Choral Evensong – Sunday 21st May 2017

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Choral Evensong – Sunday 21st May 2017

We welcome back Divers Voyces with their Music Director, Jeremy Jepson, to lead the music at this service.

The Introit will be by Anton Bruckner (Locus isti), and the canticles sung to settings by the 16th century Spanish composer Christòbel de Morales and Gustav Holst.  As Ascension Day falls in the following week, the anthem will be Ascendit Deus by the Elizabethan composer, Peter Phillips.

During the service the latest restoration work on the organ will be dedicated in memory of Lois Jordan.  We are delighted that Paul Herring (Lois’s son) has kindly agreed to play the organ for this service.

This will be the Revd Mary Jepp’s final service before her departure to Scotland. After the service there will be refreshments, giving an opportunity to say farewell to Mary.

Service starts at 6pm.

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Annual Parochial Church Meeting

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Annual Parochial Church Meeting

Title: Annual Parochial Church Meeting
Location: St Michael’s Church
Description: A significant APCM for our parish this year as it will sadly be the last with Mary Jepp at our helm.
Start Time: 19:30
Date: 2017-03-30

Dear Friends,

This will be a particularly significant APCM for our parish this year as it will sadly be the last with Mary at our helm. It will be held at 7.30pm on 30 March 2017 in the Church. 

It is a time when we, in effect, all resign from PCC positions and then nominations for re-election are made. 

We have a wealth of fantastic volunteers who help us in so many ways, without which things would not be sustained. The church is very grateful for these quiet and steadfast people. 

Please have a think about whether there is anyone you know who would like the opportunity to become more closely involved in the “backstage” roles of helping keep things running smoothly at St Michael’s. If so, I can give you or them a nomination form and it can be brought to the meeting.

Please contact Mary Read or Mary Jepp if you wish to talk about this or have more information. 

Mary Read
(Secretary for the PCC, St Michael’s Church) 

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Restoration of St Michael’s Church 2016

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Restoration of St Michael's Church 2016

North and south aisles roof restoration

Intensive restoration has been carried out on both the north and south aisles following the roof lead theft.

Chancel roof restoration

The major re-roofing project carried out on the chancel was originally scheduled for 2015 and has no connection with the theft.

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Harvest Festival and buffet lunch

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Harvest Festival and buffet lunch

 

 

GG Village Show 2016

This year’s harvest festival will be held on Sunday 2nd October at 11am, at St Michael’s Church, followed by buffet lunch at Footpath House, 23 Gains Lane. Everyone is welcome to either or both.

Please bring food to share; hot and cold beverages, crockery and cutlery will be provided.

Lunch will be al fresco (there will be gazebo cover for wet weather).

Any queries please contact Mrs Purllant, tel: 01832 293943 or email: clarabeth@hotmail.com

 

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Choral Evensongs at St Michael’s Church, Sunday 18th September

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Choral Evensongs at St Michael's Church, Sunday 18th September

Sunday 18th September 2016 at 6pm

The second of our Choral Evensongs at St Michael’s Church takes place on Sunday 18th September, when the music will be led by the Octagon Singers from Ely Cathedral. Ely Cathedral Octagon Singers (ECOS) was founded in September 2006. Open to all singers aged 16 and over, it is a voluntary choir which complements the work of the Cathedral’s full-time choirs, singing on an occasional basis at Evensong, Sunday Eucharist, and many other special services in the Cathedral’s calendar. They will be conducted by Edmund Aldhouse (Assistant Organist of Ely Cathedral) who has been Director of ECOS since February 2015.

The canticles will be sung to the setting by Ralph Vaughan Williams, and anthem is a setting of words from St John’s Gospel, “I give you a new commandment”, music by Peter Nardone.

We welcome as our preacher, Reverend Canon Tim Alban Jones, Chaplain to the Bishop of Peterborough.
We invite you to join us for refreshments after the service, which starts at 6pm.

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Come and sing at our ‘Songs of Praise’ service

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Come and sing at our 'Songs of Praise' service

Come along and join in at St Michael’s Church in Great Gidding for our ‘Songs of Praise’ service on Sunday afternoon at 4.00pm.

After the service there will be refreshments.

If you have a favourite hymn please let Michael Keck know (tel: 01832 293357) and we’ll do our best to include it.

Title: Songs of Praise
Location: St Michael’s Church
Start Time: 16:00
Date: 2016-04-17

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Great War exhibition

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Great War exhibition

An exhibition of ongoing research into those from the Giddings who served in the Great War has been mounted in St Michael’s Church.

The exhibition will run from Friday 7th November until Thursday 13th November, and will be open from 8.30am – 4.00pm each day.

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Music at St Michael’s Church

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Music at St Michael's Church

gg-music-church-2014A delightful and varied programme of music is in store 
at St Michael’s Church this summer.

An evening with Ball & Socket

Saturday 7th June 2014 at 7.30pm

Ball & Socket captivated an enthusiastic audience here two years ago, and we are delighted to welome them back with their mix of Flanders and Swann songs and other material in similar vein.

Tickets: £12 (includes finger buffet and glass of wine). To purchase tickets, please telephone: 01832 293357

Proceeds in aid of Chancel Roof Restoration Fund

William Russell

Saturday 14th June 2014 at 4pm

An illustrated talk by Dr Gillian Ward Russell on the London organist, and her forebear, William Russell (1777-1813).

Tickets: £10 (available at the church door on the day)

Promoted by Peterborough & District Organist’s Association

Choral evensong

Sunday 22nd June 2014 at 6pm

Sung by Peterborough Chamber Choir

Voluntary: Choral Dorien (Alain)
Introit: One thing I have desired (Sumsion)
Responses: Barber
Canticles: Ridout in F
Anthem: Never weather-beaten sail (Parry)
Address: Reverend (Wing Commander) Mike Elliott, Royal Air Force (Retd)
Voluntary: Fantasia in A minor BWV 904 (J.S Bach)

Organ Recital

Saturday 28th June 2014 at 7.30pm

Steven McIntyre (Organ Scholar, Peterborough Cathedral)
Leslie Crowson (tenor)

Music by Bach, Stanley, Mendelssohn, Stanford and Mushel

Tickets: £6 (available at the church door on the night)

Proceeds in aid of Chancel Roof Restoration Fund

Choral evensong

Sunday 21st September 2014 at 6pm

Sung by Divers Voyces

Voluntary: Choral Prelude ‘Nun danket alle Gott’ (Kauffmann)
Introit: In omnem terram (Giovanni Francesco Aneiro)
Opening responses: Caesar de Zachariis
Magnificat: Francesco Soriano (octavi toni)
Nunc Dimitis: Ivo de Vento (quarti toni)
Responses after the Creed: plainchant
Anthem: Beati eritis (Giovanni Croce)
Address: Reverend Paul Skirrow, Honorary Warden, Ferrar House, Little Gidding
Voluntary: Te lucis ante terminum (John Redford)

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