July & August 2019 at St Michael’s

Do come and enjoy our traditional Services, also Lecture in July & Organ Recital in August.

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