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Important Dates List
The final run-up to Christmas! Sunday 3 December - Mass 11:30 Tuesday 5 December - 20:00 Practice 3 Saturday 9 December - Concert practice with Antony & Orchestra 14:30 Tuesday 12 December - 20:00 Practice 2 with Antony Sunday 17 December - Concert (warm-up in hall from 14:00) Tuesday 19 December - Practice 1 for Midnight Mass and Epiphany Sunday 24 December - Midnight Mass 23:30 Tuesday 26 December - No Practice Tuesday 2 January - 20:00 Drinks in the hall Sunday 7 January - Epiphany Mass 11:30 Tuesday 9 January - Practice 20:00 |
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The Christmas Jigsaw - from St. Bart's, Christmas 2016. A bit trickier this time! Drag and drop, and.... Happy Christmas! |
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Plainchant Choir 19:30 Practices: 12 December for 17 December and 16 January for 21 January. Cantors 19:45 Practices: John 28 November (19:55), Jeannette 19 December & Andrew 30 January. Christmas Music The final draft programme is HERE. I'm delighted to say that Antony has confirmed that he is able to join us for both the Concert and the previous Saturday rehearsal and a Tuesday, hopefully 12 December. The Orchestra have got their music planning underway. Christmas Concert: the SVP are to arrange for collectors after the concert, but we will need our programme selling friends to be present at the church from 2pm for the occasion, please. Rather than sell tickets for £2 + Programmes for £1, we will be selling programmes for £3 this year, in the manner we always used to. Snow at St. Bartholomew's If it should snow over winter, it would be good to have a 'winter' image of our church should anyone be able to take a decent picture. |
Forthcoming Music/Dates List December HERE. The 2018 Dates List for your diaries is HERE. Prayers, please Please remember a Choir Member's Private Intention that still needs particularly special prayers, Veronica's sister Monica, John Windsor, Terry Jupp's sister Susan, Ken's niece Beth, Carole Winch, Mary & Frank Elliott, Maria & Family, and Jeannette's mother Hazel all remain in need of prayers. Ros is recovering! Book Recommendation
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Thank you..... ..... for all the hard work you are putting into the preparations for Christmas again this year. I am so grateful to you all for your patience during a difficult term without a permanent organist. When the big day finally arrives I hope it's restful, peaceful and as happy as it can be for you and those closest to you. I'll look forward to raising a glass with you on 2 January! For your coffee breaks The Liturgical Arts Journal, a wonderful new on-line venture from New Liturgical Movement. Schooldays in the 1950s and 1960s from Historic UK. More nostalgia, this time from Sainsbury's - look out for the drams! A list of fictitious Underground Stations. Talking Pictures is a fascinating archive of films and TV. If you have an appropriate TV package...... Trailers HERE. The New Croydon - footage from 1963. I wonder if, eventually, this new translation of the Our Father will come our way? |
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Click on the Dames of St. Joan party at the Taylor's home in July 1980. From the left: Lilly Dowie (then Housekeeper at St. Bart's), Marie Taylor, Jim Hyland and Dave Walker |
Click on the Robert Ellis (and his father) on the occasion of his Ordination at St. Bartholomew's on 26 August 1982. Father Robert is currently Parish Priest at St. Thomas Aquinas, Ham |
Click on the The Corpus Christi procession at St. Michael's convent in 1982, an annual event that was attended primarily by parishioners from Norbury, Streatham and Pollards Hill |
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The re-telling of Christmas My mother cast one of her pupils as the innkeeper for the Christmas play. All the year three child had to do was tell Joseph “There is no room at the inn”. But during the performance, after Joseph had begged for a room for his pregnant wife, the boy didn’t have the heart to turn him down. “Well,” he said, “if it’s so urgent, you better come on in”. |
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