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THE TEMPLE CHURCH

Regular Services and Special Events

June 2012

THE REVD ROBIN GRIFFITH-JONES, M.A.

Master

THE REVD HUGH MEAD, M.A., B.LITT.

Reader

MR JAMES VIVIAN, M.A., F.R.C.O.

Director of Music and Organist

MR GREG MORRIS, M.A., F.R.C.O.

Associate Organist

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FORTHCOMING SPECIAL EVENTS

SUNDAY 24 JUNE, 11.15 a.m.

CHORAL COMMUNION

A BAPTISM-FAMILIES REUNION SERVICE

A service to which we invite all those families for whom we have conducted a Baptism Service over the decades.

There will be a lunch afterwards in Inner Temple Hall with entertainment for the children.

To book for lunch: Catherine de Satgé, 020 7353 8559 or catherine@templechurch.com

WEDNESDAY 18 JULY, 6.45 p.m.

DIAMOND JUBILEE CONCERT THE TEMPLE CHURCH CHOIR

“Come, come, ye sons of art!” – Wonderful music by Purcell, Stanley and Handel.

Please bring a picnic and join us after the concert in the beautiful Inner Temple Gardens. Tickets: £16, £12, £8.

For further information and to book: www.templemusic.org or 0207 427 5641.

SUNDAY 8 JULY, 11.15 a.m.

CHORAL MATTINS: IN MEMORY OF DR JOHN BIRCH

A service in which we will pay tribute to Master John Birch, Organist of the Temple Church 1982-1997,

who died earlier this year.

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TRINITY TERM

JUNE

Sunday 3 June, 11.15 a.m. GOD SAVE THE QUEEN! An informal service of music and readings, for all ages, to celebrate Her Majesty’s Diamond Jubilee. The children will be re-enacting the Coronation!

Thursday 14 June, 5.45 p.m. A ROYAL CELEBRATION: A service to celebrate Her Majesty’s Diamond Jubilee. Preacher: The Rt Hon Lord Judge (Master Judge of Middle Temple), Lord Chief Justice of England and Wales. For the Inns’ members: Tickets from the Treasury Offices. For other members of our congregation: Tickets from Catherine de Satgé, 020 7353 8559, catherine@templechurch.com.

Saturday 16 June, 10.00 a.m. – 4.00 p.m.

TEMPLE STUDIES GROUP: The Temple in the Johannine Writings. Please bring a packed lunch. Coffee and juice are provided. Cost: £35. Students with proof of status £5.00. Pay on the day, cash or cheque only. Booking essential via templestudiesgroup@hotmail.co.uk

Sunday 24 June, 11.15 a.m.

CHORAL COMMUNION: A Baptism Families Reunion Service to which we invite all those families for whom we have conducted a Baptism Service over the decades. Followed by lunch in Inner Temple. To book for lunch: Catherine de Satgé, 0207 353 8559, catherine@templechurch.com

Wednesday 27 June, 5.45 p.m. For St Peter’s Day

CHORAL EVENSONG: Followed by drinks in the Master’s Garden. Suggested donation for drinks £5.

JULY

Sunday 1 July, 11.30 a.m. CHORAL MATTINS: with a special welcome to the World Bar Conference. Preacher: The Hon Justice Susan Crennan, Justice of the High Court of Australia.

Wednesday 4 July, 5.45 p.m. CHORAL EVENSONG: for the High Sheriffs of England and Wales.

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Wednesday 11 July, 7.30 p.m. TEMPLE MUSIC: CONCERT: Endymion. Performance to include works by Schubert, Mozart and Brahams. Tickets £25, £20 and £15. For further information and to book: www.templemusic.org or 0207 427 5641.

Wednesday 18 July, 6.45 p.m. TEMPLE MUSIC: DIAMOND JUBILEE CONCERT.

The Temple Church Choir. To include music by Purcell, Stanley and Handel. Please bring a picnic and join us after the Concert in the beautiful Inner Temple Gardens. Tickets: £16, £12, £8. For further information and to book: www.templemusic.org or 0207 427 5641.

