St. Paul's Within the Walls

Holy Eucharist
2023-01-01 10:30 - 11:30 (Europe/Rome)
Join us for Holy Eucharist at 10:30 am (CET) on Sundays at St. Paul’s. We follow Rite II from The Book of Common Prayer, in the Episcopal Church tradition, with hymns, readings, prayers and sermon.
After the Eucharist you are invited to stay for coffee. On most Sundays we offer the opportunity to join us for lunch at a local hotel. See you there!

Holy Eucharist in Spanish
2023-01-01 12:00 - 13:00, 2024-06-30 12:00 - 13:00
The Latinamerican community meets each Sunday at 12pm to celebrate Holy Eucharist in Spanish. We follow Rite II of the Libro de Oración Común, in the tradition of the Episcopal Church. Coffee and cornetti are available in the garden before and after the service. All are welcome!

Requiem: UAB Concert Choir
2024-06-10 17:00 - 18:00
The University of Alabama at Birmingham (UAB) Concert Choir
Brian Kittredge, conductor
Gorman Jones, organist
Kristine Hurst-Wajszczuk, soprano
Laral Wilson, mezzo-soprano
Won Cho, bass
Requiem Michael John Trotta (b. 1978)
Introit and Kyrie
Dies Irae
Offertory/Hostias
Sanctus
Pie Jesu
Agnus Dei
Lux Aeterna
Libera Me
Et Mor Ultra Non Erit
In Paradisum
The UAB Concert Choir is the select choral ensemble at the University of Alabama at Birmingham. The choir maintains a rigorous performance schedule, giving multiple concerts locally, regionally, nationally, and internationally. Most recent activities include the 2023 World Premiere of Michael Trotta’s Requiem, invitational performances for the 2023 AMEA In-Service Conference, and the 2020 ACDA Southern Region Conference. Additional performances include the 2018 Gotham Sings Performance Series in Carnegie Hall, the 2017 Cante Rode and London Sangerstevne Choral Festivals in The Netherlands and England, the 2020, 2016, and 2012 AMEA In-Service Conferences, and the 2014 Interkultur 8th World Choir Games in Riga, Latvia, where the choir won gold and silver medals in three categories (Youth Mixed, Musica sacra with accompaniment, and Spiritual). The choir’s 2012 CD project, “Unceasing Love,” is available at digital outlets including iTunes and Amazon, and via the department’s online store. Additional activities include world premiere performances by prominent choral composers such as Glenn McClure, Michael Trotta, Richard Burchard, K. Lee Scott, and Stacey V. Gibbs. The choir has built a strong reputation of choral excellence, and has performed at past conferences of the American Choral Directors Association, and in international choral competitions, including the Fleischman International Trophy Competition in Cork, Ireland and the 34th annual Florilege Vocal de Tours in Tours, France. Performing activities have also included invitational concerts throughout the United States and Europe, and regular performances of masterworks with the Alabama Symphony Orchestra. The choir is selected by audition, and is comprised of undergraduate and graduate students from across the university, including music majors and non-music majors.

Brian Kittredge Short Bio
Dr. Brian Kittredge is Associate Professor of Music and Director of Choral Activities at the University of Alabama at Birmingham. Under his direction, the UAB Choirs have gained a strong presence regionally, nationally, and internationally. Dr. Kittredge has led the UAB Concert Choir in performances at the 2023, 2020, 2016, and 2012 Alabama Music Educators Conferences, the 2020 ACDA Southern Region Conference, the 2018 Gotham Sings Choral Festival in Carnegie Hall, the 2017 London Sangerstevne and Cante Rode International Choral Festivals in England and The Netherlands, and the 2014 Interkultur 8th World Choir Games in Riga, Latvia. Dr. Kittredge is an active clinician and guest conductor, and has appeared at choral festivals in Alabama, Arkansas, California, Florida, Georgia, Louisiana, Missouri, Mississippi, New York, South Carolina, Virginia, and Tennessee. He was the guest conductor of the 2016 Organization of American Kodaly Educators National Chamber Choir in Long Beach, CA. Dr. Kittredge holds a Doctor of Musical Arts degree from Louisiana State University, a Master of Music degree from the Eastman School of Music, and a Bachelor of Music degree from Mansfield University.

