St. Paul's Within the Walls

Luminaria: J. S. Bach, The Passion According to Matthew
2024-03-24 18:30 - 20:00 (Europe/Rome) | St. Paul’s Within the Walls, Via Nazionale 16a, Rome
St. Paul’s Chamber Orchestra: J. S. Bach, The Passion According to Matthew
Extraordinary concert with paid entry

Palm Sunday
2024-03-24 09:45 - 11:30
This day the service begins with an Ecumenical Procession starting with the Liturgy of the Palms at San Lorenzo in Panisperna. We gather at 09.45 (Via S. Lorenzo in Panisperna 90) and process with our brothers and sisters from S. Vitale up via Nazionale to St. Paul’s.
Today the Palm Sunday Gospel is read in which we hear about Jesus’ triumphal entry into Jerusalem.
The people cry Hosanna (an exclamation or shout of praise to God) and spread Palms and garments in the path of Jesus. We process into the church with Palms and olive branches in joy and excitement.
At the Eucharist the mood changes and focuses on the Passion of Christ. The somber nature is reflected
in the Passion Gospel. We are all part of this great drama. The truth of this day is that we are all responsible through our sins for the Passion and Death of our Lord. The glory of the day is that we know by faith the truth of the Resurrection and the promise of everlasting life “with him who suffered and died for us, and rose again”.

My Friends
2024-03-21 19:00 - 20:30
Come and join friends around the world as we meet online for the monthly St. Paul’s Book Club! In March we are reading My Friends by Hisham Matar.
One evening, as a young boy growing up in Benghazi, Khaled hears a bizarre short story read aloud on the radio, about a man being eaten alive by a cat, and has the sense that his life has been changed forever. Obsessed by the power of those words—and by their enigmatic author, Hosam Zowa—Khaled eventually embarks on a journey that will take him far from home, to pursue a life of the mind at the University of Edinburgh.
There, thrust into an open society that is miles away from the world he knew in Libya, Khaled begins to change. He attends a protest against the Qaddafi regime in London, only to watch it explode into tragedy. In a flash, Khaled finds himself injured, clinging to life, unable to leave Britain, much less return to the country of his birth. To even tell his mother and father back home what he has done, on tapped phone lines, would expose them to danger.
When a chance encounter in a hotel brings Khaled face-to-face with Hosam Zowa, the author of the fateful short story, he is subsumed into the deepest friendship of his life. It is a friendship that not only sustains him but eventually forces him, as the Arab Spring erupts, to confront agonizing tensions between revolution and safety, family and exile, and how to define his own sense of self against those closest to him.
A devastating meditation on friendship and family, and the ways in which time tests—and frays—those bonds, My Friends is an achingly beautiful work of literature by an author working at the peak of his powers. (Goodreads)
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Luminaria: Goodnight, Mr. Purcell- Life and Death of the Greatest British Composer
2024-03-17 18:30 - 20:00 | St. Paul’s Within the Walls, Via Nazionale 16a, Rome
“Good night Mr. Purcell” Musical fantasy about the life and work of Henry Purcell
Vocal – instrumental ensemble “Il Diletto”
Sergio Siminovich, Director

Luminaria: G. Fauré: Requiem
2024-03-10 18:30 - 20:00 | St. Paul’s Within the Walls, Via Nazionale 16a, Rome
Gabriel Fauré: Requiem
Texas Diocesan Choir
Linda Patterson, Organ

Annual Meeting 2024
2024-03-10 12:30 - 14:00
NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN FOR THE CALL TO THE ANNUAL PARISH MEETING
OF ST PAUL’S WITHIN THE WALLS, ROME, ITALY.
It will be held in the Church following a Bilingual Eucharist at 10.30 on Sunday 10th March 2024.
Time for the meeting is approximately 12.30.

There will be a Parish Luncheon in the Crypt after the meeting.

Eligibility for Voting:
Those eligible to vote at the Annual Meeting of the parish shall be:

Baptized and communicant members of the Episcopal/Anglican Church and of the Parish;
Sixteen (16) years and above in age;
Have been attending St Paul’s for not less than three (3) months;
Are pledging members of the congregation or regular contributors to the church’s ministry and life.

