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…
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…
I've left the March Music List to the last minute to allow maximum exposure on the blog for David's excellent posters for the next two exciting St Michael's Lectures.
St Michael's Choir and friends spent a most enjoyable day visiting the home of our benefactor William Gibbs (1790-1875). Our thanks to…
What’s on at St Michael’s, Mount Dinham – February 2014
Our thanks to Matthew Wright for the Recital Series which he is running at St Michael’s to complement the Lecture Series run by David Beadle and his helpers; these are both bringing new people to our beautiful Church mid-week.
This month…
