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KILTERNAN KLIPS Building community, strengthening worship, growing in service The quarterly newsletter of Kilternan Parish, Co.

The Rector on ... Works in progress

We are not long back from our In Kilternan construction is holiday in the USA. As many of you ‘Kilternan Parish is not well under way for our parish know, Julie and I, in that era that just a building; it is a centre. This is a challenging time, we call BC, or ‘before children’, dusty and inconvenient. It can be lived in Seattle. That’s where I community which, I unsettling, but there is also became Anglican, when Julie am happy to report, is excitement, as we see a foundation introduced me to a wonderful and laid and something new emerging. vibrant episcopal cathedral called St alive, thriving and, by This work will serve generations to Mark’s (pictured below). God’s grace, blessed come and we are so very grateful for When we visit Seattle we like all those whose generosity and to worship there. We were excited with a rich array of effort have made this possible. to go to a church that wasn’t in a gifts and talents.’ Come Easter 2018, we will building site, but as we got closer to have a new parish centre. While I St Mark’s we began to see the look forward to this being done, I scaffolding. Unbeknownst to us, St The idea, though, of a church hope we keep hold of the idea that Mark’s was in the middle of a piece that is ‘never completed’ has rich the work is never completed. The of major renovation: in fact, it was a symbolism. It tells a truth about the hall will be a wonderful legacy for ten-million-dollar renovation. church: we are never completed. We the parish, but the hall is not an St Mark’s was built in 1928 are always in a state of movement. I end in itself. It is simply a means to but, as stated on its Wikipedia page, think the idea of the church as a something else. It is a tool that the cathedral was ‘never movement is helpful. We are not enables us to be co-creators in the completed’. There is some history meant to be a static institution ministry of advancing God’s here. The plans were hit by the locked in stone buildings; we are Kingdom. We need never to lose Great Depression; there were issues meant to be a movement following sight of that—after all, that is why with bankers and threats of closure in the way of Christ, seeking to we are here. throughout the ’40s. The cathedral make Him known in word and The pages that follow also, did open, but with certain parts action. That work is never importantly, bear witness to the fact unfinished. completed. that Kilternan Parish is not just a building; it is a community which, I am happy to report, is alive, thriving and, by God’s grace, blessed with a rich array of gifts and talents. I am gratified by the variety of ministries that find expression here, and I am buoyed by the faithfulness of those who serve in these ministries. These are exciting times to be part of this community. So, I invite you to read on, and get a flavour of Kilternan Parish. Better yet, join us for worship or some special event to be held here in the coming weeks and months. Blessings and peace, St Mark’s, Seattle. Rev. Rob

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CHURCH SERVICES Communion Service at 8:30 unless noted otherwise; 10:30 services as below.

Sept. 10 Outdoor Service hosted in Kilternan Sept. 17 Holy Communion Sept. 24 All-Age Service, with the blessing of animals

Oct. 1 Morning Prayer Oct. 6 Friday community harvest Oct. 8 All-Age harvest Contents Oct. 15 Holy Communion Parish Notice Board 3 Oct. 22 All-Age Holy Communion Oct. 29 Kenyan Communion Service Romanian mission 8 Building Community (centre), Nov. 5 Morning Prayer strengthening the life of the Nov. 5 All Saints Service of remembering those who have died parish 10 Nov. 12 All-Age Service of Remembrance Cranmer’s Corner 13 Nov. 19 Holy Communion Social media and teenagers 14 Nov. 26 All-Age Service Family and youth ministry 15 Dec. 3 Advent Service Stewardship corner 16 Community and wider church 16 Favourite Hymn 17 CONTACT LIST Book review 18 Rev. Rob Clements (Rector), [email protected], Hymn choice 19 tel. 01-295 5603 Michelle Massey (Parish Support Worker), [email protected], tel. 02-295 2643 Carol Barry (Parish Reader), [email protected], ,JMUFSOBO1BSJTI BUILDING COMMUNITY tel. 087 636 1530 STRENGTHENING WORSHIP GROWING IN SERVICE Kevin O’Sullivan (Organist), [email protected]

Volume 23 Number 3 September 2017

Editorial: Rob Clements, PARISH TEAM Michelle Massey and Carol Barry The Reverend Rob Clements Rector Design: Wordwell Ltd Distribution: Daphne Athey Carol Barry Parish Reader Production: Nick Maxwell Copy-editing: Emer Condit Kevin O’Sullivan Organist Printed by: Ross Print, Greystones Una MacConville Church Warden Published by: Kilternan Parish, Kilternan, Dublin 18. Ann Walsh Glebe Warden

Irwin Johnston Church Warden Rector: Rev. Rob Clements Contact: Bruce Fitzsimons Glebe Warden Phone: 01-295-5603 (H); 01-295-2643 (O); Jonathan Holt Secretary of the Vestry Email: [email protected]; www.kilternan.dublin.anglican.org Harry Simpson Treasurer

