessing of the Crib. Sumsion in F. O magnum mysterium, Keitch. At 11pm, the Choir will sing Carols from the Gallery or on Mt Dinham.

Tues 25 Dec. Christmas Day. N.B. 10.30am (Turkey time!). Sung Mass of the Nativity & Prayers at the Crib. Merbecke/Shaw. In dulci jubilo, Praetorius.

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, or St David’s on Thursday at 10.30am..

Sun 30 Dec, Christmas I. 11am Sung Mass.

Sun 6 January 2019, Epiphany of the Lord. 11am Sung Mass. Wood in F. Whence is that goodly fragrance, Willcocks.
Sun 6 Jan, 6pm Choral Evensong & Benediction. Smith. Psalm 98 & 100. Stanford in C. Anthem: from Christus, Mendelssohn. O salutaris & Tantum Ergo, plainsong.

Sun 13 Jan, Baptism of the Lord. 11am Sung Mass. Missa l’Hora passa, Viadana. O Lord, give Thy Holy Spirit, Tallis.

Sun 20 Jan, Epiphany II. 11am Sung Mass. Rheinberger in F. New Year Carol, Britten.

Sat 26 Jan, 9am. Men’s Breakfast at The Imperial.

Sun 27 Jan, Epiphany III. 11am Sung Mass. Missa Sancti Nicolai, Nicholson. O sing joyfully, Batten.

Weds 30 Jan, 7.30pm. St Michael’s Lecture. Dr Darren Schreiber (Univ of Exeter) on “The Neuroscience of Political and Religious Beliefs”. All welcome, free entry, voluntary donations, refreshments & discussion.

Sun 3 February, Candlemas (transferred from 2 Feb). 11am Sung Mass. Stanford in C&F. Nunc Dimittis in B flat.
Sun 3 Feb, 6pm Choral Evensong & Benediction. Reading. Psalm 122 & 132. Stanford in B flat. Anthem: Hodie beata virgo, Byrd. O salutaris & Tantum Ergo.

Advance notice:- Weds 20 Feb, 7.30pm. St Michael’s Lecture. Prof Emma Loosley (Univ of Exeter) The Syrian Conflict: What is it Really about?

We are delighted to welcome Matt Clark as Organist and Harry Sullivan, Organ Scholar at the University Chapel, to share playing for our Services and Choir Practices.
Wishing you a peaceful & joyful Christmastide from all at St Michael’s Mount Dinham.

Richard Barnes

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Regular times:- Choir Practice 7-8.30pm Tuesdays – new singers always welcome. Vespers is sung Tuesdays & Thursdays at 6pm. Matins & Low Mass take place Wednesdays at 9.30/10am.

Sat 29th Sept, 150th Anniversary Michaelmas Celebrations. Choir practice at St Michael’s at 2.30pm, visitors welcome to join us. Otherwise, please gather at 4pm at St David’s Church, if you wish. 4.30pm Procession with Hymns to St Michael’s Church. (Please do not park at St Michael’s if you don’t really need to.)
5pm Solemn High Mass for Michaelmas. Locus Iste a Deo factus est, Bruckner. The St Michael’s Hymn, 475, 478, 343. Mass in C&F, and Motet: And I saw another angel, C V Stanford. Guest Preacher is our former Music Director, Fr Steven Martin.

Sun 30th Sept, Michaelmas! Here we go again. 11am Solemn High Mass. Guest Preacher is our good friend Ven David Gunn-Johnson. Mass in F, Darke. Motet: O Glorious Prince St Michael, Graham Keitch (World première).

Fri 5th October, 11am. Funeral of Tim Hampshire. Please come and support Tim’s family and friends. (Practice for singers at 10am)

Sun 7th Oct, Harvest Festival. 11am Sung Mass & Bountiful Table. Hymns 259, 262, 493. Mass in F, Harris. Thou visitest the earth, Greene. Any Harvest gifts, foodstuffs etc. you may wish to donate will be distributed between Exeter Foodbank and the Esther Community.
6pm Choral Evensong & Benediction. Reading Responses. Psalms 125, 126. Hymn 260. Canticles: Tallis Short Service. Anthem: If ye love me, Tallis.

