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PERRY PRES A Publication of Perry Hall Presbyterian Church Friends: And I feel wonderful about and 26 from 2-9 P.M., please the pictorial directory call the church office today committee as it begins this and get signed up. I hope I have to say that this new work. The directory every person and family will year I prayed we would have committee members are: make this a priority. more snow than last. Well; Kathy Mitchell, Tricia Condro, Remember there is no fee for that prayer has been Mona-Lee Bretall and Alvina this unless you want answered and then some. Hickey. Feel free to ask them additional pictures beyond And we still have about five questions. the free 8x10 you receive. more weeks when it can Also remember, if you bring a snow a great deal. Right now And now, having learned canned food item for the local I am about ready to give up just the other day, that the food bank on the day of your and welcome some warmer current renter in the 8846 appointment, you will receive weather so I can do yard Belair Road property next to 5% off the purchase of work and get out for an the manse will be buying the additional pictures. I would occasional game of golf. Yet, house from the church which remind you that you will as I came out of the church should enable the church to receive two reminder calls office this week, I noticed for move forward with a from me in the course of the the first time that daffodils preschool program with the next month or so. were beginning to come up YMCA, I know this will be an so no matter how long and exciting year. We will know Rejoice, give thanks and cold and snowy this winter soon from the Y as to how sing for the Lord is good. has been, it will end. Daylight their part of this school will lengthen and project is progressing. I am Peace, temperatures will rise and the also getting excited about a Rev. Joe Condro snow and ice will melt and new year at the golf course. spring will arrive. Thus you see, I feel excited and full of enthusiasm about I myself do feel that “springtime” here at PHPC. “spring” is here at Perry Hall Presbyterian because of what The Lord is good and the I am experiencing here at the Lord does provide. I feel his church. I am loving the presence as I begin working blended worship service at with five young people in this 10:30 A.M. with the use of years’ communicant’s class. visual aids. I enjoy listening They are Jack Krug, Alexis to the church choir and Ross, Aubrey Gerhardt, Peter children’s choir practice. I am Condro and Evan Michel. overjoyed that the hand bell Please keep them in prayer. choir is back. I am appreciative of the women’s I know the Lord is Bible study each month and present as Vicar David Petr the joy of being with begins his Sunday school Presbyterian Men on Monday class study of Job. So let us nights. I have been greatly rejoice and give thanks for impressed with how the what the Lord is doing and church and the community trying to do here at PHPC. have responded to the But again, one final vandalism in the fellowship thought. If you have not IRISH TRIVIA hall. I look forward to the signed up to have your beginning of the renovations. picture taken on March 25 Interim Pastor – Rev. Joseph Condro Vicar – David Petr – 443-643-8240 Church Office – 410-256-5780 Secretary – Kim Kalinowski Music Director - Tyler Wrong-Turning Coal and iron are virtually Guinness is Ireland's famous Windmills nonexistent in Ireland. Much black stout beer, enjoyed of the country's power comes around the world. On St. from abundant supplies of Patrick's Day, it's the more Ireland is the only country in peat or turf, which is authentic pub alternative to the world where windmills harvested by a state power pilsners dyed green. turn clockwise; in every other company. country, they turn counter- Arthur Guinness began his clockwise. Famous Things in brewing operation in 1759 in Ireland a ramshackle, four-acre St. Patrick Isn't Irish brewery. Business boomed, By Sara Harvey, and was passed down Known near and far as the through six generations of patron saint of Ireland, St. Blarney Stone Guinnesses, until the end of Patrick isn't Irish. His real the 19th century, when name is Maewyn Succat and The Blarney Stone is a small Guinness Stout was sold he was born in Roman Britain. slab of granite, attached to worldwide. Today, 10 million Blarney Castle, and rumored glasses of Guinness are enjoyed every day, around Something to Harp On to grant eloquence to whoever kisses it. Visitors, the