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Christmas 2018 As we approach Midnight Mass, I'd like to wish you all, and yours, a very happy Christmas, and every good wish for 2019. Please remember we start at 23:30 very promptly on Christmas Eve, so arrive in plenty of time to park/walk to the church and finally check your music is order. Thank you. The Concert went really well, unequivocally!! Thanks you all so much for all you did to make it such a success. Thanks, especially, to the Altos who rehearsed with Rosemary and the Descanters who rehearsed with Jeannette, both on a number of occasions on the run-up to the Concert. Gentlemen, I also have to say you were on fine form! Jeannette and Molly, you both read really clearly and beautifully. Thanks especially to Antony for being with us again for the occasion. The Brass were great too - a really successful occasion all round. Well done to you!! New Year 2019 We start the New Year with our Epiphany Mass on 6 January at 11:30 as usual. The following Tuesday we have a break for our Christmas Drinks in the upstairs hall starting at 19:30 - as I have mentioned before, the First Holy Communion Group has its first big meeting the same evening starting at 20:00, so do plan to get the church early if you wish to find a parking space with relative ease!! Three consecutive Tuesdays with no Choir practice - seldom has that happened before!! On Tuesday 15 January it's back to the grindstone I'm afraid, but with a late Easter we have three Masses to prepare for before the Triduum........... A new organist may, perhaps, possibly,..... ..... be on the horizon. Please keep up the prayers to Our Lady that things work out for us. Sorry this is so early and rather brief, but..... ..... as many of you will be aware our youngest, Sarah, decided to get married to John, after over ten years together, on 29 December. This adds a certain amount (!) of additional pressure to family life, and also the need to prepare for a speech I'm informed!! Please say a prayer for them that they a long and happy life together. |
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The January Jigsaw - a trickier one this month, but may possibly prove to be seasonal, and you'll all have time on your hands........! |
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Forthcoming Music Epiphany HERE, February HERE, March HERE and April HERE. There is a summary HERE. Latest Forthcoming Dates List The latest Dates List (dated 10 November) is HERE. Cantors 19:30 Practices: Jeannette 29 January, Andrew 26 February, Ken 2 April. Plainchant Choir 19:30 Practices: 15 January and 12 February. January's Mass HERE. |
St. Bart's Memories No. 21 23 years between these Sunday Music Lists! Another Christmas Concert! Do turn your sound up, watch and listen to this rendition of The Virgin Mary had a Baby Boy! Wonderful!! And, the Silent Night story. Prayers, please Please remember especially at this time Terry Jupp's sister Susan and a Choir Member's urgent Private Intention that remains extremely pressing. We pray also for Veronica's sister Monica, Ken's niece Beth, Mary & Frank Elliott and Jeannette's mother Hazel. |
For your coffee breaks Smithfield's Christmas Eve Meat Auction if you have time to get there (and back!). The Beeb asks if you can recognise these backwards Christmas carols? The Vatican's sand nativity Scene. Amazon gives $15 million to three Catholic charities. Your Boxing Day breakfast sorted! I got seven out of seven in The Pedantic Punctuation Quiz. You... ? Not enough Christmas cracker jokes to groan over? Then click here! |
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