Monthly Archives: March 2015

Our Holy Week journey…

As Holy Week counts down to Easter Sunday, there is daily 7.15 am Holy Communion in St Paul’s (Mon-Thurs), evening services that rotate around five local parishes and two Good Friday services in St Paul’s. The full schedule is as follows:
Monday 30th 
Holy Communion 7.15 am
Evening Service St Patrick’s Church, Dalkey at 8 pm

Tuesday 31st
Holy Communion 7.15 am
Evening Service St Paul’s, Glenageary at 8 pm
Preacher: The Most Rev. Pat Storey Bishop of Meath and Kildare

Wednesday 1st 
Holy Communion 7.15 am
Holy Communion 11 am
Evening Service St Matthias, Ballybrack at 8 pm
Preacher: The Most Rev. Pat Storey Bishop of Meath and Kildare

Maundy Thursday 2nd
Holy Communion 7.15 am
Evening Service (Holy Communion) Holy Trinity Killiney at 8 pm
Preacher: The Most Rev. Pat Storey Bishop of Meath and Kildare

Good Friday 3rd 
All Age Service for Good Friday 10.30 am
One hour at the cross 2 pm  A service of hymns, readings and meditation
Evening Service Christ Church, Dun Laoghaire at 8 pm

Easter Sunday 5th
8.15 am Holy Communion (One)
10.30 am Parish Communion followed by an egg hunt in the church grounds
7 pm No Service

 

Bishop Pat Storey to preach at Holy Week services

Our Holy Week services kick off with interactive, all-age worship for Palm Sunday in St Paul’s. The schedule for the rest of the week is as follows, with the 8pm  services rotating around local parishes:

Mon 30th       Holy Communion 7.15 am
Evening Service St Patrick’s Church, Dalkey at 8 pm

 

Tues 31st    Holy Communion 7.15 am
Evening Service St Paul’s, Glenageary at 8 pm
Preacher: The Most Rev. Pat Storey Bishop of Meath and Kildare

 

Wed 1st            Holy Communion 7.15 am
Holy Communion 11 am
Evening Service St Matthias, Ballybrack at 8 pm
Preacher: The Most Rev. Pat Storey Bishop of Meath and Kildare

 

Maundy Thurs 2nd
Holy Communion 7.15 am
Evening Service (Holy Communion) Holy Trinity Killiney at 8 pm
Preacher: The Most Rev. Pat Storey Bishop of Meath and Kildare

 

Good Friday 3rd
All Age Service for Good Friday 10.30 am
One hour at the cross 2 pm  A service of hymns, readings and meditation
Evening Service Christ Church, Dun Laoghaire at 8 pm

 

Sunday Club to host Soup Lunch

The Sunday Club is hosting a Soup Lunch in aid of Solas this Sunday, March 22nd, after the main morning service  in the Parish Centre (approx. 11.45 am). It would be helpful to those catering if you could please email stpaulsdub@gmail.com to say if you will be there.
Solas is a Dublin inner-city project providing meals and after-school opportunities for children to study, learn skills, partake in sports, etc.  The vision of the Solas Project is to see communities rejuvenated through education and sport, helping young people to overcome all limitations imposed on them by social and educational disadvantage

Mothering Sunday service

There will be a special service for Mothering Sunday this Sunday, March 15th, at 10.30am. Flowers are distributed to all women during the service in thanks for their mothering role. And, for the day that’s in it, an all-male team will be serving tea and coffee in the Parish Centre afterwards.

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World Day of Prayer this Friday

Area service at 11am in Dun Laoghaire Methodist Church on Northumberland Avenue

A group of Christian women in the Bahamas have prepared the service that will be used in churches around the globe to mark World Day of Prayer this Friday, March 6th. Our local service, which is organised by a ecumenical committee representing various churches in the area, including St Paul’s, will be held in Dun Laoghaire Methodist Church on Northumberland Avenue at 11am. All women and men are welcome.

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Discussion group meets every Monday during Lent

There was a great turn-out and stimulating talk at the first meeting of our Monday Lent Discussion Group in the Committee Room (upstairs) of the Parish Centre. We regroup there tonight (and every Monday during Lent) at 8 pm for session two of “Embracing an Adult Faith – What it means to be Christian”, introduced by Marcus Borg on a DVD. All are most welcome.  Each session lasts for approx. one hour