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Services over Christmas and New Year St Paul’s Parish Glenageary PLEASE NOTE THE FOLLOWING: PARISH CHIMES The church remains closed until further notice. Services in Parish Centre unless otherwise December 2012-January 2013 indicated The following services will take place in Christ Church Dun Laoghaire. (Parking in the vicinity of the church can be difficult so please leave home in plenty of time) Nine Lessons and Carols by Candlelight (Sunday 23rd December 7 p.m.) Christmas Eve (Monday) 11.30 p.m. Christmas Day (Tuesday) 10.30 a.m. Sunday 30th December 10.30 a.m. Sunday 6th January 10.30 a.m. Sunday 13th January 10.30 a.m. All other services over Christmas and New Year will take place in the Parish Centre Dec 2nd The First Sunday of Advent 8.15 a.m. Holy Communion (One) 10.30 a.m. A Service of the Word and Sunday Club 7 p.m. Worship and Wedges (Christingle) Dec 5th Wednesday 11 a.m. Holy Communion (One) Dec 9th The Second Sunday of Advent 8.15 a.m. Holy Communion (One) 10.30 a.m. Parish Communion and Sunday Club 7 p.m. A Service of the Word Dec 12th Wednesday 11 a.m. Holy Communion (One) Dec 16th The Third Sunday of Advent 8.15 a.m. Holy Communion (One) 10.30 a.m. Morning Prayer and Sunday Club WISHING YOU A HAPPY CHRISTMAS AND Gift Day for Children’s Hospital in Tallaght 7 p.m. Holy Communion (Two) A PEACE FILLED NEW YEAR 40 ST PAUL’S CHURCH, PARISH OF GLENAGEARY Dec 24th Christmas Eve (Monday) 11.30 p.m. The First Communion of Christmas Day Rector: The Rev Gary Dowd in Christ Church Dun Laoghaire. The Rectory, 1 Silchester Road, Glenageary, Co (Joint service) PLEASE NOTE VENUE Dublin Tel/Fax 01 2801616 e mail: [email protected] Dec 25th CHRISTMAS DAY (Tuesday) 8.15 a.m. Holy Communion (One) Parish Centre Rector’s Churchwarden Geoff Barry 2823670 10.30 a.m. Family Service in Christ Church Dun Laoghaire People’s Churchwarden Diane Middleton 2826298 (Joint service) PLEASE NOTE VENUE Rector’s Glebewarden Erica Pickering 2844263 12 Noon Holy Communion (Two) (said service) Parish Centre People’s Glebewarden Frank Gunning 2043054 Hon. Treasurer. Alan Lowther 2854475 Dec 26th Wednesday Hon. Secretary. Margaret Woods 2805961 11 a.m. NO SERVICE Organist/Choir Director Derek Verso 2823415 Youth worker Tanya Chapple 086 3994852 Dec 30th The First Sunday of Christmas Stewardship: David Pain 2805353 8.15 a.m. Holy Communion (One) Parish Centre Church Review Deborah Burke 2855486 10.30 a.m. Morning Prayer (Two) in Christ Church Dun Laoghaire. Sunday Club Karen Lavery 087 2476813 (Joint service) PLEASE NOTE VENUE Church of Ireland Gazette Ivor Moloney 2807695 Church Flowers Harriet Greenlee 2820422 7 p.m. Evening Prayer Parish Centre Church Linen Ann Barrett 2720397 Parish Facilities Coordinator Cynthia Gray 087 9637008 JANUARY 2013 SELECT VESTRY 2012/2013 Jan 2nd Wednesday 11 a.m. Holy Communion (One) Parish Centre The Rector (Chairperson), Geoff Barry; Diane Middleton; Rita Dalton; Erica Pickering; Deborah Burke; Dominic Galvin, Joe Harvey; Paul Hatton; Deirdre Jan 6th THE EPIPHANY Moppett; Sheila Wayman; Roger West; Mary Heseltine; Frank Gunning; John 8.15 a.m. Holy Communion (One) Parish Centre White, Alan Lowther (Hon. Treasurer) and Margaret Woods (Hon. Secretary). 10.30 a.m. Holy Communion (One) in Christ Church Dun Laoghaire. (Joint service) PLEASE NOTE VENUE USEFUL NUMBERS 7 p.m. Holy Communion (One) Parish Centre Glenageary Killiney National School (Principal Mrs Sadie Honner) 2856011 Jan 9th Wednesday Parish Centre enquiries and bookings (Cynthia Gray) 087 9637008 11 a.m. Holy Communion (One) Parish Centre Church Web Sites Jan 13th The Baptism of Christ 8.15 a.m. Holy Communion (One) Parish Centre Our Parish Web site: Currently being updated 10.30 a.m. Morning Prayer (Two) in Christ Church Dun Laoghaire. Church of Ireland www.ireland.anglican.org (Joint service) PLEASE NOTE VENUE Diocesan Web site www.dublin.anglican.org 7 p.m. A Service of the Word Parish Centre Representative Church Body www.rcb.ireland.anglican.org After Sunday 13th January all services at the usual times (Sunday 8.15 a.m. 10.30 a.m. and 7 p.m. and Wednesday 11 a.m.) will take place in the Parish Centre until the church re opens. 