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10 am Parish Mass followed by refreshments

10 am Alive! (monthly on third Sunday)

Stories, games and crafts for children aged 0-11

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Editor The Revd Felix Smith St Michael’s Vicarage

117, Penhill Road Lancing, BN15 8HD

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Angus Young, guitarist of the rock band AC/DC, once said ‘I’m sick and tired of people saying that we’ve made eleven albums that sound exactly the same. In fact, we’ve made twelve albums that sound exactly the same’. Considering the number of albums they sold however, presumably their fans were more than happy with twelve albums sounding exactly the same!

Music tastes are so varied, one person’s ‘beautiful melody’ is another’s ‘noisy racquet’. I’m reminded of a scene in Fawlty Towers when Basil is listening to music and Sybil asks him to turn down ‘that awful racquet’. ‘That’s Brahms’ third racquet!’ Basil shouts back. Sometimes it can be difficult to encounter new music. I’m always very cautious when someone says I will like a song or a piece of music, I assume that I won’t and wait to be proven wrong! I need to work on being more open minded when it comes to music.

This Summer at St Michael’s you can discover all sorts of different music at our

Music Festival. We’ll have a variety of different types of concerts, musical theatre and spoken word performances over the months of June and July. You can buy a ticket for single or multiple performances. However, if like me, you’re trying to keep and open mind, you can buy a ‘festival pass’ which will allow you come to every performance over the two

-month period. That means you can listen to anything from operas to folk groups, from musicals to recitals all on the same ticket!

The music festival is way of celebrating the wonderful variety of music available, and helping to introduce people to different

types of music, but it also gets us a step closer to paying off our heating system. We’re really looking forward to it, and more musicians, acts and performances are being added as we get closer to the Summer. You might like some more than others but there is one thing we can be sure of: unlike AC/DC’s albums, they certainly are not going to sound exactly the same!

Father Felix Smith

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I live opposite Beach Green next to the shop, very convenient and I can see the sea!! I have been living in Lancing for the past 5 years, coming from Florida USA . I came home to the UK after having been diagnosed with Thyroid cancer and my “big” sister Margaret ordered me home so she could care for me. I am recovered and consider myself 'Margaret's miracle ‘!

I left the UK in 1966 to emigrate to Canada where my 2 children were born. I returned 1972 and lived in Croydon moving to Dorset in the early '80's. From there to Spain on to Canada again then America from where I spent some time in India.

I am ‘volunteered’ for lots of things in the church! I am leader of the Flower Ladies, always endeavouring to make our church beautiful. I belong to Ancient & Modern, I serve teas on Sundays and I’m also a member of the Mothers’ Union. I took part in the recent Talents programme for the church heating, raising a lovely amount of money for the church with my sewing ability. I also print the weekly Sunday Bulletin.

Before I retired I worked in a school in Clearwater Florida. I had many 'hats' from running the office, laminating, and printing full time; to part-time dinner lady and kitchen staff. Again I was volunteered by my daughter (there seems to be a pattern here!) who was a teacher there.

I love all my roles in the church. They make me feel useful and give me a sense of belonging. Also there's a great bunch of people here always ready for a chat and laugh. I have several favourite hymns but I don't know their titles.... I love ‘a belter' and there's a moment of joy when Aedan plays a classical piece on the organ after the close of service.

I love having my children and grandchildren round me. I brought my own kids up as a single parent, working all the hours of the day. I lived in Canada and USA with my daughter Nancy as nanny/granny to Daisy and Ben being able to spend more time with them than I'd had with my own.

My motto? It was a good idea at the time!

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St Michael’s Church Choir St Michael’s has had a Choir since it opened in 1924 and its singers have faithfully led the worship week by week - a total of at least 51,594 Sundays! A lot of the music has changed, but its main purpose stays the same – to help people feel closer to God in a special shared way through singing together.

The Choir always works very hard, not in giving a concert performance but in helping the congregation feel confident in joining in with sincerity and enjoyment. Up to fifteen singers each week gather in the Choir area to the left of the congregation and in front of the beautiful Peter Collins pipe organ to do this special job.

At St Michael’s everyone joins in singing and on a good day the sound if even better than in the Welsh valleys. Over the past weeks we have sung stirring hymns such as “Guide me, O thou great Redeemer”, worship songs such as Matt Redman’s “The heart of worship” and reflective songs such as “There is a Redeemer”. As well as being accompanied by the organ and keyboard, sometimes we are joined by brass players and also a guitarist and a drummer.

One thing which Father Felix has brought to our music is introducing us to new settings of the communion music. We have learnt a reflective Taize setting for Lent and Advent and three lively settings for other times of the year.

There aren’t any auditions to join the Choir and new singers usually talk to either Father Felix or me if they want to sing with the choir.

A famous Elizabethan musician Thomas Morley got it right about singing when he said ”Since singing is so good a thing, I wish that everybody would sing!”

Aedan Kerney

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Events confirmed so far for Music at St Michael’s. As further events are included we’ll give details at www.stmichaelslancing.org/music where you can also buy tickets.

Blessing the Boats and Open-Air Concert by Lancing Brass Sunday 31 May, 2.30 pm Beach Green, Lancing

Free - no tickets required

A great community celebration where boats (which have previously included a kitesurfing board and kite, a mirror dinghy, fishing rods and snorkeling equipment, kayaks and the Worthing Beach and Foreshore Team support vehicle) are blessed during a short service, which will consist of hymns, prayers and a scripture reading. The afternoon’s service will conclude with a concert by Lancing Brass after which Cream teas will be served in St Michael’s Church Hall.