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PARISH NOTICE BOARD

REGISTER and Ita Isabella Dorrian into the Bennett Condolences: family of God’s church. The South American Missionary The funeral of Bill Keeley took Society place at Kilternan Parish Church on ROTAS 5 November Tuesday 6 June. Bill was a well- The various rotas of the church are Parish of Tullow, the Rector, John known parishioner and friend of managed by the following people: Tanner Kilternan Parish. He was a faithful Tea and Coffee rota: Catriona Diocesan Lay Readers, Parish bell-ringer and a great character in Fitzsimons Readers and Lay Ministers the parish. He was a beloved Cleaning rota: Nikki Cox 12 November brother and will be very sadly Flower rota: Sarah Tilson Parish of Whitechurch, clergy, missed by his siblings, extended We are thankful for the work that Horace McKinley and Michael family and friends. they put into this. They are Heaney The funeral of Joyce Bate took frequently looking for additional St Columba’s College place at Kilternan Parish Church on help. If you could assist in one of 19 November Tuesday 10 July. Joyce was a dearly these areas, please let them know! Parishes of Wicklow and Killiskey, loved parishioner in Kilternan the clergy, Jack Kinkead and Ken Parish. She was a resident in the KILTERNAN PRAYER Rue Glebe House nursing home in The following is a shortened Musicians, singers, instrumentalists recent years. She will be very sadly version of the Dublin and and ringers missed by her family and friends. Glendalough Diocesan Cycle of 26 November The funeral of Robin Pierce Prayer. Maybe you would consider Parish of Zion (), the clergy, took place on Saturday 29 July at making it part of your weekly Stephen Farrell and Rebecca 11am in Kilternan Parish Church. prayer devotions. Guildea Robin was a well-known The Dublin University Far Eastern parishioner; he was also well 24 September Mission known through his involvement in Church of St John the Evangelist, 3 December the Kilternan Country Market. He , chaplain, Paul Parishes of Arklow, Inch and will be greatly missed by his loving Barlow Kilbride, the Rector, Nigel wife Olive, their children and Eco-Congregation Ireland Sherwood extended family, and by the 1 October Ordinands, and staff of the community here in Kilternan. Parishes of Sandford and Milltown, Theological Institute and We would like to extend our the clergy, Sonia Gyles and Anne- students in pastoral placements condolences to Noel and Jennie Marie O’Farrell Lynam and the extended Lynam 8 October PARKING PATIENCE family on the death of Noel’s Parishes of , and Parking continues to be a challenge mother, Teresa, on 26 July. and the Rector, David during the parish renovations. The We also send condolences to Oxley school car park will be of use on our parish support worker Michelle The Diocesan Synods, the Diocesan Sundays, though the access way Massey and her family on the death Councils, and the Diocesan office between the school car park and of her brother, Michael, on 30 July. and staff the church has had to be closed 15 October owing to safety concerns. Once Wedding Bells: Parishes of and some of these concerns have been It was a pleasure to marry Jack Fox Blackrock, the clergy, Ian addressed we will look at opening and Vikki on 2 June. It was my Gallagher, Robert Marshall and this walkway. In the meantime it privilege also to travel to Jack Black will be necessary to walk around by Kilmeague, Co. Meath, on 30 June Parishes of Swords, Clonmethan, the road. Of course, if you have any to marry Arlene Carter and Pat Kilsallaghan, and Lusk, mobility issues, please do consider Hickey. We wish them God’s the Rector, Robert Deane parking in the space in front of the blessing on their journey together. The Church of Ireland Association church building on Sundays or On 26 August we had a of Deaf People during any special service. blessing for the marriage of Etta 22 October Clements and Albert Crosbie. This Parish of Taney, the clergy, Robert PET SERVICE ON 24 was a special day for the rector, as Warren, Cathy Hallissey and SEPTEMBER AT 10:30 Etta Clements is his mother! Nigel Pierpoint This is a wonderful service to which 29 October people are invited to bring pets— Baptism: Parish of , the clergy, cats, dogs, rabbits, whatever. Larger We welcome Emilia Charlotte Holt William Deverell and Avril animals are welcome, though if

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NOTICE BOARD they can’t fit through the door they may have to stay outside. Perhaps a SUNDAY CLUB fish in the font, a budgie in the We don’t meet every bell-tower, a parrot in the pulpit! Sunday as the second Our pets are important to us. and fourth Sunday of They bring us companionship and the month are all-age joy, and it is right that we should services. celebrate them and give thanks for But there will be a them. The animals will be offered a Sunday Club on the blessing as a witness to God’s and following dates: the Church’s love, care and concern 3 September for creation. It is also a service with 1 October special appeal to young and old alike. 29 October So, come along and bring your 5 November pet; there might even be a treat for 3 December them as they leave the church. 7 January HARVEST 4 February CELEBRATIONS: TASTE 4 March AND SEE THAT GOD IS 29 April GOOD Our community harvest this year is 6 May on Friday 6 October at 8:00pm. The 3 June speaker is Mgr Dermot Lane, Parish Priest of Balally and former President of the Mater Dei Institute was the Church of Ireland chaplain There will be a short time for of Education, DCU. He is the to Queen’s University, Belfast. He tea and coffee in the rectory author of Stepping stones to other currently lives in Dublin with his afterwards. religions: a Christian theology of inter- wife Helen. They have three adult religious dialogue (2011) and Religion children, Paul, Patrick and TUESDAY CLUB and education: reimagining the Timothy. On 11 July our outing was to the relationship (2013), and editor of We look forward to having Powerscourt Arms Hotel in Vatican II in Ireland, fifty years on them both with us! Enniskerry. Rev. Rob Clements and (2015). Dermot is well known to us Carol Barry joined us for the and we look forward to what he has SERVICE OF occasion, which was a nice to say. addition. The harvest celebration on REMEMBERING AND THANKSGIVING FOR On 12 September we went to Sunday the 8th will have more of the Grange Kitchen, Roundwood. an all-age feel to it. Our celebration THOSE WHO HAVE DIED Last year we had a special service to Our next outing will be to liturgy will include a talk by the remember those who had died. I Dún Laoghaire Maritime Museum Rev. Paddy McGlinchey. Paddy has know that many people found it on Tuesday 10 October. Take the a Ph.D from Queen’s University, helpful, so we will plan to do the No. 63 bus from the Blue Church at Belfast. His academic interests same this year. 11:15am to Crofton Road, Dún include twentieth-century Roman On the evening of 5 Laoghaire. Catholic theology, the emerging November there will be a short church movement and Fresh reflective service of remembrance. Expressions. Prior to ordination in MESSY HARVEST This service is open to everyone On 15 October we plan to have a the Church of England, he worked who has experienced a loved one’s Messy Harvest from 4:00 until 6:00 as a schoolteacher and later as the death. The names of those on the in the school. More information to Co-ordinator of the City of Belfast burial list from the last five years follow, but we hope that it will be YMCA’s Cross-Community Schools’ will be read out loud during an act an afternoon of craft, celebration Programme. His pastoral of remembering. If you would like and food. Come and celebrate experience, which includes the your loved one’s name to be read God’s goodness with us. planting of a joint Anglican/Baptist out loud, irrespective of when they church in the Diocese of Norwich, died, please contact Michelle in the has been profoundly motivated by CHOIR BBQ office, or fill out one of the The choir is an important part of his concern that the Church engage remembering forms at the back of the life of the church, and we are in a missionary way with the the church and give it to the rector blessed with a junior and a senior culture. Prior to coming to CITI, he or one of the church wardens. choir. Not only do they enrich our

