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Dear all,
As most of you will already be aware, at the January Choir Committee Meeting (our first since January 2020!) we agreed to have another appeal at all Sunday Masses for new members. This, with Father Deo's agreement, will take place on Sunday 29 January. It will be made by various Choir members, with their own personal thoughts, rather than me!!
Many thanks to Suzanne (18:15 Vigil Mass), Richard (08:30), Molly (10:00), Jeannette (11:30) and Mary C. (17:00) for agreeing to spearhead this initiative from the ambo. Perhaps you'd support this by being available with the relevant appeal-giver after Mass in the porch to encourage potential new recruits.
The same meeting brought about some more suggestions for Christmas 2023 - if you'd like to suggest anything, then I remind you to let me know before Easter so I am able to add it to the pot for consideration. Don't feel inhibited; someone has already suggested I'm dreaming of a white Christmas!! Only 'suggested', mind!!!
PLEASE NOTE: There WILL be a practice on Tuesday 11 April (immediately after Easter). There WILL NOT be a practice on Tuesday 18 April.
Diary Date 1: The date of the 2023 Choir Outing is Saturday 17 June - the venue is under discussion, and will be announced soon.
Diary Date 2: The 2023 Parish Annual General Meeting will take place on Wednesday 14 June at 19:00.
Love, Tony x
Choir Dates List 2023 The latest Dates List, dated 12 January, is to be found here. As always, the latest update of the Dates List will always be found on the Choir's Website here.
Forthcoming Poly Masses
Herewith the anticipated Music List fors the
5 February and
5
March Masses.
I hope to have the Holy Week and Easter Vigil Music Lists prepared by this time next month.
As always, I try and maintain a brief summary on the Parish Website for information. I do sometimes get asked the 'What is that you sang at the....' question after Mass, and at other times.
Forthcoming Plainchant Masses The anticipated Music Lists for 19 February and 19 March Masses. 2 April is Palm Sunday for Hymn and Plainchant Choirs.
Forthcoming Hymn Choir Masses forthcoming dates are 26 February and 26 March. 2 April is Palm Sunday for Hymn and Plainchant Choirs. All are welcome to come up and sing! All the Hymn Choir dates for 2023 may be found HERE.
Prayers, please Please keep Father Michael Jones in your prayers as he recovers from a stroke he had the Wednesday before Christmas.
For the safe and happy repose of the soul of Pope Emeritus Benedict XVI
Berni has asked for prayers, please, for her elderly aunt in Middlesbrough who is causing some concerns.
Please also continue to keep Maria, Terry F., Jane, Terry J. and Mary & Frank in your prayers. |
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St. Bart's Memories No. 59
50 years ago this month -
Youth to the fore A famous TV front door. Do you recognise it? A fairly straightforward 45 pieces.
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The wonderful full version of O Holy Night excerpt mentioned in January's edition of Update: Aled Jones with St. George's Cathedral chorister Malakai Bayoh (scroll down for another wonderful video of them singing Walking in the Air from The Snowman!). Volume up! - Classic FM Christmas 2023? What Sweeter Music - YouTube Top of the Charts at Christmas - Horniman Museum Croydon Residents: help shape waste services of the future - Croydon Council Tom Lehrer songs and lyrics offered free by the composer (limited period) - Tom Lehrer Songs Cardinal Pell RIP - Catholic Herald Cardinal Pell RIP: watch the video - Fr. Z Comedian Leaves Oxford Union SPEECHLESS - YouTube Handel & Hendrix Museum confirms its reopening date - IanVisits Reduced to 40p a pop in Asda on 2 January - hastily arranging hot dog events!! - Tony/Update Lightning strike at Streatham Parish Church in 1841 - Streatham Society/Update Crystal Palace Park news - Inside Croydon Bereavement Support Payment: missing out, or know someone who may be? - Which? Window in St. George's Cathedral commemorating Pope John Paul II's visit in 1982, showing him celebrating a Liturgy for the Sick, by Goddard & Gibbs - Update The Great Exhibition of 1851 made a profit of £186,000 which was invested, and is today worth £110 million - Royal Commission 1851 National Portrait Gallery confirms it will reopen in June 2023 - IanVisits A Night Litany for London - Andrew Cusack Victor Borge and Robert Merrill: Autumn Leaves (huge fun!) - YouTube A Brief History of Community Centres in England - The Historic England Blog King Charles 'digs it'!! - Update View the Christmas 1923 issue of Radio Times - BBC Archive Making the most of it: Reel 1 - British Pathé The cofferdam in the River Wandle - Wandle News New Secret Connections revealed in the Turin Shroud, Eucharistic Miracles? - YouTube The unexpected interior of Our Lady of the Rosary, Marylebone - IanVisits 'We're saving 100-year-old pianos from landfill' - BBC News 1723 - A London Year - A London Inheritance Travolator 1924 - British Pathé Why You Should Always Look *Down* In London: Pavement Oddities - Londonist Twickenham's Strawberry Hill House to be filled with Old Master paintings - IanVisits The location of Carshalton's Volunteer Fire Service set up in 1867 - Secret Carshalton Roy Castle, Buddy Rich* and Sammy Davis Jr. - Twitter Lloyds and Halifax branches in Norbury to close - Update A delightful mini-market in Chiswick - Update And finally..... That 'chest-buster' scene from Alien re-imagined! Scary!!! - Update *Buddy Rich was one heck of a drummer - I once saw him at the Fairfield Concert Hall: he had a towel rack to wipe the sweat off as a part of his kit! - YouTube |
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