Bringing together the Parishes o Clontarf and Dollymount

2017

“That They May Be One” (John 17:21)

This was Christ’s prayer at the Last Supper for His followers. In Clontarf we have six churches, each with their own tradition, but who also try to fulfil this wish of Christ for unity and love.

While this newsletter will include our different Services to mark Christ’s death and resurrection, we are also coming together for some celebrations and hope you will join us.

The Soup Kitchen will take place in St. Gabriel’s Parish Centre on Good Friday (12 – 3pm) in aid of Br. Kevin’s Dinners in Church Street. Last year we raised over €5,000 for this charity.

On Good Friday night we will have — For the First Time — a Way of the Cross. Beginning in St. John’s Seafield Road at 7.30pm, we will process to St. John’s Clontarf Road, with prayers, readings and music using the last words of Jesus on the Cross. The Methodist and Presbyterian Churches, together with St. Anthony’s and St. Gabriel’s will provide prayers, music and readings along the way.

Sunrise on Easter Sunday (6.23 am) At the end of the Bull Wall we will celebrate Christ’s Rising from the dead. Afterwards a light breakfast will be available in St. John’s Parish Centre, Clontarf Road.

On Pentecost Sunday (4th June), to celebrate the Coming of the Holy Spirit, we will have our annual Clontarf Camino visiting all six Churches, beginning at Clontarf and Scots Presbyterian Church at 2.30 pm and finishing in St. Gabriel’s

We hope you can join us in celebrating the great events of our Christian lives. Finally may we take this opportunity to thank you for your continued support and prayers and to wish you a...

Church of St. John the Baptist Seafield Road

Maundy Thursday, 13th April Holy Communion with Foot Washing and the Stripping of the Altar, 8pm Good Friday, 14th April Reflective Prayer Stations in the Church, 11am—1pm, on a drop-in basis Service of Meditation on the Cross of Jesus, 3pm Ecumenical Walk from our church to St. John the Baptist, Clontarf Road, Starting 7.30pm, with prayers en route and a short, Taizé-style worship at the end. Easter Eve, 15th April Lighting of the Easter Fire, Vigil Service & first Eucharist of Easter, 9pm Easter Sunday, 16th April Ecumenical Sunrise Service, Bull Wall, Dollymount. Holy Communion 8.30 & 10.30 am (followed by Easter Egg hunt for the children!)

ONE LORD, ONE FAITH—AN ECUMENICAL CONFERENCE COMMEMORATING THE 500th ANNIVERSARY OF LUTHER’S 95 THESES Saturday 24th June 2017, the Church of St. John the Baptist, Seafield Road, Clontarf 10am—4pm To mark the 500th anniversary of the year that Martn Luther famously nailed his 95 Theses to the church door in Witenberg, sparking the Protestant Reformaton, a major ecumenical conference will be held in Clontarf in June. The event will feature renowned theologians and ecumenists and allow plenty of tme for discussion/ questons from the foor in a bid to understand how we got to where we currently are on our ecumenical journey, and how we can all work together on the road to greater unity. The facilitator for the day will be Philip McKinley, and there will be input from the following speakers: Dr. Gesa Thiessen: Background to the Reformaton – An Introducton to Luther’s theology. Dr. Andrew Pierce: The Ecumenical Journey So Far – inter-church dialogue and developments. Fr. Gabriel Daly: One Bread, One Body – an ecumenical theology of the Eucharist. Gillian Kingston: Stepping Stones Towards Greater Unity – what can be done at local level to progress things. The cost of the day is €20 per person. Patrons are invited to bring a packed lunch and tea/cofee facilites Will be provided. Clontarf Castle

Thursday 25th May @ 8pm Tickets €20 or 4 for €60 In aid of Parish Funds Ticket Hotline 087 9091561

Clontarf Players Presents

Saturday 8th April / 8.00 pm St Anthony’s Church 9th April Blessings of Palms at all Masses

Communal Sacrament of Reconciliation

Tuesday 11th April / 7.30 pm St. John the Baptist Church, Clontarf Road

Monday 10th to Wednesday 12th April Daily Masses at 7.45 am & 10 am Holy Thursday 13th April Confessions for Holy Week 10.00 am Morning Prayer Good Friday 10.30 -11.30 am 5.00 pm Family Mass Holy Saturday 10.30 -11.30 am & 7.00 - 8.00 pm 7.00 om Mass of the Lords Prayer 8.00pm -10.00 pm Adoration at the Alter of Repose

Good Friday Holy Saturday

Morning Prayer : 10 am 10.00 am Morning prayer Solemn Easter Vigil : 9 pm 3.00 pm Celebration of the Lord’s Passion 7.30 pm Ecumenical Way of the Cross Starting from St. John the Baptist Church, Seafield Road

