This is just a quick and easy September edition of UPDATE.....

..... with mainly reminders and a few new Coffee Break items. I have also noticed the Prayers Request had unintentionally been dropped from the last couple of editions, so have duly returned it. Back to normal for October!

Hope you had (are having) a brilliant summer break

Choir practices resume on Tuesday 20th September, with our Mass of Thanksgiving and 2nd October Mass to prepare for. Music available here:

20:00 27 September Mass of Thanksgiving

11:30 2 October 27th Sunday

Parish Music Workshop - Saturday 15th October

As you may have seen from recent Parish Newsletters, I have now been able to fix this date with Father Deo and the Parish Diary. I shall be speaking at all Masses over the weekend of 1st/2nd October.

More details in due course, but if you could pop it into your diaries in the meantime I would be grateful. Cream Teas still on - Yummmm!!

Prayers, please

Mary & George Meyern, George Norton, Christine & Eugene, Maria & Family, Anne Mitra, Mary & Frank Elliott, Madeleine and her husband and two Choir members' special intentions. Please also remember Jeannette's mother Hazel, Andrew's mother Josie and Carole's husband Mike in your prayers.

Christmas 2016

The Christmas programme will be revealed on Tuesday 4th October.

Please do print out, and have a little look at, Sleep! Holy Babe! which is also now in your folders. I found it in Carols New and Old, a book published in the last decade of the 1800s or the first of the 1900s I would guess, and edited by Sir John Stainer. A simple little miniature which took the place in your folders at Music Checking of On the Birthday by the same composer.

Dates List

I'll have a few paper copies to hand out when we return for those of you without internet access, or, perhaps, a printer. Meanwhile you will find the latest List HERE to print out and refer to.

Plainchant Choir

There will be no practice on 14th September before 18th September Mass. The next will take place at 7.30pm on Tuesday 11th October to prepare for Mass on 16th October.

Cantors

From next term, I shall have a fifteen minute session with each of you from 7.30pm on the penultimate Tuesday before you sing to assist you in carrying out your role to the best of your abilities.

Rome 1990 & 1994

It has often been suggested that we have an evening to view the old Rome videos from 1990 and 1994 - they will probably frighten a number of us 25+ years on!!!.... That said, I'm happy to arrange this, along with a few drinks and nibbles. Let me know.

There will undoubtedly...

... come a time over the next year or so when the lighting, the sound system and much of the electrics will be replaced in the church. It is quite likely redecoration of the church will follow, so it is probable that the organ will have to be sealed to prevent dust and debris getting into the works and pipes.

For your coffee breaks

The Assumption Proclamation in 1950 by Ven. Pius XII - and a really wonderful French video of the occasion HERE.

QUICK! Only a few days left to watch the Ladybird Books story on BBC i-Player. An hour of absolutely absorbing nostalgia for many of us!

A virtual reconstruction of the 10th/11th century Constantinian St. Peter's basilica in Rome.

Collage - The London Picture Archive.

The 2016 EAC Open Singing Day at Reigate in September - Bach & Rachmaninov.

Sobering words - from 4 August.

As Fr. Z succinctly puts it "When life gives you a challenge like lemons, make lemonade [...] when liturgists give you dreck like Gather us in, make... toccatas"!

On the subject of C.S. Lewis and St. John XXIII from Father Hunwicke.

The 27 best biscuits in the word.

And finally, Land of Hope and Glory in the styles of J.S. Bach and Scott Joplin!

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