Sunday 22 July, 11.15 a.m. Last Service of the Legal Year.

BAPTISM, CONFIRMATION AND CHORAL COMMUNION. Last Service of the Legal Year. President and Preacher: The Bishop of London. Followed by a Family Barbecue. To book for the barbecue: Catherine de Satgé, 0207 353 8559, catherine@templechurch.com

CONFIRMATION

On Sunday 22 July the Bishop of London is kindly returning to preside at a Service of Baptism and Confirmation and Choral Communion. The service will be followed by a family barbecue for the whole congregation. To book for the barbecue: Catherine de

Satgé, 0207 353 8559, catherine@templechurch.com

If you or any of your children or grand-children would like to consider confirmation this summer, do get in touch with me.

Robin Griffith-Jones, master@templechurch.com

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REGULAR SERVICES AND EVENTS

SUNDAY 8.30 a.m. HOLY COMMUNION (said) 11.15 a.m. CHORAL MATTINS

SUNDAY SCHOOL Children are most welcome to the Church’s Sunday School, which meets in the Vestry. The Sunday School teachers are Geri Peterson, Sue Lindsey, Kate Langmuir, Melinda Traves and Claire Sharples. For more information please contact Liz Clarke in the Master’s House, liz@templechurch.com or telephone 020 7353 8559.

TUESDAY TO FRIDAY

9.00-9.15 a.m. MORNING PRAYER (said) WEDNESDAY 1.15-1.45 p.m.

RECITALS (admission free) The 2012 series of Wednesday Recitals will continue with Sam Furness, tenor (20 June). For full information about future recitals please refer to www.templechurch.com. You are welcome to bring sandwiches to eat in the Round during the recital. For more information, and to be added to the mailing list, please contact John Shearer, verger@templechurch.com or telephone 020 7353 3470.

THURSDAY 1.15 p.m. HOLY COMMUNION (said)

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JUNE 2012

SUNDAY 3 JUNE Trinity Sunday

8.30 a.m. HOLY COMMUNION (said)

11.15 a.m. GOD SAVE THE QUEEN! – A special service of music and readings to commemorate the 60th Anniversary of HM The Queen’s Accession.

Organ Prelude Hornpipe and Air from Watermusic (Handel)

Come, Holy Ghost (Plainsong)

Set me as a Seal (Walton)

Hallelujah Chorus (Handel)

‘Coronation’ Te Deum (Walton)

Organ Voluntary Organ Sonata (1st Movement) (Elgar)

THURSDAY 7 JUNE

1.15 p.m. HOLY COMMUNION (said)

SUNDAY 10 JUNE The First Sunday after Trinity

8.30 a.m. HOLY COMMUNION (said)

11.15 a.m. CHORAL MATTINS

Organ Prelude Folk Tune (Whitlock)

Introit Gloria tibi Domine (Byrd)

Responses (Smith)

Psalm 41. 1-4

1st Lesson Isaiah 6. 1-8

Te Deum in C (Stanford)

2nd Lesson Revelation 4. 1-11

Jubilate (Plainsong)

Anthem Great Lord of Lords (Gibbons)

Preacher The Master

Organ Voluntary Toccata (Gigout)

12.45 p.m. WEDDING BLESSING – Tyrone and Hiromi Landau

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THURSDAY 14 JUNE

1.15 p.m. HOLY COMMUNION (said)

5.45 p.m. A ROYAL CELEBRATION: A service to celebrate the Diamond Jubilee of HM The Queen. Preacher: The Rt Hon Lord Judge (Master Judge of Middle Temple), Lord Chief Justice of England and Wales. Followed by a reception in Inner Temple Gardens. Tickets are required. For the Inns’ members: Tickets from the Treasury Offices. For other members of our congregation: Tickets from Catherine de Satgé, 020 7353 8559, catherine@templechurch.com

SATURDAY 16 JUNE

10.00 a.m. – 4.00 p.m.