Thu 11th Oct, 7.30pm at Trinity School, Vernon Road, Newcourt, EX2 7GB. Deanery Synod will discuss pioneer evangelism and the Diocese’s Common Fund Review.

Sat 13th Oct, 7.30pm at St David’s Church. Concert by Exeter Chamber Choir, ft première of Requiem by Nigel Walsh (£10).

Sun 14th Oct, 11am Trinity XX. Hymns 366, 296, 318. Mass for 4 voices, Ave verum, both by Byrd.

Sun 21st Oct, 11am Trinity XXI. Hymns 358, 364, 372. Mass in F, Sumsion. Greater Love, John Ireland.

Wed 24th October, 7.30pm. John Hughes Memorial Lecture: Prof Alison Milbank (Dept of Theology & Religious Studies, University of Nottingham) asks: “Does the Parish have a future?” Please support this important talk; Prof Milbank is a renowned scholar and former colleague & friend of John Hughes.

Sat 27th Oct 9am Men’s Breakfast – Details in Church

Sun 28th Oct, 11am Simon & Jude Apostles. Hymns 477, 484(om*), 195. Mass in A minor, Casciolini. Gaudent in caelis, Tomás Luis de Victoria.

Thu 1st Nov, 12 noon @34 Restaurant, Exeter College. Parish Lunch – sign up in Church.

Sun 4th Nov, 11am All Saints’ Sunday. Hymns 224, 197, 84. Missa ‘O quam gloriosum’, Victoria. Give us the wings of faith, Bullock.
6pm All Souls’ Day (transf). Liturgical performance of Requiem by Gabriel Fauré, and reading of names from the Book of the Departed.

Advance Notice:- Friday 9th November, 7.30pm. (Please note the day/date.) John Thurmer Memorial Lecture: Seona Ford (Chair, The Dorothy L. Sayers Society) The Life and Work of Dorothy L. Sayers – a strong, life-long interest of Canon Thurmer.
Special thanks to Dr David Beadle, who for many years has planned and publicised the St Michael’s Lectures.

Wishing you a fruitful Harvest & a colourful Autumn from all at St Michael’s Mount Dinham.
As L.M.Montgomery’s ‘Anne of Green Gables’ says – “I’m so glad I live in a world where there are Octobers.”

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Young VG was more cautious and spent a lot of time sitting in the trefoil and at least once fell out but clambered back in. She fledged at 5.05am on Fri 22 Jun and seemed to be doing okay. But next day Nick Dixon heard calls from the Choir Vestry gully. VG had come down there and got stuck. She was rescued and taken to the Vets; the RSPCA fed her for a week, and released her back here Tue 3 Jul. Both juveniles now seem to be doing fine.

For July we are mostly singing Mass Settings in F, but we end the month on another climax with Haydn’s Little Organ Mass.

With the current shortage of resources, numerical & financial, it seems wise to scale back a little over August. There will be no Tuesday Choir Practices from 31 July to 21 August, just as Tuesday & Thursday Vespers take a break in August. Choir will continue to meet at 10am on Sundays, to run through the Music for the Liturgy and polish up a Communion Motet from our repertoire. Mass Settings will be congregational (Merbecke, Martin Shaw and the like) so we can all join in.

Tuesday Choir Practice will resume on 28 August, as Sunday 2nd September has our monthly Choral Evensong at 6pm as well as Sung Mass at 11am.

A quick forewarning that September will be a busy and exciting month at St Michael’s with the Church Open all day on 8th for Devon Historic Churches Ride&Stride and the Deanery Prayer Walk, on 9th for Cream Teas, and 15th & 16th for Exeter Heritage Open Days. Then our 150th Anniversary Michaelmas Celebrations are on the weekend of 29th/30th September.

Other events in July…
Wed 18th July at 7.30pm. St Michael’s Lecture – Rev Dr David Nixon (St Thomas Church, Exeter, formerly Dean of Studies for South West Ministry Training Course) will ask the question: “What does God think about Brexit?”

