Good Friday Way of the Cross & Easter Sonrise 2018
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FREE MAY 2018 MAY 23 Good Friday Way of the Cross & Easter Sonrise 2018 PLEASE SUBMIT ARTICLES TO [email protected] Powerscourt & Kilbride News Dear All, KILBRIDE NOTES Firstly we would like to thank all the ladies and gentlemen who It was wonderful to see good numbers taking decorated the church for Easter which as ever was greatly part in the Easter ceremonies, preceded by the appreciated. Kilbride Easter Vestry took place on the 11th of Ecumenical Way of the Cross on Good Friday. April. Firstly a thank you to Stephen Crowther for standing in The weather remained calm for the ‘Sonrise’ as secretary for Georgina while she is recovering from her hip Service and procession on Easter Morning replacement. Our new Rector’s Churchwarden is Gordon Lennox followed by a lovely breakfast prepared by Beth Stack & Edwina and Jenna Rothwell is our new People’s Churchwarden and our Allman helped by the ‘Shed Gang’ youth group. The children Glebewarden is Terry Long. greatly enjoyed the Easter Egg Hunt following the main service at Powerscourt Church. Thank you to everyone who decorated both Our Select Vestry is Rory Connaughton, Claire Crowther, Stephen churches so beautifully for the festival. Crowther, Ruth Dodd , Conor Dorcey, Margaret Dorcey, Rachel Fraser, Jacinta Long (Hon Treasurer), Anna Masterson, Georgina Easter General Vestries Masterson (Hon Secretary), Etienne Murphy and Vivian Stratford. Kilbride Easter Vestry took place on Wednesday 11th April at Congratulations to all. We continue to remember in our prayers all 8.00pm in Kilbride Church Parish Room, while Powerscourt Easter those who are sick at home, in hospital and nursing homes . Vestry was held in Powerscourt School Hall on Thursday 12th April at 8.00pm. We wish all those elected to the Select Vestries and Hip Hip Hooray , as office holders every blessing for their commitment of time and The surgeon said my left hip must go energy in the coming year. To be replaced with titanium and steel didn’t you know Now I’m well on the mend The Joint Parishes Community Golf Classic will take place in This short message I will send Powerscourt Golf Club on Bank Holiday Monday 7th May. The My recovery is progressing well and I have been given the green format is a double shotgun start with teams of 4. Tee times at light to drive again. I would like to thank all those who visited me 09.00 & 14.30. Teams of 4 = €400 (includes a gift bag, food at in hospital, in Caritas and at home and for the get well wishes. A 9th tee and lunch/dinner after golf). Contact: John Prosser special thanks to the Mothers’ Union for their kind gift. (0872439592) email: [email protected]. Advance Notice School 200th Anniversary Kilbride Supper Dance will be held on Friday 19th October in Powerscourt National School will celebrate its 200th anniversary Greystones Rugby Club. this month, which is a wonderful achievement. For almost 195 years the school operated from the same building, making it the oldest continuously used school building in Ireland. The school POWERSCOURT CHURCH moved 6 years ago from the oldest school building to the newest EASTER GENERAL VESTRY and the first passive school building in Ireland. That has been a very successful move and the school has continued to grow and The Annual General Vestry for Powerscourt Church took is heading for nearly 100 pupils, more than twice the size it was place on Thursday 12th April and the following were elected 20 years ago. and appointed for the coming year: The 200th celebrations will be concentrated during the week Rector’s Church Warden Joyce Roe beginning 13th May culminating on Pentecost Sunday when People’s Churchwarden Keith McKee the Archbishop will join us for an outdoor service followed by a Rector’s Glebewarden Richard Bird Fun Family Day at Powerscourt Church. There will be a 200th People’s Glebewarden Ric Pasquali Celebration Soiree in Powerscourt House & Gardens on Friday 18th May from 7.00pm. Tickets are on sale from the school. A SELECT VESTRY MEMBERS number of other events will take place in the school during that Johnny Honner week. Derek Elders Judy Cameron On Saturday 26th May the next parish Car Boot Sale will be held Marjorie Dalton-Doran in Powerscourt Church Car Park beginning at 9.00am while the Robert Neill Mothers’ Union will hold their annual Coffee Morning with Plant & Graham McMullin Cake Sale at the Rectory beginning at 11.00am. Marion MacGovern Andrew Ramsey All these events and developments depend upon an army of Barbara Davis (Hon. Secretary) volunteer leaders and helpers. Thank