Our Clergy & PCC have agreed that Public Worship in our Churches will resume mid-March, with Covid-secure precautions (hand sanitiser, spaced seating, face covering unless exempt and no mingling inside Church). In practice this means... Recorded, streamed or Zoom Services only until Sunday 7 March, Lent III. Tuesdays, 6pm Plainsong Vespers still only on…
Owing to the Coronavirus (COVID-19) Epidemic, there is NO PUBLIC WORSHIP at St Michael's until further notice. All Services & Events are CANCELLED, in line with Church of England Rules. Clergy may be contacted by email or phone as usual. All Church Buildings are now also CLOSED until further notice. Please…
March Events. 2018 is our 150th Anniversary. If you have special memories or photos of St Michael's over the years, please let us know. It would be good to compile some articles and a display for our Sesquicentenary celebrations at Michaelmas. Fri 2 Mar at St David's Church. 7.30pm Exeter College Choral…
Holy Week is the hardest but most rewarding time of the Christian Year, especially when we share and observe it together as unworthy but faithful disciples. We walk with Jesus from Adulation, through Companionship, Betrayal, Suffering and Acceptance to Resurrection; a real emotional roller-coaster, to use the current parlance.…
...is the hardest but most rewarding time of the Christian Year, especially when we share and observe it together as unworthy but faithful disciples. Sunday 22nd March, Passion Sunday when the Crosses and Statues are covered. 10.45am. Mass in A minor, by Casciolini and the Anthem, Crucifixus etiam pro nobis,…
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…
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…