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Prayers for Newtown


Our thoughts and prayers are with the victims, family and friends, and townspeople of Newtown, CT. We will continue to remember them in the Prayers of the People during our parish Eucharists.

Events at St. James
Christmas Schedule

Merry Christmas!

 

December 24 - Christmas Eve

6:00 PM Parish Eucharist and Christmas Pageant

11:00 PM Christmas Midnight Mass

 

December 25 - Christmas Day

Eucharist at 11:00 AM

 

The Parish office will be closed December 26 and will reopen January 2, 2013, in observance of the Christmas holiday. Happy New Year!

 

 

Christmas Concert by the Light Gospel Choir

Where & When
Date: Thursday, December 20
Time: 21:00
Location: St. James
In Support of the Associazione Tumori Toscana

 

The Light Gospel Choir, directed by Letizia Dei, will hold a Christmas Concert at St. James this Thursday, December 20, at 9:00 PM. The concert, featuring well-know spirituals, gospel and Christmas music, is to help raise money to expand and improve the Associazione Tumori Toscana's services providing free care at home for cancer patients. 

The suggested donation is €10.

Reservations: 055 2466666.

 

Adult Forum

Adult Forum on Hiatus for the Holidays 

  

The Adult Forum will resume after the New Year. 

 

 

 

Your St. James
Arrivederci Clare and Alessandro

Godspeed
 
We wish Godspeed to Clare Featherston and Alessandro Batacchi as they move to Australia. May they dance with the kangaroos and be kept safe from Tasmanian devils!
 
Thank You!

Beautiful Advent Lessons and Carols
 
Many thanks to Elizabeth Chard, Choir Director, Riccardo Foti, Organist, the Chancel Choir, and readers for the beautiful Advent Lessons and Carols service last Sunday. It certainly put us in the spirit of the season.
Thanks, Timothy and Vestry!

Sumptuous Seasonal Lunch
 
Special thanks to Timothy Chaplin, Senior Warden and Chef Extraordinaire, and the Vestry for hosting our Seasonal Lunch. It was a huge success and enjoyed by everyone, especially the table that sang "Five Golden Rings" during "The 12 Days of Christmas!"
 
Christmas Flowers Donations

Christmas Flowers

 

All who would like to make a donation for Christmas flowers as a Thanksgiving or Memorial to a loved one are asked to send their donation to the Church office, or to use the special envelopes provided in the pews on Sunday. Please enclose the names of those remembered and the donor. Thank you.

 

 

Help Decorate the Church for Christmas

Volunteers Needed
 
We are looking for volunteers who would like to decorate the Church for Christmas after the 11:00 Eucharist this Sunday, December 23. Anyone who would like to be part of the Decoration Team, please contact the Church office. We appreciate your help. 
Volunteers Wanted
Full on Church
Lend a Hand in the Church Office

 

Volunteers are needed to help with folding bulletins. A small time commitment would make a big difference! If interested, please contact the Church office.

 

 

Updating the Directory

Please Update Your Information

 

We are in the process of updating the Church Directory. The list of names and addresses we currently have is at the back of the Church. Please take a moment to check and update your information.  If you are not on the list and wish to be included in the Directory, please add yourself - name, adress, telephone, email. PLEASE PRINT CLEARLY. If you  prefer, call or email the Church office with your information. Finally, if you know for sure that someone on the list is no longer part of the St. James community, please let us know. 

 

Weekly Food Drive

Where & When
Date: Sundays
Time: 9:00 & 11:00
Location: Church
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! 


 

St. James' Townhouse Available for Bookings

Contact: [email protected]
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.

 

Events in Florence
Embodiments

Where & When
Date: Through January 31
Location:Via Romana 17
Museum of Natural History

 

The Museum of Natural History of the University of Florence and the artist Janice Gordon cordially invite you to the exhibit EMBODIMENTS.

 

Janice Gordon is a New York artist who explores the connections between art and science, nature and culture, and the relations between the physical and the metaphysical. In recent years, she has investigated the human body and the ways in which it is perceived. Gordon has shown her work in the United States of America, but Embodiments is her first exposition in Italy. The exhibit is a body of works inspired by the antique anatomical models of the Zoological Section of "La Specola."

 

Hours: 9.30 - 16.30 each day, closed Mondays   

There is no extra charge beyond museum admission for the exhibition.   

Museum tickects:

Full: € 6,00
Reduced: € 3,00    

For further information:

Servizi Didattico Divulgativi
Tel. +39055-2346760

 

Hark! a thrilling voice is sounding, "Christ is nigh," it seems to say; "Cast away the works of darkness, O ye children of the day."

    Hymn 59. Words: Latin, ca. 6th cent.: tr. Hymns Ancient and Modern, 1861, alt.

St. James Church, Florence
Via B. Rucellai, 9
Firenze, Italy
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