Pewsheet – 8th June 2025

Congratulations to Áine Horgan, Clíodhna O’Regan, Connor Garrett, Frank Fullgraf-Smith, Hannah Forbes, Isabelle Fitzroy, Joshua Ramsden, Matilda Roberts, Maymie O’Leary, Michael Chennells  and Nathan Horgan who will  be confirmed today, the day of Pentecost.

Calling all Gardeners!

Hazel Fleury is making her annual appeal for you all to start potting up now so we have a good supply  of plants for sale on her stall at the Parish Fete on June 21st.

           Dates for your Diary

June

21st    Parish Féte in School Hall and Grounds

21st     Youth Group BBQ  7:30pm till 9pm

29th   5th Sunday United Service of  Wholeness & Healing in St Mary’s at  11am (no 9:30am Service that day)

July

9th    Mothers’ Union 130th Celebration     Service 11:30am  Rushbrooke, Cobh

Our Mother-tongue Is Love

A Sonnet for Pentecost by Malcolm  Guite, From  his book ‘Sounding the Seasons’

 Pentecost

Today we feel the wind beneath our wings
Today  the hidden fountain flows and plays
Today the church draws breath at last and sings
As every flame becomes a Tongue of praise.
This is the feast of fire, air, and water
Poured out and breathed and kindled into earth.
The earth herself awakens to her maker
And is translated out of death to birth.
The right words come today in their right order
And every word spells freedom and release
Today the gospel crosses every border
All tongues are loosened by the Prince of Peace
Today the lost are found in His translation.

Whose mother tongue is Love in every nation.