Parish News Powerscourt & Kilbride

DECEMBER & JANUARY 2014

Wishing you all a Holy & Blessed

CHRISTMAS SERVICES CHRISTMAS EVE: MIDNIGHT EUCHARIST Powerscourt Church 11.30pm CHRISTMAS DAY: HOLY COMMUNION ONE WITH HYMNS Powerscourt Church 8.30am

FESTIVAL EUCHARIST Kilbride Church 10.00am

CHRISTMAS FAMILY SERVICE Powerscourt Church 11.30am

Rector’s Letter Dear All, I’m delighted that the PARISH FORUM on Sunday 16th November went very well. A lively attendance of just over 40 people representing all ages in the parish were facilitated by Dean Tom Gordon in an exercise which recognised both the strengths and weaknesses of our parish in its ministry and outreach and set about identifying the priorities for the next few years. Dean Gordon will send a considered report in the next few weeks which will be published in the next Parish News, but that does not mean that we will ‘sit on our hands’ until then. It would seem that the main thrust of the findings was that we need to build upon the activities which foster the sense of belonging and care among all age groups, but particularly the older and the younger sections of the community. With that comes a need to improve the communications within the parish and beyond. More ways for older and single people to meet need to be developed and more activities for the young need to be provided with a renewal of our family services and other liturgies for young people. There is a recognition that none of this will be achieved if there is not a greater willingness to volunteer to help in these developments. Try as they might the clergy cannot be expected to cover all the areas and they, like everyone else have a limited number of skills. If you have an interest and particularly some experience in working with young people and children, we badly need your help and advice, and if you have skills in modern means of communication we need your input. While the Parish Forum is a great starter in identifying the priorities, it remains only a talking shop unless we make things happen. Please help us to do that. The results of JOINT PARISHES FUNDRAISING were realised when two cheque handovers occurred in the past month. On 16th October €26,000 was distributed between the Lakers organisation and the joint parishes at a ceremony in Lakers premises in Bray. This was the amazing result of the Enniskerry Victorian Field Day held in September. A further €12,500 was handed over to the joint parishes in Powerscourt Golf Club on Friday 14th November, the proceeds of the annual Golf Classic. Well done to everyone involved. KILBRIDE SUPPER DANCE Congratulations to Kilbride Church on another very successful supper dance in Greystones Rugby Club on Friday 17th October. Funds were raised for the church and a good night had be everyone with good food and dancing. A special word of thanks goes to Georgina & Anna Masterson for their continued running of this very enjoyable annual event.

DAILY PRAYER TEAM. Some 20 members of the Daily Prayer leader team spent a time together in Glendalough at the end of the season of the open church on Saturday 25th October. The day began with an introductory session in St John’s Church, Laragh where we were shown great hospitality by the Rector, Rev Brian O’Reilly before continuing to Glendalough itself for a pilgrim walk. The day ended with a meal in the Heather Restaurant. Daily prayer continues for the winter months, once a day at 10.00am in Powerscourt Church. The church will reopen all day from Ash Wednesday 2015. The CELEBRATION OF MEMORY SERVICE on All Saints’ Day was a very meaningful occasion when loved ones were remembered in the quietness of an evening service. REMEMBRANCE DAY also had an added dimension this year when we remembered all those with parish associations who served and/or died in the first world war. The service form provided this year from the Liturgical Advisory Group in conjunction with the Centenary Commemorations Committee was very much appreciated. YOUTH GROUP OUTING. Some of our young people combined with Rathmichael Youth Group to travel to Belfast on Saturday, 8th November to enjoy shopping time followed by an ice hockey match in the Odyssey Arena where the Belfast Giants were victorious. A good example of combining resources to enhance our youth programme. CONGRATULATIONS to Miss Ruth Deane who has been appointed as Deputy Principal in the parish school and to Rev Terry Lilburn on being conferred with a theology degree in Chester on Thursday 6th November. RETIREMENT. Mr Davy Kavanagh has decided to retire from the keeping of the church grounds at Powerscourt. He has been very faithful in this task for some 24 years and we thank him for his loving care of the grounds in all that time. Year after year until very recently his keeping of the churchyard received commendation by the Tidy Towns judges in their annual reports on Enniskerry. We hope he has a long and contended retirement and thank him for all he has done for us. CHARITABLE GIVING On Monday 17th November a sub-committee of the two Select Vestries met to allocate the charitable giving of the parish to missions and charities. A proportion of the direct

