Introductory Centering Prayer Workshop

On Thursday, 8 July, 7.00-9.30 pm, you are invited to attend an introduction to Centering Prayer led by Sue Woollard and Mary Catherine Doyle (a parishioner at SMM and one of the facililtators of our Centering Prayer Group).

You can find out more about the event HERE.

You can learn a little more about what Centering Prayer is HERE.

Pentecost VI - 4 July 2021

We celebrate the Sixth Sunday of Pentecost with a livestreamed Sung Mass.

10.00 am Sung Mass (traditional language)

You can find the service HERE.

You can find the leaflet HERE.

An organ recital in progress: part 90

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 Ambrose's Fantasia.


English composer and organist John Ambrose (fl. 1520-1545) was Clerk at King’s College, Cambridge. His Fantasia (surviving untitled in manuscript form at Christ Church, Oxford) is understood to be the earliest example of solo English Cathedral organ music.



With best wishes,
Andrew Adair
Director of Music

Pentecost V - 27 June 2021

We celebrate the Fifth Sunday of Pentecost with a livestreamed mass

10.00 am Sung Mass (modern language)

You can find the service HERE.

You can find the leaflet HERE.

Birth of John the Baptist - 24 June 2021

We celebrate the Birth of John the Baptist with a livestreamed Procession & Sung Mass.

6.30 pm Procession & Sung Mass (traditional language)

You can find the service HERE.

You can find the leaflet HERE.

An organ recital in progress: part 89

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 Martin How's Midsummer serenade.


The British composer and organist Martin How MBE (born 1931) read music and theology at Clare College, Cambridge. Famous for his long and fruitful career with the Royal School of Church Music, How developed the Chorister Training Scheme. He wrote his Midsummer serenade in 2004.



With best wishes,
Andrew Adair
Director of Music