Last Sunday was the conclusion of the children's  Sunday School term, highlighted by an exhibit on the Church portico of the work they had done.

Special thanks to the children and their teachers, Dottie Dunnam and Valery Perkins.

Our Sunday School program is excellent, and lots of fun! Grazie! 

 

The next Thrift Shop will be held on Wednesday, June 5. This will be the last Thrift Shop before the summer break. 

As always, there will be great bargains on gently used clothing, accessories, housewares, toys, and more. 

Don't miss the fun!

 

Once again, St. James Church is hosting the Florence Voice Seminar from Westminster Choir College in Princeton, NJ. This is their 13th year in Florence, studying the language, culture, and beautiful music.

The talented young opera singers  from around the world will hold two concerts of Italian operas and scenes at St. James on Saturday, June 8, and Sunday, June 9, at 8:00 PM.

The concerts are free of charge. 

This coming Sunday, June 9, the Youth Choir of the School of Music of Fiesole, directed by Joan Yakkey and accompanied by Riccardo Foti, will provide the special music at the 11 o'clock Eucharist.

 

Start-up Sunday - We celebrate everyone's return from the summer holidays and begin the new programs for the year. A free cook-out will follow the parish Eucharist, along with a Ministry Fair to sign up to participate in St. James' various ministries. 

Bishop Pierre's Annual Visitation on All Saint's Sunday. A parish cook-out will follow. 

Anyone interested in being confirmed or received into the Episcopal Church, please contact the parish office.

A free Holiday Dinner will be celebrated following the 11:00 AMparish Eucharist.

We need your suggestions for local outreach donations to be made in 2013. There are so many wonderful organizations in the Province of Florence, run primarily by volunteers, which actively help the community. This is an opportunity for St. James to help them in their work.

 

The deadline for submissions is September 30. 

  

Please contact Barbara Maraventano at b.maraventano@gmail.com or Jocelyn Fitzgerald at jocelyn.f@tiscalinet.it. 

The St. James Office is open from 9:00 AM to 1:00 PM, Tuesday through Friday:

 

Telephone: 055 294417

Email: office@stjames.it.

 

The Church is closed on Mondays.

 

Please remember that it is not possible to make deliveries or drop off donations on Mondays. Thank you for your understanding! 

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

 

The "Ladies for Human Rights" exhibit is being held at the Robert F. Kennedy Center, located in the historic "Le Murate." Curated by Melissa Proietti, it is a collection about 18 women from around the world who have worked for human rights.

 

Italian artist Marcello Reboani's brilliant use of recycled materials to create mixed-media rendition of these powerful women will amaze and captivate you. Along with the portraits are the biographies of these larger-than-life ladies and how they contributed to the rights of humans everywhere in the world.

 

From actresses to artists, prisoners to princesses, mothers to martyrs, these various women each in their own way exemplified what each of us has the capacity to do: act upon what is right and to speak out about what we believe to be fair and just and against those things which are unjust. 

 

Roscoe & Italy: The Reception of Italian Renaissance History & Culture in the 18th & 19th Centuries

 

This new book on the Liverpuglian scholar William Roscoe (1753-1831), biographer of Lorenzo the Magnificent and of Pope Leo X, and on his understanding of Italy - which he never visited - will be presented by its editor Stella Fletcher and by several of its contributors.

 

All are welcome

 

Library and Cultural Centre

Palazzo Lanfredini

Lungarno Guicciardini, 9

50125 Firenze

 

Tel: 055 2677 8270 Email:

 

 

 

Melanie Goldstein, Cellist and Fulbright Scholar, Scuola di Musica Fiesole 2012-2013

 

Claudio Capretti, Pianist and Graduate of  The Conservatorio Frescobaldi di Ferrara

 

R.S.V.P.: stanfordinflorence@stanford.edu.