world. Tours of the 400,000 of them annually, company's "Guinness The harp is Ireland's official lean backwards over a Storehouse," near the Dublin emblem. Ireland is the only battlement, upside down, to City Centre, is Dublin's most country in the world to have a kiss the stone. Some believe popular tourist attraction. musical instrument as its it was Jacob's pillow, brought national emblem. to Ireland by Jeremiah. It's The Storehouse building was also believed to be St. built in 1904 to store the beer Pigs as Renters Columba's deathbed pillow during the fermentation from the isle of Iona. It was process. It became a In the olden days of Ireland's used as a throne for Irish museum in 2000. agricultural past, it was not kings, and was believed to be unusual to find pigs living in an oracle. It traveled to The Cliffs of Moher family farmhouses; often they Scotland, where it was were referred to as "the believed to be a prophesier of Scottish kings. It made a trip The Cliffs of Moher are gentleman that pays the dramatic cliffs that rise 64 rent." back to Ireland, in gratitude for Irish troops that fought in stories from the Atlantic, in support of Robert the Bruce County Clare, Ireland. The Sweaters as I.D. against England, in 1314. cliffs are famous postcard Pilgrims have visited the images of Ireland, with the stone, for 200 years. sun on the stone, and the Aran sweaters, known for heaving waves, below. The their beauty and sturdy height and the sheer drop are Visitors can also roam construction, are stunning. distinguished by "family through the grounds and weaves." Each distinctive admire the castle, lake, and several other mystical rock The cliffs are south of the weave helps families identify Village of Doolin, and rise the bodies of drowned formations in Rock Close. Blarney Castle is located 700 feet before dropping fisherman who are found on sharply into the Atlantic at the shore. northwest of Cork City in the South of Ireland, and is three Hags Head. The cliffs are a hours south of Dublin. haven for nesting sea birds such as, the Atlantic puffin, common gull, and chough. The view from the top Powered By Peat Guinness encompasses the Aran Islands, Galway Bay, the Twelve Pins, the Maum Turk Celtic goddess Danu. They well-known literary works to Mountains to the north, and are said to be a very wise feature Irish fairies or elves Loop Head to the south and learned race. Legend include William Butler Yates' says a battle ensued "The Celtic Twilight" and Fairy Encounters between humans and the "Fairy and Folk Tales of the Tuatha de Danann for Irish Peasantry," and William dominion of Ireland. Humans Shakespeare's "A According to Irish tradition, ultimately won the battle, and Midsummer Night's Dream." fairies inhabit a mystical the Tuatha de Danann Fairies and elves also have realm known as Faerie that retreated into a hidden appeared in modern films exists parallel to the world of location known as the such as Disney's "Darby man. Faerie is a magical Otherworld. O'Gill and the Little People" world that is both wonderful and "Peter Pan." and dangerous. Humans who stumble into Faerie must be Elves wary of fairy tricks. Fairies have been said to lure human Elves also dwell in the land of St. Patrick's Day Facts visitors with enchanted food Faerie. Like trooping fairies, and Trivia or drink. Time in Faerie is elves live together in groups. different from time in the Although elves have magical Test your knowledge of St. world of man. Though it may powers like the fairies, they Patrick's Day (facts) with this have appeared to be only a are much more similar to challenging St. Patrick's Day short while, those who return humans in manner and trivia quiz. There are a total home from Faerie often physical appearance. of 12 trivia questions. discover that they have been Leprechauns are the most gone for a very long time. well-known elves in the Irish Answers to the St. Patrick's tradition. They resemble Day fact trivia can be found Solitary Fairies small, hairy men dressed in at the end of the quiz. green and wearing narrow- brimmed hats. Leprechauns 1. St. Patrick's Day originated Solitary fairies live by are famous for guarding their from which European themselves. One such fairy is pot of gold. Many tales tell of country. the Pooka, a mischievous humans who encounter a a) Great Britain b) Scotland c) fairy that will often play leprechaun and try to acquire Ireland d) France e) Italy deceptive and sometimes its treasure.

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