Parish Newsletter - October 2014

St Brigid’s and All Saints’

Newsletter

October 2014

The Rector writes...

PARISH DETAILS

Clergy: Rev. Ian Gallagher 2881091 086-8119544 Rev. Robert Marshall 2886170 Rev. Jack Black 2780300 086-8120004 Rev. Kevin Conroy 086 0406256 Parish Secretary: Clare MacManus

Parish Office

Open: Tues, Wed, Thurs 9.30am—12.30pm

Tel: 2881091 / Email: [email protected] www.stbrigidsandallsaints.com

facebook.com/StBrigids

Hall Committee Hon. Secretary: Anona Fitzell Ph. 2722130

Director of Music: Clive Armstrong Tel: 087-2588481

St. Brigid’s National School Merville Road, Stillorgan Principal: Ann Andrews

Ph: 2833095

St. Brigid’s Parish Playschool St. Brigid’s Church Road, Stillorgan

Contact: Barbara FitzPatrick Tel: 0871202245

All Saints’ National School Carysfort Avenue, Blackrock

Principal: Andrea Black Ph: 2885355

As I write, the newspapers and television are full of the debate about Scottish Independence. It’s a huge decision for the people of Scotland. They have to weigh up all the arguments, all the pros and cons and then choose to stay or leave. The decision they make will decide their future and the future of their children. Life is full of decisions and we have to make them every day. Some major decisions, some trivial but they all have an effect on life and how we live it. Many of the decisions we make are based on our faith and the guidance we receive from prayer, scripture and the Holy Spirit. This faith helps us choose, but does not force us. We make our own decisions and hope they are the right ones. Passing on our faith to future generations also involves decisions. I think that one of the decisions we have to make is to show our children the importance of joining other Christians in Church on a Sunday morning, asking for God’s help and guidance for the week that lies ahead. Wedding Anniversaries: A big congratulations to all who celebrate a special anniversary at this time. The following are some that are known to me: David & Eileen Gillespie; Dick & Aileen White; Robert & Aileen Prole; Hubert & Ann Dennison. Embracing an Adult Faith: 5 - 6 week Discussion Group. I would like to form a small group to talk about faith. This will be based around five short videos by a leading biblical scholar, Professor Marcus Borg. If demand is great then we will arrange two groups. Please contact Clare in the office or speak to me if you are interested. Confirmation This will be on Sunday 1st February (St. Brigid’s Day). Please contact the office ASAP if you would like to be confirmed on that date. L.E.T. (Let’s Eat Together!) We are planning to run a couple of social evenings in the Parish, the first being in November and another in February. If you would like a chance to catch up with friends in the Parish (& make some new ones) without having to do the washing up in the hall afterwards, why not come along and join us for a very informal get together in a local restaurant? The planned dates and venues are below: Friday 14th November – Italian night in Café Aprile in Stillorgan. Friday 6th February – Indian night in Monsoon, Stillorgan. Limited places available so please contact Clare to avoid disappointment!

Schedule of Worship

St Brigid’s Church All Saints’ Church

OCTOBER OCTOBER

Sunday 5th October 11.30 am HC 6.00 pm SET Sunday 12th October 11.30 am MP SS

Sunday 19th October 11.30 am HC SS

Sunday 26th October 11.30 am SOW

Sunday 5th October 10.00 am HC Sunday 12th October 10.00 am MP Sunday 19th October 10.00 am HC Sunday 26th October 10.00 am MP

NOVEMBER NOVEMBER

Sunday 2nd November 11.30 am HC 6.00 pm SET Sunday 9th November 11.30 am MP SS

Sunday 16th November 11.30 am HC SS

Sunday 23rd November 11.30 am SOW Sunday 30th November 11.30 am SAT

Sunday 2nd November 10.00 am HC Sunday 9th November 10.00 am MP Sunday 16th November 10.00 am HC Sunday 23rd November 10.00 am MP Sunday 30th November 10.00 am HC

Regular services: 8.30 a.m. Holy Communion St Brigid’s Church Every Sunday 10.00 a.m. Holy Communion St Brigid’s Church Every Wednesday

HC Holy Communion MP Morning Prayer SOW Service of the Word SET Sunday Evening Together SS Sunday school during this service SAT Sunday All Together

Tea and coffee served after Church every Sunday in St Brigid’s and All Saints. Everyone welcome. Volunteers always required!Contact Anona Fitzell.