TEMPLE STUDIES GROUP: The Temple in the Johannine Writings. Please bring a packed lunch. Coffee and juice are provided. Cost: £35. Students with proof of status £5.00. Pay on the day, cash or cheque only. Booking essential via templestudiesgroup@hotmail.co.uk

SUNDAY 17 JUNE The Second Sunday after Trinity

8.30 a.m. HOLY COMMUNION (said)

10.45 a.m. BAPTISM – Leonora Nancy Quierin

11.15 a.m. CHORAL MATTINS

Organ Prelude Tierce en Taille (de Grigny)

Introit Exsultate Deo (Palestrina)

Responses (Radcliffe)

Psalm 43

1st Lesson Proverbs 8. 1-4, 22-31

Te Deum in F (Ireland)

2nd Lesson John 3. 1-15

Jubilate in E Flat (Britten)

Anthem Antiphon (Vaughan Williams)

Preacher The Reader

Organ Voluntary Fugue in G Minor, BWV 578 (J. S. Bach)

12.45 p.m. BAPTISM – Amelia Elisabeth Smoot Vivian

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WEDNESDAY 20 JUNE

1.15 p.m. LUNCHTIME RECITAL – Sam Furness, tenor

THURSDAY 21 JUNE

1.15 p.m. HOLY COMMUNION (said)

SATURDAY 23 JUNE

12.00 noon WEDDING – Duncan Emery and Michelle Quinn

2.00 p.m. WEDDING – Howard Daley and Victoria Shepard

SUNDAY 24 JUNE The Nativity of St John the Baptist

8.30 a.m. MATTINS (said)

11.15 a.m. CHORAL COMMUNION: BAPTISM FAMILIES REUNION SERVICE: A service to which we invite all those families for whom we have conducted a Baptism Service over the decades. Followed by lunch in Inner Temple. To book for lunch: Catherine de Satgé, catherine@templechurch.com or

020 7353 8559.

Organ Prelude Allein Gott in der Höh sei her, BWV 676

(J. S. Bach)

Introit This is the Record of John (Gibbons)

Mass Missa Brevis Sancti Johannis de Deo (Haydn)

For the Epistle Isaiah 40. 1-11

Gradual Psalm 82

Gospel Matthew 28. 1-10, 16-20

Credo (Merbecke)

Preacher The Master

Communion Anthem Let all mortal Flesh (Bairstow)

Organ Voluntary Finale from Symphony No. 6 (Widor)

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WEDNESDAY 27 JUNE

1.15 p.m. LUNCHTIME RECITAL – Part of the City of London Festival.

5.45 p.m. CHORAL EVENSONG – For St Peter’s Day

Organ Prelude Sonata in C Minor (3rd movement) (Whitlock)

Introit Tu es Petrus (Duruflé)

Responses (Rose)

Psalm 113

1st Lesson Isaiah 49. 1-6

Magnificat in E Minor (D. Purcell)

2nd Lesson Matthew 16. 13-28

Nunc Dimittis in E Minor (D. Purcell)

Anthem How lovely are the Messengers (Mendelssohn)

Organ Voluntary Carillon-Sortie (Mulet)

THURSDAY 28 JUNE

1.15 p.m. HOLY COMMUNION (said)

SATURDAY 30 JUNE

4.00 p.m. WEDDING – Marc Sommers and Lesley-Anne Long

SATURDAY 30 JUNE/SUNDAY 1 JULY

Overnight DUNWICH DYNAMO CYCLE RIDE FOR THE TEMPLE CHURCH ORGAN APPEAL: London to Dunwich (120 miles). Several choir parents, church staff and friends, have decided to do their bit for the organ appeal! The team will be cycling overnight from London to Dunwich on the Suffolk Coast, taking part in London’s greatest mass participation ride – the Dunwich Dynamo, which attracts 500 or so participants each year. If you would like to sponsor the team, please find them on the web link below. Many thanks for your support. http://uk.virginmoneygiving.com/team/templenights