The Vestry may at their discretion also allow the vote to those who have expressed a desire to become full members of the Anglican Communion and the Parish, but have not yet been formally received.
The list of members eligible to vote shall be displayed at least two Sundays before the Parish meeting and closed one week in advance of the meeting.
Parish Nominating Committee:
The Vestry is the Nominating Committee.
Positions Open For Nominating:
One position as Warden (2 years) and three positions on Vestry (1 for 1 year, 2 for 2 years). Any St Paul’s Church communicant in good standing wishing to run for any of these positions, or wishing to make recommendations, is asked to speak to a member of the Vestry.

Luminaria: Christian Almada, Organ
2024-03-03 18:30 - 20:00 | St. Paul’s Within the Walls, Via Nazionale 16a, Rome
Christian Almada, Organ
Music of Johann Sebastian Bach, César Franck, Alexander Guilmant, Louis Vierne

Luminaria: JS Bach: The Goldberg Variations
2024-02-25 18:30 - 20:00 | St. Paul’s Within the Walls, Via Nazionale 16a, Rome
Johann Sebastian Bach: The Goldberg Variations
Johannes Skudlik, Piano

Luminaria: Per Sanguinem Tuum
2024-02-18 18:30 - 20:00 | St. Paul’s Within the Walls, Via Nazionale 16a, Rome
Per Sanguinem Tuum
Music of Antonio Lotti, Claudio Monteverdi, Johann Sebastian Bach, Felix Mendelssohn, Franz Liszt
Corale Jubilus Roberto Manuel Zangari, Director

Luminaria: About Oscar Wilde
2024-02-15 19:30 - 21:00 | St. Paul’s Within the Walls, Via Nazionale 16a, Rome
Livia Mazzanti, Organ
On the occasion of the Italian edition of the book “Son of Oscar Wilde” by Vyvyan Holland;
The publisher Alessandro Orlandi from “LA LEPRE EDIZIONI” will be present.

Program:
Richard Wagner (1813-1883): Pilgerchor from Tannhauser (transcription by Franz Liszt)
Livia Mazzanti: Improvisation on an Irish melody
Fryderych Chopin (1810-1849): Prelude in E Minor, Op. 28, n° 4 (transcription by Franz Liszt)
Livia Mazzanti: Improvisation on De profundis (Gregorian chant)
Franz Liszt (1811-1886): Évocation à la Chapelle Sixtine (Allegri ‘Miserere’ and Mozart ‘Ave Vérum’)
Livia Mazzanti: Improvisation on the apse mosaics by Edward Burne-Jones (1833-1898)

The Hunchback of Notre Dame
2024-02-15 19:00 - 20:30
Come and join friends around the world as we meet online for the monthly St. Paul’s Book Club! For February, to celebrate the re-opening of Notre Dame to the public, we are reading Victor Hugo’s The Hunchback of Notre Dame.
This extraordinary historical French gothic novel, set in Medieval Paris under the twin towers of its greatest structure and supreme symbol, the cathedral of Notre-Dame, is the haunting drama of Quasimodo, the disabled bell-ringer of Notre-Dame, as he struggles to stand up to his ableist guardian Claude Frollo, who also wants to commit genocide against Paris’ Romani population.
The novel has been described as a key text in French literature and has been adapted for film over a dozen times, in addition to numerous television and stage adaptations, such as a 1923 silent film with Lon Chaney, a 1939 sound film with Charles Laughton, and a 1996 Disney animated film with Tom Hulce (both as Quasimodo).
The novel sought to preserve values of French culture in a time period of great change, which resulted in the destruction of many French Gothic structures. The novel made Notre-Dame de Paris a national icon and served as a catalyst for renewed interest in the restoration of Gothic form. (Goodreads)
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Dollar Academy in Concert
2024-02-15 17:00 - 18:30
Choir, soloists and musicians of the Dollar Academy (Scotland)
Musical Director: Louise Timney
Free concert offered by the music students of the Dollar Academy in Scotland. Choir soloists and flute & clarinet ensemble.
Dollar Academy is a private college per students from 5 to 18 located in the center of Scotland. The school is recognized for excellence in academic and co-curricular results. The musicians in this group are aged from 15 to 18 and they perform regularly at the school and in the surrounding areas. In October 2022 the school completed its first musical concert tour, in New York and Boston. This is their first concert tour in Rome.
They are presenting a varied repertoire including traditional choral pieces, gospel, classical, musicals and arrangements of pop songs.
The concert lasts 75 minutes.

