{"id":6514,"date":"2018-12-06T15:12:40","date_gmt":"2018-12-06T15:12:40","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/stmaryschurchrushden.org\/?page_id=6514"},"modified":"2025-08-20T11:50:43","modified_gmt":"2025-08-20T10:50:43","slug":"st-marys-choir","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/stmaryschurchrushden.org\/?page_id=6514","title":{"rendered":"St Mary&#8217;s Choir"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>St Mary&#8217;s Choir is long established and over the years choristers have come and gone supporting the traditional 10.30am morning service. Our longest serving members have been with the choir up to more than sixty years, such is the popularity of singing in our church choir.<\/p>\n<p>To see some photos of our historic choir on the Rushden Heritage site, go here:<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.rushdenheartsandsoles.co.uk\/churches\/StMary's\/choir.html\">Rushden Research Group: Choir (rushdenheartsandsoles.co.uk)<\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><strong data-olk-copy-source=\"MessageBody\"><br \/>\u00a0Do you love to SING?<\/strong>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">Why don&#8217;t you join St Mary&#8217;s choir. You do not need<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">to read music, a good ear is helpful. Come along to<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">choir practice on Wednesday evenings at 7pm for an hour.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">\u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 Try us out without obligation<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">\u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 Meet the friendly bunch of choristers.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><strong>\u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 All ages from 8yrs are welcome!<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>If you would like to be part of this wonderful tradition, please contact the church office on 01933 412235 or email on stmaryschurchoffice@btinternet.com\u00a0<\/p>\n<p class=\"western\"><strong><span style=\"color: #333333;\"><span style=\"font-family: Times New Roman, serif;\"><span style=\"font-size: large;\">Hymns: Come, you thankful people, come\/Come down, O Love divine\/We plough the fields and scatter\u00a0<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n<p class=\"western\"><strong><span style=\"color: #333333;\"><span style=\"font-family: Times New Roman, serif;\"><span style=\"font-size: large;\">Hymn based on psalm 67 &#8211; God of mercy, God of grace<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>Canticles:<\/strong> <strong>Te Deum &amp; Jubilate<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>Anthem: Fairest Lord Jesus<span style=\"color: #333333;\"><span style=\"font-family: Times New Roman, serif;\"><span style=\"font-size: large;\">\u00a0<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Come and participate, all are very welcome!<\/p>\n<div><span style=\"color: #000000;\"><span style=\"font-family: arial;\"><span style=\"font-size: small;\">\u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 <\/span><\/span><\/span><span style=\"color: #000000;\"><span style=\"font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;\"><span style=\"font-size: large;\">St Mary\u2019s Facebook page \u00a0<\/span><\/span><\/span><a style=\"font-size: inherit;\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/stmaryschurchrushden\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><span style=\"color: #ff0000;\"><span style=\"font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;\"><span style=\"font-size: large;\"><u>https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/stmaryschurchrushden<\/u><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/a><span style=\"color: #000000;\"><span style=\"font-family: arial;\"><span style=\"font-size: small;\">\u00a0\u00a0<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/div>\n<div>\n<p class=\"western\"><span style=\"color: #000000;\">\u00a0 \u00a0\u00a0 \u00a0<\/span><span style=\"color: #000000;\"><span style=\"font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;\"><span style=\"font-size: large;\">or in the latest video for St Mary\u2019s on YouTube \u00a0\u00a0<\/span><\/span><\/span><a href=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/user\/stmarysrushden\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><span style=\"color: #ff0000;\"><span style=\"font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;\"><span style=\"font-size: large;\"><u>http:\/\/www.youtube\/DVcnlpdevWg<\/u><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/a><span style=\"color: #ff0000;\"><span style=\"font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;\"><span style=\"font-size: large;\">\u00a0 \u00a0\u00a0<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"western\"><span style=\"color: #000000;\">\u00a0 \u00a0\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<\/div>\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"373\" src=\"https:\/\/stmaryschurchrushden.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/08\/Choir-1024x373.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-9567\" srcset=\"https:\/\/stmaryschurchrushden.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/08\/Choir-1024x373.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/stmaryschurchrushden.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/08\/Choir-300x109.jpg 300w, https:\/\/stmaryschurchrushden.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/08\/Choir-768x280.jpg 768w, https:\/\/stmaryschurchrushden.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/08\/Choir-1536x559.jpg 1536w, https:\/\/stmaryschurchrushden.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/08\/Choir.jpg 1716w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>St Mary&#8217;s Choir is long established and over the years choristers have come and gone supporting the traditional 10.30am morning service. Our longest serving members have been with the choir up to more than sixty years, such is the popularity of singing in our church choir. To see some photos of our historic choir on&hellip; <br \/> <a class=\"read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/stmaryschurchrushden.org\/?page_id=6514\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":7,"featured_media":0,"parent":461,"menu_order":1,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-6514","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/stmaryschurchrushden.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/6514","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/stmaryschurchrushden.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/stmaryschurchrushden.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stmaryschurchrushden.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/7"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stmaryschurchrushden.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=6514"}],"version-history":[{"count":139,"href":"https:\/\/stmaryschurchrushden.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/6514\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":11101,"href":"https:\/\/stmaryschurchrushden.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/6514\/revisions\/11101"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stmaryschurchrushden.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/461"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/stmaryschurchrushden.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=6514"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}