giving to the parish is given away each year together with the proceeds of the annual missionary sale which was held this year on Saturday 15th November. A total of just over €8,000 was distributed to a range of missions and charities which we try to support each year. Added to this will be the amount donated specifically for world relief through Bishops’ Appeal, Earl Haig Fund and Simon (Christmas Carol Singing). During Advent there will be a special appeal which is being sponsored by the diocese in conjunction with the Church Missionary Society to aid the hospital in Gaza which will be channelled through the Diocese of Jerusalem. CHRISTMAS CAROLS. The children will begin the annual singing of carols at the school nativity service in Powerscourt Church on Sunday 14th December at 11.30am. The traditional 9 Lessons & Carols Service will be in Powerscourt Church on Friday 19th December at 7.00pm followed by mince pies in the School Hall. Kilbride Church Carol Service will be on Sunday 21st December at 3.00pm while the singing of ‘Carols around the Hills & Valleys’ will begin at Powerscourt Church on Monday 22nd December at 7.00pm. On the Sunday after Christmas the services in both churches will take the form of readings and carols by request. Wishing you all a very Happy Christmas. Your Rector, Ricky

CHRISTMAS SERVICES CHRISTMAS EVE: Midnight Eucharist in Powerscourt Church at 11.30pm CHRISTMAS DAY: Holy Communion One with hymns in Powerscourt Church at 8.30am Festival Eucharist in Kilbride Church at 10.00am Christmas Family Service followed by distribution of Holy Communion in Powerscourt Church at 11.30am PARISH REGISTERS: HOLY BAPTISM: 19th October in Powerscourt Church; Lucy Clarkson 23rd November in Powerscourt Church; Emilia Rose Whelan

Pastoral Care Group Contact Joyce Roe 2862645

As the last Sunday Lunch, which was aimed mostly at those people who live alone, seemed to have been successful we have decided to try another one on Sunday 7th December. Like before we will keep the numbers down to about 26 and will phone around in good time but if you are not on our list at the moment and would like to be included do please let us know. The lunch will be held in the Parochial Hall after church.

Mothers Union

E. Kearon Secretary

On Wednesday 19th last on arrival in the Hall we were greeted by a candlelit table on which was displayed a lovely selection of festive foods. Terry and Breda Lilburn had been busy. Our Branch Leader June opened the Meeting with prayer and then Terry and Breda proceeded to show us how to make interesting but different dishes to have over the Christmas period. Savoury choux pastry buns filled with a mixture of turkey and ham if you have some leftovers or else tongue mixed with mustard mayonnaise, salad chinois, salad aux saucissions, green fruit salad and many other dishes. We all enjoyed tasting the delicious food along with some mulled wine (non alcoholic) and a little Orange Muscat & Flora as well. June thanked Terry and Breda for all their hard work and Members for bringing in the shoeboxes for the Darndale Crèche.

DATES FOR YOUR DIARY:

Wednesday 10th December at 8.00 pm in Mrs. June Roe’s house. Our A.G.M with mulled wine and mince pies. Please note change of venue Wednesday 21st January 2015 at 8.00 pm in the Hall. A Life Unexplored and All That with Mrs. Vanessa Sloper. A talk on facing the world with humour. Have a wonderful Christmas. E. Kearon.

