18

Apr

2014

Good Friday, 8pm Tenebrae – an ancient service with texts from Lamentations and Psalms, sung in Latin and English from the West Gallery to plainsong and polyphony by Lassus (1532-1594) and Palestrina (1525-1594), ending in darkness and silence to symbolise Jesus’ descent to the dead. At St Michael's we try not…

16

Apr

2014

In our services from Maundy Thursday to Easter Sunday, we will journey with our Lord and his disciples from the Upper Room via Calvary to the Empty Tomb. We will be by turn exhausted, despairing, excited and joyful. Maundy Thursday, 7.30pm Sung Mass with Washing of Feet. At the end of this…

14

Apr

2014

Like many Anglo-Catholic churches, St Michael’s has a set of 14 painted carvings depicting biblical and legendary events on Christ’s painful journey from Pilate’s palace to his Crucifixion at Calvary. Our meditation on the Stations of the Cross on Spy Wednesday in Holy Week at 6pm is enhanced by beautiful, devotional…