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The CMC Times March 2017
The magazine of the Church of Ireland Parishes of Castleknock and Mulhuddart with Clonsilla.
Parish Party 2017. On Saturday 5 March our annual chance to get together and let out hair down was held in the Parish Centre. A great night was had by all with plenty of chat, food and dancing! As always, nothing just happens and I would like to thank the organising committee (pictured below) for all their help; Jemma Sinclar, Jen O’Donoghue, Julia Culleton and Hal McGuckin. On the night, we had lots of raffle prizes and I would like to thank all those who donated prizes and/or bought tickets.
Any profit on the night will go to fund the Parish Fun Day which will be held next September in our back garden and the parish centre.
Until then God bless, Eugene
The committee (above), Valerie, Adrienne & Paul (below)
In this months issue:
Our theme for Lent is exploring the Ten Commandments. On page 4 you will find readings for each Sunday and also suggested readings which are thought provoking.
There are lots of photos from parish events: the parish party, the Mothers’ Union breakfast meeting, the Wednesday Club etc. Enjoy!
Two things for us to remember: our young people will be confirmed in St. Brigid’s Church on Saturday 25 March and Mothering Sunday is 26 March.
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Parish contacts: Rector: Canon Paul Houston 01 820 0040
Curate: Rev. Eugene Griffin 086 3826646
Reader: Stella Obe 087 2237402
Parish Website: www.castleknock.dublin.anglican.org
Parish Office: Jennifer McGrath
01 820 0040 Hours: 9.30 -1.00 pm weekdays (Closed Wednesday)
Review Distribution: Beatrice Richards: 01 838 2590
Castleknock National School: Principal: Mrs Sandra Moloney 01 820 2611
The CMC Times: Editor: Rev. Eugene Griffin
If you wish to comment on or contribute to The CMC Times, the email address is: [email protected] Please feel free to take some copies of the magazine to give to your friends and family
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Dear Parishioners,
The Sound of the Trumpet
There is an old story that sometimes after the devil rebelled against God and was cast out of heaven; he was asked what he missed most from his life in heaven.
The devil thought for a few moments and then replied – ‘I miss most the sound of the trumpet in the morning! What the devil did he mean? He had chosen to rebel, he had preferred to be a law unto himself instead of an observer of the love of God.
He had decided to pursue his own objectives. In short he was ‘free’.
But what did he miss, what was this sound of the trumpet?
Well it referred to the giving of the Ten Commandments. For it was there on Mount Sinai that God spoke like the sound of the trumpet, not only to the Hebrew people but to all humanity, offering us all a law by which to abide and a way in which to walk.
It was the most stupendous experience for the Jewish writers. But perhaps the word law is misleading. Originally it meant the teaching of God. God is not just sitting on his throne, but like a father teaching his son to walk, telling him to avoid dangers, helping him to understand himself in his relationships with others.
We in the modern world still need guidelines for life, just as surely as the Jews needed guidelines for life in the wilderness.
Our wilderness is more complicated but it is just as dangerous. The Ten Commandments are best seen as a simple basis for everyday life.
Over the season of Lent, we will have a series of sermons on the Ten commandments, when we will look at their relevance for life today. I still believe we need always to keep in mind the sound of the trumpet!
Yours sincerely
Canon Paul
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Services for March 2017
Sunday 12 Lent 2 Theme: Reverence and worship of God and the danger of making idols that we love.
St Brigid’s Morning Prayer 8.30am & 11.30am
St Mary’s Morning Prayer 10.00am
CPC Confirmation class 6pm
Friday 17 St. Patrick’s Day
St Brigid’s Holy Communion 10.30am
Sunday 19 Lent 3 Theme: Exploring the themes of reverence, rest and the Sabbath rhythm of our lives.
St Brigid’s Holy Communion 8.30am & 11.30am
St Mary’s Holy Communion 10am
St Thomas’ Late Evening Office
Saturday 25 St Brigid’s Confirmation Service with Archbishop Jackson 11.30am
Sunday 26 Lent 4 Theme: Exploring respect within the family and the sanctity of life.