Charabanc Contact: Marjorie Mold: 2863499 We continue to enjoy our Friday afternoons in the Parish Hall and it was great to welcome Iris to the table. We would love to see a few more new faces, so do think about it. We had a pleasant afternoon at Patricia’s Kingfisher restaurant the other Friday and also our bingo session too. This is very popular and we try to do one during each term, of course the prizes are just wonderful. We will do some Christmas decorations in mid-December and also hope to see Jacky and her lady singers on 19th. This will be our last week before Christmas when we will entertain the Kilmac group. We will then take a break till the 10th January providing the weather is kind to us. It is good that Jo is progressing and we all wish her well. We are delighted that Val is settled in at St John’s and wish her well and keep in touch. We were sad to hear of the death of Maisie - poor Maisie had been in bad health for some time and found life very depressing, But now she is at peace. We will miss her. When she was in good health she and her husband were very involved with many of the community events She was a kind and gentle person. We wish everyone a very happy Christmas and a peaceful New Year.

1914-1918 Powerscourt Graveyard. At present the graves of many families who lost relations in the Great War are marked with a poppy. In the church porch are leaflets with biographies of the fallen. You are welcome to explore.

CURATE COMMENTS Over the past few weeks the annual clash of the Christian and the secular worlds will be taking place. Providers of goods and services will bombard us with advertising of the “perfect gift” and we will be overwhelmed with anthropomorphised reindeer, snowmen and elves. In the midst of the madness however, Christians all over the world look towards the East in the expectation of the coming of a Saviour, a light to a darkened world. People here in Ireland have been looking forward in the hope and anticipation of the coming of a different sort of saviour in the form of delivery from the financial millstones that have hung around the necks of so many for the last six or seven years. Whilst a start has been made, there is so much more left to do. We are by no means out of the woods just yet and it would be so easy to slip back. In the meantime each one of us can still play a part, looking out for a friend, a neighbour or even an acquaintance who may be in need of something we can each give – the gift of our friendship. That alone is worth much but it can be the door that opens onto other ways of helping someone. The perfect gift, and there is only one, the gift of God’s Son to the world, we cannot replicate. The gifts of our time and or a heartfelt “I’m thinking of you” or “I love you”, will endure long after the decorations are put away, the cards taken down, the carefully chosen bottle of wine drunk and all the other Christmas gifts exchanged have become just a part of our everyday life. And what of the New Year? What will be dropping through letter boxes apart from the first bills for water consumed and disposed of? A thank-you card, a letter from an old friend or even a not so old one, a party invitation? Don’t wait to receive one, send one. In the meantime let us continue to put our trust in the unchanging, ever-faithful and ever-loving God, “…our refuge and our strength, an ever-present help in time of trouble” (Ps.46:1) and in the joy of the hope that he has set before us. “For to us a child is born, to us a son is given.” (Isaiah 9:6) I wish each and every one of you all the joy and peace of Christmas. And finally; I wonder if it has occurred to anyone that Santa’s helpers are subordinate clauses?

Christmas Decorations

These Beautiful Christmas decorations are €10 each are available at the church. Orders can also be made by emailing [email protected].

Each one is gift wrapped in a red Christmas box with ribbon.

