Every day throughout Advent we are pleased to offer you a little Advent treat. Today George the Joker of the flock is back with more jokes, followed by Carol and Tom with “Of the Father’s Love Begotten” … More Digital Advent Calendar 2021 Day 13
Every day throughout Advent we are pleased to offer you a little Advent treat. Today we are pleased to offer you Maggie’s Music Makers singing “Silent Night” … More Digital Advent Calendar 2021 Day 12
Every day throughout Advent we are pleased to offer you a little Advent treat. Today we bring you a delightful retelling of the Christmas story in the carol “A Maiden Most Gentle”, followed by the ever-popular “Away in a Manger” … More Digital Advent Calendar 2021 Day 11
Every day throughout Advent we are pleased to offer you a little Advent treat. Today we bring you our music ensemble singing “Ding Dong Merrily on High” … More Digital Advent Calendar 2021 Day 10
very day throughout Advent we are pleased to offer you a little Advent treat. Today our friend Andrew reads the Christmas poem “Shepherd’s Christmas” for us. This is followed by the carol “O Little Town of Bethlehem” … More Digital Advent Calendar 2021 Day 9
Every day throughout Advent we are pleased to offer you a little Advent treat. Today we bring you “In the Bleak Mid-Winter”, sung by Maggie’s Music Makers … More Digital Advent Calendar 2021 Day 8
Every day throughout Advent we are pleased to offer you a little Advent treat. Today we bring you a picture of the steadily growing flock of knitted sheep, gathering in the stable … More Digital Advent Calendar 2021 Day 6
Our Digital Advent Calendar for 2021 will begin in earnest on Wednesday 1 December. However, as today is the first Sunday of Advent, here is the Advent Prose – an ancient plainsong chant that takes a series of texts drawn from Isaiah … More Digital Advent Calendar 2021
I have written before that sometimes I hear, sing or play a piece of music and just have to write about it immediately. It can then sit for quite some time waiting for an appropriate time for publication. So it was with this. Written in December 2017, this is the right time: the commemoration of the centenary of the end of the First World War … More Better is Peace (Jenkins 2001)
music: Maurice Greene (1696-1755), words Psalm 65, vv9,12 This article was written for the October issue of our parish magazine. About a year ago, in the autumn of 2020 we had endured a full national lockdown, a summer of somewhat eased restrictions, and were entering a time of less-than-clear tiered restrictions. If memory serves, that … More Thou Visitest the Earth
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