The now traditional joint service of Advent Lessons and Carols with our neighbours in St Patrick’s, Dalkey, takes place on Sunday, December 2nd, at 7pm, in St Patrick’s. The joint choirs will lead the music. There will be no evening service in St Paul’s that night.

 The rest of the St Paul’s programme for Advent and Christmas is as follows:
December
9^th St Paul’s Folk Group re-union, to mark 150th anniversary; the group will provide the music at 10.30am service
23^rd Christingle Service 10.30am in the main hall of the Parish Centre
23^rd Nine Lesson and Carols by Candlelight 7pm
24^th The First Eucharist of Christmas 11.30pm
25^th Christmas Day 8.15am Holy Communion and 10.30am Family Service

Tickets for the performance of Handel’s Messiah in St Paul’s this Saturday, November 17th at 7.30pm can be reserved through stpaulsdub@gmail.com or bought at the door on the night from 7pm. It is part of our 150th anniversary celebrations and to raise funds for Focus Ireland. The Occasional Singers, under conductor Robin Moore, will be joined by soloists Judith Lyons (soprano), Sarah Luttrell (contralto), Luke Horner (tenor), David Corr (bass), with Will Palmer on trumpet and Charles Pearson on organ. Tickets €15 (concessions €10). Please spread the word about this concert to neigbours and friends.

Our Remembrance service at 10.30am this Sunday, November 11th, will also mark exactly 100 years since the First World War ended at the “eleventh hour of the eleventh day of the eleventh month” of 1918. There will  be an Act of Remembrance for all those who died, calling to mind particularly the 17 young  men from St Paul‘s who left Glenageary for the battle fields during 1914-18 and never came home. They were: A. Acton, R.H.M.  Bury, F. Carter, H. Dudley, J. Douglas, E.G. Coldwell, E. Harpur, J.D. Niven, W. O’Conor,  L. Orr, W. Phelan, T.E. Talbot, F.W. Rickets, E. Robinson, C.G. Sherlock, A.E.  Stokes and A.E.  Strong.