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Sunday Worship: "My delight to learn or to teach or to write..."

"My delight to learn or to teach or to write..."

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Commemorating the greatest of all Anglo-Saxon scholars, the Venerable Bede.

A service marking the 1000th anniversary of Durham Cathedral receiving one of its most precious artefacts of pilgrimage, the mortal remains of the Venerable Bede, the greatest of Anglo-Saxon scholars. Bede wrote the first ever history of England. Completed in 731, the Ecclesiastical History of the English People is the first work in which the AD system of dating is used. Charlie Hardwick will bring the History alive as she reads an extract. The service is led by the Dean of Durham the Very Reverend Andrew Tremlett, with a sermon by the Van Mildert Professor of Divinity in the Department of Theology and Religion, The Reverend Professor Canon Simon Oliver. Master of the Choristers and Organist: Daniel Cook; Sub-Organist: Joseph Beech; Producer: Philip Billson.
Order of service: Christ is the Morning Star (Words: The Venerable Bede, Music: Richard Lloyd); Christ is the world’s true light (Rinkart); Psalm 98:1-7 (Dom Gregory Murray); Ecclesiasticus 39: 1-3, 8, 9 (read by Professor Karen Kilby, Bede Professor of Catholic Theology); Prayers led by students from the Venerable Bede Church of England Academy in Sunderland; Ye watchers and ye holy ones (Lasst uns Erfreuen); O Rex gloriae (Palestrina); John 6: 1-9; Gloria Patri (Tallis); Angel-voices ever singing (Angel Voices). 

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