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NOTICE BOARD play-offs, and the men’s team gained promotion. Two Mixed League teams also got through to the play-offs, where team 2 was beaten by Clontarf Parish. Team 1 then met Clontarf and beat them, going on to regain the Class 3 cup which Kilternan had won in 2015. The Senior League is now in progress, with the Floodlight League to follow. The annual club championships, keenly contested since 1944, have been run through September into October in recent years. These have had to be Choir BBQ postponed until the floodlights are restored. worship but they also know how to adults get the opportunity to enjoy An enjoyable afternoon for have fun. coffee, cake and conversation. parents and children was held in Last term finished with a BBQ Contact Julie Clements on 087 203 June (see photo, below left), and in the rectory gardens (pictured 9516 for additional information. another is planned for Sunday 24 above). Thankfully the sun was out September from 2:00. All welcome! Mary White, and we were able to eat and drink KILTERNAN PARISH LTC outside till late. Despite the disruption (and KPLTC Hon. Sec., 087 9877377 We are always looking for new daytime noise), members have members of the choir. If you would made good use of the courts during ALBERT SUTTON like to be involved in the choir the summer—particularly on ladies’ World War II veteran and resident community, talk to me or to Kevin. Monday mornings and Tuesday of Glebe House, Kilternan, Albert You don’t have to be trained; you club nights, with members playing Sutton was serving with the RAF in just have to love singing. at other times too. Unfortunately, 1945 when he became part of the the lack of floodlights means that operation to liberate the concentration camps in northern TODDLERS club play will have to change to ‘Toddlers’ meets every Wednesday Saturday afternoons for the time Germany. He entered Bergen-Belsen from 12pm to 1pm in the parish being, reverting to the tradition of in April 1945 and was confronted school. It’s open to mums and dads, many years ago! with the horrific sight of piles of carers and grandparents and their The club has been particularly decomposing corpses, prisoners toddlers. successful in the Dublin Lawn who resembled skeletons, and The format is incredibly Tennis Council’s leagues this year. others dying in front of his eyes. simple. Lots of toys are laid out Summer League men’s and ladies’ Suzi Diamond from Hungary and with some soft play areas, while the teams both won through to the Tomi Reichental from Slovakia, Holocaust survivors living in Ireland today, were amongst the children liberated by the British troops at that time. Over the past few years, Albert has given a reading at the national Holocaust Memorial Day commemoration in the Mansion House, describing the liberation of Bergen-Belsen and recalling how, after meeting survivors like Suzi and Tomi, he would do it all again. The Holocaust Education Trust Ireland (HETI), founded in 2005, aims to educate and inform about the Holocaust. In so doing, it raises awareness about anti-Semitism and all forms of racism and intolerance Mixed team photo: L–R: Linden Smith, Gordon Pullen (captain), Gary Colclough, Irina in Ireland. This year, in recognition Ricinschi, Christian Kraeft and Monique Tomkins.

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NOTICE BOARD ANNUITY FUEL SCHEME This is a scheme from Protestant Aid designed to provide a heating allowance during the winter months, primarily for the over-65s who are living at home. Prospective annuitants are identified by the rector, who will refer all applicants to Protestant Aid. If this is something you would like to avail of, please contact the rector.

GARDENING CLUB Monday 25 September: A talk by Seán Ó Gaoithin, Head Gardener, Glenveagh Castle Gardens, Co. Donegal, entitled ‘Glenveagh Castle Gardens today’.

Monday 23 October: Annual General Meeting.

Albert with Tomi Reichental and Suzi Diamond, who were liberated from Bergen- Belsen as children, at Holocaust Memorial Day 2015 (photo: Tommy Clancy). Monday 27 November: A talk by Frances McDonald bereavement, during convalescence of Albert’s commitment to entitled ‘Bring back shrubs’. Holocaust remembrance in Ireland, after surgery or illness, or just to give someone a break. HETI established the Albert Sutton Meetings take place in Rosemont Meal Train is an international Scholarship. It will be awarded School at 8:00pm. programme organised through a annually to a deserving candidate Visitors and new members are web-based platform. Since from the Irish Defence Forces or An welcome. launching the site, Mealtrain.com Garda Síochána, enabling them to Contact Noreen Keane, has helped to organise more than participate in the Certificate in Chairperson, 087 2592766; 6.7 million meals for over 730,000 Holocaust Education. Evelyn Richardson, 087 2406410; families around the world. On any You can learn more about or Trevor Storey, 087 2377583. HETI’s work by visiting given night, over 7,500 people are hetireland.org. We are always making and delivering a meal. pleased to hear from people who We need volunteers who can COMMUNION SERVICES are interested in supporting our provide a meal from time to time. FROM AROUND THE important work in educating and The meal can be homemade, WORLD We are part of a global Anglican raising awareness about the bought or ordered—no cooking communion! That means that, as Holocaust expertise is needed. If you are Church of Ireland people, we (http://hetireland.org/donate/). interested, please share your email address with Julie Clements at express our Anglican identity using [email protected]. the Church of Ireland prayer book. MEAL TRAIN But our Anglican brothers and If you are interested in joining a More information is available at the sisters across the world (and there new food ministry in Kilternan back of the church. are over 85 million of us) express parish, read on! If you know of anyone who their Anglican faith slightly What is a Meal Train? It is might find some food support differently. organised meal-giving around helpful, please let Julie know, or On fifth Sundays, we are going significant life events. contact the parish office. to use a communion service taken What does this really mean? from somewhere else in the When a friend is in need, everyone PASTORAL CARE Anglican communion. This might asks ‘What can I do to help?’ The If you would like a pastoral visit at be the Kenyan Communion Rite, or answer is always to make a meal. any time, please contact the rector the Eucharistic Service from the When many friends make and directly, or leave a message with the Episcopal Church USA, or from the deliver a meal, this is a meal train. church office. If you would like to Church of England Common Meal Train will provide meals receive communion at home, Worship, or from the Asian for fellow parishioners in need (we please let us know so that we can churches. Most of this will be very all have times of need!). This could facilitate that. familiar, but hopefully there will be be following a birth or a something new and insightful.