UAB Concert Choir Personnel

Name
Major
Hometown

Callie Arnold
Biomedical Sciences
Hartselle, AL

Claire Belcher
Music
Leeds, AL

Kazarious Brown
Theatre
Tuscaloosa, AL

Deonte Charles
Computer Science
Bessemer, AL

Ella Cobb
Psychology
Trussville, AL

Logan Cobb
Anthropology
Trussville, AL

Maddie Dannelly
Music Technology
Montgomery, AL

Jenny Dick
Psychology
Huntsville, AL

Carter Dunaway
Computer Science
Birmingham, AL

Grant Earle
Music
Brookwood, AL

Hunter Ellenberger
Music
Hoover, AL

Sierra Frazier
Music
Madison, AL

Sydney Galloway
Psychology
Tuscaloosa, AL

McKenzie George
Psychology
Mobile, AL

Carys Gonzalez
Chemistry
Hoover, AL

Austin Green
Music
Brookwood, AL

Michael Grondin
Biomedical Sciences
Hoover, AL

Kaitlyn Hall
Nursing
Hoover, AL

Jackson Hanle
Physics
Irondale, AL

Bryson Harris
Biomedical Engineering
Mobile, AL

Taylor Hicks
Music Education
Huntsville, AL

Forrest Hilton
Mathematics
Hoover, AL

Camren Hubbard
Music
Decatur, AL

Anaiah Huggins
Psychology
Anniston, AL

Cameron Jackson
Music Technology
Hoover, AL

Veda Joshi
History
Dothan, AL

Christopher Killingsworth
Genetics and Genomic Sci.
Alabaster, AL

Reagan Martin
Music
Cullman, AL

Eric Norman
Secondary English Education
Birmingham, AL

Adrian Parker
Biomedical Sciences
Florence, AL

Conner Parsons
Psychology
Mobile, AL

Abby Sandlin
Music
Decatur, AL

Kaitlyn Savoie
Cancer Biology
Baton Rouge, LA

Charity Seltzer
General Studies
Odenville, AL

Connor Shaddix
Music Technology
Alabaster, AL

Turner Shaw
Music Education
Pinson, AL

Aniyah Smith
Music Education
Oxford, AL

Fred Song
Music
Birmingham, AL

Yifei Song
Digital Forensics
Hoover, AL

Carrie Stewart
English
Birmingham, AL

Gabriella Stovall
Biomedical Sciences
Huntsville, AL

Daven Threadgill
Biology
Tuscaloosa, AL

Sierra Tucker
Chemistry
Huntsville, AL

Soleil Wallen
Chemistry
Simpsonville, SC

Lena West
Music Education
Starkville, MS

St. Paul's & JNRC Pride
2024-06-15 14:30 - 17:00
Join St. Paul’s & JNRC Pride Parade Team on Saturday, 15 June. Meet in front of the church at 2:30pm.
The Rainbow Initiative of the Episcopal Church has provided two banners for us to carry in the parade.
We will also have an InfoPoint table in front of the church starting at 10:00am with literature about the church and refugees center.
Contact Madeline if you want a St. Paul’s T-Shirt to wear in the parade. (We will reserve one for you and you can get it at the InfoPoint table before the parade.

James
2024-06-20 19:00 - 20:30
A brilliant, action-packed reimagining of The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn , both harrowing and ferociously funny, told from the enslaved Jim’s point of view.
When the enslaved Jim overhears that he is about to be sold to a man in New Orleans, separated from his wife and daughter forever, he decides to hide on nearby Jackson Island until he can formulate a plan. Meanwhile, Huck Finn has faked his own death to escape his violent father, recently returned to town. As all readers of American literature know, thus begins the dangerous and transcendent journey by raft down the Mississippi River toward the elusive and too-often-unreliable promise of the Free States and beyond.
While many narrative set pieces of The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn remain in place (floods and storms, stumbling across both unexpected death and unexpected treasure in the myriad stopping points along the river’s banks, encountering the scam artists posing as the Duke and Dauphin…), Jim’s agency, intelligence and compassion are shown in a radically new light. (Goodreads)
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St. John's School, Leatherhead
2024-07-03 17:00 - 18:00
St John’s School Leatherhead
Choir, Schola Cantorum and Chamber Ensemble
St John’s School Leatherhead was founded in 1851 and the school’s sacred choral tradition underlies its foundation, having been established to educate the children of poor clergy. Today the school offers an excellent range of artistic disciplines to a student body of over 850 children.
The St John’s School Leatherhead Choir is the school’s largest choral group. The school choir sings a wide variety of repertoire ranging from sacred choral works to ABBA songs. The choir has performed at venues including London’s Cadogan Hall, G-Live and the Leatherhead Theatre.
The Schola Cantorum is the school’s chamber choir and has achieved success in national choral competitions. In 2017 Schola Cantorum toured Belgium.
The chamber ensemble features musicians drawn from the school’s top ensembles who regularly perform in major concerts and events.
Todays concert features:
Extracts from Eternal Light (Howard Goodall), Requiem (Gabriel Faure) and Little Jazz Mass (Bob Chilcott)
Be thou my vision (Bob Chilcott)
View me Lord (Richard Lloyd)
Locus iste (Anton Bruckner)
Jubilate in Bb (Charles Villiers Stanford)
Bluebird (Charles Villiers Stanford)
Mother of God (John Tavener)
Lullaby (Daniel Elder)
The long day closes (Arthur Sullivan)
Andante from Piano Trio No.1 (Felix Mendelssohn)
The Swan (Camille Saint-Saens)
Elegie (Gabriel Faure)

