The Liturgical Year enters Ordinary Time, or Sundays after Trinity in old money, which we use at St Michael’s to keep in step with the Plainsong Propers that choir and congregation sing at the Introit, Gradual, Offertory and Communion points in the Mass.

Here are the dates and music for the first five Sundays after Trinity this year, 2016. We hope you can join us in worship, prayer and fellowship.

Trinity I Sunday 29 May at 10.45am. Mass for 3 voices by William Byrd (c.1543–1623). Motet: Si iniquitates observaveris, by Samuel Wesley (1766 – 1837). Ps 130 v3. If thou, Lord, wilt be extreme to mark what is done amiss: O Lord, who may abide it?

Trinity II Sunday 5 June at 10.45am. Missa L’Hora Passa, by Ludovico Viadana (c.1560-1627). Motet: Litany to the Holy Spirit, by Peter Hurford (b.1930).  In the hour of my distress, When temptations me oppress, And when I my sins confess, Sweet Spirit, comfort me!
When I lie within my bed, Sick in heart and sick in head, And with doubts discomforted, Sweet Spirit, comfort me!
When the house doth sigh and weep, And the world is drown’d in sleep, Yet mine eyes the watch do keep, Sweet Spirit, comfort me!
Text: Robert Herrick (1591-1674)

Sunday 5 June at 6pm. Choral Evensong & Benediction. Responses – Herbert Sumsion (1899-1995); Psalm 44; Magnificat and Nunc dimittis in D – Herbert Brewer (1865-1928). Sumsion succeeded Brewer as Organist of Gloucester Cathedral, and both were involved in the Three Choirs Festival for many years. Plus, Organist’s choice of Anthem, Evening Hymn, Te lucis ante terminum, by Balfour Gardiner.

Trinity III Sunday 12 June is Music Sunday and has its own Event page.

Trinity IV Sunday 19 June at 10.45am. Missa “Aeterna Christi Munera” (The eternal gifts of Christ) and Motet “Sicut Cervus” (Ps 42:1 Like as the Hart desireth the waterbrooks) – both by Giovanni Pierluigi da Palestrina (1525-94).

Tea-time Concert at 4pm on Sunday 19th June. Exeter Chorale directed by Dr Nigel Browne, with Mr John Draisey as our accompanist and Miss Estella Browne on French Horn. The programme will feature mainly Victorian vocal & organ music ranging from well-known pieces like “The Lost Chord” & “In a Monastery Garden” to a beautiful “Ave Maria” by Mendelssohn and a “Te Deum/We Praise Thee O God” actually composed by HRH Prince Albert.

All this plus Home-made Cakes and Tea or Coffee, while you enjoy the beauty of St Michael’s on a Summer’s afternoon.  Interestingly, Mount Dinham was being developed by Exeter Tea Merchant John Dinham (1788-1864) at about the same time 1850-70 as much of our music was composed.

Trinity V Sunday 26 June at 10.45am. Mass in C&F and Motet “Beati quorum via” (Ps 119:1 Blessed are those whose way is integrity) – both by Charles Villiers Stanford (1852-1924).