An organ recital in progress: part 108

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 Dieterich Buxtehude's Praeludium in D major.


Dieterich Buxtehude (c.1637/39-1707) was widely respected in his day, and greatly influenced the work of Johann Sebastian Bach. His masterful improvisations attracted many visitors, and it is entirely possible that the Praeludium in D major began life as an improvisation.


With best wishes,
Andrew Adair
Director of Music

Updated COVID Protocols for Attending Mass

CHURCH OF ST. MARY MAGDALENE

SUMMARY OF COVID-19 PROTOCOLS FOR IN-PERSON WORSHIP

for Attendees of Masses

These guidelines were established to ensure the safety of everyone during worship in the pandemic. Sidespeople are available to help or answer any questions you may have, but this is a short summary for you. 

•    Put a mask or face covering on before entering the church, and leave it on while in church (except when communing the host).

•    Washrooms are available; please ask a sidesperson if you need help locating one. One household is permitted in a washroom at a time; washrooms have been made gender neutral while this is the case.

•    Check the screening information at the front table, and then a sidesperson will give you your seat. Please note: if you are sitting together as a household, you must be sitting close together to ensure that spacing for other attendees can be maintained.

•    At the time of communion:

•    Remain seated in the pew until the sidesperson gestures towards the household, inviting them to come forward for communion. 

•    Follow the arrows on the floor guiding direction of travel to ensure good social distancing, maintaining 2 metres distance at all times.

•    When approaching the priest to receive communion, sanitize your hands, then stand at 2 metres distance opposite the priest until hearing the words “The body of Christ…” (or similar). Respond with “Amen”, then move forward to receive the wafer from the priest.

•    Move toward the side, where another bottle of hand sanitizer is available. Take your communion here, replace your mask, and sanitize your hands; then return to your seat according to the directional arrows on the floor.

•    When the mass has ended, a sidesperson will guide you to an exit according to the protocols. Please do not stop indoors to converse; wait until you are outdoors on the lawn of the church or the sidewalk in front of or to the south of the church. Please maintain a clear path for others using the sidewalk.

Pentecost XXV - 14 November 2021

We celebrate the Twenty-Fifth Sunday in Pentecost with an online mass.

Due to our ongoing technical issues, the service will not be available immediately on Sunday, but will be posted a bit later in the week. We apologize for this. We feel that, at least in the short term, it will allow us to make our online service more accessible.

You can find the service HERE.

You can find the leaflet HERE.

An organ recital in progress: part 107

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 Herbert Howells’s Saraband (in modo elegiaco).


The fifth of Six pieces, Herbert Howells’s (1892-1983) Saraband (in modo elegiaco) was completed on 16 September 1945, the week of the tenth anniversary of his son’s death. Out of the despair of the opening section rises a haunting melody from the “orchestral oboe” stop, out of which emerges a gradual and steady crescendo as grief gives way to hope.



With best wishes,
Andrew Adair
Director of Music

Pentecost XXIV - 7 November 2021

We celebrate the Twenty-Fourth Sunday of Pentecost with an online mass.

Due to our ongoing technical issues, the service will not be available immediately on Sunday, but will be posted a bit later in the week. We apologize for this. We feel that, at least in the short term, it will allow us to make our online service more accessible.

You can find the service HERE.

You can find the leaflet HERE.

An organ recital in progress: part 106

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 Ireland's Sursum corda.


A pupil of Stanford, John Ireland (1879-1962) taught at the Royal College of Music. His Sursum corda was published in 1911, and is dedicated to Sir Walter Parratt, M.V.O.



With best wishes,
Andrew Adair
Director of Music