All Saints News

The Harvest Festival in All Saints will be on Sunday 5 October 2014. The church will be decorated on Saturday morning (4 October) from 10.00 am to 12 noon. If you wish to donate fruit and vegetables - or your time - for the decoration of the church, all will be most appreciated. After the Harvest Service the fruit and vegetables will be given to the Capuchin Day Centre for Homeless People in Dublin. Contact person: May Conneff 01 – 2887625.

~~~~~ Did you know that according to Dr. Thomas Har twell Horne (1780 – 1862) - the King James version of the Bible has 66 books; 1,189 chapters; 31, 173 verses; 774,746 words; and 3,566,480 words. Described as an eccentric theologian (surprise!), Dr. Horne also informed the world that the shortest book is the Third Epistle of John, 294 words; the shortest chapter is Psalm 117, two verses; and that the midpoint of the Bible, by word count, is - yes, you have guessed it – Psalm 117, verse 2. Before you dash off to prove Dr. Horne wrong, three other researchers, working independently, have put the Bible’s total letters at 586,589; 3,586,489; and 3,567,180 respectively. On lesser differences have religious sects been founded, and battles fought, in the past.

~~~~~ Excerpt from a New Catechism Q. What pain in the head did Moses suffer from? A. Sinai sitis. Q. How did Moses find a remedy for his affliction? A. God gave him ten tablets.

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Sunday All Together: 5th Sunday of the month On Sunday 30th November we will be holding a “Sunday All Together” (SAT) service at 11.30 am in St. Brigid’s Church. Following the success of our “Sunday Evening Together” (SET) services, we will be holding a SAT service when there is a 5th Sunday in a month. This will be a short service followed by refreshments. There may also be a surprise element to the service so why not come along and find out! Everyone of all ages will be made most welcome.

Sunday 5th October 2014

Harvest Thanksgiving Services

Preacher:Fr. Tony Coote

10.00 am All Saints’ Church

11.30 am St Brigid’s Church

followed by Harvest Thanksgiving Lunch in Parish Hall at 1.00pm

Cost: €8 for 2 courses (vegetarian option available) including tea or

coffee. (Child U 12 €3)

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St. Brigid’s Church will be decorated on Saturday 6th October for Harvest Thanksgiving from 9.30 am onwards. All contributions of

fruit, flowers and vegetables gratefully received. (Can be left into the Parish Office on Thursday 4th). Helpers on the morning will be made

most welcome.

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The Rector at Harvest Festival had arranged all the vegetables in front of the Altar. He asked the chil-dren if they could name them. The replies were “potatoes, cabbage, carrots, broccoli, and swede”. So he asked if they could use one word to cover them all. A little boy held his hand up and replied " Gravy"

REMINDER If you have received a CHY3 tax form for 2013 from the Parish Office and have not yet returned it could you please do so as soon as possible.? As explained in the cover letter this can now be signed regardless of whether you are assessed under PAYE or Income Tax. Your co-operation is much appreciated. Any questions please contact Clare MacManus in the office in the strictest of confidence.

At Sunday School they were teaching how God created everything, including human beings. Little Johnny seemed especially intent when they told him how Eve was created out of one of Adam's ribs. Later in the week his mother noticed him lying down as though he were ill, and said, "Johnny, what is the matter?" Little Johnny responded, "I have pain in my side. I think I'm going to have a wife."

***************** A preacher was completing a temperance sermon: with great expression he said, "If I had all the beer in the world, I'd take it and throw it into the river." With even greater emphasis he said, "And if I had all the wine in the world, I'd take it and throw it into the river."

And then finally, he said, "And if I had all the whiskey in the world, I'd take it and throw it into the river." He sat down. The song leader then stood very cautiously and announced with a smile, "For our closing song, let us sing Hymn no 365: "Shall We Gather at the River."

Parish Evening —La Dolce Vite!

Looking for a chance to catch up with fellow parishoners? Why not come along to our Parish evening for what should be a night of good company, Italian fayre and a few drinks? Venue: Café Aprile, Stillorgan Date: Friday November 14th 2014 Time: 7.30 p.m. Cost: €15 per head (€12 concession) to include two courses and a glass of wine. To book your place please contact Clare in the Parish Office. Full payment in advance please to secure your booking.

AUDITIONS FOR PANTOMIME

‘OLD KING COLE’

Sunday 12th October 2014 3.00 p.m.

Parish Centre

If you are in 4thClass upwards in School, or aged 10 to 14 years, and are interested in taking part in our next Pantomime, Old King Cole, please come to the Auditions – we would love to see you there.