Wednesday Within the Walls
2024-02-14 19:00 - 21:00
Join us after the Ash Wednesday Eucharist for a simple supper and reflections on the second floor. The event is multilingual, and everyone is welcome.

Ash Wednesday
2024-02-14
“Create in me a clean heart, O God,
and renew a right spirit within me.” – Psalm 51:11
Join us for Ash Wednesday services on 14th February
as we begin our Lenten journey of penitence and forgiveness.
12.00 Imposition of Ashes and Litany of Pentitence
followed by Ashes to Go at the Church door
19.00 Imposition of Ashes and Litany of Pentitence
with The Holy Eucharist Rite II

Luminaria: Juan Paradell Solé, Organ
2024-02-11 18:30 - 20:00 | St. Paul’s Within the Walls, Via Nazionale 16a, Rome
Juan Paradell Solé, Organ
Music of Felix Mendelssohn, César Franck, Eduardo Torres

Luminaria: Duo Résonance
2024-02-04 18:30 - 20:00 | St. Paul’s Within the Walls, Via Nazionale 16a, Rome
Duo Résonance
Vincenzo Isaia, Clarinette
Francesco del Fra, Piano
Music of Johannes Brahms, Max Bruch, Luigi Bassi

Luminaria: Songs, Chansons and Modern and Contemporary Lyrics
2024-01-28 18:30 - 20:00 | St. Paul’s Within the Walls, Via Nazionale 16a, Rome
Songs, Chansons and Modern and Contemporary Lyrics
Rhonda AbouHana, Soprano
Morgana Pala and Francesca Lione, Mezzosoprano
Joseph Draycott, Pianoforte
Music from Maurice Ravel, Benjamin Britten, Alfredo Casella, Giuseppe Natale, Morgana Pala

Luminaria: Trip in Europe between Baroque and Pre-romanticism
2024-01-21 18:30 - 20:00 | St. Paul’s Within the Walls, Via Nazionale 16a, Rome
Trip in Europe between Baroque and Pre-romanticism
Fabio Catania, Viola
Giorgio Napolitani, Guitar
Music from Marin Marais, Georg Philip Telemann, Luigi Boccherini

Let Us Descend
2024-01-18 19:00 - 20:30
Come and join friends around the world as we meet online for the monthly St. Paul’s Book Club! January’s book is Let Us Descend by Jesmyn Ward.
Let Us Descend is a reimagining of American slavery, as beautifully rendered as it is heart-wrenching. Searching, harrowing, replete with transcendent love, the novel is a journey from the rice fields of the Carolinas to the slave markets of New Orleans and into the fearsome heart of a Louisiana sugar plantation.
Annis, sold south by the white enslaver who fathered her, is the reader’s guide through this hellscape. As she struggles through the miles-long march, Annis turns inward, seeking comfort from memories of her mother and stories of her African warrior grandmother. Throughout, she opens herself to a world beyond this world, one teeming with of earth and water, of myth and history; spirits who nurture and give, and those who manipulate and take. While Ward leads readers through the descent, this, her fourth novel, is ultimately a story of rebirth and reclamation.
From one of the most singularly brilliant and beloved writers of her generation, this miracle of a novel inscribes Black American grief and joy into the very land—the rich but unforgiving forests, swamps, and rivers of the American South. Let Us Descend is Jesmyn Ward’s most magnificent novel yet, a masterwork for the ages.
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Luminaria: F. Schubert Winterreise
2024-01-14 18:30 - 20:00 | St. Paul’s Within the Walls, Via Nazionale 16a, Rome
Franz Schubert: Winterreise
Andrea D’Amelio, Baritone
Pier Paolo Vincenzi, Piano

Luminaria: Matteo Imbruno, Organ
2024-01-07 18:30 - 20:00 | St. Paul’s Within the Walls, Via Nazionale 16a, Rome
Matteo Imbruno, Organ
Music from Johann Sebastian Bach, Ferenc Liszt, Leon Boëllmann

Grand Christmas Concert
2023-12-23 20:30 - 22:00
Opera in Roma presents an evening of Christmas music including concertos by Vivaldi and Corelli and arrangements of favourite Christmas carols by Stefano Vasselli.
Stefano Vasselli conducts the Coro da Camera Italiano & ResAltera, and the Orchestra Sinfonica Città di Roma.

