Every day throughout Advent we are pleased to offer you a little Advent treat. Today it’s the advent carol “Gabriel’s Message” sung by Maggie’s Music Makers … More 2022 Digital Advent Calendar Day 5
Every day throughout Advent we are pleased to offer you a little Advent treat. Today it’s the traditional advent carol, “O Come, O Come, Emmanuel”. The first verse is an unaccompanied solo, sung in Latin … More 2022 Digital Advent Calendar Day 4
Every day throughout Advent we are pleased to offer you a little Advent treat. Today it’s the traditional advent carol, “Adam Lay Ybounden”, which tells of the fall from grace … More 2022 Digital Advent Calendar Day 3
Every day throughout Advent we are pleased to offer you a little Advent treat. Today it’s a retelling of the advent season through a variety of carols, offered by our choir, Maggie’s Music Makers … More 2022 Digital Advent Calendar Day 2
Welcome to our now-traditional Digital Advent Calendar! Over the coming weeks you’ll be treated to some old favourites and new additions, from familiar and new contributors.
We start with the ancient plainsong, the Advent Prose, offered by Carol and Tom … More 2022 Digital Advent Calendar Day 1
As many readers know, for the past two years I have been a regular attendee at Sing for Pleasure choral singing leadership and conducting courses. Last November, this was my “study” piece at such a weekend. I knew immediately that I would have to sing it during the Remembrance Sunday service at St Margaret’s later that month … More I Believe (S Overington)
Good morning and welcome to our service of Holy Communion for Remembrance Sunday 2022. Rev Sue will preside, Reader Christine will preach, and the act of remembrance will be at the end, near to 11:00am … More Remembrance Sunday 2022
I write this the day after returning home from a 9-day singing and conducting summer school with Sing for Pleasure. Based at Jesus College, Cambridge, it was utterly exhausting yet completely exhilarating. Work began at 8.45am last Sunday morning as we started learning Sarah Quartel’s “A Winter Day”, led by the SfP tutors. Sublime … More Why Sing?
Good morning and welcome to our service of holy communion for Sunday 30 October, on which we celebrate All Saints’ Day. We also welcome Rev Mike Dyson (of St Paul’s Kersal Moor) who will preach and preside.
We begin with the hymn “The Church’s One Foundation” … More All Saints’ Day 2022
One of my favourite songs in the Sunday School Repertoire is Thank you Lord, by Mark & Helen Johnson of Out of the Ark Music. I tend to drop it into our weekly singing practices whenever I feel there is something to be grateful for – the sunshine, the rain, plentiful hot clean running water, my family, my friends, the food in the cupboards, for waking up reasonably healthy, for being born into a first-world country … More Thank You Lord
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