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The Choir's Novena for an organist Starting Tuesday 2 October I asked you to join with me in praying a weekly Novena to Our Lady, Mother of Perpetual Help, asking that she might inspire someone to come forward and join us as organist to the Polyphony Choir. Each Tuesday for nine weeks we will pray: O Mother of Perpetual Help, grant that we may ever invoke your powerful name, the protection of the living and the salvation of the dying. Purest Mary, let your name henceforth be ever on our lips. Delay not, Blessed Lady, to rescue us whenever we call on you. In our temptations, in our needs, we will never cease to call on you, ever repeating your sacred name, Mary, Mary. What a consolation, what sweetness, what confidence fills our souls when we utter your sacred name or even only think of you! We thank the Lord for having given you so sweet, so powerful, so lovely a name. But we will not be content with merely uttering your name. Let our love for you prompt us ever to hail you Mother of Perpetual Help. Mother of Perpetual Help, pray for us and grant us the favour we confidently ask of you. Hail Mary x 3 Whether or not you are with us as we pray together, please join with us in this prayer. |
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The November Jigsaw - easier than last month's, but far more relevant to us! |
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Christmas Delighted that Antony has very kindly agreed to play for us again for our Christmas Concert and has now confirmed that he will be with us for the critical and most important Saturday 8 December (our 'dress' and 'brass' rehearsal) and the following Tuesday. Thank you Antony! Please, please ensure you're with us on the 8 December. It's been in your diaries for over 12 months now!! I'll have the printed draft programme available for you for the Concert, Midnight Mass and Epiphany on Tuesday 6 November. Forthcoming Music November's Mass HERE and Christus Rex HERE. Latest Forthcoming Dates List The latest Dates List (dated 10 November) is HERE. PLEASE NOTE THE 2019 DATES IN YOUR DIARIES NOW TO AVOID EMBARRASSMENT. Cantors 19:45 Practices: Ken 20 November and Richard 27 November. Plainchant Choir 19:30 Practices: 6 November and 11 December. November's Remembrance Music HERE and Advent's Mass HERE. |
St. Bart's Memories No. 19 The inaugural concert featuring our then new organ in 1972 - makes interesting reading, for me anyway!! The October edition of Chorister is HERE.
Do you recognise this church in Streatham? |
For your coffee breaks Well I never - some 'invaluable information' courtesy BF. The Diocesan Clergy Appointments so far in 2019 - one doesn't have to look too deeply to appreciate the huge debt of gratitude we owe to priests from overseas. The Science Museum's basement. St. Bede's, Clapham Park and the 'Old Mass'. Also from the Catholic Herald The Bishops who've never seen their dioceses. Archbishop Sample's words on young people and traditional liturgy. The BBC is to make it's back catalogue of classical music available to the public - wonderful news!! Also from the Beeb - five reasons why we love Parry's Jerusalem and Bean-slicers and bedwarmers! Bristol's Colstan Hall's great concert hall organ. How the rest of the world lives organised by income - this is just an amazing project! Well worth eleven minutes of attention!! Samuel Coleridge Taylor and the Musical Fight for Civil Rights. And finally, Crystal Palace gets its cinema back! It'll be an ultra-comfy Everyman Cinema too! |
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Prayers, please Please remember especially at this time Terry Jupp's sister Susan and a Choir Member's urgent Private Intention. We pray also Veronica's sister Monica, Ken's niece Beth, Mary & Frank Elliott, and Jeannette's mother Hazel. Christine, Carole, and John Windsor should be remembered too, please, that they continue to make speedy recoveries. |
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