Events

The Feast of Corpus Christi (also known in the Anglican
Church as Thanksgiving for Holy Communion) is celebrated
on the Thursday after Trinity Sunday, so falls on June 4th this year.

It is a celebration of the sacrament of Holy Communion,
and the priest-poet Malcolm Guite writes about the
experience of receiving communion in his poem ‘Love’s
choice’ which begins with the lines:

This bread is light, dissolving, almost air
A little visitation on my tongue,
A wafer-thin sensation, hardly there.
This taste of wine is brief in flavour, flung
A moment to the palate’s roof and fled,
even its aftertaste a memory.
Yet this is how he comes. Through wine and bread
Love chooses to be emptied into me.
(from ‘Sounding the Seasons’, Canterbury Press)

We are celebrating Corpus Christi at St Peter’s this year
with a Choral Eucharist at 7pm.

The service will include a new responsorial setting of
verses from psalm 116 (written by Meirion Wynn Jones),
and at the end of communion the choir will sing the
anthem ‘Bread of the world in mercy broken’ by Peter
Aston (1938–1988), a distinguished British musician,
academic and composer.

Please do come and join us for this service.