Sunrise Ceremony Easter Sunday Masses Easter Sunday 10.00 am & 11.30 am Meet at the Wooden Bridge at 6.15 am for the ceremony

ST. GABRIEL’S NOTES

Easter Ceremonies

Palm Sunday th Palm Sunday 9 April Masses: Saturday 6pm Sunday 10.30 & 6pm Sat.6pm (Palms blessed and distributed at all Masses) th † Ita Smyth (7 A), her parents Carmel & Laurence Smyth Tuesday 7.30 (5th & 33rdA) & her brother-in-law Tibor Konkoly (7thA) Communal Penitential Service for our † Robert Deignan (1stA) Three Churches in St. John’s Church, Sun.10.30 Clontarf Road † Bridie Flanagan (1stA) † Eileen Murphy (3rdA) & her Holy Thursday daughter Paula Murphy (2ndA) 7.30pm – Mass of the Last Supper Sun 6pm † Altar List of the Dead (Adoration till 10pm at the Altar of Repose) † Patsy O’Donnell, (Month’s Mind)

Mon.10am Mass for the Sick Good Friday Tue10am 12 noon – Children’s Stations of the Cross † John Molloy (11thA) Wed 10am 3pm – Ceremony of the Lord’s Passion † Joan MacRory (3rdA) (Confessions available after both Ceremonies) No morning Mass Thurs., Fri. or Sat Remembering David McGrath at the Holy Saturday 7.30pm Mass on Holy Thursday Confessions 10am – 12 noon No Public Intentions on Easter Vigil 9pm Easter Sunday Easter Sunday Masses 10.30 and 6pm

“Come and Watch with Me” We invite you to visit our Garden of Gethsemane and to use it as a quiet oasis to sit and reflect on all the events of Holy Week The Garden will be closed on Good Friday when our Monday Maintenance team will transform it into a beautiful Easter Garden of the Resurrection. Easter — A Time to Rejoice!

The empty tomb gives way to the joyful appearances of the Risen Jesus to his followers. It reminds us that the darkness of Good Friday always gives way to Easter Joy. We accompany Jesus in his suffering and death but always living in this world with our hearts filled with hope of the world to come!

We have had a busy time since Christmas with the celebration of the World Day of the Sick in our Parish on 12th February. Bishop Ray Field came to thank us for this on Sunday 12th March and unveil the plaque in our Prayer Chapel. (a few photos below to mark the occasion!) My thanks to all who helped in any way.

I hope you can join us to celebrate the great events of Easter and that the Risen Lord may brighten your hearts as he did for the disciples on the Road to Emmaus.

“Did not our hearts burn within us as he talked to us on the way and explained the Scriptures to us — yes it is true, the Lord has risen!” (Luke 24:32-34)

On behalf of Fr. Gareth and all in St. Gabriel’s may I wish you and your families a Happy and Joyful Easter. Fr. Pat

Fr. Pat McManus: 01-8057692; 087 2371089; St. Gabriel’s Golf Classic Fr. Gareth Byrne: 01-8339301 St. Anne’s Golf Club Deirdre McDermott, Pastoral Worker: 087 694 2844 Fri. 5th May Parish Office: 01-8333602 (Mon—Fri Teams of four €240, including dinner. 9.30-12.30). Email [email protected] Timesheet in the Sacristy — call in or phone Parish Web: www.stgabrielsparish.ie. 01-8333602 / Veronica on 087 1300537 WEBCAM available for all services This year net proceeds will be donated to Visit our Home Page and sign up to receive our Crosscare, the Diocesan Social Services weekly Parish Notes by email. Agency. ST. JOHN THE BAPTIST PARISH CLONTARF

Baptisms We welcome into the Christian community the children who were baptized during the month Palm Sunday, 9th April of March: Blessing of Palms and reading of the Lord’s Passion during Paddy Connellan, Evan all Masses. O’ Sullivan, Izzy Stafford. Tuesday of Holy Week, 11th April Communal Sacrament of Reconciliation at 7.30 pm, St. John the Baptist Church Ecumenical Bible Study Group Holy Thursday, 13th April The ffh and fnal meetng of the Lenten session of this Morning Prayer at 10.00 am group will take place this Wednesday, 12th April. We are Confessions, 10.15 am to 11.00 am exploring the strangest book in the New Testament, the Family Mass at 5.00 pm Book of Revelaton. This ffh meetng is in our own Solemn Mass of the Lord’s Supper at 7.00 pm parish centre at 7.30 pm. All welcome, even if you Holy Hour from 8.00 pm to 9.00 pm. haven’t managed to get to any of the other meetngs. Good Friday, 14th April Morning Prayer at 10.00 am Confessions, 10.15 am to 11.00 am Outdoor Stations of the Cross at 12.00 noon Celebration of the Lord’s Passion at 3.00 pm Mass Intentions The Way of the Cross: Ecumenical Service for Good Friday: Beginning in Saint John the Baptist Church, Seafield Road, Sunday concluding in Saint John the Baptist Church, Clontarf Road, with stops for prayer in between, from 7.30 pm to 8.30 pm 6.00 pm: Seamus Cahill (Anniv)