Sat 28th July, 9am, Men’s Breakfast, see in churches for details.

Richard Barnes.

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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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Sun 29th Oct. 10.45am, All Saints’ Sunday, Fr C, Rev Alison. Victoria, O quam gloriosum.

Thu 2nd Nov, 7.30pm. Fauré Requiem, Sung Mass for All Souls’ Day.

Sun 5th Nov, Advent-4, Trinity XXI, 10.45am Sung Mass. Palestrina.

Sun 5th Nov, 6pm Choral Evensong & Benediction. Dyson in F. Gibbons.

Wed 8th Nov, 7.30pm, Song Recital by Thomas Hobbs with Andrew Millington. £15/£5.

Sun 12th Nov, Remembrance Sunday, 10.45am. Wood in Phrygian mode. For the Fallen, Keitch.

Sun 19th Nov, Advent-2, Trinity XXIII, 10.45am Mass. Nicholson in C. Rejoice in the Lord alway.

Wed 22nd Nov, 7.30pm, John Hughes Memorial Lecture by Dr Ed Skidelsky.

Thu 23rd Nov, 6pm. CBS Mass – St Clement, Bishop of Rome, Martyr (c.100)

Sun 26th Nov, Christ the King, 10.45am Mass. Byrd 4. Mendelssohn.

Sun 3rd Dec, Advent Sunday. 10.45am Sung Mass. 6pm Choral Evensong & Benediction.

Fri 8th Dec, 6.30pm at St David’s Church. Community Christmas Concert. £5.

Sun 10th Dec, 6pm, Advent Procession & Carols.

Other Regular Events:-
Tuesdays & Thursdays, 6pm Plainsong Vespers & Meditation.
Tuesdays, 7-8.30pm Choir Practice.
Wednesdays, 9.30am BCP Morning Prayer, 10am Low Mass.

St Michael’s Lecture
Wednesday 22 November, 7.30pm, we welcome Dr Ed Skidelsky from Exeter University’s Sociology & Philosophy Dept to talk on “How can believers talk to unbelievers about God?”, a topic relevant to our recent Deanery Synod study on Discipleship. This is in memory of John Hughes, our Curate 2005-9, who tragically died in 2014 in a car accident while Dean of Jesus College, Cambridge. All welcome.

Choir Music
The main event for the Choir is a liturgical performance of Gabriel Fauré’s beautiful Requiem, in the context of a Requiem Mass for All Souls’ Day on Thursday 2nd November at 7.30pm. Please support this important midweek service. We will also sing Justorum Animae (The souls of the righteous…) by Stanford and the Russian Contakion of the Departed.

Please come to Choral Evensong & Benediction at 6pm on the 5th. Each setting of the Magnificat has its own character and, for me, Dyson in F, with its floating Soprano solo, ATB backing group, laid-back organ accompaniment, plus an incense-laden quire, evokes a sacred jazz club, so relax and enjoy the gently atmospheric music.

With an interim Director of Music and Organist rota, the Choir will keep singing and carry on providing music appropriate to the liturgy.

Review of October’s Concerts

At a couple of weeks’ notice, electro-acoustic musician GRICE and friends moved their Concert from the Chapter House to St Michael’s. Thanks to Jane Bellamy for all the liaison involved. Using all our candle-stands and bringing in uplighting & amplification, St Mike’s was transformed to an atmospheric venue for the 5-piece art-rock band. A very different and enjoyable evening of music.

A fortnight later, Tony Pugh brought Exeter Police & Community Male Voice Choir, with MD David Williams and guest soloist John Burgoyne, to St Michael’s with a toe-tapping programme of songs and arrangements from Frank Sinatra and ‘My Fair Lady’ to John Denver and Les Mis.

Thank you all.

Richard Barnes, 27 Oct 2017.

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Sung Vespers & Meditation on Tuesdays & Thursdays at 6pm.

Choir Practices continue on Tuesdays at 7pm.

Matins & Low Mass are said at 9.30/10am on Wednesdays.

Communion is also celebrated at St David’s Church at 10.30am on Thursdays.