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CHURCH INFORMATION

Address for all Correspondence The Temple Church

c/o The Master’s House Temple EC4Y 7BB

The Master The Revd Robin Griffith-Jones Tel: 020 7353 8559 master@templechurch.com PA to the Master, Catherine de Satgé Tel: 020 7353 8559 catherine@templechurch.com

The Verger Mr John Shearer Tel: 020 7353 3470 verger@templechurch.com

The Choir Further information about the choir and scholarships for choristers is available from: The Director of Music, James Vivian The Associate Organist, Greg Morris Tel: 020 7353 8559 Fax: 020 7353 1736 Music Administrator, Liz Clarke Tel: 020 7427 5650 liz@templechurch.com The choristers’ singing-teacher is Anita Morrison .

Development Fundraising Consultant, Penny Jonas Temple Music Foundation, Tel: 020 7427 5640 penny@pennyjonas.com Mob: 07778 799842 www.templemusic.org

Concerts and other

Events

Temple Music Co-ordinator, Nicola Benson Tel: 020 7427 5641 nicola@templechurch.com www.templemusic.org Events and Box Office Manager, Carol Butler Tel: 020 7427 5641 carol@templechurch.com www.templemusic.org

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SUPPORTING THE WORK OF THE TEMPLE CHURCH

You will recognise how generously the Inns maintain the Temple Church and its music. For one example:- the school-education of our choristers (quite apart from the musical training they receive here from our own musicians) now costs the Inns over £100,000 per year. We certainly hope that the congregation is as proud as the Inns themselves of the boys’ achievement.

For the successful running of the Church we depend increasingly on the collections taken at services and on benefactions. If you pay UK income tax or capital gains tax (whether or not you are a UK resident), it is of great advantage to the Church if you kindly make any contribution through Gift Aid.

One-off Gifts: Envelopes. We invite you to use the envelope, provided in the pews, on which you should state your name and address and sign and date the declaration.

Regular Giving: Envelopes and Standing-Orders. The verger has a form of declaration to cover all future donations. Each form bears a contributor’s number; you need then only enter this on any envelope you use for your gift. The verger is John Shearer, verger@templechurch.com, 020 7353 3470.

THE ORGAN FUND The biggest task we are presently facing is the complete clean and refurbishment of the Church’s magnificent organ, an essential and expensive undertaking which will ensure that the majestic voice of the organ continues at the heart of our music for the next fifty years and onward. We are touched and heartened that now, in Spring 2012, the pledges and donations exceed £650,000 of the £750,000 to be raised. All further support will be warmly welcomed; the work is being undertaken until Easter 2013. This note comes with many thanks to those in the Inns and in our congregation who already support us with immense generosity. The Revd Robin Griffith-Jones, Penny Jonas Master Development Consultant master@templechurch.com development@templechurch.com

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DUNWICH DYNAMO CYCLE RIDE FOR THE TEMPLE CHURCH ORGAN APPEAL

The Temple Nights, a team of choir parents, Ben Simms, Adrian Buchanan, Benedict Zucchi, Roddy Langmuir, Robert Violette and (from the music office) Liz Clarke, will be cycling 120 miles overnight this June 30th, in aid of the Temple Church Organ Fund, from London Fields to Dunwich on the Suffolk Coast, taking part in London’s greatest mass participation ride – the Dunwich Dynamo.

The Temple Church organ is undergoing a major overhaul, which will cost £750,000 in total. Over £650,000 has already been raised; and the The Temple Nights are limbering up to make their own contribution on 30th June. They are hoping to raise £10,000. Please support them as generously as you can. You will find them on the web link below.

http://uk.virginmoneygiving.com/team/templenights

Some of the team will be back in the Temple Church for Choral Mattins at 11.30am on Sunday 1st July. If you are in London that weekend and can welcome them back to the Church, it will be good to see you! Thank you very much for your support.