Pew Sheet – 3rd March 2024
The Rector writes ‘Fairtrade Fortnight begins tomorrow and this year the theme is ‘Our World Is Boiling! It’s Time To Adjust The Heat!’
We can all see, hear and feel the truth of this, and it is affecting small farmers and workers more than most. We all need to do our bit to adjust the heat, to adapt to the changing climate. To reduce our contributions from how our homes, communities
and businesses that are creating chaotic climate change. This is also true for how Governments spend our money. We need to ensure our politicians deliver climate finance to support the most vulnerable people in the face of chaotic climate change – small farmers and workers.
Our political systems need to ensure that their responses are big and bold – and benefit the people who need the support most.
The climate finance required to adjust the heat has to:
· Support moves towards agroecology
· Support more sustainable business practices
· Help to transform trade for people and planet
At European and local elections in 2024, we are being asked to tell our political candidates to support fairer trade. To ask politicians to support a Local and a Global Green Deal – not just a European one. ‘
Check out the website for further details on this initiative. https://www.fairtrade.ie/fortnight/
Music Notes 03-03-2024
Hymns at St Mary’s
696 God, we praise you!
384 Lord, thy word abideth
222 Here is love
34 O worship the King
The lyricist for our third hymn today is incorrectly labelled Robert Lowry (1826-91) in this edition of the Church Hymnal, although he did write the tune for the hymn. This hymn was written by the Reverend William Rees a Welshman born in 1802 on a farm in Clwyd in Wales. He worked on the family farm until he began preaching at the age of twenty-seven.
He eventually became a Congregational minister ending his time in a parish in Liverpool where he became a well-known writer on social issues such as the abolition of slavery.
Dr Robert Lowry (1826-99), an American Baptist minister, was a prolific writer of hymn tunes. This tune sounds very Welsh although written by an American. The Companion to the Church Hymnal notes its similarity to the Welsh folk tune Calon Lan.
Things will sound a little different in the gallery next Sunday (March 10th) as you will be listening to the choir and organist from St Luke’s Church, Douglas. The Gallery Singers will be visiting Douglas with me. This is the first of what I hope will be a number of ‘swap’ Sundays every year – please give our visitors the warmest of Carrigaline welcomes!
Bébhinn 087 228 5965
bebhinnmuire@gmail.com
Random Notes CDL
Early in 1974 was found in pieces on the floor of a basement room of Britfieldstown, near Roberts Cove, the large cup here illustrated.
Some ten years later in 1984 Britfieldstown was unfortunately demolished, all remaining of it today remaining being a fragment of one corner and a heap of weed covered stones.
The cup, although missing a rather large chunk, was later re-assembled, and subsequently examined by Robin Emmnerson, the author of ‘British Teapots and Tea Drinking’, London, 1992, who of it, on Wednesday, 29th July, 1992, wrote as follows:
‘White earthenware transfer-printed in underglaze blue, probably Staffordshire about 1820. 6 x 31/4″. Staffordshire price lists of the period indicate that the largest size of cup manufactured was called ‘Irish’, the next largest ‘Norfolk’, and the next ‘breakfast’, This is a rare example of this larger size, evidently made for the Irish market.’
K.L.R.
Dates for your Diary
March
3rd MU Famine Lunch after 11am Service
6th Online Zoom Lenten Study 8pm
9th Whist Evening 8pm Canon McCrea Hall, St Mary’s School
13th Online Zoom Lenten Study 8pm
20th Online Zoom Lenten Study 8pm
Holy Week & Easter :
24th Palm Sunday:
9:30am Morning Prayer in St John’s. Palm & Passion Liturgies
11am Morning Prayer in St Mary’s including Palm Procession, with Palm
Liturgy in the Rectory Grounds before returning for Passion Liturgy
in the church.
25th – 27th Monday – Wednesday of Holy Week:
10.30am Holy Communion in St Mary’s
28th Maundy Thursday:
12 noon Diocesan Chrism Eucharist in St Factna’s Cathedral, Rosscarbery.
7:30pm Maundy Thursday Eucharist in St Mary’s,including washing of feet
9pm until Dawn ‘Night/Gethsemane Watch’ , in St Mary’s Church
29th Good Friday:
10.30am St John’s – Morning Prayer with Litany
12 noon Stations of the Cross in St Mary’s Graveyard with our sister
church of Our Lady & St John
7.30pm St Mary’s – Service of Tennebrae
30th Saturday of Holy Week:
9pm St Mary’s – Easter Vigil Service, Pascal candle lit from outside byre.
31st Easter Sunday:
9.30am St John’s – Easter Eucharist
11am St Mary’s – Easter Eucharist
Please support the Famine Lunch today in the Parish Hall
after the 11am Service.
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