Mistletoe, mince pies and marzipan – some traditions of Christmas Mistletoe is the common name for a group of hemi-parasitic plants in the order Santalales that grow attached to and within the branches of a tree or shrub. (Not many people know that). The word mistletoe is of uncertain origin however it may be related to the German Mist, for dung and Tang for branch, but Old English mistel was also used for basil. According to a custom of Christmas cheer, any two people who meet under a hanging of mistletoe are obliged to kiss. The custom is Scandinavian in origin. It is also traditional that each time this happens a berry is removed. The pundits tell us that this year mistletoe is in plentiful supply so there will be lots of opportunities for spreading some happiness around this Christmas. Mince pies. The origins of the mince pie begins with the medieval pastry, chewette which was either fried or baked. The “chewette” actually contained liver or chopped meat mixed with boiled eggs and ginger. Dried fruit and sweet ingredients would be added to the chewette’s filling for variety. By the 16th century mince’ or shred pie was considered a Christmas speciality, but in the 17th century, Oliver Cromwell made the eating of mince pies on Christmas Day illegal.* The name ‘mincemeat’ comes from the original recipe. Up to the Victorian era the mince (meat) pie would actually have been a spiced meat pie with some dried fruit. Today the only remnant of the original meat is the inclusion of suet. Typically fillings today consist entirely of fruit-based mincemeat containing dried fruit such as raisins, currants, glace cherries, apricot, candied peel; spices such as cinnamon or nutmeg; nuts such as walnuts or chopped almonds; suet; and some kind of alcohol, usually either brandy or rum. Mince pies are suitable for vegetarians only if the suet is replaced by vegetable fat. Marzipan. Stollen is a bread-like cake traditionally made in Germany, usually eaten during the Christmas season as Weihnachtsstollen or Christstollen. Stollen is a fruitcake made with yeast, water and flour, and usually dried citrus peel, dried fruit, almonds, and spices such as cardamom and cinnamon; the dough is quite low in sugar. The finished cake is sprinkled with icing sugar. Sometimes there will also be a filling of marzipan running through the centre. The shape of the cake was originally meant to represent the baby Jesus wrapped in swaddling clothes, and was one of a number of baked goods created to represent aspects of the life and death of Jesus: the pretzel represented Jesus’ bonds, and the (hole-less) doughnut represented the sponge given to him on the cross. (Not many people know this) Yule log. A Yule log is a large log which is burned in the hearth as a part of traditional Yule or Christmas celebrations in some cultures. It can be a part of the Winter Solstice festival or the Twelve Days of Christmas, Christmas Eve, Christmas Day, or Twelfth Night. The expression “Yule log” has also come to refer to log-shaped Christmas cakes, also known as “chocolate logs” or “Bûche de Noël”. (A lot of people know this)

11.30 am Lectors Update A very warm welcome aboard to three new adult lectors – Sarah Micklem, Randolph Healy & Keith McKee. It’s always refreshing to hear new voices delivering readings, and our senior rota now boasts 35 lectors (including 8 couples!). We’re just days into a brand new church year – Year ‘B’ in the cycle. And the first few weeks are always our busiest. In fact, from Advent Sunday on 30th November to our Epiphany Service on 4th January, at least 20 different lectors will deliver readings. Our busiest event by far will be the traditional Festival of Lessons & Carols on Friday 19th December. We’ve advanced our English by 400 years. In 2014 it’s incongruous to teach 9-year-olds terms like “privily”, “travaileth”, “sore afraid” and “great with child” merely to indulge their grandparents’ nostalgia. They’ll have no use for such archaisms in adult life. So this year we’re setting aside the 1611 King James Version. Instead all nine lessons will be from a 2011 edition known as the New International Version (NIV). Ditching the KJV for a contemporary translation enables us to represent a wide variety of age-groups at the lectern. So this year, readings will be delivered by lectors born in every decade from the 1940s through to the 2000s! Several of our more ‘mature’ parishioners harbour a sentimental attachment to the 17th Century King James wording from their own childhoods. It should be noted that the KJV continues to be employed at the corresponding event in our sister parish of Kilbride. That’s on Sunday 21st December. That same Sunday the KJV is also used at a very traditional and thoroughly enjoyable service in the National Cathedral (no tickets required). The Christmas Eve event is broadcast Live on Radio 1 and is always worth a listen. Meanwhile the 19th promises to be a very special night indeed at Powerscourt. Even if you’re not down to deliver a lesson, please try hard to get along anyway and join in the singing from the pews. Christmas & Easter are sometimes called the church’s “shop windows”. So why not invite a friend? Everyone needs to hear the good news of God taking human flesh upon himself and graciously coming into our broken world to redeem lost sinners. Carols night is a delightful occasion, and always followed by yummy mince pies! Meantime a Happy and Blessed Christmas to the entire team of lectors and your families. Ronan Scanlan. “THE SON IS THE RADIANCE OF GOD’S GLORY AND THE EXACT REPRESENTATION OF HIS BEING, SUSTAINING ALL THINGS BY HIS POWERFUL WORD.” HEBREWS 1:3 (NIV)

