THE
P RTAL
January 2016
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Anglican choral tradition which flowed from our
forebears in the Oxford Movement.
before moving on to read music at King’s College,
London, where his vocal tuition is provided by the
Royal Academy of Music. Miles has just finished his
The midweek schedule, starting on Thursday Choral Scholarship with the Chapel Choir at King’s;
14th January 2016, will be 6pm Choral Evensong, directs the choir of Guy’s Chapel, Guy’s Hospital; and,
6.30pm Sung Mass in the Ordinariate Use followed from January 2016, will direct King’s College Chorus,
by a light supper and a talk. Further details at www. the university’s choral society.
preciousblood.org.uk . All are welcome!
Miles is also a Deputy Lay Clerk at St George’s
Biography
Cathedral, Southwark and sings with other professional
Miles Ashdown received his early musical training choirs in and around London.
at Trinity Laban Conservatoire’s Junior Department,
Texan gift for Manchester Group
T
he Heywood advertiser recently Peter. The photograph
reported the gift of a Divine Worship Altar Missal
to the Manchester Ordinariate Group. The donors
were the Houston church of Our Lady of Walsingham,
the Principal Church - soon to be the Cathedral
Church - of the Personal Ordinariate of the Chair of St
from the newspaper
shows Raven Wenner
presenting the Missal to
Fr Andrew Starkie, the
Group Pastor.
Portsmouth Festival
St Agatha’s,
Portsmouth, Festival is on music, The Theresien Mass by Haydn. All are welcome
Saturday 6th February 2016. It begins at 11am to attend and stay for the following reception. For
with Solemn High Mass and Procession. The homilist further information contact: 07454 815 968.
is The Revd Dr Alexander Lucie-Smith and the
Spectacular Crib
The Flickr page of the Church of the Most
Precious Blood - https://www.flickr.com/
photos/ordinariate/albums - has this wonderful
photograph of the Christmas Crib ...
Do you know of any spectacular Ordinariate
Christmas Crib? If you do, perhaps you might like
to send a photograph to [email protected]
Letter to the Editor
From Ruth Heyder
voices.
I so enjoy reading The Portal and eagerly await it
every month. Thank you for your fine work.
My niece and I both belong to the Chair of St Peter
Ordinariate. No one else does in our family yet.
In October of last year you had written about using
the web for choral music in our devotions. Last
Christmas my nephew gave me a recording of Choral
Evensong from King’s College, Cambridge, with
Stephen Cleobury. It is Psalm 89 and I have simply
fallen in love with. My three cats and I listen to it
almost daily. My eighteen year old Egbert (cat) loves
it, closes his eyes, with ears pointed toward the lovely
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Thank you so much for your work and travel!
Ruth Heyder
Junction City WI, U.S.A.
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