A week on from the hatching of our three chicks, and the fourth egg is still intact, so we must assume it will not now hatch. The adults are still keeping it close to their young and half-heartedly trying to incubate it, but to no avail. The good news is that…
We start May with two of the most joyful and uplifting Anthems for Easter from the Anglican Choral tradition; I wrote about "Ye Choirs" this time last year. Singing Samuel Sebastian Wesley's "BBGF" is always a treat (the male recits, the girls' antiphony, the massive organ chords and the final…
Having waited expectantly since mid-week, our holy Peregrines have again seen their eggs hatching on the last Sunday in April, just like last year, and exactly 34 days after laying their 3rd egg. It was a wet and windy night but, with a touch of late night peregrinitis, it looked to…
Manifold thanks to Fr David Hastings and assisting Clergy, to Servers, Choir, Conductors, Organist, Readers, Cantors, Flower Arrangers, Cleaners, Welcomers and Refreshment providers, for another memorable Holy Week; and to all who visited St Michael's physically or digitally, once or several times. Please come again. These are my highlights. Thanks to Erika,…
Not in 2020 or 2021 - 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…
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…
Peregrines online! It is with huge delight that we can announce that live images from our Peregrine nest box camera are being streamed to the Internet. This is one of the main deliverables from the HLF Project, so it is great to have achieved it. Picture quality is best during daylight…
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…
But first... a brief Peregrine update - as hoped for, a 3rd egg had been laid by the evening of Mon 24th March and incubation proper has started; but most unexpectedly I have twice glimpsed four eggs present during changeover between female and male. Wednesday 2nd April, 7.30pm. 21st Anniversary St…
Messiah Concert Poster St Michael's, Mount Dinham, is proud to be hosting a choral exchange with a Belgian university choir at the start of April. One of our choral scholars, Marianne Connors, sang with the Chorale universitaire de Louvain whilst on her year abroad, and we are looking forward to welcoming them…