We hope our 2 Peregrine chicks, both females this year, will be ready to fledge in mid-June, watch them online. June this year has Lectures, Pentecost, Trinity, & Corpus Christi; But especially please put Sat 24th June in you Diaries for the St David's Big Bash across St David's Hill, with…
With Easter having been so late, May 2017 sees only Rogation Sunday and Ascension Day among the movable feasts. Regular weekday services continue with Tuesday & Thursday Vespers at 6pm, and Wednesday Matins & Low Mass at 9.30/10am. Our nest box camera is online on the Peregrine page, and we hope…
Holy Week is the hardest but most rewarding time of the Christian Year, especially when we observe and share it together as unworthy but faithful disciples. We walk with Jesus from Adulation, through Companionship, Betrayal, Suffering and Acceptance to Resurrection. Please join us as often or occasionally as you are…
Please pray for St Michael’s and support your church with your time, talents and giving. Lent starts on 1st March, St David's Day. Our Liturgy and the music that supports it is simple & subdued this month. There's a multiple celebration on Sun 26 March as the clocks go forward…
In February we consider the teachings of Jesus in the Sermon on the Mount from St Matthew's Gospel, before Lent starts on 1st March, St David's Day. For the -gesima Sundays, 12th, 19th, 26th Feb, the choir sings all 3 of William Byrd's Masses, composed c.1592-4, while in his 50s…
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…