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NOTICE BOARD NEWS FROM THE Many thanks to those of you SCHOOL who contributed to this—it will be August 31st saw the exciting start an amazing resource to have, and of yet another new school year, and one that can be used across all our pupil population now stands at classes. 233 pupils—121 boys and 112 girls! Here’s to an amazing year! We have been joined by 28 excited and eager Junior Infants, in KILTERNAN PARISH addition to welcoming the CHOIRS Connolly family into Fifth and Kilternan Parish Choirs are back! Sixth Class and welcoming Jack We’re now looking for new Slowe back into Sixth Class. members and all are welcome to Over the summer we were join us. delighted to appoint Ms Chantelle Contact Kevin through the Plunkett and Mrs Naomi O’Kane to parish office. the school’s permanent staff. Ms Plunkett will continue to teach Junior Choir: Senior Infants and Mrs O’Kane has When we meet: joined the SEN team alongside Mrs Tuesdays & Fridays from 8:15 to Arlene Carter and Katie England and Tanya Riordan, Ms Louise Pat Hickey Brian Cawley 8:45 MacMahon, Ms Leigh Morton and 2nd & 4th Sundays of the month Ms Jenny Faulkner. School committees from 09:45 to 11:30 We are very lucky to benefit from Where we meet: Kilternan Church School assemblies the staff’s generosity with their of Ireland National School Hall As a school we meet for assembly time in all the added extras they Who can join: All children from every Monday and Thursday bring and give to our school. Over 1st Class to 6th Class morning at 8:50am. Monday the next week or so pupils will be assembly is mainly a ‘what’s on for hearing how they can become Senior Choir: the week’ gathering, and Thursday’s involved in the following When we meet: Mondays from assemblies may be led by Rob, initiatives: 20:00 to 21:30 and Sundays from individual classes, a group of classes Green Schools—Ms Melanie 09:45 to 11:30 or individual teachers. The first Huston & Ms Louise MacMahon Where we meet: Alternative venue assembly of the month is led by Student Council—Mr Ethan Byrne (please contact Kevin for details) Rob and is held in the church. & Mrs Katie Cawley Commitment: We are aware of Parents are warmly invited to join Science Initiative—Ms Jenny everyone’s busy schedule but would us for any or all of our assemblies. Faulkner & Mrs Katie Cawley welcome all new members, even if Please note that there are no Active Schools—Ms Ruth Thorpe, you think you are unable to go to assemblies in December. Dates for Mrs Arlene Hickey & Ms Helen every Service assemblies can be found on your Kingston ‘Dates for the Year’ table. Santry Races—Mrs Arlene Hickey CHILDREN IN & Mr Ethan Byrne CHURCH Love is in the air Playworks—Ms Helen Kingston, This summer saw two of our Mrs Arlene Brislane & Sheelagh RELAX! God put the wiggle in children; blushing bride teachers walk down Seachtain na Gaeilge—Ms Leigh don’t feel you have to suppress the aisle—Ms Arlene Carter married Morton & Ms Helen Kingston those wiggles in God’s house. Mr Pat Hickey at the end of June, Consider sitting toward the front, and Ms Katie England married Poetry Library where it is easier for your little Brian Cawley in mid-August. I am Following my dad Robert Dunbar’s ones to engage. sure that you join with us in death in July 2016, it was my Quietly explain the parts of the congratulating them and wishing family’s wish to invite people to service and actions of the Rector, them long and happy years donate book tokens to their local musicians and leaders. together. We are delighted that school as a nod to his lifelong Sing hymns, pray and voice the both couples have shared a photo passion for and work in the field of responses and let your child join of their special day with us. Children’s Literature. in too! We were also delighted to hear As a staff, we decided to spend If you have to leave the church that Ms Jenny Faulkner got our book tokens on poetry books with your child, feel free to do so, engaged over the summer and I’m and have now created a rich, but please come back. sure that you would like to echo mobile resource of poetry books As Jesus said, ‘Let the children our congratulations to her. which can travel from room to come to me’. room.

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MISSION ROMANIA SUMMER MISSION TRIP

By Monique Tomkins

In July, my daughter Eva and I had when the Irish and Romanian teams the opportunity to go to Romania would meet to outline the plans for for ten days with a Team Hope the day, and to deal with any issues Mission Team (ten of us), working or concerns. Carol would read a few on a kids’ camp for disadvantaged encouraging words from the Bible and extremely poor children. We and then we would have open could!). In the afternoon there worked with Team Hope’s national prayer for anyone on the teams who would be another activity, such as a partner, Ecce Homo (which means wanted to pray—a lovely way to hill walk or a river swim, and more ‘behold the man’). They had a team start the day, I must say. The kids craft. After evening tea there would of seven, including two ‘dinner were up at 8.00 and then aerobics at be more Jesus discovery time and ladies’ and five interpreters. 8.15 for all, led by Eva and songs and fun games. Every evening I didn’t quite know what to Jennifer—the Macarena was very there would be an award ceremony expect, but it certainly surpassed all popular! Then we’d have breakfast, for about four children (every child my expectations. Amazing is an tidy-up time, Jesus discovery time, got a turn), in which each child was understatement! and songs (which they loved). presented with a homemade card To see the transformation of Charlie was in charge of the music and a small gift for something good the kids (28 of them) over the week and he was a bit mad, to say the that was noticed about them by the from quiet, nervous, shy and least (sure he’s from Cork—what do team leaders—the look of shock on homesick to smiley, light-hearted you expect?!). After this they’d split their faces was priceless, but they and joyful was truly wonderful. The up into their groups to discuss the were all so thrilled! Bedtime was 10 week was action-packed for them, Bible story and its message. Two … or 11 or …ish! with plenty of backup plans if the groups would then do sport and the Carol had organised a few weather wasn’t kind to us. Thank other two craft; then they would home visits through Ecce Homo, God it was, because the day before swap over. It was so funny to see the once the camp was officially the kids arrived there was torrential curiosity about what the craft was, finished (with the consent of the rain—and I mean TORRENTIAL— but do you know what—they all did families). We were all very curious to and the day after the kids left it also everything and there was no see the circumstances under which rained! moaning (maybe a bit from Manu, some of these families were living. The days started at 7.30am, who would play football 24/7 if he The kids were amazing, and I was even more impressed with them when I saw how harsh some of their living conditions were and how well they seemed, all things considered. I was quite dumbfounded, to be honest. In ‘the Village’ there were fifteen family members living in a three-roomed house with no running water; the toilet was an outhouse and there were damp and crumbling walls, yet the children were delighted that we came to visit them. Grinning from ear to ear, they were still wearing their t-shirts which they had coloured in at camp and the medals they had won on

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‘Olympics night’. The families were guess on camp the children were excited at the prospect of getting just allowed to be children: to eat running water, as pipe-laying was ice-cream, make picture frames, being carried out 2km away, but it hand-puppets, fuzz ball, bracelets, would still take a long time for the hama beads, masks, swim in the pipes to reach them and they would river, climb a mountain, eat out in a have to continue drawing water restaurant, have a water balloon from the well for the moment. fight, play soccer and volley ball, Manu, who was football-mad, have a bonfire night and melt lived with his mom and little sister marshmallows, enter a talent in a one-roomed house in the city of competition, join in the fun on the Cluj. It looked like a shed that had Ceili night, sing new songs and been converted into ‘living learn about Jesus through Bible accommodation’. It was single- stories, drama and songs—the list storey and the bathroom was shared goes on … with the family next door. The yard I hope that we have given was very mucky and really not very lost one of their children to them a very memorable week and suitable as a safe play area. You leukaemia. So I waited in the van perhaps planted a seed of faith that could see that Manu loved his mom and tried to compose myself. It will blossom in time to come. Carol and sister and his dream was to play actually took me a few days to was right: you go expecting to give football for Cluj. compose myself, as anytime I went much but you actually get so much On to our next visit … But I to explain to people about the home more in return. Thank you, Carol, couldn’t go in, as I was still visits I would start crying again (I’m for asking us, and thank You, God, blubbering after the last visit and ok now!). for this wonderful opportunity of felt it would be unfair of me to go in I was just so astounded at how being Your hands and feet, in some to a family and not be able to hold lovely these children were, despite small way. I really hope I can do it it together, especially as they had the backgrounds they came from. I again someday soon!