Luminaria: C. Saint-Saëns Christmas Oratory
2023-12-17 18:30 - 20:00 | St. Paul’s Within the Walls, Via Nazionale 16a, Rome
Camille Saint-Saëns: Christmas Oratory
John Cabot Chamber Orchestra
Vocal Group Octave Rima and Chorus Nomentum
Pierre Zevort, Organ

Advent Festival of Lessons and Carols
2023-12-13 18:00 - 19:00 | St. Paul’s Within the Walls, Via Nazionale 16a, Rome
Join us for our traditional celebration of Lessons and Carols for the season of Advent. Music will be provided by St. Paul’s Choir with organist Stefano Vasselli.

Luminaria: Una Speme Lusinghiera
2023-12-10 18:30 - 20:00 | St. Paul’s Within the Walls, Via Nazionale 16a, Rome
Una Speme Lusinghiera
Andrea Manchée Soprano
Francesco Taranto 19th Century Guitar
Music by Mauro Giuliani, Vincenzo Bellini, Giuseppe Nicolini and Gioachino Rossini.

Luminaria: Livia Mazzanti, Organ
2023-12-03 18:30 - 20:00 | St. Paul’s Within the Walls, Via Nazionale 16a, Rome
About Oscar Wilde
Livia Mazzanti, Organ
Music by Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart, Richard Wagner, Fryderyk Chopin, Franz Liszt, Hector Berlioz, and Improvisations.

Luminaria: Vox Dilecti Mei
2023-11-26 18:30 - 20:00 | St. Paul’s Within the Walls, Via Nazionale 16a, Rome
Vox dilecti mei – Sacred music by female composers
Eleonora Aleotti, Soprano
Sabina Gagliardi, Alto
Stefania Grillo, Viola da Gamba
Silvia Trovatelli, Organ
Simone Colavecchi, Theorbo
Conductor and arranger: Remo Guerrini

Thanksgiving Dinner
2023-11-22 19:00 - 22:00
All are welcome to join us at 7pm on Wendesday 22 November in the Crypt (entrance through the Church garden, corner of Via Napoli and Via Nazionale) for a traditional (and non!) Thanksgiving Dinner. We will provide the turkey, and we invite you to bring side dishes (perhaps something from your own cultural tradition), desserts or drinks to share.
Please sign up on Eventbrite so we know how many to prepare for!

Luminaria: Orchestra Giovani Musici di Roma
2023-11-19 18:30 - 20:00 | St. Paul’s Within the Walls, Via Nazionale 16a, Rome
Francesco Malatesta, Violin
Alessio Pacchiarotti, Organ
Orchestra Giovani Musici di Roma
Rocco Sbardella, Conductor
G. F. Haendel: Organ Concerto in B flat Maj. Op.4 N.6
J. S. Bach: Violin Concerto in a min. BWV 1041
F. J. Haydn/L.Mozart: Toy Symphony
W. A. Mozart: Sinfonia N. 29 in A Maj. K 201

The Refugee Ocean
2023-11-16 19:00 - 20:30
Come and join friends around the world as we meet online for the monthly St. Paul’s Book Club! November’s book is The Refugee Ocean by Pauls Toutonghi.
Two refugees find that their lives are inextricably linked—over time and distance—by the perils of history and a single haunting piece of music.
Born in Beirut in 1922, Marguerite Toutoungi lives a life of loss and sacrifice. She dreams of traveling to Europe and studying music at the Conservatoire de Paris but her family—and her society—hold her back. When she meets the son of a Cuban tobacco farmer at a formal dance, love transforms her life. Together with him, she flees across the Pacific Ocean. She’s hoping for a new beginning. Instead, she finds revolution and chaos.
Over fifty years later, Naïm Rahil is a teenage refugee from Aleppo, Syria. A former piano prodigy who struggles to thrive in America—and who has lost part of his hand in the war—he dreams of a simple, normal life.
Moving from Aleppo on the brink of civil war, to Lebanon in the late 1940s, to Havana during the Cuban Revolution, to the suburbs of Washington, DC, The Refugee Ocean grapples with what it means to be an immigrant, shows how wounds can heal, and highlights the role of music and art in the resilience of the human spirit. (Goodreads)
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