Holy Saturday, 15th April 10.00 am: Vincent Starkey (Anniv) Morning Prayer at 10.00 am 11.15 am: Eilish Cripps (Anniv) Confessions, 10.15am to 11.00 am, 3.00pm to 4.00 pm 12.30 pm: Easter Sunday, 16th April We also remember Ecumenical Sunrise Celebration, Statue, Bull Wall, at 6.15 am (Sunrise: 6.23 am) Ann McNamara Masses at 10.00 am (Family Mass), Weekdays 11.15 am, 12.30 pm. Carol McCabe, Seamus Cahill, Kay and Easter Monday, 17th April: Mass at 10.00 am Maurice Mathews,

Parish Office: 833 4606 Email: [email protected] Parish Centre: 805 3333 Fr Martin Hogan: 833 8575 Fr John Callanan S.J: 087 1352114 Website: www.stjohnsclontarf.ie Parish Pastoral Worker (Deirdre) 087 6942844 Bethany Bereavement Support: 087 6445309 Quote from Pope Francis’ Encyclical on the Environment, Laudato Si ‘Once we start to think about the kind of world we are leaving to future generatons, we look at things diferently; we realize that the world is a gif which we have freely received and must share with others. Since the world has been given to us, we can no longer view reality in a purely utlitarian way, in which efciency and Deepest Sympathy productvity are entrely geared to our individual beneft. Intergeneratonal solidarity We extend our deepest sympathies to is not optonal, but rather a basic queston of the families and friends of those who justce, since the world we have received also were buried from our parish church belongs to those who will follow during the month of March: Carol us.’ (paragraph 159). McCabe, Seapark Drive, Owen Nolan, Castlla Park. May the Lord grant them eternal rest. Clontarf Historical Society.

Talk on “Experiences of a French Emigrant Ecumenical Easter Sunrise Family In Ireland and their connectons to Prayer Service, East Wall, North Strand & Fairview” by Paul th Bosonnet on Monday 10 April at 8.l5pm in Resource Center, St.Johns Church, Clontarf

Road. Visitors welcome €5.

A Man for All Seasons We will gather at the end of the Bull Wall on Easter Sunday to celebrate the resurrection The play ‘A Man for All Seasons’ will be performed in of the Lord. The sun rises at 6.23 am, so we our parish church this Sunday, 9th April, at 7.00 pm, by hope to begin at 6.15 am. This ecumenical moment of prayer brings together all the the Clontarf Players, under the direction of Breffni Christian churches in Clontarf. We will gather McGuinness from Clontarf. The play, written by afterwards in the Parish Centre for breakfast Robert Bolt, is based on the true story of Sir Thomas provided by the Parish Hospitality Group. More, the 16th-century Chancellor of England.

Ecumenical Way of the Cross, Good Friday, 14th April This Good Friday evening, we are having an Ecumenical Way of the Cross. It will begin with a time of prayer in Saint John the Baptist church, Seafield Road, at 7.30 pm and move down Oulton Road to the Church of Saint John the Baptist, Clontarf Road. Along the way, we will pause for prayer at several places, and our ecumenical service will conclude with a time of prayer around the cross in Saint John the Baptist, Clontarf Road.

Clontarf and Scots Presbyterian Church

Easter Blessing 2017 Our Services 8th April: Coffee concert with our Easter Theme “Many Voices and God’s Voice” 12 noon 9th April: Palm Sunday Worship Service with Communion 11am. An Easter Egg hunt after the Service.! 14th April: Good Friday Evening Service at 7pm. All Welcome! 16th April: Easter Sunday Morning Service at 11am. We are taking up a special Easter Food Offering suring the Season. The foodstuff will be given to the Capuchin Inner City Ministries.

Clontarf Methodist Church

Clontarf Methodist Church will join with Sutton Methodist Church for a United Good Friday Service at 10am. This will be in Sutton Methoidist Church.

Easter Sunday Service will be at 11.30 am. The preacher will be Rev. Mark Forsyth.

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