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Special Music at 11:00 Eucharist
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Where & When
Date: Sunday, June 30
Time: 11:00 Eucharist
Location: St. James
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Good Shepherd Episcopal Church Choir
This coming Sunday, June 30, we welcome back the Good Shepherd Episcopal Church Choir from Lexington, KY, directed by John Linker.
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Save the Dates
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Looking Forward to Fall-Winter!
Sunday, September 22
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.
November 2-3
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.
December 15
A free Holiday Dinner will be celebrated following the 11:00 AMparish Eucharist.
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Playhouse Available
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Free!
St. James has an old wooden playhouse to give to anyone who might like it. Please contact the Church office.
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2013 Local Outreach
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Call for Recipient Suggestions
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.
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Office Schedule
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Reminder
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!
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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, and especially baby food (fruit) and baby formula.
The shopping cart will be at the back of the Church, waiting to be filled!
Grazie di cuore!
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Volunteers Wanted
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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.
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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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Events in Florence ... and Beyond
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Carlo Goldoni and Pietro Chiari: Two Authors for One Company
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Where & When
Date: Wednesday, June 26
Time: 18:10
Location: British Institute, Lungarno Guicciardini 9
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A Lecture by Gherardo Vitali Rosati
The young Italian theatre critic Gherardo Vitali Rosati discusses (in English) the complex rivalry between two eighteenth-century playwrights, the Venetian Carlo Goldoni (1707-1793, pictured) and the Brescian Pietro Chiari (1712-1785).
This will be the last cultural programme lecture of the spring/summer season.
All are welcome
Library and Cultural Centre
Palazzo Lanfredini
Lungarno Guicciardini, 9
50125 Firenze
Tel: 055 2677 8270
Email: library@britishinstitute.it
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Concert at St. Mark's
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Where & When
Date: Friday, June 28
Time: 18:00
Location: Via Maggio 18
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Booker T Washington High School Choir
St. Mark's Cultural Association of Florence presents an evening of inspiring Sacred Choral Music sung by the award-winning Varsity Choir of the Booker T Washington High School for the Visual and Performing Arts in Dallas, Texas.
Free Entrance
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Where & When
Date: May 10-June 28
Time: Monday-Friday
10-13.30 & 14.30-18.30
Location: RFK Center,
Via Ghibellina 12/A
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Exhibition at the Robert F. Kennedy Center
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.
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Convocation of Episcopal Churches in Europe: Happening # 2
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Where & When
Date: December 27-29
Location: Emmanuel Church, Geneva
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A Christian Experience for Young People
"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
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Writers Reading: The Season 2013
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Where & When
Date: June 27 & 28, July 5
Time: 18:00/18:30 (varies)
Location:varies
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Sponsored by New York University, Villa la Pietra
Internationally celebrated poets and novelists will be reading from their works in different venues of the city.
June 27, 6.30 PM - Palazzo Strozzi, Sala Ferri
Eileen Myles (poet) is the author of numerous books including Snowflake/different streets (poetry, 2012), Inferno (a poet's novel) (2010), Sorry, Tree (poetry, 2007), Tow w/ artist Larry C. Collins (2005), Skies (2001), on my way (2001), Cool for You (novel, 2000), School of Fish (1997), Maxfield Parrish (1995), Not Me (1991), and Chelsea Girls (stories, 1994).
Maaza Mengiste (fiction writer) was born in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia and graduated with an MFA in Creative Writing from New York University, where she teaches. Her work has appeared in "The New York Times," "Granta," "The Granta Anthology of the African Short Story," and "Lettre International", to name a few. Her debut novel, the critically acclaimed Beneath the Lion's Gaze, has been translated into several languages and appeared on several "Best of 2010" lists.
June 28, 6.00 PM - Villa La Pietra
Darin Strauss (fiction) is the author of the international bestseller Chang and Eng, and the New York Times Notable Book, The Real McCoy, one of the New York Public Library's "25 Books to Remember of 2002," the novel More Than it Hurts You, and most recently a memoir, Half a Life,, winner of the National Book Critics Circle Award.
July 5, 6.30 PM - Palazzo Strozzi, Sala Ferri
Matthew Rohrer (poetry) is the author of A Hummock in the Malookas, Satellite, A Green Light, Rise Up, A Plate of Chicken, and Destroyer and Preserver. With Joshua Beckman he wrote Nice Hat. Thanks. His poems have been widely anthologized and have appeared in many journals.
Catherine Barnett (poetry) is the recipient of a Guggenheim Fellowship, a Whiting Writers Award, the Glasgow Prize for Emerging Writers, and a Pushcart Prize. Her first book, Into Perfect Spheres Such Holes Are Pierced (Alice James Books, 2004), won the 2003 Beatrice Hawley Award, and she received the 2012 James Laughlin Award for her second book, The Game of Boxes (Graywolf Press, 2012).
Ulrich Baer (writer) is a writer, translator, and editor who has published widely on photography, poetry, and literature. Among his books are Remnants of Song: Trauma and the Experience of Modernity in Charles Baudelaire and Paul Celan; Spectral Evidence: The Photography of Trauma; the anthology 110 Stories: New York Writes After September 11; Rainer Maria Rilke: Letters on Life (translator and editor); and Beggar's Chicken: Stories from Shangai.
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"God is Love; and love enfolds us, all the world in one embrace; with unfailing grasp God holds us, every child of every race. And when human hearts are breaking under sorrow's iron rod, then we find that self-same aching deep within the heart of God."
Hymn 379, v. 2
Words: Timothy Rees (1874-1939), alt.
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St. James Church, Florence
Via B. Rucellai, 9
Firenze, Italy
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