Thoughts are turning to Easter!

Oh! The joys of running a Choir! Immediately after Christmas I have to consider Lent, Holy Week and Easter. It's just as tricky as Christmas to put things together so that you are lovingly nurtured to enable your full potential to shine when the time comes! We managed in style last year (Stainer's The Crucifixion was momentous), and hopefully we'll do the same again in 2013. Any favourites for the Easter Vigil or Good Friday? Answers by email please.  Tony

Christmas Concert - posters and tickets

There are still some posters advertising our Christmas Concert available for placement - please ask Tony if you can site one or two in places of high foot-fall or where interest in likely to be generated. It would be really good to see them all used. If they generate an additional six members of the audience they've paid for themselves; any thing more is a financially beneficial bonus!

Tickets, as in 2011, will only be £2 each and include mulled wine and a mince pie in the hall afterwards. Jeannette will handle ticket sales with you, and you will once again receive five tickets each to sell. We'll also place some in the Repository, and make them available to parishioners after the Saturday vigil and Sunday Masses over the weekends of 8th/9th and 15th/16th December.

Poly Choir pre-Christmas Offer

After ten years of support for the Polyphony Choir and its Website Jupp Fine Jewellery are delighted to offer a 10% discount on all pre-Christmas orders. Click HERE for your Voucher Code Coupon details

2014

2014 marks to 100th anniversary of the death of William Lloyd Webber, something we might mark in some way, given his connection with us. Our Web site has a picture of him leaving St. George's Cathedral after a first performance by St. Bart's Orchestra and the Choir of an arrangement of one of his works......

Did you know.....

..... that most internet browsers (certainly Internet Explorer) allow you to easily increase and decrease the size of the print in any Web site you are viewing by holding down the <Ctrl> key  and pressing the + or - keys?

This month's quiz question

Who was the first Parish Priest of St. Michael's, Pollards Hill? Answers in an email to Tony to go into the hat at the end of November.

The Catholic church the Mitcham side of Pollards Hill was, until it was named St. Michael's, affectionately known as 'The Hall' by those who attended the 8.30am and 10.30am Masses there when it was serviced by the two priests from St. Bartholomew's. The need to say Mass there was the reason why some of you may remember Fr. Kenefick or Fr. Nesbit saying the late morning Mass at St. Bart's on a regular basis.

Last month's quiz question was answered by four (double last month's entry!) people by email: three of them were correct in identifying the date the Choir Gallery was built as 1966: Joan was first out of the hand!

Continue your prayers please.....

.. for Anne M., Jeannette SR, Maria and Mary E, and also Anne Rowntree.

Hymns for 2013

Does anyone have any favourite traditional Catholic hymns that they feel we either don't sing, or don't sing enough? O bread of heaven comes to my mind immediately, and perhaps in this Year of Faith we might dig out Full in the panting heart of Rome? Do let Tony know if you think of any other hymns that may be worthy of revival.

2014 Venture

Tony has now had just two replies (both in favour) to his request for thoughts about a short overseas trip in 2014. Any more? See last month's issue for a reminder.

And finally.....

Congratulations to Dan and Amy Battle on the birth of Caitlin, a sister for William and Aoife.

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