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Sunday October 21
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No 9:00 AM Eucharist
The 9 o'clock service is canceled this coming Sunday, October 21, as the Rector is out of town for the annual Convocation Convention.
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No Nursery or Sunday School This Sunday
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Nursery and Sunday School Closed October 21
There will be no nursery or Sunday School this coming Sunday, October 21. Both will resume as normal the following Sunday, October 28.
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Acolyte Revolution!
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Acolyte Training
Training for acolytes is being offered to older children, teens, and adults during Sunday School. The new Guild of Acolytes will be inter-generational for those who desire to serve at the Altar on Sundays. Please contact the Church Office if interested.
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Halloween Party
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Where & When
Date: Saturday, October 27
Time:16:00-18:00
Location: Undercroft
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Children's Lending Library Annual Halloween Party
Start getting ready... paint your fingernails black... gather up your spiders, your hat, your cauldron and your broom stick and fly on over to the Children's Lending Library's Annual Halloween Party! Saturday October 27 from 4:00 PM to 6:00 PM! All the usual attractions... lots of creepy crafts, gruesome games and spooky snacks... See youuuuuuuu there!
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Weekly Food Drive
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Where & When
Date: Sundays
Time: 9:00 & 11:00
Location: Church
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Help the Hungry
Every Sunday in Church, the St. James Foodbank is collecting donations of food. Please support this important ministry by donating any of the following items: canned tomatoes, canned beans, 1 liter packages of long shelf life milk, 500 gram packages of pasta, 1 kilo packages of rice, 80 gram and 160 gram cans of tuna, coffee, crackers, small boxes of juice, merendine.
The shopping cart will be at the back of the Church, waiting to be filled!
Grazie di cuore!
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St. James' Townhouse Available for Bookings
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Come Stay in the St. James' Townhouse
St. James' Town House, in the heart of Florence, is the perfect place to stay with friends or family. We are centrally located near the train station, the Duomo, Piazza della Signoria, and many other favorite places to visit. We accept reservations for a minimum of 1 week and a maximum of 3 months. Your stay with us is considered a donation to St. James Church. Contact us for availability and further information. Everyone is Welcome at St. James' Town House! St. James' Town House is a three story apartment with its own entrance on via Bernardo Rucellai, next to the church rectory and part of the parish complex. It is a spacious 3-bedroom, 3-bath apartment, furnished with antiques, including a beautiful 1826 John Broadwood fortepiano, and overlooking the church and the rectory garden. It is fully equipped with linens for both bed and bath, along with kitchen supplies. There is satellite television that includes many English language programs, a washing machine, microwave oven, and iron. The bedrooms and living room are air conditioned. Off- street parking within the grounds of the church for one car. |
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Lecture at Villa La Pietra Today
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Where & When
Date:Tuesday, October 16
Time: 18:00
Location: Villa la Pietra, New York University, Via Bolognese 120
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Apocalypse and Utopia in the Italian Novel (1945-1975)
The Graduate Studies Seminar at Villa la Pietra, NYU Florence, cordially invites you to a lecture by Florian Mussgnug, University College London on Tuesday, October 16 at 6:00 PM.
Inquiries into the cultural legacy of religion in modern secular life find an object of particular interest in nuclear-war literature of the cold-war period. Rarely, if ever, in the Twentieth Century were thoughts about temporality and eternity, reflections about the nature of evil, and expectations of universal justice as manifest as in the novels and films of the second half of the century. Secular doomsday novels of the atomic age, despite their focus on man-made apocalypse, are steeped in the dark language and violent symbolism of Revelation. Popular religious apocalypticism, with its heightened sense of expectation, stark visions of good and evil, and consistent emphasis on community and collective responsibility appeared to many like the only valid response to the terrible new responsibility that came with the capacity to wipe out life on earth. The atomic age, with its global experience of helplessness and fear of imminent doom, appeared to shift the emphasis away from the figure of the Self and towards the figure of a mysterious and threatening Other.
As spaces are limited please R.S.V.P.
