Bishop Howard's Easter Message

Special Services for Easter

Below are the special services that will take place during Easter. Please mark your calendars!

Thursday, March 28 at 6:30pm

Maundy Thursday service

Friday, March 29 at 11:00am

Good Friday Stations of the Cross with the Right Reverend Samuel Johnson Howard present

Saturday, March 30 at 6:30pm

The Great Vigil of Easter

Sunday, March 31 at 10:30am

Easter Sunday

Jumping into a 90th Birthday

St. Michael's Church Member Renny Spitzner celebrated her 90th birthday a few days ago by parachuting out of an airplane... Read the whole story here.

French Baroque Music at St. Michael's

The third event in the 2012-2013 Concert Series at St. Michael's Episcopal Church, 4315 NW 23rd Avenue, Gainesville, Florida will be on Sunday, January 27, 2013 at 4pm with French  Baroque Chamber Music performed by the Alachua Consort: Annemieke Pronker-Coron, violin, John Netardus, oboe, and Dr. Miriam Zach, organ. Music includes sonatas by Louis-Nicolas Clérambault, François Couperin, Antoine Dornel, Elisabeth-Claude Jacquet de la Guerre, and Carl Rosier. The concert is free of charge. Donations to St. Michael's are welcome.

I have attached a poster created by Dr. Mikesch Muecke to this email which you are welcome to distribute.

Cordially,
Miriam

Dr. Miriam Zach
University of Florida Honors,
Director of Music/Organist
St. Michael's Episcopal Church,
Former Dean American Guild of Organists
Gainesville, Florida

From the Music Director Dr. Miriam Zach

We would like to invite you to our international King's College, Cambridge Festival of Nine Lessons and Carols on Sunday, December 23, 2012 at 10:30am, St. Michael's Episcopal Church, 4315 NW 23rd Avenue, Gainesville, Florida with the St. Michael's Singers, St. Michael's Recorder Ensemble, and the Alachua Consort Annemieke Pronker-Coron, violinist; John Netardus, oboist ; Dr. Miriam Zach, organist and Director of Music St. Michael's. In addition to congregational singing of carols from our 1982 Hymnal, the choir will sing anthems by Palestrina, Kodaly, Rachmaninov, Rutter, Aleotti, and Vittoria from Italy, Hungary, Russia, France, Puerto Rico, Holland, and Spain, with chamber music from Belgium, England, and Germany.

We would also like to invite you to our upcoming holiday services:
Monday, December 24  7pm Christmas Eve
Sunday, December 30 8am & 10:30am  New Year's Eve
Sunday, January 6  8am & 10:30am Epiphany

Pastoral Letter from the Bishop

This might be of interest to parishioners. Bishop Howard sent a pastoral letter to all churches in the diocese, and here is the link to the pdf

Dio-Logue Newsletter from November 28

Here's the link: http://eepurl.com/scysz