Entertainment Commitee Contact: Joyce Roe: 2862645

Get out the glad rags for a night to remember on Valentine’s night

Flower Guild

Contact: Marjorie Mold: 2863499 We will meet on Thursday 18th December @ 10.00 am to decorate the church. If anyone would like to come and join us we will be delighted to see you. Some of us will have been to view the Flower Festival and the Armistice Display in Christ Church Bray which was just spectacular. Well done to all the workers. Memorial flowers in church will be by Miss L Williams on November 30th in memory of her parents, by Mrs Bass on 8th December in memory of Bert and by Mrs Ross on 14th in memory of Connolly. In January flowers will be by Mrs Mold on 4th and 11th in memory of her parents and by Mrs Rountree on 18th and 25th. Should any one like to have memorial flowers in Church just give us a call and we will set it up for you.

BRAY CUALANN HISTORICAL SOCIETY The local history society for Bray & North Wicklow December 2014 Lecture On Friday December 17th James Scannell will present his lecture ‘ Christmas in Bray 100 Years Ago (1914) ’ at 11.30 a.m. in Bray Public Library, Eglinton Road, Bray. All welcome – admission free. This lecture will look at the celebration of Christmas in Bray that year, 1914, and at some of the events that took place in the Greater Bray Area over the Christmas and New Year period. January 2015 Lecture On Thursday January 15th the AGM of the Bray Cualann Historical Society will take place at 8 p.m. in the Bray Chamber of Commerce House, 10 Prince of Wales Tce, Quinsboro Road, Bray. All members are requested to attend. The evening will conclude with a presentation by Brian White looking at ‘From Poolbeg to Arklow : the Dublin and Wicklow Coastline ’ plus another presentation which has yet to be confirmed. All are welcome to attend this lecture - contribution €4.

ENNISKERRY HISTORY SOCIETY On Thursday December 10th James Scannell will present his lecture ‘ Christmas in Co.Wicklow 100 Years Ago (1914)’ at 8.30 p.m. in the Powerscourt Arms Hotel, Enniskerry Village. This lecture will look at the celebration of Christmas in Co.Wicklow that year and at some of the events over the Christmas and New Year period. All welcome – admission £3.

* This law is still on the U.K. statute books (Not many people know this either)

Lenten discussion group Following on from our successful annual Lenten series of weekly discussions on faith matters, we are planning another for 2015. This year the theme will be “Come and see.” Provisional dates for these, subject to availability of speakers will be 25th February, 4th, 11th, 25th March and 1st April. Confirmed dates and further details will be in our February newsletter. Please do “Come and see”

We hope to hold a Golden Oldies dinner in the hall on Saturday 14th February so you will hear all the old 45’s and maybe even the 78’s Do you remember them??? This will be our usual great night with good food and a little light entertainment and not to mention a lot of fun all for the unchanged cost of €20 each. Do get your bookings in early as like last time the seats will be limited and we are usually booked up well in advance.

