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Palm Sunday 9 April The Choir will be singing for Benediction and Stations of the Cross at 4pm on 9 April - traditional plainchant O Salutaris, Tantum Ergo and Adoremus, plus Stabat Mater in Latin between Stations. We will learn the music between now and then. It's very straightforward, which is one of the joys of Plainchant. Maundy Thursday, Good Friday, Easter Vigil 13/14/15 April, There is a very draft Music List available HERE - there will be no Confirmations or Receptions this year and only three of the seven Readings. Confirmations with Bishop Pat Friday 30 June at 8pm The Choir has been asked to lead the singing for this major Parish occasion, and I have added it to the latest Choir Dates List HERE. It's something we did for many years in the past. The music should be straightforward. Please would you note in your diaries Easter Sunday 2018... ... is on 1st April, but we will only be singing at the Vigil the night before (before anyone asks!). |
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Father Paul's Leaving Gift Once the date of his farewell bash has been announced we'll stop collecting and think about an appropriate gift from us (not a clock!!). Jeannette's 'cash bag' will be available until then, so if you wish to contribute, and haven't done so already, please remember to bring your contribution to Choir. Fr. Innocent Ezeonyeasi's book
Southwark Catholic Directory 2017 Those of you who have obtained a copy of this year's Southwark Catholic Directory might have noticed that the small, but significant, change adopted in 2016 has been carried forward? The clergy listing highlights in bold the Diocesan priests that serve our Diocese. It really brings home just how dependent Southwark is on unicardinated clergy from lands and Dioceses in often far-off countries. Thank God for them. |
Cantors 7.45pm Practices: Andrew 28 February and Ken 28 March. Please note in your diaries. Triduum Cantors are noted in the draft Music List mentioned above - practices to be agreed with those involved in due course. Plainchant Choir The next practice will take place on 14 March at 19:30 to prepare for the 11:30 Mass on 19 March. Father Alexander Trew It was Father Trew who added the nave and more to our church in 1929:
Prayers, please Joe Ryan, Carole Winch, Anne Rowntree, George Meyern, George Norton, Mary & Frank Elliott, Christine & Eugene, Maria & Family, Anne Mitra, Jeannette's mother Hazel especially at the moment. Please would you also include my parents, Sheila and David, in your prayers. |
For your coffee breaks Sleep, my Saviour sleep: Do listen to this, as it's lovely. An SATB arrangement was published in the 1950s (I think?), but it's not currently in print to my knowledge - would be lovely for Christmas 2017... descanters would be over the moon! I'd love to get hold of a copy; please do keep your eyes out, please!As a product of a Jesuit secondary education I was fascinated to read about the 'penitential wand'. Might invest in one for occasional use at Choir practices!The Catholic Herald's Ten memorable Catholic moments from 2016.Prompted by Ian Visits, who remembers the Solari Boards at Victoria and Waterloo stations and elsewhere? They're still active HERE, in a new incarnation HERE, and still going clickety-clackety at Singapore airport!Thomas Ospital playing Debussy's frantic Danse Tarantelle Styrienne on the organ of St. Eustache, Paris; originally built by Merklin, who built the St. Bede's (Clapham Park) organ.Why Croydon doesn't have a CR1 post code.Another wonderful extemporisation from organist Peter Fogitt on the piano: one really couldn't wish for a wider range of subject matter!London, as you've never seen it before. Well worth digging into.The American Glass Organ Pipes produced in response to 9/11.And finally.... Agatha Christie at Mass |
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