St Brigid’s Holy Communion 8.30am & 11.30am at 11.30 service we will be joined by the Brownies and the Mothers’ Union
St Mary’s Holy Communion 10.00am
Holy Communion is celebrated every Wednesday at 10.30am in the
Castleknock Parish Centre (CPC)
Holy Baptism last month On 12 February we welcomed Seán Michael Villiers-Tuthill into our faith community
Our best wishes go to his Parents and Godparents
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Lent 2017 During the season of Lent, we will preach on the Ten Commandments and exploring what they meant when they were written and what they mean for us today. Each Sunday service will have a theme and I have set out below some additional readings for each Sunday which you might like to ponder on.
5 March: Lent 1 – Holy Communion
Theme of service: An over-view of the ten commandments and Jesus’ summary of the law.
Readings for the day: Romans 5: 12-19 & Mark 12:28-34
The reason for loving God is God. God is the initiator of our love and its final goal. He is himself the occasion of human love; he gives us the power to love, and brings our desire to its consummation. God is lovable in himself, and gives himself to us as the object of our love. He desires that our love for him should bring us happiness, and not be arid and barren. His love for us opens up inside us the way to love, and is the reward of our own reaching out in love. How gently he leads us in love’s way, how generously he returns the love we give, ow sweet he is to those who wait for him!
Bernard of Clairvaux (1090-1153)
12 March: Lent 2 – Morning Prayer
Theme of service: Reverence and worship of God and the danger of making idols that we love.
Readings for the day: Genesis 12: 1-4a, Psalm 96 & Matthew 17: 1-9
God does not need golden cups, but he does need golden hearts.
John Chrysostom (C.347-407)
The glory of God gives life; those who see God receive life. For this reason God, who cannot be grasped, comprehended or seen, allows himself to be seen, comprehended and grasped by humanity, that he may give life to those who see and receive him.
Irenaeus (C.130- C.200)
19 March: Lent 3 – Holy Communion
Theme of service: Exploring the themes of reverence, rest and the Sabbath rhythm of our lives.
Readings for the day: Genesis 1: 26-2:4 & John 4: 5-42
The point and the justification of leisure are not that the functionary should function faultlessly and without a breakdown, but that the functionary should continue to be a human being.
Josef Pieper (1904-97)
In the heavenly city there will be freedom of will. There that precept from the psalms will find fulfilment: ‘Be still and know that I am God.’ that will truly be the greatest of Sabbaths; a Sabbath that has no evening, the Sabbath that the Lord approved at the beginning of creation.
St. Augustine (354-430)
26 March: Lent 4 – All Age – Mothering Sunday
Theme of service: Exploring respect within the family and the sanctity of life.
Readings for the day: Exodus 2: 1-10 & Romans 12:9-21
God’s plans are better than our own, and he has ordained that the training place for his human creatures should be the home; the training place for parents as well as children. Our task is to restore true family life for it is God’s own institution, and therefore a divine thing. There are two divine institutions in the world: the Church and the home. The home is God’s institution as truly as the Church: let that be the truth that we proclaim!
Mary Sumner (1828-1921)
The primary principle of Christian ethics and Christian politics must be respect for every person simply as a person. If each man and woman is a child of God, whom God loves and for whom Christ died, then there is in each a worth absolutely independent of all usefulness to society. The person is primary, not he society; the State exists for the citizen, not he citizen for the State.
William Temple (1881-1944)
2 April: Lent 5 – Holy Communion
Theme of sermon: Exploring the commandments about adultery and theft and their implications for our daily lives.
Readings of the day: Ezekiel 37: 1-14 & Matthew 5:27-33
Most of us in the Western world are more physically mobile than ever; we expect change and variety in our work; we have less and less interest or commitment as a society in the ideal of sexual faithfulness; we are entertained by deliberately hectic and rapid images. It isn’t difficult in this world to start imagining that the body is a sort of a tool for the will to use in getting its entertainment and satisfaction, its sense of power and fulfilment… Christianity encourages me to be faithful to the body that I am…
Rowan Williams (1950-)
One of the principal causes of the breakdown of so many marriages is the lack of the spirit of obedience. No word in the religious vocabulary is so much misunderstood by our contemporaries. Obedience is in essence the capacity to listen to the other. We stray from God when we lose this attentiveness and no amount of talking or thinking about God can truly substitute for this openness to him. We are to be listeners. Obedience then is deep sensitivity to the other: the readiness to think, in the first place, of the other and not of oneself. It is impossible for us to love one another unless we serve one another.
