Visitation of the BVM to Elizabeth - 31 May 2021

We celebrate the Feast of the Visitation of the Blessed Virgin Mary to Elizabeth with a Solemn Evensong & Benediction.

You can find the service HERE. (The link will go live at 6.00 pm)

You can find the leaflet HERE.

The image attached to this post is "The Visit of the Blessed Virgin Mary to Elizabeth." Church of the Sitio, Suchitoto, El Salvador. Photo by John Donaghy.

Trinity Sunday - 30 May 2021

We celebrate Trinity Sunday with a livestreamed mass at 10.00 am!

You can find the service HERE.

You can find the leaflet HERE.

An organ recital in progress: part 85

Dear SMM Community,
 

The next part of my online organ recital is here, and I hope that you enjoy it. I offer up these musical meditations as part of our parish efforts to find ways to keep you connected at this time. Recorded on my house organ, the instrument is a musical facsimile of the great 'Father' Willis organ at Salisbury Cathedral.

Today, I present Basil Harwood's A quiet voluntary for Evensong.


Basil Harwood (1859-1949) was organist at St. Barnabas Pimlico and Ely Cathedral, and latterly organist at Christ Church Oxford as well as precentor at Keble College Oxford. A quiet voluntary for Evensong incorporates the hymn tune Vienna, with a nod to the office hymn text Lucis Creator optimae (Blest Creator of the light).



With best wishes,
Andrew Adair
Director of Music

The Day of Pentecost - 23 May 2021

We celebrate the Day of Pentecost with a livestreamed mass, and a multilingual reading!

10.00 am Sung Mass (traditional language)

You can find the service HERE.

You can find the leaflet HERE.

Special thanks to all the people who helped us tell the story of Pentecost in different languages. It is one of the loveliest parts of our Pentecost service, and we’re so glad that people are willing to read from their homes in order to make it happen - listen for Spanish, French, Japanese, Serbian, and Cantonese!

An organ recital in progress: part 84

Dear SMM Community,
 

The next part of my online organ recital is here, and I hope that you enjoy it. I offer up these musical meditations as part of our parish efforts to find ways to keep you connected at this time. Recorded on my house organ, the instrument is a musical facsimile of the great 'Father' Willis organ at Salisbury Cathedral.

Today, I present John Tomas's The minstrel’s adieu to his native land.


Welsh composer and harpist John Thomas (1826-1913) rose to the top of his profession: in 1861 he was awarded the bardic title Pencerdd Gwalia (Chief of the Welsh minstrels), and in 1872 he became the harpist to Queen Victoria. Written as a work for solo harp, his original theme and variations in The minstrel’s adieu to his native land is a musical meditation on a poem by Thomas Moore (1779-1852).
 
When the light of my song is o’er,
Then take my harp to your ancient hall,
Hang it up at that friendly door
Where weary travellers love to call
Then if some bard, who roams forsaken,
Revive its soft notes in passing along,
Oh let one thought of its master waken
Your warmest smile for the child of song.



With best wishes,
Andrew Adair
Director of Music

Easter VII - 16 May 2021

We celebrate the Seventh Sunday of Easter with a livestreamed mass.

10.00 am Sung Mass (modern language)

You can find the service HERE.

You can find the leaflet HERE.