EVA TOMKINS’S EXPERIENCE too, and that one day they’ll let Jesus into their hearts.

Tell me a little bit about yourself. What things did you enjoy the most? My name is Eva Tomkins. I’m going into 5th year in The thing I enjoyed most out of these few days with Newpark Comprehensive School. This summer my the children was watching them grow just in those mother and I got invited to go to Romania on a couple of days we had together. I could see them smile mission with Team Hope. When I received this news I more, becoming confident in making new friends, had all sorts of emotions—scared, nervous and excited. getting over being homesick, and so much love. But I I had not a clue what to expect, what the camp and the also found it very hard not to get too attached to any children were going to be like. I went to a meeting in of the children because the goodbyes would have been Carol’s house and she told us about her last trip to so much more difficult (even though I knew it would Romania. At least after the meeting I had an idea of be difficult anyway). I just tried my best to make this what to expect. Even in the airport on the way to the best few days of their lives and to make the most Romania I didn’t quite know how to feel, but once I out of everything we have. grew that unbreakable friendship with all the Irish team I knew that, no matter what happens, we’re all Did anything surprise you? here together to be the hands and feet of God. The home visits surprised me the most. Visiting the houses of some of the children in camp broke my Tell us a bit about your mission trip this summer. heart, but I was also impressed with how proud the The camp I went to in Romania was set in the children were of their own houses and how they were Transylvanian mountains, in a little village with one able to show us around their homes. Their families shop and one restaurant. The organisation we worked were all so welcoming. with in Romania was Ecce Homo. They work with families to try and help them out of poverty. For ten Would you do it again? days some of the children of those families came to the I would gladly do this trip again in a heartbeat. You go camp, where we played games, went swimming in over expecting to give loads but in fact you come back rivers, climbed mountains and had loads of Jesus with receiving a lot more. I would highly recommend discovery times. Through getting to know each other, this life-changing trip to anyone, and I feel so blessed getting over the homesickness and tears, I can to already have had this opportunity. definitely say that those ten days of my life were truly Carol Barry life-changing, not only for me but I hope for the kids

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BUILDING COMMUNITY (CENTRE), S

We are well under way with the parish centre building project. It’s an exciting time in the life of the parish as we seek to build community, strengthen worship and grow in service together. The hope is that the building will be completed for

The old wooden parish centre being squashed into a skip. The parochial hall torn asunder. T

After weeks of work the ground level is brought down for the new hall. Storm water storage crates below the paddock.

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Easter 2018. In the meantime, we want to keep everyone in the parish up to date with how we are progressing. Stephen Newell, our architect, presents a photographic record over the following three pages of progress so far.

The last few minutes of the old kitchen. The parochial hall stripped out and down to the clay floor.

Finishing off drainage in the paddock.

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More retaining walls — this time along by Yet another retaining wall — to keep the A drain being laid along the front of the the ramp up to the tennis courts. tennis court light poles standing. new building.

Exciting times! The main retaining wall, apart from a railing on top, is complete. Now the building can commence.

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water and before praying a collect. many, apt to be read over and over CRANMER’S The biblical references are in again at different stages of life. Few CORNER Ruth 2.4, II Chronicles 15.2 and prayers appear to be as universal as Matthew 28.20, and evidence of its this one. use in Christian communities can The image given in the first be dated back to the sixth century verse orients the whole psalm. ‘The in the Council of Braga. Lord is my shepherd, I lack The Latin response to Dominus nothing.’ What force there is in vobiscum is Et cum spiritu tuo. The that statement! ‘Nothing,’ says the English translation of this is ‘And psalmist! ‘How can this be?’ we with thy spirit’, but the agreed wonder. At once the text plunges us translation into contemporary into an atmosphere of invigorating English is ‘And also with you’. This freshness. The shepherd knows is perhaps a clearer interpretation, how to bring his flock to life by as the greeting recognises the leading it to places of nourishment. whole person. Interestingly, the In that way he leads the sheep Roman Catholic tradition has onward. The life of the flock lies in returned to using the traditional a constantly renewed and form, though you will still hear unceasing movement forward. both spoken in services. The following verses evoke The greeting is a benediction two important dangers. It is true that recognises the image of Christ that a shepherd does not remove in the gathered. It draws out this perils from the flock, but enables it image, verbally constituting the to pass through them safely. First church. It is also there to draw us in, there is a dark valley, where death to signify that something special is does not seem far off. God is there, about to happen. We are about to the psalmist affirms, but in the enter, to meet God, and God is dark. One could say that the eye no about to meet us. longer sees anything; there is only THE GATHERING The Lord be with you. hearing. The staff is tapping on the We have a bit of an Anglican reflex And also with you. ground, the sole proof for the sheep in the church at the start of the that their shepherd is still there. service. The rector says, ‘The Lord Then there is an abrupt transition: be with you’, and instinctively the LECTIONARY God sets up a table where the congregation replies, ‘And also with RAMBLINGS: PSALM 23 believer sits in the presence of her you’. In the summer edition we introduced enemies. The welcome is A related joke goes like this. A this section, called ‘Lectionary overflowing. God ensures that it is priest starts shouting into the ramblings’. The idea is to take a not a confrontation but a true feast. microphone, saying: ‘Is this thing reading from the common lectionary In the final verses, the on?’ He makes lots of noise and and think about what it might mean psalmist is on the road: life seems finally says: ‘Something is wrong to us. In October we are twice to go back to its ‘normal’ course. with this mic!’ And the introduced to the 23rd Psalm, perhaps But instead of being led from the congregation replies: ‘And also with the best known of the Psalms. What I front, he seems to be ‘pushed’ from you!’ would encourage you to do is to get behind. The gifts of God, goodness You might say that it is the your Bible or check out the chapter in and love, follow him until he church’s version of ‘Hello’, and I a phone app. Read the psalm and then reaches his destination, the Lord’s quite like that jolly interpretation. the commentary below, which is taken own house, where he can live in Nevertheless, it is important not to from the Taizé Community Bible intimacy with God for ever. trivialise it. What we say at the start commentaries. There are a few of the service is important. Those questions at the bottom for you to • What events or situations words set the scene for what is reflect on in the days ahead. in my life do the images found about to happen. in this psalm evoke for me? In Latin the phrase is Dominus For many believers throughout the vobiscum; in English it is ‘The Lord ages the 23rd Psalm has held a • What enables us to go be with you’. It is used at the special place. The peaceful trust of forward in the midst of beginning of the service and at the this prayer and the simple images it difficulties? How do we let God beginning of the Eucharistic prayer. employs (pastures, waters, a dark offer us new life and energy? It can also be used before the valley, a table) to tell how God reading of the Gospel, before a accompanies believers through real blessing, before blessing baptismal difficulties have made it precious to