Tel. 055 5007.202 or lapietra.reply@nyu.edu
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Dante and Gluttony
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Where & When
Date: Wednesday, October 17
Time: 18:00
Location:
Lungarno Guicciardini, 9
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Lecture at the British Institute by Lino Pertile
The eminent Dantist Lino Pertile, director of the Harvard Center for Italian Renaissance Studies at Villa I Tatti, discusses overeating in Trecento Florence and Dante's treatment of it in the Divine Comedy.
All are welcome.
Library and Cultural Centre
Palazzo Lanfredini
Lungarno Guicciardini, 9
50125 Firenze
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Talking Pictures at the British Institute
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Where & When
Date: Wednesday, October 17
Time: 20:00
Location:Lungarno Guicciardini 9
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Savage Messiah
The British Institute will show Ken Russel's "Savage Messiah" on Wednesday, October 17, at 8:00 PM.
Sala Fiamma Ferragamo
Harold Acton Library
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An Explorer's Desire
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Where & When
Date: Thursday, October 18
Time: 21.00
Location: Sala Vetrate, SUC, Piazza delle Murate (between via dell'Agnolo and via Ghibellina)
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A New Theatrical Collaboration between the Cities of Florence and Los Angeles
An Explorer's Desire is a multilingual exploration of the contemporary immigrant experience, in honor of l'Anno Vespucciano. Six short pieces written by authors from Florence and Los Angeles, exploring the issues of immigrant experience in these two iconic cities, will be performed by international artists and US university students on Thursday, October 18, at 9.00 PM in the Sala Vetrate, SUC, Piazza delle Murate. The performance is free and with subtitles.
This project is made possible, in part, by a grant from the Department of Cultural Affairs, City of Los Angeles, and with generous support from the Comune di Firenze.
The Global Theatre Project plans to continue the work initiated by Florence International Theatre Company in Florence with the long-term goal of establishing a permanent European lab space in the city of the Renaissance.
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Where & When
Date: Saturday, October 20
Time: 10:00-16:00
Location: Florence Methodist Church, Via de' Benci 9
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Join the Fun at the Methodist Church!
On Saturday, October 20, from 10:00 AM to 4:00 PM, the Methodist Church will be holding its annual Charity Market. The Market will feature hand-crafted items and jewelry from around the world, books, clothes, children's toys and activities, plants and more! Refreshments available to purchase
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Concert of American Music
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Where & When
Date: Sunday, October 21
Time: 21:00
Location: Teatro della Pergola
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America & Amerigo
Mark Sunday, October 21 on your calendars for a concert of American music directed by American conductor John Axerold at Teatro della Pergola (9:00 PM). The next event on the Amerigo & America program, the concert will feature music by contemporary American composer Joan Tower ("Fanfare for the Uncommon Woman"), as well as John Cage ("Fanfare for the Common Man), and the "New World Symphony," written by Dvorak while he was the director of the New York Conservatory (1892-1895).
For this special occasion, readers are entitled to a ticket at the special price of €7; reserve by contacting promozione@amicimusica.fi.it, or calling 055/607440 by Friday, October 19 by 12 noon. There will be also a quilt displayed by an American artist in the foyer as an anticipation of the Amerigo & America Quilt Show that has been rescheduled for February in the American Church.
Pictured: American conductor John Axerold
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Cello and Piano Concert
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Where & When
Date: Monday, October 21
Time:18:00
Location:New York University, Villa la Pietra
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Music in the Villa
You are cordially invited to the last concert with the Conservatorio Cherubini, on October 22, at 6:00 PM at Villa La Pietra.
Cellist Veronica Fabbri and pianist Cesare Pezzi will perform music by Beethoven, Faurč, Debussy and Chopin.
Space is very limited.
RSVP: lapietra.reply@nyu.edu or tel. 055 5007210
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Cena a Teatro
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Where & When
Date: Friday, October 26
Time: 20:00
Location: Casa del Popolo, Fiesole
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| Take my life, and let it be consecrated, Lord, to Thee; take my moments and my days, let them flow in ceaseless praise. Take my hands, and let them move at the impulse of thy love; take my heart, it is thine own; it shall be thy royal throne.
Hymn 707. Words: Francis Ridley Havergal (1836-1879), alt.
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St. James Church, Florence
Via B. Rucellai, 9
Firenze, Italy
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