 

As part of the ongoing "Talking Pictures" series, the British Institute will hold a screening of Alfred Hitchcock's film, "Cape Fear," with Gregory Peck, Robert Mitchum, and Polly Bergen, on Wednesday, June 5, at 8:00 PM, in the Sala Fiamma Ferragamo, Harold Acton Library.

 

The Harvard University Center for Italian Renaissance Studies, Florence, in collaboration with the Scuola Normale Superiore, Pisa, will hold a conference on The Italian Renaisance in the Nineteenth Century June 5-7.

The object of this conference is the Renaissance revival as a Pan-European phenomenon of critique, commentary and re-shaping of a nineteenth-century  present perceived as deeply problematic. This three day event proposes to recover some of the multi-dimensionality of the reaction to, transformation of, and commentary on the Italian Renaissance and its ties to nineteenth century modernity, as seen both from within (by Italians) and from without (by foreigners, expatriates, travelers, etc.).

 

For information see: http://itatti.harvard.edu/content/revision-revival-and-return-italian-renaissance-nineteenth-century

Forward thinking and creativity, forces that help to create the Florentine Renaissance, are at the center of a four-day celebration (June 6 - 9) of the mind and soul entitled "The Republic of Ideas, Looking to the Future." Organized by the Italian daily La Repubblica, the gathering of thinkers, journalists, scientists, writers, and musicians offers discussions, interviews, and concerts throughout the city. Topics as diverse as the mafia to the Beatles, the Arab Spring to the current European economic crisis, will be presented in many historic venues including the Salone dei Cinquecento in Palazzo Vecchio, the Oblate library and the Verdi Theatre.

 

Most of the events will be in Italian, but there are some that will take place in English. 

 

For more information:

www.magentalflorence.com or www.firenze.repubblica.it

The Best of  Sri Lankan Finger Food

A Summer Cocktail will be held at the Cloister of the Methodist Church on June 19 from 6:00 to 8:00 PM, to benefit the Associazione Fabio Jonathon ONLUS (www.fabiojonathan.org),  which is building a school in Sri Lanka.

 

Donation: € 10.00

 

For tickets, contact: blandina.steinhauslin@gmail.com

The Anglicans / Episcopalians in Germany: Developing Christian Ministry Weekend presents "The Sound of Freedom: The Music of Liberation - Theology, Worship and Music"with Professor Jeremy Begbie, Duke Divinity School, North Carolina.

 

The seminar will be held at St. George's Church in Berlin from Friday, June 21 - Saturday, June 22

 

If you wish to register for this seminar, please contact:

Rev. Christopher Jage-Bowler (St. George's, Berlin)

Email: berlin.anglican@gmx.de

 

Participants will need to arrange their own accommodation.

 

Cost: 50 euro non-refundable registration fee.

 

St. George's Anglican (Episcopal) Church

 Preußenallee 17-19

(S bahn -Heerstr. or U 2-Neuwestend)

 

 

 

 

"Happening" is a renewal weekend for high school aged young people. The purpose of Happening is to renew the spiritual life of high school students who attend, in order that they may take their place in the ministry and leadership of the parishes and missions which sponsor them. It is a powerful encounter in which young people minister to young people, bringing Jesus Christ joyfully alive in a Eucharistic community of disciples.

 

 It is a weekend experience of fun, games, sharing, surprises and, most of all, a time of spiritual renewal and empowerment. Everyone has a chance to meet in small groups to discuss and respond to a series of talks given by teenagers to teenagers. The talks deal with subjects such as Reality, Faith, Jesus Christ, Church and Prayer.

 

To be held at: Emmanuel Church, 3, rue de Monthoux, 1201 Geneva, Switzerland

 

Dates: December 27-29, 2013

 

Accommodations: A youth hostelwill be reserved for team members and participants. 

 

Questions?  Contact:John Beach, tel. + 41-22-732-8078 or rector@emmanuelchurch.ch

Via B. Rucellai, 9

Firenze, Italy