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On Thursday September 28th at 7.30 pm it’s our Choral High Mass of Feast of Title, with Thanksgiving for Ten Years of our new Organ.

The Choir of St Michael and All Angels
Jonathan Dods, Director of Music

Preacher: Fr Giles Fraser, Vicar of St Anne’s, Kew

Readings: Genesis 28. 10-17; Revelation 12. 7-12; John 1. 47-51.
Hymns: Sons of the Holy One bright with his splendour; Christ, the fair glory of the Holy Angels; Hark! Hark, my soul! Angelic songs are swelling

Mass setting: Mass for two choirs and two organs L. Verne 1870-1937.

THE ORGAN ANNIVERSARY – 2013-2023

Ten years ago, on the 26th September 2013, we held a Mass of Thanksgiving and Blessing of our new Organ by the Lord Bishop of London, the Rt Revd and Rt Hon Dr Richard Chartres. It was the fruit of many years of labour by a phalanx of people, many of whom are listed at the end of the service sheet.
See names and photographs: The Organ 2013-2023

Ten years ago, the service began with the Vicar saying to the Bishop, ‘we present this Pipe Organ for Dedication and Blessing. The work of human hands and the gift of God’s people, it is given to the great glory of Almighty God.’ The Bishop replied in his blessing, ‘For this Pipe Organ that will sound forth in beauty and glory, humbling the heart before the eternal mysteries and lifting the soul to abiding joy.’

The new organ has been a wonderful and enriching gift to us in the accompaniment of Sunday worship, baptisms, weddings and funerals, organ recitals and concerts. It is the product of the prayers and generosity of so many people. Thank you. We continue to pray that it will always serve to ‘lift the soul to abiding joy.’

Angels are often represented playing musical instruments and indeed some of the stained-glass windows in our church so represent them.

It is fitting therefore that today we give thanks for ten years of this wonderful instrument which takes prominence in the setting of the Mass by Vierne   The closing Voluntary will be that which was played at the service ten years ago.