Pew Sheet – 17th May 2026

Select Vestry Member Brenda Haubold writes today about Slate Fundraising.

‘Carrigaline Union of parishes would like to offer you the opportunity to purchase a slate from the roof of the Boiler House at St Mary’s Church Carrigaline. The slate numbers are limited and will cost €25 each. This will help cover the costs incurred by Cecil Poole and William Warren-Perry during the restoration last September. Feel free to contact me at 087-6976552’

The Rector adds ‘We are very appreciative of all the work that Cecil and William put into this essential repair and what a fabulous job they made of it! Now we can each own a little bit of history in the form of a commemorative slate! Thank you to Brenda for spearheading this fundraising initiative’

A Prayer for the Selection Process:

Almighty God, guide the Episcopal Electoral College with your holy wisdom. Grant them discernment to choose a shepherd who will lead with love, feed your flock, and uphold the faith of this Church and Diocese.

A Prayer for the Diocese:

Lord Jesus Christ, Shepherd of the Sheep, we commit this

diocese into your hands during this time of vacancy.

Strengthen the clergy and laity to carry on your work, and

prepare us to receive the one you are choosing to lead us.

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Music for a Summer’s Evening:

Concert at St Columba’s Church, Douglas, Cork on Sunday 17th May, 2026 to celebrate the Installation of our New Organ

featuring St Columba’s Church Choir

Cork RTAI Choir, Ashton Adult Education Choir

Ashton School Choir, Lismore Choir

Soprano Soloist: Orlaith Horan

Organist: Antoinette Baker

Musical Director: Dr Mary G. O’Brien

7pm All are welcome . Voluntary Collection in Aid of the Organ Restoration Fund

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St.Mary’s, Marmullane will hold a Coffee Morning on Sat 23rd May at 10 am to 12. €5 entry.

Sale of plants, books, cakes & a raffle.

Proceeds going to Meals on Wheels in the PACE centre, Passage West.

May

Wednesday 27th

3pm, Mothers’ Union meet for a Farewell Afternoon Tea for Canon Elaine following Holy Communion in St. Mary’s Church. This will be a special occasion and all are

welcome.

Sunday 31st

11am United Service in St John’s Church, Monkstown

5pm Service of Wholeness & Healing in St Mary’s Church , Carrigaline.

June

Sunday 14th

Sunday Club Prizegiving

Saturday 20th

Parish Fete

Sunday 21st

Sanctuary Sunday

July

Sunday 12th

Choral Evensong in St John;s Church 7pm

August

Sunday 30^th

United Service in St Mary’s Church

Followed by Parish Barbecue.

Random Notes DXXVIII

Illustrated herewith are photographs of what might appear to some to be simply of nothing more than of three rather rough and uninteresting pieces of wood, presently preserved at Mount Rivers. However, although the pieces are indeed rough, and can hardly make any claim to have aesthetic worth, they do nevertheless possess somewhat more than a passing degree of interest.

The left hand piece of wood was, on Saturday, 22nd July, 2000, picked up off the ground, and is from, what is generally believed to be the oldest living oak tree in South Africa, and furthermore said by many to be also perhaps the oldest in the entire continent of Africa. The tree, dating, it is thought, from the early years of the eighteenth century, is to be found within the Vergelegen wine estate in Somerset West, near Cape Town.

The central fragment of a rather sun bleached piece of an unidentified wood, is from the southernmost province of Tierra del Fuego in South America, and was on the afternoon of Tuesday, 17th November, 2008, found lying on the ground within ‘La Estacion Parque Nacional’, a large rather desolate and arid area, reached from Ushuaia by a thirty minute train journey ( ‘the train at the end of the world’ ), the terminates of which is a small station within the park, a distance of about twenty-four miles to the west of the town

The final fragment of wood to the right is a small piece of blackened Oregon pine, recovered on Saturday, 21st February, 2026, from the decaying mizen mast of the s.s. Great Britain, presently displayed on the esplanade at Port Stanley on the Falkland Islands. The ‘Great Britain’, brainchild of the great Victorian engineer, Isambard Kingdom Brunel, was at the time of her construction the largest propeller driven iron ship in the world. Launched at Bristol in 1843, laid up after storm damage in the Falkland Islands in 1886, and finally abandoned at Sparrow Cove in April 1937. In 1970 the rusting. and by then badly decayed hulk of the ship was towed, resting on a pontoon, on an eighty-seven day, eight thousand mile voyage across the Atlantic, to where on arrival it was placed within the very dock in which the ship had been built in Bristol nearly one hundred and thirty years earlier, and since then, after undergoing substantial restoration, is now open for visiting by the public.