Daily Prayer team walk the labyrinth at Glendalough

Bethlehem at Christmas: Kairos Palestine 2014 is the UN Year of Solidarity with the Palestinian People. Sadly, 2014 has in fact proved to be a very violent and painful year for both Palestine and Israel. It is also five years since the Christian churches in occupied Palestine published their Kairos document: A Moment of Truth. The South African Kairos document published by the churches there in 1985 was an important rallying call to churches throughout the world to put their strength into the fight against the system of apartheid then in existence in that country. It had a considerable impact in involving churches in the campaign against apartheid. Many people now regard the situation in the West Bank as another form of apartheid. There are, for example, separate legal systems for Palestinian citizens and Israeli settlers living in the West Bank: both are under Israeli law but for Palestinians it is military law, for Israeli settlers it is civil law. A Moment of Truth calls on the international Christian churches to put their efforts into bringing about a just peace, for the sake of both Palestine and Israel. To mark Kairos Palestine’s fifth anniversary, the Kairos group in Palestine are organising an international conference in Bethlehem in early December. The conference title is, Life with Dignity and the sub-title quotes 2 Corinthians 4:8 ‘We are afflicted in every way, but not crushed, perplexed, but not despairing.’ It will focus on “theology, advocacy, justice, resistance and pilgrimage”. In December, as we draw near to our celebration of the birth of Jesus, our attention is drawn to the town of Bethlehem. Bethlehem is a Palestinian town in the West Bank. It has three refugee camps and the Bible story of Christmas reminds us that Jesus and his family were refugees during his early years. In December a Christmas tree lights up Manger Square, the Christian churches celebrate the festival and Muslims wish their Christian neighbours a Happy Christmas. Every year the Kairos group, which is based in Bethlehem, put out an ‘Advent Alert’ to Christian churches throughout the world with materials for services, prayer and other actions (http://www.kairospalestine.ps/ sites/default/images/English%20Christmas%20Alert%202014. pdf). Palestinian Christians ask that during Advent and at Christmas we turn our attention to Bethlehem now, as well as Bethlehem at the time of Jesus’ birth. Nora Carmi, Project co-ordinator for Kairos Palestine writes: I urge you during this Advent Season to travel physically or mentally to this very small spot in the world and the poor manger from where the message of peace was proclaimed. After all that the people of this area have endured in 2014, especially in Gaza, my prayer is that this Christmas be a special one for you and your loved ones and ‘Let there be peace on earth as in heaven.’ The Kairos Christmas Alert 2014 includes the following piece by Widad Shabani, who was born in 1936 in the Old City of Jerusalem. She belongs to one of the three remaining Christian Palestinian families living in the “City of David” in Silwan. I ask from the Palestinian people, that we – Christians and Muslims alike – are all praying for peace and freedom, peace and freedom not only for Palestinians but for all people. I am a mother and as a mother I feel with every human being who has lost a beloved one, no matter if he or she is from the Jewish, Christian or Muslim side … I ask my sisters and brothers worldwide to feel with us, to support us, to see the human being in us … to come and visit Palestine and the Palestinian people, to listen to them, to hear their stories, to understand them.

I’ll be attending the Kairos conference. It’s an opportunity to go back to the town where I lived for three months in 2013, to hear how local people, the Christian churches and the international Christian community see the current situation. I’ll write about the conference for the February newsletter. Jenny Derbyshire

PREPARE A PLACE FOR GAZA THIS CHRISTMAS UNITED DIOCESES OF DUBLIN AND GLENDALOUGH ADVENT APPEAL “Let’s prepare a place at our table this Christmas” – that’s the plea from the United Dioceses of Dublin and Glendalough which is running an emergency appeal for Gaza this Advent. The appeal was launched by the Archbishop of Dublin, the Most Revd Dr Michael Jackson, on Tuesday, November 25, and the dioceses aims to raise €150,000 for the Al Ahli Hospital in Gaza City. The non-political appeal is being run as part of a longer term link which is being nurtured between Dublin and Glendalough and the Diocese of Jerusalem. The funds raised will be used for two specific projects in Al Ahli Hospital: to improve facilities for on-call staff and to install solar panels to ensure a more secure electricity supply for the hospital. Families throughout the dioceses are being urged to include an imaginary Gaza guest in their festive gatherings this year to help raise funds for the appeal. They can contribute by donating the cost of the meal for their Gaza guest and the price of a gift for a loved one. The appeal is being coordinated by the Dublin and Glendalough Council for Mission in partnership with Bishops’ Appeal, the United Society and Friends of Sabeel. The longer term link between the Dioceses of Dublin and Glendalough and the Diocese of Jerusalem and the Middle East aims to offer friendship and solidarity in a region where the number of Christians is dwindling. Al Ahli Hospital was built in 1882 by CMS and is owned and controlled by the Diocese of Jerusalem. The hospital’s vision is: “To continue providing the finest medical care possible under the most adverse circumstances to the marginalised and vulnerable poor people whose livelihood are threatened by the effect of human-made disaster, with special attention to the refugee and the poorest of the poor. The hospital is committed to building people’s capacity and competence alongside the development and maintenance of an adequate standard of diagnostic and clinical services”. Overwhelming need in the Diocese of Jerusalem: • 1.8 million people affected in the Gaza Strip • 1,814 fatalities, of which 1,312 are civilians • 9,500 (at least) injured (2,877 children 3,061 women) • 520,000 displaced people housed in UN/government schools or with host families. •  1.5 million people not in shelters with no or extremely restricted access to water. • 10,690 housing units destroyed or severely damaged • 141 schools damaged • 5 hospitals shut down • 24 (at least) health facilities damaged • 2-4 hours of electricity per day on average