We are also looking for adults to fill the parts of villagers, dancers, courtiers & evil creatures!! If you wish to take part please bear in mind that the Panto will be held on:

Friday 2nd – Saturday 10th January 2015. There will be weekly rehearsals on Sunday afternoons from November onwards, with final Dress/Costume rehearsals from 28th December. It is a big commitment but it is great fun!! Edwina Scanlon Hon. Secretary

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Stillorgan Players Dramatic Society

Present

Blithe Spirit

an improbable farce by Noel Coward

To get background for a new book, author Charles and his second wife Ruth light-heartedly arrange for local mystic Madame Arcati to give a séance. The unfortunate result is that Charles' first wife Elvira returns from beyond the grave to make his life something of a misery. Ruth too gets increasingly irritated with her supernatural rival, but Madame Arcati is at her wit's end as to how to sort things out.

Thursday 23rd – Saturday 25th October 2014

Booking Office: 2882115 or online (www.stillorganplayers.com)

Tickets: €12 Concessions €10

Venue: St. Brigid’s Parish Centre, Stillorgan, Co. Dublin.

THE READING GROUP

Eimear McBride’s first novel ‘A Girl is a Half-formed Thing,’ was our reading

for the meeting on Monday 8th September. It won the Inaugural Goldsmiths

Prize, the Kerry Group Irish Novel of the Year Award and the Baileys

Woman’s Prize for Fiction and was nominated for several others but if you had

listened in to our discussion no one agreed with any of it! However, books

which we dislike are often the ones that lead to animated conversation and chat and so it was with this

book. It is written in the first person. She lives with her mother and brother who has difficulties on

account of a brain tumour and surgery when he was a child. It covers her teenage years, volatile emotions

and teenage angst. This is represented by ‘staccato’ writing which was quite difficult to read. The

reviewer did a great job on detailing the good side of the girl; her love and protection for her brother is

well drawn but her behaviour to protect him from bullying at school is very skewered and overly graphic.

The book for the next meeting on Monday 13th October at The Wishing Well at 11 am is The Cuckoo’s

Calling by Robert Galbraith (the name J K Rowling uses when not writing Harry Potter.)

Barbara Lowen 2887910 Ida Heavenor 2887592 Aileen Prole 2889565

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St. Brigid’s Church of Ireland National School News

At the time of writing we are now in our fourth week back at school and enjoying the lovely sunshine so far. Our new Infants and other children who joined us are settling in nicely. A particular warm welcome to our new 5 th and 6th class teacher, Ms. Shaw, who we hope will be very happy with us in St. Brigid’s. We would also like to take this opportunity to wish Ms. Wilkinson well in her new position as Principal of All Saints’. On our return to school we were met with lots of surprises – a new roof, new front door, new kitchen, new photocopier – many thanks to everyone involved especially Rev. Ian Gallagher for all his support and Mr. Colin Galavan for his long-term tireless work in over-seeing this work to its positive conclusion. Also, a huge thank you to Simon Grier for all his time spent working on the school computers during the holidays. Even though we are only back a short time 1st and 2nd class have already had two very enjoyable field trips to: The Natural Bakery in Stillorgan and Rock pooling in Dun Laoghaire We wish everyone an exciting action packed year in St. Brigid’s. From all the staff and pupils.

Camp on the Green

We had a wonderful time at our annual Camp on the Green with the sun shining and lots of

activities to keep the children busy. This year’s Camp saw the biggest turnout in 11 years

with over 50 children attending from all the sections - Beavers, Cubs and Scouts. The

Scouts set up camp on the Friday night with the Cubs and Beavers arriving on Saturday. It

was a great adventure for the beavers, most of whom were camping for the very first time.

After pitching the tents all the children split into teams and competed a number of tasks, at bases set up round the grounds.

This included lighting fires and making pancakes.

We enjoyed a campfire, a movie and some “midnight feasts” on Saturday night and some very enthusiastic Beavers meant

we had an early start the following morning! We finished up some with awards, prize giving and a chance to help Ian with

his Ice bucket challenge.

We would like to extend a big thank you:- to the parish for accommodating us and to the parents that helped in particular to

Helen Roche for taking on the role of Chef.

3rd Dublin Stillorgan

Scout Leaders

Church Review and Newsletter items Please note that the deadline dates for the above publications are as follows: Church Review: Tuesday 14th October Newsletter: Thursday 16th October Items to be left at The Rectory marked for my attention or e-mail them to [email protected] Thank you

Clare

DATES FOR YOUR DIARY: LOOKING AHEAD:

TRUST: We will continue our support of TRUST this month with the collection of tea, coffee, chocolate abrs, biscuits and warm jumpers / fleeces / hoodies. Barbara FitzPatrick Clare MacManus Branch Leader Branch Secretary 087 120 2245 087 628 3111

Thursday 2nd October Cookery Demonstration. Open Meeting. All welcome. St. Brigid’s Parish Hall at 8.00 pm.

Sunday 5th October Harvest Thanksgiving Lunch, St. Brigid’s Hall at 1 pm. (See notice on Pg 4). Mothers Union members help required. Please contact Barbara or Clare.

