24th December 2024 – Christmas Eve Midnight Mass 11:30pm Organ: Pastoral Symphony (from Messiah) – Handel [BW] Introit: Veni Redemptor (plainchant) Hymns: NEH33 Of the Father’s heart begotten (vv 1,2,3&7); NEH35 Silent Night; NEH29 It came upon the midnight clear; NEH39 Unto us a boy is born (omit v3) Anthem: In the bleak midwinter – …
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Meadvale Singers Concert
The Meadvale singers will be performing in a concert of secular and sacred Christmas music to raise funds for the Amber Foundation (https://amberweb.org/) 4th December 2024 at 7.30
Sermon 2024-11-10
10th November 2024 – Remembrance Sunday Why can darkness seem scary? Is it, to state the obvious, the fact we can’t see? There is more than one way to interpret darkness. Barbara Brown Taylor wrote a brilliant book entitled ‘Learning to walk in the dark’. In it she explores her own fear of darkness and …
Sermon 2024-11-04
Sermon 4th November 2024 When you look at images of saints do you see radiant people? Personally, I can’t think of a single image which gives such a picture. Oh yes, their haloes may shine ever so brightly but all in all I reckon they look rather glum or if not glum then decidedly po-faced …
Parish News
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Music 2024-12-08
8th December 2024 – 2nd Sunday of Advent Choral Evensong 6:00pm Organ: Nun komm, der Heiden Heiland (BWV 659) – J S Bach [MK] Introit: Creator of the stars of night (NEH 1, plainchant) Hymns: NEH10 Long ago prophets knew; NEH312 Lift up your heads, ye mighty gates ; NEH11 O come, O come Emmanuel …
Music 2024-12-01
1st December 2024 – Advent Sunday Parish Communion 10:30 Organ: Voluntary in C major Op.VII/2 – John Stanley [BW]Introit: Remember, O thou man – Thomas RavenscroftHymns: NEH: 7 Hills of the north, rejoice; NEH6 Hark the glad sound!;[IA: Creator of the stars]; NEH16 Wake, O wake!; NEH9 Lo! he comes with clouds descendingAnthem: This is …
Music 2024-11-03
3rd November 2024 – All Saints Parish Communion 10:30am Organ: Voluntary in G minor Op. V/9 – John Stanley [BW]Introit: The eternal gifts of Christ the King (plainchant)Hymns: NEH197 (vv 1,2,3,8) For all the saints; NEH196 (t128) Father, in whom thy saints are one; [IA: Primo dierum]; NEH400 (t117) Light of the minds that know …
Sermon 2024-10-13
13th October 2024 Evensong Matthew 10:17-31 “Do you want to be something or do you want to do something?” That’s the question a friend of mine was asked by his spiritual director many years ago. I wonder what that question brings up for you in your life today. How would you answer it? What …
Music 2024-11-10
10th November 2024 – Remembrance 10.30 Service of Remembrance Organ: A sad pavan – Thomas Tomkins [BW]; Nimrod – Elgar; Prelude in E minor (BWV 548i) – J S Bach [MK]Anthems: Lovingly remembered – Andrew Lloyd Webber & Holy is the true light – William HarrisHymns: NEH417 O God our help in ages past; NEH391 …