2 39 Write on Rev Daphne Crosthwait, formerly of Arkendale Wood, died after a December 2012 short illness in Altadore Nursing Home where she had been a resident for the past ten years. Daphne was quite a character who Dear Parishioners, liked to shock and tease in equal measure! She could say anything to you and frequently did!! She loved St Paul’s and was a faithful Welcome to the latest edition of “Chimes”. Unfortunately we will not communicant at the monthly service at Altadore. Her funeral took be back into our church for Christmas so alternative arrangements th place on 10 November in St Patrick’s Church, Dalkey (by kind have been made. We will be in Christ Church Dun Laoghaire for our permission) after which cremation took place at Mt Jerome. We service of nine lessons and carols by candlelight on Sunday 23rd extend our sympathy to her family and friends. December (7 p.m.), on Christmas Day at 10.30 a.m. and also on Sunday 30th December, Sunday 6th January and It was somehow fitting that Daphne’s funeral took place on the eve Sunday 13th January at 10.30 a.m. This of Armistice Day. Her father, The Revd. William Crosthwait, was arrangement is also helpful to the parishioners in serving as a curate in Booterstown Parish in 1916 when he joined Dun Laoghaire as they have no rector at present the Royal Army Chaplain Department. He later saw service at the and to our theatre group as they stage their latest frontline in France and was awarded the Military Cross for bravery. pantomime in early January in the parish centre. For the first three Sundays after Christmas I will also be taking the 9 “ I am sure that neither death nor life, not things to come, nor height nor a.m. Holy Communion services in Dun Laoghaire so if you see me depth, nor anything else in all creation will be able to separate us from dashing off after our own 8.15 a.m. service on those mornings it is the love of God in Christ Jesus our Lord” nothing personal!!! Thank you for your patience and co operation during the renovation and restoration work. It looks like it may be mid –late February at the earliest before we get repossession of the church but I have no doubt it will be worth the wait PRIVATE COMMUNIONS OVER CHRISTMAS I would like to take this opportunity to thank the Forward Together committee, chaired by Peter Waller, for all their hard work over the A number of parishioners receive Holy Communion at home summer months in putting together the recent parish survey and for on a monthly basis and, all being well, arrangements will arranging that every home in the parish be visited. I would also like to have been made with them. However, if there is anyone thank those who gave of their time to call on parishioners and for else who is unable to come out to church over the Christmas gathering the completed forms which have now been collated. I must period, the Rector will gladly bring communion to them. thank Mary Heseltine in particular for the enormous amount of time Please contact him on 2801616 so that a suitable time can be and expertise she has invested in this project. Her interim report can arranged. be found on pages 23-28 of this magazine and I urge you to read it. As 38 3 it is printed in black and white we cannot do justice to her wonderful MAY graphics but hopefully you will still be both inspired and encouraged by the responses that have been received. The work of Forward 2nd Parish Whist 8 p.m. Meeting Room Together is not yet complete as we are planning to hold a Parish 9th-11th General Synod Armagh Forum, under the direction of an independent facilitator, on Tuesday 25th PARISH SUMMER FAIR 19th February 2013. Please keep this evening free. We urge you to come along, to express your views and to have an input into mapping the direction our parish should now take as it seeks to minister most effectively in a rapidly changing society. We hope that you are Holy Baptism already beginning to see the fruits of Forward Together with the promise of lots more to come. We aim to build on the momentum this 18th November: Charlie Robert Harry Doyle, son project has generated to coincide with the re opening of our church of Ruth Milne and Killian Doyle, Churchview Park, building. Killiney. Immediately after Christmas St Paul’s Theatre Group will be staging We welcome Charlie into the family of the church. their latest pantomime, Cinderella. It opens on Saturday 5th January and by the time you are reading this the box office will be open. See page 11 for further details. Please give the show your Wedding support, go along, bring your family and friends and make it a sell out. Gareth Craig and Moira Wynne were married in Ardcarne Church If you are travelling over the holiday period may you do so carefully in Co Roscommon on All Saints Day. The celebrations and arrive safely. We look forward to welcoming home those who live continued afterwards at the stunning Cromleach Lodge Country and work away from Glenageary.