The CMC Times

The magazine of the Church of Ireland Parishes of Castleknock and Mulhuddart with Clonsilla April 2017 Confrmaton 2017 In this months issue:

There is always a sense of completeness when a confrmaton Our full range of services for the remainder of Lent, Holy group fnishes their learning (for now) and are confrmed by Week and Easter. their bishop. That is just how Paul and I feel. For the last six There are lots of photos from our Confrmaton, Dafodil months we have goten to know Oisin, Candy, Lucy, Ashley, Day cofee morning, the Girls Brigade competton and the Colm, Eve, Wellington, Kirsten, Rachel, Promise, Cindy, Sean, Wednesday Club outng. I hope you enjoy them! Adedayo, Aidan and Niall very well and have shared our faith and learning with them. You will also fnd some prayers and refectons on Easter doted around this editon. I hope you fnd them useful for On Saturday 25 March, they stood in front of Archbishop your spiritual and devotonal life. Michael Jackson and answered for themselves the vows that had been made on their behalf at baptsm. Congratulatons to them Just a reminder: As part of a fundraising drive by The Irish and their families and may God bless them in their journey of Motor Neurone Disease Associaton you will fnd a Butlers faith and life. hamper at the back of each church. If you want to win the hamper, it will cost you Euro 2 per line. Eugene

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A Joyous Realizaton Parish contacts: For most of us Easter comes not a day too soon. Afer winter with its cold, dark, and depressing Rector: Canon Paul Houston days, comes Easter; making the dafodils to dance, 01 820 0040 the sun to shine, and the congregaton to smile. It is the happiest day in the Christan year! Curate: Rev. Eugene Grifn 086 3826646 The tale is ofen told of Dr. Dale consultng his textbooks as he sat in his study preparing to Reader: Stella Obe deliver a scholarly sermon on Easter Day. Suddenly he sprang up and exclaims “He 087 2237402 is alive! Christ is risen!” his eyes at that moment of realizaton were open to the Parish Website: glorious reality that at Easter Christ broke out not only from the tomb, but also www.castleknock.dublin.anglican.org from the barrier of tme, itself. Easter was and is a tmeless event Christ is gloriously risen and alive today! As Dale paced up and down his study the wonder of it all dawned on his soul. He decided Parish Ofce: Jennifer McGrath to re-write his sermon. Standing in the pulpit he raised his arms and with all the excitement of his discovery exclaims “Christ is Risen! Christ is Risen!” he then shut 01 820 0040 Hours: 9.30 -1.00 pm his book, came down from the pulpit, and announced the Easter Anthem. It was weekdays (Closed Wednesday) the shortest and most efectve sermon the startled congregaton had ever heard [email protected] preached.

Review Distributon: Can I wish you and your families a very Happy and Joyful Easter. Beatrice Richards: 01 838 2590 Castleknock Natonal School: Yours sincerely Principal: Mrs Sandra Moloney Canon Paul. 01 820 2611

The CMC Times: Dafodil Day 2017. On Friday 24 March, Editor: Rev. Eugene Grifn Castleknock Parish Centre hosted our annual Dafodil Day If you wish to comment on or cofee morning in aid of the Irish Cancer Society. A very contribute to The CMC Times, the chaty and companionable morning was had by all and email address is: Euro 2,665 was raised for this good cause. A very big ‘thank you’ to all those who [email protected] atended, organised, baked, served and cleaned up afer the event. Well done! Below are some photos taken on the day. Enjoy! Please feel free to take some copies of the magazine to give to your friends and family

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Some happy monkeys (above) enjoying the cofee morning. The organising commitee (right) enjoying the fruits of their labours.

2 Services for April 2017

Sunday 2 Passion Sunday Theme: Exploring the commandments about adultery and thef and their implicatons for our daily lives St Brigid’s Holy Communion 8.30am & 11.30am St Mary’s Morning Prayer and Easter General Vestry 10.00am Sunday 9 Palm Sunday Theme: Exploring the damage and the dangers of dishonesty St Brigid’s Holy Communion 8.30am & Morning Prayer with blessing of palms 11.30am St Mary’s Morning Prayer with blessing of palms 10am

Holy Week Theme: The Crisis of the Cross Monday 10 St Brigid’s Holy Communion 7.30am & Evening Prayer 8pm with the theme: Arrest Tuesday 11 St Brigid’s Holy Communion 7.30am St Mary’s Evening Prayer 8pm with the theme: False and Genuine Security Wednesday 12 St Brigid’s Holy Communion 7.30am & Youth Service 8pm Thursday 13 St Brigid’s Holy Communion 7.30am St Mary’s Holy Communion with the washing of feet 8pm with the theme: The Person and the Naton Friday 14 St Brigid’s Walk of witness 10am from St Thomas the Apostle to Our Lady Mother of the Church, and fnishing in St Brigid’s, Castleknock St Mary’s Last hour by the Cross Service 2pm Saturday 15 St Thomas’ Easter Egg hunt 5pm followed by Vigil Service 6pm

3 April Services cont.

Sunday 16 Easter Day St Brigid’s Holy Communion 8.30am & Family Communion 11.30am St Mary’s Family Communion 10.00am Sunday 23 Easter 1 St Brigid’s Holy Communion 8.30am & All Age Service 11.30am followed by Easter General Vestry St Mary’s All Age Service 10.00am Sunday 30 Easter 2 St Brigid’s Holy Communion 8.30am & Internatonal Service of Holy Communion 11.30am St Mary’s Internatonal Service of Holy Communion 10.00am

Holy Communion is celebrated every Wednesday at 10.30am in the Castleknock Parish Centre (CPC)

Holy Baptsm last month On 26 March we welcomed Rory John Coulter into our faith community Our best wishes go to his Parents and Godparents

A Prayer for Easter and beyond...