All are welcome to services and events at St Michael’s.

Sat 2 Sept at 2pm at Exeter & Devon Crematorium – a Service of Remembrance (phone 01392 496333 to request a name to be remembered aloud).

Sunday 3 September, Trinity XII, 10.45am Sung Mass. We welcome Ven David Gunn-Johnson, as our celebrant & preacher. Hymns: 390 (T493): 449: 366. Setting: Mass for Three Voices – Byrd. Motet: Ego sum panis vivus – Byrd.
Bountiful Table this morning – please continue to support our successful Bring&Buy produce stall.

Sun 3 Sept, 6pm, Evensong and Benediction. Led by Fr Christopher Durrant. Responses: Byrd. Psalm: 105 vv 1-15. Office Hymn: 248(ii). Canticles: Tallis Dorian Service. Anthem: Purge me, O Lord – Tallis. O salutaris: 269. Tantum Ergo: 268.

Saturday 9th September, Heritage Open Day 9am-6pm, and Devon Historic Churches Trust Ride & Stride. Guided Tour of Mount Dinham & Church at 2.30pm with Richard Parker.

Sunday 10 September, Trinity XIII, 10.45am Mass. With Ven David Gunn-Johnson. Hymns: 338 : 439(i) : 79. Setting: Missa Brevis, Lotti. Motet: O Sacrum Convivium, Croce.
Also Heritage Open Day 10am-5pm, with Cream Teas for fund-raising from 3-5pm.

Thu 14 Sept at 6pm. CBS Mass for Holy Cross Day with Fr David Hastings.

Thu 14 Sept from 6.30pm starting in Northernhay Gardens, Richard Parker leads a 2 hour architectural history walk around central Exeter. Cost £7.

Sat 16 Sept at 11am. Nuptial Mass and Wedding of Terence Beverton & Analyn Castro-Perez.

Sun 17 Sept, Trinity XIV, 10.45am Mass. Fr Christopher. Hymns: 477 : 295 : 431. Setting: Missa L’hora Passa, Viadana. Motet: Exsultate Justi, Viadana.

Tue 19 – Sat 23 Sep. Exhibition at St Stephen’s on the High Street, from 11-4, 6pm on Thurs. Stories of Exeter’s War Hospitals 1914-19. https://www.exeterlocalhistorysociety.co.uk/world-war-1-hospitals-exhibition/

Sun 24 Sept, Trinity XV, 10.45am Mass. Fr Christopher with Bill Pattinson preaching. Hymns: 335 : 74 : 443. Setting: Mass in Phrygian mode, Wood. Motet: Jesu Dulcis Memoria, Wood.

Wed 27 Sept, 7.30pm, St Michael’s Lecture. We welcome Dr Felix Flicker, a Research Fellow in Physics at New College Oxford. His intriguing title is “Paradoxes: Jokes, Riddles, Zen Buddhist Kohns, and some Questions in Theoretical Physics.” Come & be enlightened!

Friday 29th September is Michaelmas and we have our Festival Sung Mass at 7.30pm. All are most welcome to this service, which is followed by a Bring & Share Party – please join us. Our guest preacher is Fr Peter March. Hymns: 191 (T238) : 190(ii) : 193. Setting: Missa Aeterna Christi Munera, Palestrina. Motet: Exsultate Justi, Viadana. Owing to the sad departure of our Director of Music and our Organist having a family commitment, the Music this year will be less flamboyant than usual. But we are hugely grateful that John Draisey has kindly agreed to play for the Service and conduct us.

Sun 1 October, Trinity XVI,10.45am Sung Mass & Bountiful Table. Fr Christopher.

Sun 1 Oct, 6pm, Choral Evensong and Benediction.