Prayers for Healing
2024-06-02 11:30 - 12:00
After the 10.30 Eucharist on the first Sunday of the month our clergy and prayer teams offer prayers for healing during the Postlude. If you would like prayers for yourself or someone else, please just approach one of the teams and tell them your name and your request.

Lady Tan’s Circle of Women
2024-07-18 19:00 - 20:30
According to Confucius, “an educated woman is a worthless woman,” but Tan Yunxian—born into an elite family, yet haunted by death, separations, and loneliness—is being raised by her grandparents to be of use. Her grandmother is one of only a handful of female doctors in China, and she teaches Yunxian the pillars of Chinese medicine, the Four Examinations—looking, listening, touching, and asking—something a man can never do with a female patient.
From a young age, Yunxian learns about women’s illnesses, many of which relate to childbearing, alongside a young midwife-in-training, Meiling. The two girls find fast friendship and a mutual purpose—despite the prohibition that a doctor should never touch blood while a midwife comes in frequent contact with it—and they vow to be forever friends, sharing in each other’s joys and struggles. No mud, no lotus , they tell from adversity beauty can bloom.
But when Yunxian is sent into an arranged marriage, her mother-in-law forbids her from seeing Meiling and from helping the women and girls in the household. Yunxian is to act like a proper wife—embroider bound-foot slippers, recite poetry, give birth to sons, and stay forever within the walls of the family compound, the Garden of Fragrant Delights.
How might a woman like Yunxian break free of these traditions and lead a life of such importance that many of her remedies are still used five centuries later? How might the power of friendship support or complicate these efforts? A captivating story of women helping each other, Lady Tan’s Circle of Women is a triumphant reimagining of the life of one person who was remarkable in the Ming dynasty and would be considered remarkable today. (Goodreads)
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Anglicanism in European Perspective
2024-07-21 08:00 - 2024-07-26 17:00
This course is intended for any student of Christian traditions, whether living or simply visiting in Europe, interested in seeing this historic Christian tradition through the lens of its centuries-long presence on the European Continent.
With the Anglican Centre in Rome as principal organizer, and in partnership with the Virginia Theological Seminary (Alexandria VA, USA), the Convocation of Episcopal Churches in Europe, Trinity Church Wall Street (New York), and the Utrecht Summer School, “Anglicanism in European Perspective” is intended for any student of Christian traditions, whether living or simply visiting in Europe, interested in seeing this historic Christian tradition through the lens of its centuries-long presence on the European Continent.
All those considering an ordained vocation in the Episcopal Church from among our congregations are encouraged to participate in the course, and those accepted as postulants are required to have done so.
For more information and to register, please click here.

Kairos
2024-08-15 19:00 - 20:30
Berlin. 11 July 1986. They meet by chance on a bus. She is a young student, he is older and married. Theirs is an intense and sudden attraction, fuelled by a shared passion for music and art, and heightened by the secrecy they must maintain. But when she strays for a single night he cannot forgive her and a dangerous crack forms between them, opening up a space for cruelty, punishment and the exertion of power. And the world around them is changing as the GDR begins to crumble, so too do all the old certainties and the old loyalties, ushering in a new era whose great gains also involve profound loss.
From a prize-winning German writer, this is the intimate and devastating story of the path of two lovers through the ruins of a relationship, set against the backdrop of a seismic period in European history. (Goodreads)
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Training for Chalice Bearers
2024-09-01 09:30 - 10:15
If you are currently a Chalice bearer or you would like to be, Fr. John will be offering training sessions on Sunday 1st September and Sunday 8th September at 09.30 before the Eucharist service. The program will cover the meaning of the Sacraments; how they are consecrated and how to handle them; as well as tips and tricks for Chalice bearers.
If you are interested in joining the group, or finding out more, please speak to Fr. John or call the Parish Office.
