The St Paul’s choir is joining the choir of St Patrick’s Dalkey to lead an Advent Carol Service in the Dalkey church for the cluster of Church of Ireland parishes in our area this Sunday, November 27th at 7pm. All are very welcome. There will be no evening service in St Paul’s this Sunday.
There’s a chance this Saturday morning, November 19th, to start your day with sumptuous singing, exquisite organ music and delicious home-baked cakes and coffee! It’s a fund-raising event for the Pipeworks Organ Festival.
Come along and hear the St Paul’s choir singing and renowned organist Mark Duley, the festival’s artistic director, performing works by Faure, Bach, Stainer, Rutter, Vierne and Goodall.
Date: November 19th
Time: 11am
Venue: St Paul’s Church, Glenageary
Tickets: €10 at the door
Tea, coffee and cakes served after recital in the parish centre.
If you have service medals that belonged to a relative or friend you might like to wear them at our Remembrance Service at 10.30am this Sunday, November 13th, in their honour and in memory of all those who have served. The Act of Remembrance will be within the service of Parish Communion.
Meanwhile, the children will go to Sunday Club,where the talk will be about standing firm when you are afraid and remembering Jesus is with you. In the Gospel reading of the day (Luke 21. 5–19) Jesus tells his disciples that despite war, famine and fearful events, that if they stand firm in their belief of Him, they will gain life. As a Remembrance Sunday activity, the children will be remembering those who have died.
There’s a chance to gather in St Paul’s church to remember family and friends who have died, this Sunday, November 6th, at 7pm, at our annual Service of Thanksgiving and Remembrance of Loved Ones. You are invited to participate in a time of quiet reflection, with appropriate readings and music.
If you would like the name of a loved one to be read out at this service, please add their name to the list, which you will find on the table at the back of the church, or email stpaulsdub@gmail.com before this Friday.
The political drama All the President’s Men, starring Dustin Hoffman and Robert Redford (pictured below) , will be shown at the Parish Film Night this Thursday, October 27th at 8pm in the Parish Centre. It will be introduced by Philip Molloy of Newstalk. Please book a seat by emailling stpaulsdub@gmail.com
On Sunday, November 6th at 7 pm we will have our annual Service of Thanksgiving and Remembrance of Loved Ones. You are invited to participate in a time of quiet reflection, with appropriate readings and music, as we remember those of our families and friends who have died.
If you would like the name of a loved one to be read out at this service, please add their name to the list which you will find on the table at the back of the church.
My name is Emma and I am a teacher in Glenageary Killiney National School. This half term I plan to work with the unaccompanied children of the Calais Refugee Camp. More than 1,000 children aged between eight and 17 have arrived alone to one of the scariest, unsafe places in Europe with no grown-ups to protect and provide for them. As winter draws in their tents are no match for the cold, floods are a constant problem and their future is uncertain as the French authorities have declared that it is their intention to demolish the camp.
Please help me to try and make the lives of these children a little easier. I am collecting warm clothes size small and medium, shoes sizes 40+, sleeping bags, unlocked smart phones, also the boys love comics and sports magazines of any kind. Donations can be left into GKNS, Wyvern Estate, Killiney Road on or before this Friday, October 21st.
The special preacher at our Harvest Thanksgiving this Sunday, October 16th, at 10.30am will be the Right Revd Dr Paul Colton, Bishop of Cork, Cloyne and Ross (pictured below). Coffee afterwards will be served by members of the Badminton Club, in aid of the Blackrock Hospice.
The church will be decorated from 9am this Saturday, October 15th, for the Harvest . All volunteers are welcome to come and help (no experience necessary!). Donations of vegetables, fruit or flowers will be gratefully received and these will go to the Capuchin Fathers afterwards.
Our annual special service for pets will be held at 10.30am on October 2nd, the closest Sunday to the feast day of St Francis of Assisi, the patron saint of animals, on October 4th. It will be a service of thanksgiving for the companionship of pets, with a retiring collection for Irish Guide Dogs for the Blind. All creatures great and small, and toy ones too, are invited. Well-behaved owners are also welcome.
There will be a chance to contribute to the ongoing work of the Irish Motor Neurone Disease Association at coffee after the 10.30am service this Sunday, September 18th and, in doing so, show your support for parishoners Roland Evans and his wife Annette.
Meanwhile you can learn more about the disease and the life of the Evans family by clicking on the following link to watch a short film: youtube.com/watch?v=