Advanced Notice. For 3 Wednesdays in October (11th, 18th & 25th) Oliver Nicholson will lead a Reading Group at St Michael’s Church exploring of the writings of Egeria, an Early Christian Pilgrim. Egeria was a religious lady who spent the years 381 to 384 AD in the Holy Land and visiting the Desert Fathers of Egypt. She wrote an extensive account of her travels to ‘her dear sisters’ back home in what is now the south of France; her pilgrimage has been described as ‘biblical commentary written with the feet’. The group will meet at 7.15pm on three Wednesday evenings in October (11th, 18th & 25th) to talk about her travels. Copies of the excellent translation by Canon John Wilkinson will be available for purchase on the first evening (October 11th), when Oliver will introduce the topic of Egeria and early Christian pilgrimage in general. Folk who are going on the Holy Land pilgrimage in April 2018 might find this of particular interest.
Feast Day or ordinary, you’re always welcome at St Michael’s.

Richard Barnes

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As we reach the end of the University year, we say thanks to Ouseley Scholar Miranda, Scholar Saffron, Michael who goes to SOAS and Lina moving to Bristol, for all they have given to us, and wish them well.

Erika will be auditioning for new Choral Scholars in September; both University students and 16-18 year olds who want experience before applying for University Scholarships are welcome. If you know someone who may be interested, contact Erika.

Sunday, 2nd July, Trinity III. Also Disability Sunday. 10.45am Sung Mass. Setting: Mass in C&F: Motet: Beati quorum via, both by CVStanford. Blessed, whose way is integrity.
Also please remember and support the Bountiful Table Produce Stall after Mass.

Sun 2 July, 6pm Evensong and Benediction. Responses: Keitch. Psalm 50. Office Hymn 244. Canticles: Sumsion in G. Anthem: Abendlied by Rheinberger. Luke 24:29 Abide with us: for it is toward evening.

Sun 9 July, Trinity IV. 10.45am. Mass in E, by Harold Darke. Lead Me Lord, by SSWesley.

Tue 11 July at 6pm. CBS Mass. St Benedict, Abbot of Monte Cassino, Father of Western Monasticism (c.550).

Thu 13, Fri 14 July at 5.30pm. N.B. 5.30pm (not 6.30 as I mistyped in the Parish Magazine). The Hillwood Singers with members of St Mike’s Choir are singing Evensong in Exeter Cathedral.
Also Sat 15 & Sun 16 July at 4pm.

Sun 16 July, Trinity V. 10.45am. Plainsong Setting & Hymns. Most of the Choir are singing the Services at Exeter Cathedral today.

Wed 19 July at 7.30pm. St Michael’s Lecture. Revd Glen Graham, Minister of Cullompton Baptist Church on attitudes to disability & blindness. “Building the body Beautiful, a vision of a perfectly imperfect Church.”

Thu 20 July at 7.30pm. Concert by the Choir of St James the Greater, Leicester. Free with retiring collection. Please support.

Sat 22 July, Parish Quiet Day, 10am-4pm. Led by Bishop Martin Shaw. Details/sign up elsewhere and in churches. (list now closed?)

Sun 23 July, Trinity VI. 10.45am. Mass in the Dorian Mode, by Thomas Tallis. View Me Lord a work of Thine, Lloyd.

Thu 27 July at 12 noon. Parish Lunch Club at the Farmer’s Union, Queens Terrace, this month. Please sign up in our Churches.

Sun 30 July, Trinity VII. 10.45am. Mass for 5 voices, by Byrd. Jesu the very thought of Thee, by Bairstow.

Sun 6 August, Feast of the Transfiguration. 10.45am. Missa Brevissima, by Casciolini. O Nata Lux de Lumine, by Tallis.
And please remember the Bountiful Table Produce Stall after Mass.

Sun 6 Aug, 6pm Choral Evensong and Benediction. Responses: Smith or Keitch. Psalm 80. Office Hymn 248. Canticles: Gibbons Short Service. Anthem: Lux Aurumque, by Whitacre.

Sun 13 Aug, Feast of the Assumption. 10.45am. Missa Ave Maris Stella, by Victoria. Ave Maria, by Parsons.

Sun 20 Aug, Trinity X. 10.45am. Missa Aeterna Christi Munera, by Palestrina. O Lord increase our Faith, by Loosemore.

Sun 27 Aug, Trinity XI. 10.45am. Mass in F, and Holy is the True Light, both by William Harris.

Richard Barnes.

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