Donations can be made to Bishops’ Appeal either by envelopes which are available in the churches or by electronic transfer to IBAN: IE BOFI 9000 1749 8394 99 BIC: BOFIIE2D (reference Gaza).

Calendar December & January December 2014

Janaury 2015

1st Mon 7.00pm 2nd Tue 8.00pm 3rd Wed 9.00am 8.00pm 4th Thur 10.00am 10.30am 7th SUN 8.30am 10.00am 11.30am 12.30pm

Powerscourt Choir Practice in the Rectory Powerscourt Select Vestry meeting in the school Staff meeting Gardening Club Holy Communion & Prayer for the Sick Coffee in the Rectory

1st Thur 10.00am Holy Communion & prayer for the sick 4th SUN CHRISTMAS 2 8.30am Holy Communion 10.00am Holy Communion Two – Kilbride 11.30am Holy Communion Two - Powerscourt

ADVENT 2 Holy Communion Family Service – Kilbride Family Service- Powerscourt Church Lunch

8th Mon 7.00pm 10th Wed 8.00pm 11th Thur 10.00am

Powerscourt Choir Practice in the Rectory Mothers’ Union AGM in home of June Roe Holy Communion & Prayer for the Sick

School Reopens Powerscourt Choir Practice in the Rectory EPIPHANY School Epiphany Service in Powerscourt Church Gardening Club Holy Communion & prayer for the sick

14th SUN 8.30am 10.00am 11.30am 7.00pm

ADVENT 3 Holy Communion Holy Communion One – Kilbride School Nativity Service – Powerscourt St Mary’s Church Christmas Concert

5th Mon 8.30am 7.00pm 6th Tue 9.30am 7th Wed 8.00pm 8th Thur 10.00am 11th SUN 8.30am 10.00am 11.30am

15th Mon 7.00pm 18th Thur 10.00am 19th Fri 7.00pm 20th Sat 10.00am

Powerscourt Choir Practice in the Rectory Decoration of Powerscourt Church for Christmas 9 Lessons & Carols – Powerscourt Decoration of Kilbride Church for Christmas

12th Mon 7.00pm 15th Thur 10.00am 18th /25th

Powerscourt Choir Practice in the Rectory PARISH NEWS DEADLINE Holy Communion & Prayer for the Sick Week of Prayer for Christian Unity

21st SUN 8.30am 11.30am 3.00pm

ADVENT4 Holy Communion Holy Communion Two – Powerscourt Kilbride Carol Service – Kilbride

18th SUN 8.30am 10.00am 11.30am 5.00pm

EPIPHANY TWO Holy Communion Holy Communion One – Kilbride Holy Communion Two – Powerscourt Family ‘Sizzle’ Service - Powerscourt

22nd Mon 7.00pm

Carols around the Hills and ValleysMeet at Powerscourt Church

Christmas Eve 11.30pm Christmas Day 8.30am 10.00am 11.30am

Midnight Eucharist Holy Communion One with Hymns – Powerscourt Christmas Festival Eucharist – Kilbride Christmas Family Service and Children’s Gifts with Distribution of Holy Communion – Powerscourt

