Llandudno -
Our Lady Star of
the Sea
Parish
Priest: Fr Antony Jones STL - Telephone: 01492 860546 [Email]
Sunday July
9th
2006
Dear Parishioner,
I don’t remember a recent Newsletter getting a bigger response than
last week’s. It would appear that the Feed my Lambs project that
I proposed and launched in that Newsletter has struck a cord with very
many of you.
It will get off the ground this weekend at all the Masses and I am
working on ways of getting the children and the school engaged in it.
Thank you too for your very generous response to Sr Jean’s collection
last week. As you can see overleaf, it raised £450.
We have been juggling Sr Jean’s collection around to try to fit it in
on those weekends when there are no other collections. But I
think, in future, we should always hold our collection for Sr Jean’s
clinic on the first Sunday of the month, no matter what. In this
way you will know exactly where you are. So, even if there is
another collection on that Sunday, Sr Jean’s Collection will still go
ahead.
The Diocesan Family Day Is this Sunday (today), staring at 1130am at
Pantasaph. Sorry that the notice is so short. It is a great
day-out for the children.
You have heard brief mention already of the Concert to be held in our
Church next Sunday at 7pm. Let me now explain in more
detail. A local choir and consortium, called the Amici Del Canto
Choir, is planning on visiting Rome where they are already booked to
sing and play before His Holiness the Pope. The Choir includes
several young people who are finding it difficult to go, as the air
fare is not only expensive in itself but they have to buy air tickets
for their musical instruments as well, particularly for the bulkier
ones. It is to help these youngsters particularly that this
concert is being put on, and Romeo’s Restaurant here in Lloyd Street is
sponsoring it.
The programme, a Monteverdi and Pergolesi Evening, will be the
programme they will perform in Rome. Claudio Monteverdi was a
very famous Italian composer, violinist and singer. He lived
between 1567 and 1643 and his work marks the transition from
Renaissance to Baroque music. His most famous work was his
Vespers of the Blessed Virgin Mary, to this very day a most popular
work. But I don’t expect to be hearing that next Sunday!
Pergolesi was also Italian, also a composer, but lived a century later
than Monteverdi, dying at the tender age of 26 in the year 1736.
His most famous work was his Stabat Mater, also still very popular
today. The Concert will give us a taste of their music. It
will be followed by a cheese and wine party, provided by Romeo’s, on
the Patio at Stella Maris, if the weather remains clement. The
tickets are £5 each and are available today and next
Sunday. The proceeds will be divided equally between church and
choir.
And mentioning Stella Maris, let me give you plenty of notice that it
will be closed for at least a fortnight from Sunday 13 August.
There has been a persistent damp problem and the Finance Committee and
I have decided to sort it out once and for all. The Presbytery or
the Crying Room could be used for parish meetings until Stella Maris is
up and running again. We take it so much for granted now that we
will really miss it while it is not available.
God bless you,
Fr Antony Jones