Pew Sheet – 1st September 2024

Dates for your Diary

Tuesday 3rd September

Indoor Bowls resume 7:45pm in St Mary’s School

Wednesday 18th September

Mothers’ Union Opening Service 3:30pm St Mary’s Church

Sunday 29th September

United Animal Blessing Service at 11am in St Mary’s Church. 

(no 9:30am Service)

Service of Wholeness & Healing at 7pm in St John’s Church.

Saturday 12th October

Harvest Supper 7:30pm, Canon McCrea Hall

Sunday 13th October

Harvest Thanksgiving Services in both churches, a professional Parish Photo will be taken at the end of the Service. Sunflower Competition Results and Prizes.

Thursday 24th October

Exciting Parish Fundraiser Fashion Event Parish Hall with Emily FashionablyFortyish’  details nearer the time but save the date!

My Fourth Time, We Drowned

Fáilte Cork is the name of the Community Sponsorship Group towards which both St Mary’s and St John’s parishioners, individually and collectively donated €1250 in retiring collections and other individual donations on Sanctuary Sunday in June.

Fáilte Cork are grateful to Kelly Buckley for speaking on the day, to Simon Woodworth for leading the services and to the parishioners for donating so generously. We have now reached 50% of our €10,000 target.

Fáilte Cork have invited Sally Hayden, author of the multi-award-winning book “My Fourth Time, We Drowned” to participate in a public interview in the Aula Maxima in UCC on Thursday 12 September (c. 5-30-7 pm).

This book is a groundbreaking work of investigative journalism in which Sally Hayden reveals the fate of innumerable migrants trapped between the EU’s borders and the traffickers and criminals exploiting them.   It is about those seeking refuge on the World’s deadliest migration route, the Mediterranean Sea.

The book received the highly prestigious Orwell Prize for Political Writing in 2022, and has also received numerous other awards, including the Michael Déon Prize, An Post Irish Book of the Year, and one of the New Yorker’s Best Books of 2022.

As Carrigaline Union of Parishes is a Church of Sanctuary, and I am one of your representatives in that role, I would like to promote this event.   If anyone wishes to buy tickets to this public interview (€10 each) please contact me.   Thank-You for reading this!                      Rowland Newenham 0872522541

PURPLE HAIR FOR MUMS IN MAY FUND 

You might be wondering about Hilary’s purple hair. Everyone seems to love it, but it’s not just for fun.

I have done this as a sponsored hair dye to raise money for the Mothers’ Union Mums in May Fund which provides grants for projects across Ireland. These projects are varied, supporting families in need, including refugee families, supporting our primary schools, providing free cookbooks to students, and wooden prayer crosses for our hospital chaplains to give to patients and much more.

Every project makes a difference to people’s lives, and every donation helps us to make that difference. Donations are very welcome, either in cash or there is a GoFundMe link which is as follows https://gofund.me/b4244b31. You can also find the link on the parish Facebook page. Thank you to all who have already contributed. (HD)

ST MARY’S INDOOR BOWLING CLUB 2024/25 SEASON

St. Mary’s Indoor Bowls Club re-opens on Tuesday 3rd September 2024 at 7.45pm in St Mary’s School Hall, Waterpark. New members welcome.

For enquiries contact Henry Forbes 087 2035000 or stmarysbowlscarrigaline@gmail.com.

Random Notes CDLXVI

Illustrated herewith is a not uninteresting little circular oak box, with, having inset on its lid a silver disc, elegantly engraved with an inscription, as follows.

‘Made from wood, found, in the Ruins, of the, Houses of Parliament, destroyed by fire, 16th Octr, 1834’

Little needs to be added to the above, save that the medieval Palace of Westminster in London, by then being used as the Houses of Parliament was in 1834 destroyed in an enormous conflagration, the source of which was caused by the burning of a quantity of small wooden tally sticks which had previously been used as part of an  accounting procedure until the abolition of the same in 1826.

The, presumably large, quantity of sticks were being disposed of in two furnaces beneath the House of Lords, and the resultant blaze caused a fire to commence within the flues which ran beneath the floor of the Lords’ chamber and up through the walls.

The resulting fire spread rapidly throughout the complex and developed into the largest inferno London had witnessed since the great fire of 1666, a disaster not to be repeated again  until the blitz of 1940. The fire attracted an inevitably large crowd of onlookers, and continued throughout the greater part of the night, destroying in the process a large part of the palace, including the ancient Chapel of St. Stephen, it by then having been converted to form the meeting place of the House of Commons. 

                                                                                                                                                                                 K.L.R.

Categories Parish Notices | Tags: | Posted on September 2, 2024

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