28th SUN 8.30am 10.00am 11.30am

CHRISTMAS ONE Holy Communion Readings & Carols by request – Kilbride Readings & Carols by request – Powerscourt

EPIPHANY ONE (THE BAPTISM OF OUR LORD) Holy Communion Family Service - Kilbride Family Service– Powerscourt

19th Mon 7.00pm Powerscourt Choir Practice in the Rectory 21st Wed 8.00pm Mothers’ Union 22nd Thur 10.00am Holy Communion and Prayer for the Sick 25th SUN EPIPHANY THREE 8.30am Holy Communion 10.00am Morning Prayer Two – Kilbride 11.30am Morning Prayer Two – Powerscourt 26th Mon 7.00pm Powerscourt Choir Practice in the Rectory 29th Thur 10.00am Holy Communion and Prayer for the Sick

Parish Hall Organisations Hall Booking: Audrey Dalton Tel 087 2618696 MONDAY

Brownies

5.45 - 7.00

Betty Prenter

087 6860260

Table Tennis

8.00 - 10.00

Elizabeth Rountree

2863534

2nd Mon

Enniskerry Active Retirement Group

10.30 - 12.30

Joan Lee

086 3223878

TUESDAY

Yoga

9.30 - 11.00

Úna Creed

087 2491854

Bridge Club

7.30 - 10.30

Pauline Ann Murray

0862556250

WEDNESDAY

League of Health

10.00 - 12.00

Carol MacNeaney

2824463

1st Wed

Gardening Club

8.00 - 10.00

Janet Sheehy

086 1621856

2nd & 4th Wed

Craft Circle

7.30 - 9.00

Sylvia Zanella

0862376862

3rd Wed

Mothers’ Union

8.00 - 10.00

June Roe

2866030

THURSDAY

Parents & Tots

10.30 - 12.30

Elizabeth Kearon

2760284

Entertainments Comm.

8.00 - 9.30

Joyce Roe

2862645

Yoga

8.00 - 9.30

Mel

086 2210567

FRIDAY

Charabanc

2.30 - 4.30

Marjorie Mold

2863499

SATURDAY

Irish Dancing

10.15 - 12.15

Breeda Finnerty

087 4198988

CONTACT INFORMATION Rector: Archdeacon Ricky Rountree, Powerscourt Rectory, Enniskerry Tel 286 3534 e-mail : [email protected] Curate - assistant and pastor: Rev. Terry Lilburn Tel 086 8865361

School Principal: Anna Ovington

Parish Website www.powerscourt.glendalough.anglican.org

Acting Principal: Ruth Deane Powerscourt N.S. Tel/Fax 286 3862

(School and Parish) e-mail: [email protected] Office Opening Hours: Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday & Friday 8.30am - 12.30pm

Secretary: Hazel Thompson Tel/Fax 286 3862

e-mail: [email protected]

POWERSCOURT

KILBRIDE

Times of Services

Times of Services

Sunday 8.30am Holy Communion 1 (said) Sunday 11.30am 1st: Holy Communion 2nd: Family Service 3rd: Holy Communion Two 4th: Morning Prayer Two 5th: Morning Prayer One

Sunday 10.00am

Thur:

Churchwardens: Hon. Treasurer: Organist: Sec. Sel. Vestry

10.00am Holy Communion & Prayer for Sick

Churchwardens: Gillian Gleasure Rose Whelan Hon. Treasurer: Johnny Honner Acting Treasurer 2014 Lachlan Cameron Organist: Helen O’Toole Sec. Sel. Vestry Barbara Davis

Tel: 276 6812 Tel: 2828531 Tel: 2828266 Tel: 2860122. Tel: 086 8179632 Tel: 286 3871

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Holy Communion Family Service Holy Communion One Morning Prayer Two Morning Prayer One Georgina Masterson Margaret Dorcey Jacinta Long Patricia Armstrong Georgina Masterson

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