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YOUNG PEOPLE SPEAKING celebrities, and a great number of those celebrities are atheist or just SOCIAL MEDIA non-religious. I believe in freedom of speech and I understand that celebrities are free to post about AND TEENAGERS whatever they want on their social media accounts, but I sometimes wonder how their followers would By Benita Murinda react if they started to post Bible verses or religious references. I predict that there would be a religious revolution. People would be preaching their love of Christ without shame or embarrassment. think it is safe to say that teenagers, and she laughed and said I know that this is not the case branding yourself a Christian is ‘More like their lack of faith!’ All for every single teenager, as there Inot the coolest thing to do in my life I have always had faith—at are some who are confident in secondary school. In fact, if you first not by choice, but as I grew up presenting their faith without the want to find a great way of it became a choice. influence of a celebrity figure. alienating yourself from the My dad is always going on Although some celebrities use social majority of your peers at school, about how everything was better media to post quotes that are then do just that. This may seem when we didn’t have social media. I sometimes religious, they do not funny, as 98% of my classmates used to moan back and label him promote a deep knowledge of have made their confirmation. old-fashioned, but now I can see Christianity but only a thin veneer The meaning of confirmation that he was right. of piety. is a public affirmation of God and The question of ‘Who am I?’ the acceptance of God in one’s life. That said, most of my peers seem to be more than eager to abandon the Christian faith and run away from God. I asked a friend of mine why ‘Imagine being a she wanted to leave the church and she simply replied, ‘Because there’s Christian teen nothing for me there. It’s just a Instagrammer! You place for old people’. I was taken aback because a part of me agreed would be the with her and could see where she laughing stock of was coming from, but I also believed that she had been using the town and the her bad experience in one church world!’ as a representation of the whole Christian religion. In my last Religion class we Image: IAB ireland IAB Image: did a reflection task and at the end of it our teacher asked us, ‘How many of you believe in God?’ I was comes to mind often; I am sure that The teenage years are surprised to find that only two every single human being has complicated but ultimately critical. hands went up, including mine. I thought about it, but very few of us They play a huge role in shaping was surprised because I knew that actually know the answer. There are our character and strength. Unlike there were more believers in the many things on social media that our parents, we have our buddy class, but they had decided not to tell us who we should be. One can’t social media to help us out in our comment or participate. deny that it plays a huge role in a quest to seek the truth about the I believe that part of the teenager’s life nowadays. Almost all world and its peoples. It is just reason is because Christianity is not of our daily activities are poured unfortunate that at times it isn’t considered cool. Christianity is out onto multiple social media the most positive thing, but as I associated with being meek and a platforms. have said, we all make choices. We goody two shoes, which is the polar Imagine being a Christian teen just need guidance in making better opposite of what is considered cool. Instagrammer! You would be the ones, whether with or without I told my friend that I wanted to laughing stock of the town and the social media. write a piece about faith and world! Many teenagers follow

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FAMILY AND YOUTH MINISTRY MESSY CHURCH GREAT SCOUTS OUTDOORS With longer evenings and brighter Summer was kicked off by a Messy weather, the end of our scouting Church great outdoors. The rectory year is always a busy time, and this garden was filled with families year has been no exception. The taking part in all sorts of crafts and wonderful new location for our games. There were water balloon storage containers has given all activities, crafts, smores, and a junk sections more opportunity to get art car race. out of doors and practise lots of scouting skills. From tent-pitching and shelter-building to zipline- zipping, it’s made a huge difference to all our scouts. Although we don’t have meetings throughout the summer, all the sections do have a summer camp. Beavers spent two nights camping in Lough Dan with some Scouts making shelters from tarps ... Messy Church activities other Beaver troops. The Cubs went We had an off-tune version of to Larch Hill for the annual cub ‘Who’s the King of the Jungle’ camp and had an amazing time before filling ourselves up with the with hundreds of other cubs from most amazing BBQ (pictured around the country. Our Scouts below). A big thank-you to Grainne spent a week camping in the Great and the hospitality team, and to Tower Scout Centre in the Lake Karl for his BBQ skills. After eating District. They did lots of activities our fill of burgers and salads, we and even got to go Ghyl had strawberries and cream or ice- Scrambling, which involves cream. climbing up a rushing river and Messy Church continues to be jumping into massive pools of an exciting new programme in the water! After working hard all year, life of the parish. If you are reading the Venture Scouts visited Iceland. this but haven’t connected with the They saw some amazing scenery, church for a while, why not bring swam in hot springs and met up the family along to Messy Church with some Icelandic scouts. For the this term? first time in Kilternan Scouts we

Messy Church BBQ ... and making a zipline.

also had two Rover Scouts take a trip to the US, where they managed to visit an amazing eight states. So, after all that, the planning starts again and we prepare for another year. If any of these activities appeal to you and you like the idea of being outdoors and helping kids build skills and confidence, then maybe being a Scout leader is for you. Email us at [email protected] if you would like to know more. Yours in Scouting, Martin Coughlan, Group Leader.

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GIRL GUIDES YOUTH GROUP Guides started back in Rosemont OUTDOOR MOVIE COMMUNITY School on Friday 8 September and On 3 September the Youth Group AND WIDER would like to hear from any girls gathered for an outdoor movie. wishing to join (10yrs and up). Thankfully the weather was kind CHURCH We hope it will not be too long and we were able to sit outside till until we are back in the new Hall. after 10pm. We were even able to THE CHURCH OF The girls will be busy on the have a bit of a BBQ! Despite a few IRELAND CHURCH AND journey programme through fun technical difficulties, we watched SOCIETY COMMISSION and games, and also look forward Invictus, which is a 2009 American– (CASC) to some skiing lessons. We are also South African sports drama directed The CASC was established by hopeful of joining another Unit for by Clint Eastwood and starring General Synod in 2013 as a a weekend camp. Morgan Freeman and Matt Damon. successor to the Board for Social We are also looking for It tells the story of Mandela, the Theology in Action and the Church leaders/helpers. Springboks and the 1995 Rugby in Society Committee. It is my For more information, contact World Cup. privilege to have been appointed to Freda Keady on 01 2822703. Youth Group is for young the CASC committee. people in third year and above. The mission of CASC is to provide oversight and direction of the Church’s work in respect of social The recent Youth Group movie night theology in action. As such, it seeks to undertake the following functions:

• To be proactive in seeking to identify, contribute to, challenge, encourage and develop areas of living today where the mission of the Church can be active and the love of God shared. To do this through the publication of reports, the development of appropriate resource materials, the identification and communication rather, giving is a form of worship. of good practice, and the STEWARDSHIP Giving emerges out of gratitude for implementation of projects that CORNER what God has done for us, and what apply theological perspectives to we can do for one another. Christian living. GIVING AS SPIRITUAL Many comments in the Bible • To seek to be reactive in order to ACT point out that God loves a cheerful provide a relevant response to The word ‘stewardship’ is one of giver. True acts of stewardship consultation documents, public those biblical words that has lost a should be a natural part of our lives, statements, policy debates, research bit of purchase in regular life. A without thought and as a happy and reports, and social issues in dictionary definition is the careful gesture. Christian resource-raising is everyday living. and responsible management of a joyful action that encourages something entrusted to one’s care. individual spiritual transformation In order to further these two In the biblical world, by helping donors to become rich functions, the Commission seeks stewardship is taking care of what towards God spiritually. relationships with other groups God has blessed you with in the Can we encourage you to within and beyond the Church of form of time, talent and treasure. continue to look at your giving to Ireland. It may also be appropriate According to a stewardship biblical God’s work through your financial from time to time for the definition, everything we have in contribution to the parish? As a Commission to refer matters to the way of material things belongs parish we seek to grow, but we can other bodies in the Church of to God; we are to manage it for only do so through an increase in Ireland. God’s glory and for the parish resources. The Commission’s area of advancement of God’s kingdom. Each of you must give as you interest includes (but is not limited Giving should be a spiritual have made up your mind, not to) health and social care, medical act. Giving isn’t about having your reluctantly or under compulsion, for ethics, public policy, political issues, arm twisted, or a nagging duty, or God loves a cheerful giver (2 poverty, family support and the meeting ‘obligations’ to the church; Corinthians 9: 7). environment.

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is devastating. Anam Cara’s South FAVOURITE HYMN Dublin group meets in the Maldron Hotel in Tallaght (opposite the Henry Francis Lyte again stadium) on the second Monday of Apropos the article about the each month, from 7.30pm to 9pm. famous hymn Abide with me in the One bereaved mother who first edition of the new Klips, I was attended a recent Anam Cara reminded of an incident of some meeting said: ‘Both my husband years ago. Our family grew up in and I felt it helped us in our grief to Castleblayney, Co. Monaghan, and be in a place where we felt safe and long after our departure from the comfortable to express the way we town to live and work in Dublin, feel and think. I am good at talking four of us would occasionally make but my husband is deep and I find forays back there. These occasions for him the more interaction we would refresh our minds about areas have with other parents like in the locality, roads we travelled, ourselves then he gets the nerve to places we fished, railway stations say something. It might be small since closed, people we knew, walks but it’s a start.’ we took etc. These were interesting MGR DERMOT LANE’S Anam Cara offers bereaved ‘recces’ that I thoroughly enjoyed. JUBILEE CELEBRATIONS mothers and fathers a safe and It was on one of these Fr Lane is a good friend of our comfortable forum where they can occasions that our eldest brother parish, so it was fitting that we were connect with other bereaved John, since passed away, referred to represented at the Balally Parish parents who will understand the a Sunday morning when he went celebration of 25 years of his depth of their loss and grief. early to St Maeldoid’s Church in the ministry, as well as the 40th Anam Cara CEO Sharon Vard town with our father. Our father anniversary of the foundation of stresses that this event is open to all was organist there and occasionally their parish. bereaved parents, ‘regardless of the played in other local churches, At the service, the ecumenical age your child died, the probably on a relief basis. Anyway, dimension of his ministry was circumstances of their death or John imparted that this particular underlined by the joint rendering of whether the death was recent or occasion was the celebration of the First Reading by representatives not’. ‘Lyte’s Centenary’. It must have of the Lutheran Church and Rev. For those considering been an important date in the Rob from Kilternan Church of attending but unsure, Ms Vard church’s calendar. I had never heard Ireland. suggested that they have a look at of Lyte’s Centenary and, as a young The liturgy was then followed the website, anamcara.ie. ‘There, in fellow then, neither of these words by a delicious meal in Naomh Olaf’s their own time, parents can watch would have meant anything to me. GAA club. The Monsignor was our short videos with testimonies On this particular recce, however, it given many gifts, one of which from bereaved parents and couples dawned on me that this was 1947, included a framed picture of who have attended Anam Cara 100 years after his death. Henry, I Kilternan Church of Ireland from events. The videos, which are just read somewhere, was one of the ourselves. We look forward to four minutes each, show parents leading lights as a student in hearing more from Dermot Lane, as interviewed on topics like A Dad’s Portora Royal College. Another, he will be the speaker at our Grief, Sudden and Traumatic Death, incidentally, was John Sullivan, community harvest. and The Grieving Family.’ recently beatified in this city. At the event, the Balally Parish A dad who attends the group Anyway, 1947 was also the History, in the form of a most urged bereaved parents to give it a year of the great snow and freezing beautiful book, was launched. If try. ‘The solidarity experienced by temperatures, and I recall seeing at anyone is interested in purchasing being among people who are bound that time ice about four inches one it can be obtained from the together by a common feeling of thick on the shore of lower Lough Balally parish office for €20. appalling loss is a great help. None Muckno, with many out on the lake of us wanted to be in this group nor enjoying themselves. ANAM CARA would wish it on others, but the Abide with me was played at feeling of understanding—which our father’s funeral three years later doesn’t need to be verbally in 1950, and for a number of years expressed—is a support. We all subsequently the playing of it understand.’ would bring tears to my eyes. Anam Cara is an all-Ireland For more information see It is such a dreadfully lovely organisation that supports bereaved anamcara.ie or ring their piece. parents. The death of a child of any Information Line on 085 2888 888. William D age and through any circumstances Hugh Harkin

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the compulsion to be powerful, REVIEW to have everything under our control.

