Archives for September 2017

These are the days when birds come back     THESE are the days when birds come back, A very few, a bird or two, To take a backward look.   These are the days when skies put on The old, old sophistries of June,– A blue and gold mistake.   Oh, fraud that cannot […]

Michaelmas This Friday (29 September) is the feast of St Michael and all Angels, also known as ‘Michaelmas’. It has given its name to the new academic, legal and financial term that starts for many institutions at this time, it is associated with the change of gear in the autumn season that often happens at […]

Music in Worship If music be the food of love, play on, give me excess of it. (The beginning of ‘Twelfth Night’ by William Shakespeare) Our choirs are back in residence at our 10am services and tonight we have the opportunity of hearing our choristers sing together with a professional orchestra. It seems that music […]

Holy Cross Day   14 September is Holy Cross Day.   Making the sign of the cross is reminding ourselves of our total allegiance to that most holy sign of our Christian faith. The sixteenth century Spanish Saint Ignatius of Loyola and founder of the Society of Jesus wrote the following:   To make the […]