Parishioner Pauline Allen is hosting an organic garden open day and plant sale this Thursday, July 29th, from 2pm to 4pm at 66 Bellevue Road, Glenageary. It’s a chance to pick up some handy organic gardening tips.
It is being held in aid of the RNLI, with donations appreciated on entry. Tea and nibbles will be provided.
A past pupil of Glenageary Killiney National School, Chloe Watkins (below), is on the first Irish women’s hockey team to qualify for the Olympics, in the wake of their World Cup silver medal success in 2018. The team’s first match in Tokyo, against South Africa, is scheduled for this coming Saturday, July 24th, at 1.15pm Irish time. The 29-year-old midfielder is the second most capped Irish hockey player, currently on 229 caps.
Her GKNS classmate Gillian Pinder, who withdrew from the Olympic squad for personal reasons last December, will be in the RTE studios as a pundit for coverage of the matches.
The last baptism in St Paul’s was on Saturday, July 3rd, 2021, before all christenings were suspended under a new Covid-19 restriction. The updated advice from the Office of An Taoiseach via the Diocesan office reads:
“From 5th July it is advised that religious ceremonies such as Baptisms, First Holy Communions and Confirmations should not take place at this time. Further advice will follow on resumption of these ceremonies when it is safe to do so”.
Our 11 am service of Holy Communion every Wednesday is an opportunity to drop into St Paul’s for in-church worship. All are very welcome.
Our weekly, midweek service of Holy Communion in St Paul’s at 11am on a Wednesday resumes this week. All are very welcome to take this opportunity of in-church worship after a lockdown of almost five months.
St Paul’s will open again for in-church worship at three services tomorrow for the Seventh Sunday after Easter, at 8.15am, 10.30am and 7pm. All services will be celebrations of Holy Communion, something that has not happened in St Paul’s since December 23rd, which was the last service before the latest lockdown. Capacity is limited to 50 so people are being asked to consider going to the early morning or evening service, instead of the 10.30am one, which will be livestreamed as normal for those unable to attend.
Thank-you to all who took part in or supported the virtual Walk to Kisiizi Hospital that we held recently to raise funds for the Surgeon and Physio assistant’s salaries at Kisiizi Hospital, Uganda.
We had a great response to this event and to date have raised €10,829. Our online payment system (see Donate button above, option 3) remains open for donations and you can also drop contributions into the Rectory at 1 Silchester Road, or into the Kisiizi fund-raising box at the rear of the church when it re-opens on May 16th.
In terms of our distance, we collectively managed almost 4,500km by walking, swimming, and cycling, so that leaves us somewhere in the middle of Algeria!
Thank-you again.
St Paul’s Kisiizi Surgeon’s Fund-Raising Committee
A full schedule of three Sunday services, at 8.15am, 10.30am and 7pm, will resume in St Paul’s from May 16th, with capacity restricted to 50 at a time under continuing Government guidelines to keep everybody safe. The midweek service of 11am Holy Communion will resume on Wednesday, May 19th. We will continue to livestream the 10.30am service on Sundays.
Parishioners are undertaking a virtual fundraising journey of 9,470km to Kisiizi Hospital in southwest Uganda. They are walking, cycling or swimming as many kilometres as they can until Sunday, April 25th and inviting family and friends to sponsor them.
We hope to raise the €15,000 we need to maintain our commitment to pay the salaries of the surgeon and physio assistant at the hospital. Contributions can be made through the online donations system on our website home page.
The institutional church sometimes seems to be preoccupied with ticking the boxes of things “you can’t do”. But Jesus was all about waking up people to the abundance of life, reflects the Rector in “Enjoy Life!”, the last of his “Facing the Future” series for Lent. https://youtu.be/AiBwU22tioo