The hour is coming, and now is, when the true worshippers will worship the Father in spirit and truth; for the Father is seeking such to worship him. (John 4:23)

Lord, I thank You for the truth of Your Word that shows me how to live. Help me to learn from it how to worship You in ways that please You. I praise You, Lord, for the gif of Your Holy Spirit in me, guiding me in all things. I know that “Your righteousness is an everlastng righteousness, and Your law is truth” (Psalm 138:2).

Help me to daily enter Your gates with thanksgiving and Your courts with praise (Psalm 100:4). Enable me to make worship of You a way of life – my frst reacton to all that happens, whether good or bad.

You let Your walking do Your talking and Your word is always made fesh. Show me what to do by looking at the things You did and doing them myself. Let this be how people know I’m Your disciple. Amen.

4 Let’s hear it for the girls!

Castleknock Girls' Brigade

The girls have all been working very hard since Christmas on their dancing for the compettons which took place at the beginning of March and on their Easter mobiles, lollipop stck creatons and Chinese fans for the Natonal Craf compettons. We were very proud of the girls, their dance performances at the compettons and the beautful creatons they made in craf.

The results were as follows:

Natonal PE Compettons Explorer Skipping - 3rd place - Victoria Good, Highly Commended - Faye Kelly Explorer Teamwork - Highly Commended

District PE Compettons Explorer Skipping - Highly Commended - Jessica Mooney and Rachel Williams Explorer Teamwork - 3rd place Explorer Modern Dance - 1st place Senior Skipping - 2nd place - Ellen McLoughlin Junior/Senior Teamwork - 2nd place

Craf Compettons Explorers - 3rd place - Jenna Loughrey-Grant, Highly Commended - Victoria Good Juniors - 3rd place - Patricia Ghiuzan, Highly Commended - Jordan Ozatlar.

We are now focusing on getng ready for the display which takes place in Castleknock Community College on Friday 7 April at 7.30 pm. We hope that lots of people will come along to support the girls.

Olive Good, Captain

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AroundAround and about!about whatWhat’s ’happenings happening in in ourour parishparish organisatonsorganisatons

Wednesday Club: This is an outline of the planned Schedule for outngs for over the next few months. Further details and costs will be available soon: Thursday 27 April Wells House and Gardens Gorey Wednesday 31 May Dublin Castle Mothers’ Union: Monday 3rd April AGM, Electon of Ofcers. Monday 16th Holy Week service, the MU atends and takes part. Wednesday 28 June Picnic at Powerscourt nd Saturday 22 Branch outng to Glasnevin Cemetery, women’s’ Wednesday 24 July Lullymore Heritage Park, Prosperous tour with invitaton to Hollywood Branch. Saturday 26 August Barbecue

Boys Brigade: have been busy with all kinds of things, craf, Wednesday 27 September Botanic Gardens “Sculpture in pancakes and sport. We are putng together our display night Context” which will be held on 28 April, one for the diary. We need If you have any queries please contact any of the following: leaders/helpers to come forward, it’s only a couple of hours on a Tuesday and it is very rewarding. Harold McMillan Castleknock: Gladys Hutchinson, Bernard Neary, Audrey O'Donoghue, Shirley Smith. Clonsilla: Valerie Fildes, Gordon Hill, Bob Tuty, Margaret Tuty.

Bowls: Some of our members have enjoyed atending the Finals of various Associaton Compettons and we congratulate the winners. We were there to cheer the teams on and dream that we would be the players next year!!!! Our own “end of season” compettons contnue – good fun and not too pressurised!! We look forward to our Evening of Celebratons on the 8 April and then the AGM on the 26 April. On 24 March the club hosted the fnal of the McIlwaine Cup Competton between Coolock and Leeson Park. Afer a very entertaining match , Coolock (see above) edged out in front and won the cup. Well done to all those who organised the Wednesday Club visit to Croke Park. evening. Easter General Vestry meetng St. Brigid’s Castleknock afer 11.30am service on 23 April 2017

6 Sometmes we need to take a step back and really think about the wonder that is Easter and what Jesus did for us by being raised on Easter Day. I came across the following refecton and thought you might like it.

God bless you - Joanna & Eugene Refecton and prayer on meetng Jesus afresh at Easter

The Easter story is so familiar that I have lost the sense of surprise, the shock, the feeling that the world has been turned upside down, which Mary and Peter must have experienced that morning.

What was it like to spend tme with Jesus? What was it like to watch him die? What was it like to fnd his tomb empty? Do such strong, deep A good read. emotons enter into my relatonship with Jesus? I recently bought a book enttled “The Things He Did’ by What about the knowledge that Jesus is alive again? That my Stephen Cotrell (who is Bishop of Chelmsford). Basically, it is sins are forgiven? the story of Holy Week and sets out what Jesus did on that That I have been set free from all that threatens to prevent me week. from becoming whole? Are these just beliefs (or pious hopes) in When you think about it: he showed righteous rage in the my head, or do they spill out into my life, into the person I am in Temple, he ate with the wrong sort of people (yet again), he let the world? a woman anoint him with expensive oil, he washed his disciple’s feet, he broke bread and shared wine with the disciples, he prayed in the garden of Gethsemane, he was Lord, this Easter, arrested, tried and convicted. come to me afresh in your risen glory and power. According to Stephen Cotrell, Jesus stands in the prophetc traditon of those who embody what they teach. The things Jesus did were carefully planned and Cotrell draws out their politcal and religious signifcance as Jesus moves towards his greatest and fnal act: his death and resurrecton.

Clergy loitering outside St Brigid’s afer the Confrmaton Service Stephen Cotrell’s book is available from SPCK publishing.

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