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Handel’s Messiah – the short version

I HAVE only just come across this. The Messiah Christmas Suite was arranged from the full oratorio by Tom Fettke, the prolific American composer of church music. He was born in the Bronx, New York, in 1941, and had music lessons from the age of five. He became the director of a church choir at […]

The full-fat version of faith

THE Prayer Book Epistle reading for today, the Fourth Sunday in Advent, is a beautiful exhortation to faithful Christian prayer.   It comes from the Apostle Paul’s New Testament letter to the Christian church in 1st century Philippi: ‘Rejoice in the Lord alway, and again I say, Rejoice. Let your moderation be known to all men. The […]