you to everyone who gives Harry Williams of their time and energy to enrich parish and community life. We Derek McCleane depend on you and you are not taken for granted. John Davis (Hon. Treasurer) Your Rector At the end of the Rector’s address Archdeacon Rountree gave Ricky notice that he would be retiring from the parish and full time ministry on 30th September this year. Powerscourt & Kilbride News March Snow In Enniskerry Poem by Bernard Kennedy Slowly and by stealth, quietly by night, like an intruder, the snowfall came though Christmas Eve is long now gone. Instead, March of many weathers creeps true. The shops are closed, and Red weather warning keeps us home COFFEE MORNING to gaze towards Knocksink Nordic forest or like Norwegian wood. Trees laden with white hold down their Winter gift, a sorbet of snow, in Spring. & The Bog Meadow, beyond the church white lawn is silent. No football cheers but monks’ silence PLANT AND in the arms of Monastery Road. Snow slides from roof, the gentle thaw, CAKE SALE brings down the iced covering from the large church house, like icing falls from a slice of Christmas cake. at The church steeple whitened, and the front mosaic Powerscourt Rectory lit in evening, makes a lantern, as the Church, th alone stands, amidst the snow laden pathway, Saturday 26 May 2018 as if a canvas from an artists brush. 11.00am—1.00pm. Art and eternity, and music its sister, are presented here. Our permanence, like melting snow, Come and bring a friend the human innate sigh of the divine. Glencree, Curtlestown, Kilmacanogue, are texted ‘no Masses this weekend of swirling snow’. MU NOTES On Wednesday 21st March we joined in the Lenten Study Series in Bernard Kennedy the School Hall. Having enjoyed a welcome cup of tea we listened with interest to a talk given by The Reverend Trevor Stevenson from Crinken Parish. The Reverend Trevor was accompanied by Mr. Patrick Davy from St. Anne’s Parish, Shankill. We were told that it is hoped to make the parishes of Crinken, Rathmichael and St Anne’s into eco friendly areas in the near future. DATE FOR YOUR DIARY: Saturday 26th May from 11.00am to 1.00pm Our Coffee Morning, Plant and Cake Stalls and Raffle in our Marquee in the lovely Rectory grounds. This is our only fund raising event so we ask members, parishioners and friends to please come along and support us. We hope this will as enjoyable and sociable as it was last year. We wish to thank everyone who donated to our Move In Start Up box. This will be delivered to our Diocesan Trustees who will forward it on to Focus Ireland. Each branch is asked to supply one box per year and we are glad to be part of this excellent project. E.Kearon, Sec. St mary’s News FATHER BERNARD Modern poet Danez Smith writes- “Paradise is a world where The Spanish Poet- John of the everything is a sanctuary and nothing is a gun”. Cross, who was also a mystic, and writer, added a final St. Augustine thought similarly when he wrote- ‘in heaven, there sentence to his many writings. we shall sit and we shall rest, we shall rest and we shall see, we It was this: “In the end all that shall see and we shall love’. Our completed being is out of love matters is that we have loved”. into love. I like to add an addendum to this, if I may be presumptuous, St. Paul in First Letter to Corinthians chapter 13 on love writes that ‘and that we have been loved’. the greatest of these is love. The three he equates are faith, hope, and love. Because the latter supersedes the other two- in paradise Songs down the century have faith is realized, hope is certain and love is the way. echoed this theme- All You Need Is Love, Falling In Love Fr. Bernard Kennedy. www.poemhunter.com/bernard-kennedy/ Again, What Is This Thing Called Love? How many can you remember? Let’s use sound and vision here, play them on your iphone and see what they say. Poets too A Prayer/Poem for Pentecost have covered this topic- google poems about love- see where you go. Many times and many themes will be found. Falling in love This reflection on the action of the Holy Spirit is taken from T.S. or falling out of love. It is an experience of living. Its effect and Eliot’s great poem, Four Quartets. It was written during World affect can be dynamic. It triggers, in either situation, a very deep War II. The dove with its ‘flame of incandescent terror’ is both response, deeper that the shallowness of acquisitions. Think of the Holy Spirit and the German planes terrorising London with Shelly and Ozymandias. Why so? Because we are Beings of Love bombing raids. Eliot himself used to stand on the roof of his for Love and our core existence is found out of there.