Pew Sheet – 26th April 2026

The Rector writes ‘ Today we will have a special commissioning prayer for all those voted into office as Select Vestry, Diocesan Synod or Parochial Nominators on 16th April. You will find the list of names and the prayer we will use within this Pewsheet. I’d like to take this opportunity to thank all those who are willing to serve the parish in this capacity.

Next week, as part of the Cork Choral Festival, a 32 strong Male Voice Choir from Portadown will be singing at the 11am Service and there will be refreshments afterwards. If you would like to bake a cake or do up a plate of sandwiches, they can be dropped into the Parish Hall on Sunday morning before the service. I’d imagine a Male Voice Choir would be fairly starving after singing!

Prayer of commissioning

for those voted into office at the Easter Vestry gathering held on Thursday 16th April 2026.

Almighty God

you have set your church in the world

to bear witness to the Gospel.

We thank you that you call

women and men in every generation

to offer their lives and their talents for the fulfillment of your purpose.

Accept these your servants whom you have called to office in this Union of parishes.

Give them grace to do the work committed to them

and vision to lead your people in their witness to the world.

Make them constant in service and wise in counsel , grounded in the love of your Son, Jesus Christ, that through them your will may be done and your name may be glorified

We ask this in the name of our Risen Lord, Jesus Christ. AMEN

Select Vestry 2026-2027

St John’s Rector’s Churchwarden Barney Deane

St Mary’s Rector’s Churchwarden Millie Kingston

St John’s People’s Churchwarden Henry Forbes

St Mary’s People’s Churchwarden Eddie Pierce

Rector’s Glebewarden Rowland Newenham

People’s Glebewarden William Warren-Perry

Hon. Secretary Alice Chambers

Hon. Treasurer Joy Keefe

Health & Safety Officer The Revd Richard Dring (ex officio)

Auditor Patrick Hitchmough

Valerie Andrew

Helen Arnopp

Brenda Haubold

Oriel Hosford

Frances McCarthy

Nichola Nation

Cecil Poole

Lesley Roberts

Hilary Warren-Perry

Parish Webmaster Simon Woodworth

Parochial Nominators 2026-2029

Rowland Newenham, Hilary Warren-Perry, Lesley Roberts, Helen Arnopp

Supplementalists :

Peter Coughlan, Hilary Dring, Frances McCarthy, Brenda Haubold

Diocesan Synod Members 2026-2029

Oriel Hosford, Helen Arnopp, Lesley Roberts, Hilary Warren-Perry, Hilary Dring, Rowland Newenham, Simon Woodworth, William Warren-Perry

Supplementalists :

Joy Keefe, Eddie Pierce

May

Sunday 3rd

· 9:30am Dedication of new Radio Mic in memory of Vonla Good at the Service in St John’s Church

· 11am Cork Choral Festival. A 33 strong Male Voice Choir from Portadown will attend the Service in St Mary’s with refreshments afterwards in the Parish Hall.

Sunday 10th Christian Aid All Age Service at 11am

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.

The Owenabue Garden and Flower Club, Carrigaline

will host a talk by Hazel Woods, Kilmurry Nursery, Wexford

“Bridging the Gap between Spring and Summer”

Venue: St. Mary’s NS, Waterpark, Carrigaline P43 V243

Date: Monday 27th April 2026 at 8pm

All Welcome – Visitors €10

Includes: Horticulture and Decorative Competitions,

Plant Sales Table, Raffle, and Refreshments

Random Notes DXXIV

Illustrated herewith are both the obverse and reverse of a most attractive ten shillings coin, first put into circulation some sixty years ago on Tuesday, 12th April, 1966.

Struck in an alloy of 83% silver, and copper, the coin was issued to mark the fiftieth anniversary of the Easter Rising of 1916, and was the first commemorative coin issued by Ireland, and unusually so, was without the traditional national emblem of a harp.

The coin was designed by the well known designer, Thomas Humphrey Paget (1893-1974), and bears on the obverse an image of Padraig Pearse (1879-1916), one of the leaders of the 1916 rising, executed for his part in it, at 3.30 in the morning of Wednesday, 3rd May, 1916, The reverse carries a

representation of the statue by Oliver Sheppard (1865-1941) of the dying Cu Chulainn, symbolising heroic sacrifice, which statue today is housed in the concourse of the G.P.O., Dublin, and around the edge are inscribed the words ‘Eiri Amac na Casca 1916’ (Easter Rising, 1916).

2,000,000 of the coins were minted, but due to its having failed to be much appreciated by the public, was as a consequence but little used. The result was that of the original mintage, approximately 1,270,000 were subsequently melted down for scrap.