John Main (1926-82)
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What a swell party it was!
We had so many photos from the party that we could only fit a small selection here in The CMC Times. If you want to see more, you will find us on facebook as
@CastleknockandMulhuddartwithClonsilla
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On Monday 6 March, our “Overseas” Dublin & Glendalough links correspondent Jessica Clarke will speak at our March M.U. meeting in the Castleknock Parish Centre. All are welcome.
On Sunday 26 March there will be a special service to mark Mothering Sunday in St. Brigid’s Castleknock at 11.30am.
On Saturday 18 February , the Mothers’ Union breakfast meeting took place in the Springfield Hotel in Leixlip.
Here are some phots which I thought you might like.
Around and about
what’s happening in our parish organisations
Around and about!
What’s happening in our parish organisations
Bowls: We very much enjoyed our visit to Dunboyne Bowls Club in January. We “borrowed” one of their players for the first number of games but it didn’t help us with the score!!!! Chat time was important too over a lovely supper and we wish them well as they grow in membership and enjoy the game.
The season is nearing the end - in the Association matches we tried our best but unfortunately won’t make it to the Finals. We are hosting the FINAL of the McIlwaine competition on Friday 24th March and we know this will be well attended by spectators from many clubs.
Our “end of season” competitions start on 1st March and will be played over 6 nights during March and April with the finals on April 5th followed then with an Evening of Celebrations on 8th April and the AGM on the 26th April. Valerie Greene
Easter General Vestry meeting
St. Mary’s Clonsilla @ 10am on 2 April 2017
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A thought for the month ahead Eugene & Joanna
Patience with the Lord
All of us carry baggage, and all of us have faults and failings, inconsistencies and imperfections. When we begin to be committed to prayer, we expect change: and change does happen but not always as we expect it. Our patience can grow thin with God. ‘I am faithful to prayer so where is the change in me? Why do I still have to put up with my short temper, my lustful thoughts, my self-centredness?’
The promise of the Lord still holds true. ‘I will heal their waywardness and love them freely’ (Hosea 14:5). He will indeed heal us but in his own good time.
Jesus knows growth is gradual. When God wants to create a mushroom, he does it overnight. When he wants to make a great oak, God takes hundreds of years. The Lord views our lives from eternity. He does not hurry. So, wheat and weeds can remain together in the field of our souls as grace works in hidden ways.
As long as the heart is turned towards the Lord and intent on loving, our failures are not an issue in the Lord’s eyes. In fact, the experience of his gracious compassion as we fall and get up again and again teaches us great reliance on his mercy.
Throughout it all, our hearts are being expanded to trust more calmly and to love more generously. As prayer deepens, we are able to live with the spirit of gentleness towards ourselves and others, even when our failings are, at times, painfully obvious. The gentle know that true growth requires nurture, not force.
The Lord is closer to us than we are to ourselves. Jesus knows us to the depths, and loves us as deeply as he knows us. In his tender goodness, he is patient with us and asks that we be patient with him, ourselves and others.
The Irish Franciscans, The Simplest Prayer, Hatchette Books Ireland
Wednesday Club: Wednesday 22 March a visit to Croke Park - 12pm to 4pm approximately: includes Tea/coffee & Scones on arrival, Stadium Tour (90 mins) followed by 2 course lunch + tea/coffee with visit to GAA Museum, Cost €26 per person, free parking at stadium. Please contact a committee member if you wish to attend this event. We are considering a full day Trip to Wells House and Gardens, Ballyedmond, (18k beyond Gorey) on Thursday 27 April (Note change of day as trip will run from around 9.30am to 5.00pm).
The more people that go on the trip, the cheaper it will be. For example if 20 people go, the travel will cost €20 per person (all inclusive price €30). However, if 30 people go - travel will cost €13 per person (all inclusive price €24)
Can you please let Valerie Fildes know by text (087 2612432) if you intend going on this outing as we have to make a decision based on numbers interested as to the financial viability of running this trip.
Below are pictures and website of Wells House if you want to check it out and to also see the additional dining options available.
www.wellshouse.ie
Wells House and Craft Courtyard
Castleknock Mulhuddart
Clonsilla
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