This year we keep our St Mary’s Harvest Festival on Sunday 2nd October. Rev’d Diane Clark, Chaplain at St Albans Girls School will lead our quiet 8.00am service and our 9.30am All-Age Eucharist, and we have a special Choral Evensong for Harvest at 6.30pm.
We ask those who are able to bring non-perishable food gifts, which will be given to the St Albans and District Foodbank (Trussell Trust) which supplies the foodbank run out of the Methodist Church on Mondays.
Our choir have been working hard towards a special service of Choral Evensong at 6:30pm. Local farmers have been invited. Please swell the numbers and join in this celebration of God’s generous provision and our thankfulness to those who work hard to tend the land.
Our flower team would welcome any foliage, berries or flowers to help decorate the church for Harvest Thanksgiving. If you can help, please bring your contributions to church next Saturday 1st October between 9 and 9:30am, or contact Janet on 792289 to make other arrangements.
Experience a night at the movies 1920s-style at this screening of a silent film with organ accompaniment.
St Mary’s is thrilled to welcome David Gibbs, Director of Music at Kimbolton School, to improvise an organ soundtrack to the 1925 silent film ThePhantom of the Opera.
“The Phantom of the Opera is terrific: unsettling, beautifully shot and imbued with a dense and shadowy Gothic atmosphere.” PopMatters
To complete the cinema experience, we will be serving popcorn and drinks to enjoy during the film. Please allow enough time to purchase these from the Transept before the film begins at 7.30pm.
Admission is free, there are no tickets – so do arrive early if you want to secure a good seat.
There will be a retiring collection in aid of our Charity of the Year, Emmaus Hertfordshire.
Do you have adult’s or children’s outer garments – coats, jackets, winter shoes, hats, gloves, umbrellas to spare? They must be in good enough condition for you to want to wear them!
We have been made aware of an urgent need for these items to help families in Dunstable seeking asylum.
Please leave them in the back pew (by the clergy vestry) in St Mary’s by next Tuesday 20th September no later than 12.00pm.