An Evening with Aedan, Sid and Charlie Saturday 6 June, 7.30 pm

Take a pinch of Charlie Olsen—actress, author of "Beware the Mackerel Sky" and well-loved local performer, mix with a little of Sidonie Winter - singer, member of Covent Garden Opera Chorus and admirer of Dame Clara Butt, and stir with a few drops of Aedan Kerney - pianist, conductor of choirs and local music-teacher for more than forty years - and we have "An Evening with Aedan, Sid and Charlie". Their individual and shared items will make you laugh, cry and smile in equal measure.

Organ Recital by Charles Harrison, Organist and Master of the Choristers at Chichester Cathedral Saturday 13 June, 7.30 pm

Charles Harrison is Organist and Master of the Choristers at Chichester Cathedral, where he directs the choir of boys and men, which sings eight services each week, broadcasts frequently on national radio and makes regular tours abroad. He has also held musical posts at Southwell Minster, Carlisle and Lincoln Cathedral. Charles will present a recital on St Michael’s Peter Collins organ.

African Sanctus performed by The Boundstone Chorus Saturday 20 June, 7.30 pm

“I love the world!” proclaimed David Fanshawe: composer, explorer, and creator of African Sanctus: the genre-busting masterpiece that fuses western choral music with the musical traditions of East Africa. It’s a shout of joy - a song of friendship, inclusion, and the life-affirming power of music. Recordings of traditional African music collected by the composer himself on legendary journeys taken on the River Nile between 1969 and 1973 are woven into the live performance which also includes the choir, soloist Cheryl Enever, percussion ensemble and instrumentalists.

Tickets: Centre £10, Sides £6, Under 16 £3

Book tickets at www.trybooking.co.uk/QCI, email theboundstonechorus@gmail.com or telephone 01903 762793 (please leave a message).

With a Song in my Hart with Marcus Martin and Alan Leith Thursday 25 June, 7.30 pm

Celebrating in words and music the iconic musical partnership of Richard Rodgers and Lorenz Hart.

Musical Partnerships Wednesday 8 July, 7.30 pm

An evening celebrating great musical song-writing partnerships - expect music by Rodgers and Hammerstein, Lerner and Loewe, Kander and Ebb, Simon and Garfunkel, Flanders and Swann, and more!

All events take place in St Michael and All Angels Church unless otherwise stated.

Tickets for each event are £7 (unless otherwise stated). You can also buy a Festival Pass which gives you discounted access to all ticketed events through the festival*, To book tickets go online to www.stmichaelslancing.org/music, email music@stmichaelslancing.org or telephone 01903 762793 (please leave a message).

*excluding ‘African Sanctus’.

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4oz butter

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Spring into your garden Early spring is one of the busiest times in the garden and work done now will pay dividends in the coming months. It is an understatement to say we have had a lot of rain, but if you can make it through the mud you can move deciduous shrubs that are wrongly sited, and prune roses and hardy plants. Leave tender species until later in the spring. Feed after pruning, preferably with organic fertilizer, and mulch with organic matter.

Late flowering / “group 3” clematis can be pruned too.

Check all stakes and supports, clean and oil tools if you didn’t do this before. Pot up any dahlia tubers stored over winter. Place them in good light and spray occasionally with clear water to encourage budding. Deadhead winter pansies and cyclamen if you want them to continue flowering for a while; they will make a good accompaniment for wallflowers (the latter may have suffered in the mud and flowers may be sparse).

Order or buy seeds from the garden shop. Warm up sowing beds with cloches if needed. Sow radish, salad onions, lettuce, beetroot, summer cabbage, peas and spinach now. Runner beans need a good trench filled with compost / manure. Feed established fruit trees with a high potash fertilizer, and continue mulching to prevent drying out. Tying in is necessary to prevent a tangled mass of fruit and foliage later in the year.

Daffodils will need dead heading as they fade, but leave the foliage alone to build up energy for next year’s flowers.

Tidy lawn edges and repair any damage, re-seeding where necessary. Scarify bare patches to roughen the surface, then spread on a mix of potting compost and grass seed.

This is a busy time and you will need to keep down troublesome weeds in flower and vegetable beds by hoeing, but remember that most perennial weeds will need digging out thoroughly.

Looking for a new but smallish garden project? A herb wheel is great; keeps the herbs together to a certain degree but separates the roots. You could buy a ready planted one later in the year, but it is more fun to build one and fill with your own choice of herbs.

Happy Gardening!

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Curtain up for film night ‘All Is True’ explores the story of the last years of the life of William Shakespeare upon his return to his neglected family in Stratford Upon Avon after the tragic burning to the ground of his beloved Globe Theatre in London. Once home he struggles to mend broken relationships with his wife and two daughters, as well as finally facing his grief over of the death of his only son, Hamnet, many years earlier. ‘All is True’ is a gentle and moving story of loss and love.

Come and enjoy it for yourselves on our big screen in St Michael’s Church Hall on Thursday 23 April. Tickets are £10 and there will be free drinks and homemade puddings. You can buy tickets by telephone 01903 762793 emailing stmichaelslancing@gmail.com, or online at www.trybooking.co.uk/PUS.

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