Thursday 6th November AGM in St. Brigid’s Parish Hall at 8.00 p.m. followed by fun, games and refreshments.

Thursday 20th November Diocesan Council Meeting being held in St. Brigid’s Parish Hall. Your help is kindly requested with tea, coffee and refreshments on the night. Please contact Clare or Barbara if you can help.

On Thursday 4th September we held our opening service in All Saints’ Church. It was well attended by members and friends and all present very much enjoyed the talk given by David Reynolds of the ‘Dublin Central Mission’. This was an informative talk about their work with the elderly and the changing face of their mission work emanating from their central mission on Abbey Street. Afterwards we enjoyed a delicious supper in the Trinder Room, providing a chance to catch up following the summer break. Many thanks to the ladies of All Saints’ for organising the room and the food and to June Bow and May Conneff for setting up the Church. Many thanks to the Rector for taking the service and to Clive for the music.

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Some Sunday school gems!

In the first book of the bible, Guinessis, God got tired ofcreating the world so he took the Sabbath off The egyptians were drowned in the dessert. Afterwards Moses went up to mount cyanide to get the Ten Commandments The seventh commandment is thou shalt not admit adultery

Solomon, one of Davids sons, had 300 wives and 700 porcupines

When Mary heard she was the mother of Jesus she sang the Magna Carta The people who followed the Lord were called the 12 decibles

One of the oppossums was St Matthew who was a taximan Christians have only one spouse. This is called monotony

St. Paul cavorted to Christianity, he preached holy acrimony which is another name for marriage

Ice Bucket Challenge A Big Thank You to all who donated to see our Rector doing his Ice Bucket Challenge. (For those of you who have not seen it take a look at our Facebook page for a clip.)

A total of €370.21 for the Irish Motor Neurone Disease Association. Thanks to all for their generous donations.

KIDSZONE

A 4 year old’s prayer: “And forgive us our trash baskets as we forgive those who put trash in our baskets.” & A 3year old’s prayer – “”Our Father, Who does art in heaven, Harold is His name. Amen.”

A wife and mom invited some people to dinner. At the table, she turned to their six-year-old daughter and said, “Would you like to say the blessing?” “I wouldn’t know what to say,” the girl replied. “Just say what you hear Mommy say,” the wife answered, smiling. The daughter bowed her head and said, “Lord, why on earth did I invite all these people to dinner?”

What’s on in our parish organisations?

Parish Mission Statement: ‘St. Brigid’s with All Saints’ aims to encourage people in their worship and in the formation, development and living out of their Christian faith, to promote friendship and caring in the community and wider world and facilitate everyone of all ages’

Day Time Activity Contact Tel:

Sunday 11.30 a.m. Sunday School 2nd and 3rd Sundays in St. Brigid’s

Parish Secretary For details

2881091

Monday 4.00 - 5.00

Ladybirds

Jeanette Mee

087 2210529

6.45—8.10 Cub Scouts Marc Whisker 086 264 6531

7.30 7.45

Indoor Football All Saints’ Choir

Martin Oakes Clive Armstrong

086-3128306 087-2588481

8.20—11.00 Badminton David Douglas 01 2881029

086 249 9708.

Tuesday 10.00—12.00 Tuesday Club (Mar-Oct)

Bruce Watchorn

2888162

5.15—6.45 Brownies Helen O’Reilly 085 1498976

5.30-6.30 6.30-7.30 7.30

Drama (Junior & Inter) Drama (Senior) Bowling Club

Sally Blair White Sally Blair White Vera Bolger

087-2870932 087-2870932 087-2809931

Wednesday 5.00—6.00 Beaver Scouts Karen D’Alton 2880198

7.30 St. Brigid’s Choir Clive Armstrong 087-2588481

8.00—10.30 Stillorgan Players Edwina Scanlon 087-417 0912

Thursday 10.30—12.00 Contact (Parish Room) Aileen White 2895193

8.00 Mothers’ Union (1st Thursday)

Barbara FitzPatrick 2889801 087-1202245

Friday 10.00—12.30 Bowling Club Vera Bolger 087-2809931

6.30—8.00 Brownies Eileen Dornan 087 2108059

6.45—8.10 Guides Susan Henry Diane Darlington

2954806 086 3770865.

8.15—10.00 Scouts Colin Roche 086-8295837

Saturday 10.00 - 1.00 Junior Badminton Eileen Larkin 086-1969311

Other Garden Club Caroline Jolley Andrew Dennison Jacque Armitage Karen D’Alton Geoff Lovegrove

087-2499436 087-2937903 086-8770597 087-2800127 087-2545090