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Christmas 2018 - critical dates, please
4 December 20:00 - Choir Practice No Choir practices 25 December and 1 January! Honest!! Two successive weeks off!!! Christmas/Epiphany music list HERE if you need another copy to refer to or print. The DRAFT is unchanged and so becomes FINAL! Descanters - important please 19:30 Practice 4 December, please. Please sing loudly in your cars on your way to church so you arrive warmed up!! If you walk, then sing twice as loudly!! Post-Christmas Drinks - please note We shall be having our post-Christmas drinks on 8 January next year. I intend starting the evening at 19:30 to allow those of you who arrive by car to park easily as there is a First Holy Communion meeting downstairs at 20:00. |
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The December Jigsaw - four minutes sixteen seconds for me to complete. You? |
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The Choir's Novena for an organist Many thanks to all of you who participated in our Novena for a new organist. We prayerfully await an answer to our request. Prayers, please Please remember especially at this time Terry Jupp's sister Susan and a Choir Member's urgent Private Intention. We pray also for Veronica's sister Monica, Ken's niece Beth, Mary & Frank Elliott, Jeannette's mother Hazel and for safe repose of the soul of John Kelly, Carole's brother, who sadly and unexpectedly passed away recently. Christine, Carole, and John Windsor should be remembered too, please, that they continue to make speedy recoveries. Forthcoming Music 1st Advent HERE and Epiphany 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 IN THE FUTURE. Cantors 19:20 Practice: Andrew, Jeannette, John and Ken (for Christmas & Epiphany) 18 December. Please note slightly earlier time. Ken, 19:40 is fine if needs be. Plainchant Choir 19:30 Practices: 11 December and 15 January. December's Advent Mass HERE. Sainsbury's Lego Cards
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anyone have a youngster in the family that collects them? The next edition of UPDATE..... ..... may be early/late arriving and/or brief - a very hectic Christmas and New Year for me! |
St. Bart's Memories No. 20 Father Alexander Valentine Trew was Parish Priest here at St. Bartholomew's from 1926-38. He lies buried in Streatham Park Cemetery. Click on the pics for larger images.
Pictures courtesy of Richard, who prepared them for his forthcoming publication of a revised History of St. Bartholomew's Church. Well.... ?
An interesting read from the Evening Standard, courtesy of Gordon Clark. |
For your coffee breaks Many congratulations to Father Michael Jones on the Ruby Anniversary of his Ordination on 25 November 1978. Christmas at St. Georges is now available from the Cathedral Website £12.50 + £1.50 P&P. Alternatively the producers, Regent Records, are selling it for £10 + £1 P&P. The latter also indicates the programme of music. Please don't immerse yourself in the new (only on their global Website) BBC Reel service before reading the rest of this edition of Update!! Catholic Online lists our Saints and Angels.
Streatham - The Hamlet on the Street What is a dual carriageway? Decide in your own mind, and then read this. Are you at risk of flooding from surface water: type in your post code and click search. How sausages got their bang, and what is a saveloy? Crystal Palace cinema re-opens for the first time in 50 years, and a bridge to the dinosaurs? The return of the Brighton Belle. The origins of cricket jargon (for the uninitiated only, obviously!). A comment on Michael Gove's Theos Annual Lecture. This instrument is just a tiddly, weeny bit larger than we have at St. Bart's!! Archbishops of Canterbury as crisps..... The Lost Treasures of Strawberry Hill come home. I was at St. Mary's for three years and occasionally sung in the house with a small group, The St. Mary's Singers. And finally.... Peter Zinovieff; the garden shed composer who changed music forever. |
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