A SPRING WITHIN US Rohr then suggests that we read the A book of daily temptation of Jesus in the wilder- meditations ness (Matthew 4: 1–11). For him, the three compulsions above were the same three demons that Jesus faced RICHARD ROHR in the wilderness. Throughout all the weeks’ re- flections Rohr puts great emphasis Reviewed by Alasdair Jackson on one thing: contemplation. ‘Be still and know that I am God’ (Psalm 46:10). At the end of each day’s meditation there’s what he A spring within us is a book that’s himself from heavily revising many calls the ‘Gateway to Silence’ phrase. worth taking a year to read. It’s a col- of them. There’s a new phrase for each new lection of 365 meditations, one for In his introduction to the book week’s group of meditations, with each day of the year, with none he sets out its plan and purpose: the phrase linked to that week’s more than a page and a half in ‘over the course of these daily medi- theme. It is always short and not length. That makes it easier to keep tations, we will follow the trajectory meant to be the subject of concen- reading one reflection every day of life from innocent beginning, trated attention, but rather to be right through the year. through inevitable brokenness, to held lightly in the mind and to be Each week has a theme that is putting everything back together, returned to from time to time dur- explored and developed through through ripening into union—with ing the busy day. For example, the that week’s group of meditations. self, God, the world, and others’. phrase for the week’s reflections on Over the year, the 50+ topics cover The prospect of ‘inevitable bro- ‘The path of descent’ is: ‘When I am themes ranging from the experience kenness’ sounds very distressing, but weak, then I am strong’ (see 2 of God and the question of suffering Rohr writes that the path to spiritual Corinthians 12: 10). to death, heaven and the centrality maturity takes this route: ‘sooner or In addition, over the course of of love. later . . . some event, person, death, the year he sets out various ways of These reflections have been put idea, or relationship will enter your moving into stillness while at together by Richard Rohr, an Ameri- life, with which you simply cannot prayer, from ‘following the breath’ can Franciscan priest well known in cope, using your present skill set, to a form called ‘Centering [sic] the United States as a gifted ecu- your acquired knowledge, or your Prayer’. menical speaker. He is also known strong willpower’. For him this is the Jesus’s life, His teachings and, through the books he has written, point where change can begin, the above all, His crucifixion form the and above all for founding the Cen- point where we admit that we are core of Christian faith. In the week’s ter [sic] for Action and Contempla- powerless. He calls this process of meditations on ‘Jesus, the Christ’, tion, based in Albuquerque, New change ‘the path of descent’, where Rohr writes that Jesus’s wounds Mexico, where it runs conferences there’s ‘an almost-complete rejection ‘were not necessary to convince God and courses. With the advent of the of the ego’s desire for achievement, that we were worth loving; the internet it has added on-line courses performance, success, power, status, wounds are to convince us of the path too. Rohr says this about its purpose: war, and money’. This, Rohr says, is and the price of transformation’. And what Saint Paul called kenosis, the he says that the two images below ‘The question for us is always way of self-emptying (see Philippians contain the whole message of the “how can we turn information 2: 5–8). Gospel in shorthand form: into transformation?” How can He develops this theme later in we use the sacred texts, tradition, the year with a week’s reflections on ‘Jesus’ wounded body is an icon and experience to lead people ‘letting go’, saying that ‘the spiritual for what we are all doing to one into new places with God, with life has much more to do with sub- another, to ourselves, and to the life, with themselves?’ traction than it does with addition’. world. Jesus’ resurrected body is an In 2008 Rohr began offering He looks in more detail at the three icon of God’s response to all of on-line daily meditations. They were primary things that he believes we our crucifixions and is thus the free, they were popular and the de- have to let go: final chapter of all history.’ mand for them ultimately went global. A spring within us has drawn the compulsion to be successful A spring within us is available on this email wealth. It’s based on and competent and therefore to on-line from the Center for Action the 2014 on-line reflections, al- be admired; and Contemplation (https://cac.org) though, as he says, he couldn’t help the compulsion to be right; at $19.95.

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modernised, with changes that HYMN CHOICE make it more appropriate for services at which produce is on view or is offered by the worshippers, and so it has become the more widely used form. It was included in a collection published in 1861 and The Alice Leahy Trust extends a appeared in the first edition of big thank you to Kilternan Parish Hymns ancient and modern in 1868. for toiletries and clothes received Thankfully we are not asked to sing this year. the most up-to-date version by hymn-writer Brian Wren: Demand for the services of the Alice Leahy Trust remains very We plough and sow with tractors high. In February alone 253 and bale the new-mown hay, showers were provided and 188 sets we reap the fields with combines of clothes were distributed. All to bring our harvest day … donations of unused toiletries for men and women are very welcome. The hymn has appeared in well over 300 hymn collections. Jane l Shower gel Montgomery Campbell also l Hair products Matthias Claudias (Friederike translated the popular Christmas l Perfume/after-shave Leisching) hymn Silent Night into English from l Deodorants (only aerosols) the German. l Shaving cream/gel HARVEST HYMN Even if one does not farm, the l Disposable razors A former dean of Sligo, the late hymn reminds us how important it l Sanitary products Stuart McGee, would always give a is that the sun shines and the rain l Hair brushes and combs. potted history of each hymn before falls at the appropriate time, and for it was sung at services whenever he this we are grateful to the Lord and A box for donations of unused was the celebrant. As many hymns for the abundance we experience, toiletries is located at the back of have interesting back-stories, are particularly in this country, and are the church. translated or come in different reminded that we should care for versions or with alternate tunes, this our planet. Clothes are also welcome but was useful and instructive. It might, arrangements however, be a little time-consuming We thank You, then, O Father, for need to be made for collection. to copy this approach today when all things bright and good, we can have up to five hymns at The seed-time and the harvest, our Tel. Una MacConville some services. life, our health, and food; (086 8175530) As we are approaching Harvest Accept the gifts we offer, for all Your Thanksgiving, it might be worth love imparts, looking at what is probably many And that which You most welcome, people’s favourite Harvest hymn our humble, thankful hearts. and one which I grew to love when attending Harvest Services in my It is in thanking God for the gifts we daughters’ Junior School: Hymn no. have received that we are reminded 47 in the Church Hymnal, We that Christ has always valued the Also at the back of the church is a plough the fields and scatter. humble heart and that we can box for donations of non- Originally from a poem, ‘Paul continue to value the things that perishable food items for the Ederman’s Feast’, by Matthias this earth produces. And as the Society of St. Vincent de Paul Claudias, written in 1782, it was set refrain says: to a tune (‘Wir pflügen und wir The goal of the SVP is to fight streuen’) by J.A.P. Schulz, a talented All good things around us are sent poverty in all its forms through the musician who was a Kapellmeister from heaven above. practical assistance to people in (the leader of an orchestra or choir) Then thank the Lord, O thank the need. The SVP provide direct, at courts in Germany and Denmark. Lord, for all His love. personal assistance based on the The version in English that we need of the individual or family. sing today is largely the work of Based on information in the Jane Montgomery Campbell, a Companion to Church Hymnal, by teacher and German-translator. Edward Darling. Published by See the notice at the back of the church Some of the language has been Columba Press (2005). for suggested items.

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