{"id":6311,"date":"2023-05-22T22:45:45","date_gmt":"2023-05-22T22:45:45","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.virginiaknight.org.uk\/vhkssinging\/?p=6311"},"modified":"2023-06-28T22:28:11","modified_gmt":"2023-06-28T22:28:11","slug":"ascension-day-in-chichester","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.virginiaknight.org.uk\/vhkssinging\/2023\/05\/22\/ascension-day-in-chichester\/","title":{"rendered":"Ascension Day in Chichester"},"content":{"rendered":"

Being within striking distance of Chichester Cathedral and with a free evening, I went to their Ascension Day Eucharist. <\/p>\n

I had some time beforehand to wandered rou those parts of the interior which were open and unscaffolded, and found myself standing by a slab with a planetary theme covering Holst’s mortal remains, with a memorial to anniversary composer Thomas Weelkes in front of me. The service was held in the Quire and I was seated near enough to the choir to pass the peace to a lay clerk.

\"Weelkes<\/a>

Memorial to Thomas Weelkes<\/p><\/div><\/p>\n

The music was a modern-language Communion setting by Philip Moore, new to me, and from the many possible Ascension anthems Stanford’s Cœlos ascendit hodie<\/i>. I was a little sorry that only one of the hymns was specifically for Ascension – it’s such a short season that it’s a shame to sing hymns that one could have at most other times of the year.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Being within striking distance of Chichester Cathedral and with a free evening, I went to their Ascension Day Eucharist. I had some time beforehand to wandered rou those parts of the interior which were open and unscaffolded, and found myself … Continue reading →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[12],"tags":[224,35,302,49,37],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.virginiaknight.org.uk\/vhkssinging\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6311"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.virginiaknight.org.uk\/vhkssinging\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.virginiaknight.org.uk\/vhkssinging\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.virginiaknight.org.uk\/vhkssinging\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.virginiaknight.org.uk\/vhkssinging\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6311"}],"version-history":[{"count":8,"href":"http:\/\/www.virginiaknight.org.uk\/vhkssinging\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6311\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6341,"href":"http:\/\/www.virginiaknight.org.uk\/vhkssinging\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6311\/revisions\/6341"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.virginiaknight.org.uk\/vhkssinging\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6311"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.virginiaknight.org.uk\/vhkssinging\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6311"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.virginiaknight.org.uk\/vhkssinging\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6311"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}