A Happy New Year to all our readers. "You wait little year on an empty stage, for fate to turn the light on; your life little year is an empty page that we will have to write on - Twenty-sixteen going on seventeen!" New Year's Day Mass at 10.45am is Fr…
The seasons of Advent, Christmas & Epiphany are about the earthing of religion in relationships, strained or fulfilling, the unsettling humility of God become human, one of us, at his mother’s breast, in the outbuilding behind the Inn, awake in a manger. This is Incarnation, the messy humanity of it…
A busy diary for November, from Remembering to Anticipating, with a not-to-be-missed Book Sale. Wed 2nd Nov, 7.30pm, All Souls' Day, Sung Requiem Mass. Victoria, Stanford. Sun 6th Nov, 10.45am, Trinity XXIV, Advent-3. Viadana, Gibbons. Sun 6th Nov, 6pm, Choral Evensong & Benediction. Stanford, Bainton, Rossini, Fauré. Wed 9th Nov, 7.30pm, Exeter College Concert.…
Trying a new format with Diary first and commentary afterwards. Sun 2nd Oct, 10.45am, Dedication Sunday, Sung Mass. Rheinberger, Bruckner. Sun 2nd Oct, 3.40pm, ExeVox Chamber Choir, Mini-Concert + Refreshments. Sun 2nd Oct, 6pm, Choral Evensong & Benediction. Clucas, Dyson, Harris. Thu 6th Oct, 6pm, CBS Plainsong Mass. St Bruno, Founder of Carthusian Order. Sat…
Key dates for your Diaries. Thurs 29 Sept at 7pm Michaelmas - Fr Christopher's 1st Mass. Sun 25 Sept at 9.30am Ordination at St David's. 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…
Sung Masses and monthly Evensongs continue with reduced resources over the Summer. Tuesday & Thursday 6pm Vespers have a break throughout August, but Wednesday Low Mass at 10am and Thursday Eucharist at 10.30am continue. News! St Michael's, Mount Dinham, is a Pokestop in the #PokemonGO game. So please visit us,…
News! St Michael's, Mount Dinham, is a Pokestop in the #PokemonGO game. So please visit us, and if we're open come in and have a look around. We have some interesting characters of our own. We also have a topical Lecture and Organ & Theremin Recitals in July & August;…
In case you've not been following this year's fledging on Twitter, here's the news in brief so far. Juvenile with leg ring PG fledged early Mon 13 June, exactly 42 days after hatching. He flew a bit, got mobbed by gulls, was found in an Exeter College car park, and rescued…
Our 2 Peregrine chicks are well on the way to fledging mid-June; watch them online. While May had all the Festivals (Rogation, Ascension, Pride, Pentecost, Trinity & Corpus Christi), June still has plenty to offer, so we hope to see you at St Michael's. At 6pm each Tuesday and Thursday, there…
For new update 29 May, scroll to bottom. The breeding season for our resident Peregrine Falcon pair nesting high in the Spire of St Michael's, Mount Dinham, has begun. A couple of days later than in recent years, the first egg was observed by Nick Dixon to be laid at 7.07am…