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=d7jRKwjaOnY

Sunday Club starts this Sunday, September 11th and all children are welcome! They should go to the church for the start of the 10.30am service and they will then move to the Parish Centre. We will be doing a “getting to know you” activity and talking about things lost and found and finding time for God in our day. In the Gospel reading for this Sunday, Luke 15. 1-10, Jesus tells two parables about finding things that were lost. He says that the rejoicing that follows is like the rejoicing in heaven, when one sinner turns back to God.
There will also be a Lego club at the end of Sunday Club (see below) – please bring your own Lego.

Lego wanted
Do you have any Lego that you feel you could part with? Sunday Club is going to start its own Lego Club and we are looking for Lego! If you have a donation you would like to make, please telephone Fiona Arnold on 087 9239491. We will collect!

Choir practices will start again in the church on Wednesday, September 7th at the usual time of 7.15pm. Anyone who thinks they might be interested in joining the choir is very welcome to come along to a few practices, without any obligation, to see what the choir does and how it feels to be singing as part of this group.  Our director of music and organist Nathan Barrett would love to hear from you: on 086 846 0658 or by email: barretna@tcd.ie

Some of the outsider users of the St Paul’s Parish Centre who are gearing up for Autumn include:

Leeson Park School of Music Kindergarten class reopens Tuesday, September 6th at 10 am in Parish Centre for babies/toddlers up to two-and-a-half years old with guardians. Colourstrings Music Education through singing, movement, percussion, listening and fun. See lpsm.ie for further details and contact Teresa at 085 816 4002. Cost for a full year  is €495 which is paid on a term-by-term basis.

Fitness League classes re-start in the Parish Centre on Wednesday, September 7th and Friday, September 9th at 10am.  If you would like to find out more, please contact Lesley Moore on 087 7485154.

A new Beginners’ Pilates eight-week course starts in the Parish Centre on Friday, September 2nd, at 10.45am. Cost  €144; max eight places. Contact Linda on 087 225 3820 or: linda@pilatesforlifeireland.com. See also pilatesforlifeireland.com