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Events at St. James
Special Music at 11:00 Eucharist

Where & When
Date: Sunday, July 7
Time: 11:00 Eucharist
Location: St. James
Good Shepherd Episcopal Church Choir

 

This coming Sunday, July 7, we welcome opera singers Sylvia Bryson and Mary Sue Hyatt of the Lorenzo Malfatti Accademia Vocale di Lucca. (Pictured: Mary Sue Hyatt)

Save the Dates
Full on Church
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.

 
Your St. James
2013 Local Outreach 

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 [email protected] or Jocelyn Fitzgerald at [email protected]

Office Schedule
Full on Church
Reminder

 

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

 

Telephone: 055 294417

Email: [email protected].

 

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! 


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, 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! 


 

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.

 

 

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 ... and Beyond
Writers Reading: The Season 2013

Where & When
Date: July 5
Time:18:30 
Location: Palazzo Strozzi
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. 

RSVP [email protected] or

Tel 055 5007 212


LAST EVENT

 

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.

   
          
Convocation of Episcopal Churches in Europe: Happening # 2

Where & When
Date: December 27-29
Location: Emmanuel Church, Geneva
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 [email protected]

 

"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.

 

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