Eaglais na hÉireann + The Church of Ireland
MALLOW UNION of Parishes
SUNDAY 25th July 2021
The Eighth Sunday after Trinity
WEEKLY NEWSLETTER
FÁILTE / WELCOME to everyone who worships in our churches today
Please take a moment to check you have switched off your phone before worship begins.
Please ensure that our churches are safe spaces for everyone by observing all social distancing and hygiene protocols.
Holy Communion will continue to be administered in one kind only and worshippers will receive the consecrated bread.
Sadly, it is still not safe to enjoy hospitality and refreshments after services. With this in mind, please do not gather together around the church doors to talk after services.
SERVICES TODAY
10.00am at St Mary’s, Castletownroche
THE EUCHARIST
10.00am at St Mary’s, Doneraile
MORNING PRAYER
11.45am at St James’s, Mallow
MORNING PRAYER
NEXT WEDNESDAY
11.00am
THE EUCHARIST
in St James’s Church Mallow
Exodus 34.29-end
Matthew 13.44-46
TODAY’S READINGS
2 Samuel 11: 1-15
In the spring of the year, the time when kings go out to battle, David sent Joab with his officers and all Israel with him; they ravaged the Ammonites, and besieged Rabbah. But David remained at Jerusalem. It happened, late one afternoon, when David rose from his couch and was walking about on the roof of the king’s house, that he saw from the roof a woman bathing; the woman was very beautiful. David sent someone to inquire about the woman. It was reported, ‘This is Bathsheba daughter of Eliam, the wife of Uriah the Hittite.’ So David sent messengers to fetch her, and she came to him, and he lay with her. (Now she was purifying herself after her period.) Then she returned to her house. The woman conceived; and she sent and told David, ‘I am pregnant.’So David sent word to Joab, ‘Send me Uriah the Hittite.’ And Joab sent Uriah to David. When Uriah came to him, David asked how Joab and the people fared, and how the war was going. Then David said to Uriah, ‘Go down to your house, and wash your feet.’ Uriah went out of the king’s house, and there followed him a present from the king. But Uriah slept at the entrance of the king’s house with all the servants of his lord, and did not go down to his house. When they told David, ‘Uriah did not go down to his house’, David said to Uriah, ‘You have just come from a journey. Why did you not go down to your house?’ Uriah said to David, ‘The ark and Israel and Judah remain in booths;* and my lord Joab and the servants of my lord are camping in the open field; shall I then go to my house, to eat and to drink, and to lie with my wife? As you live, and as your soul lives, I will not do such a thing.’ Then David said to Uriah, ‘Remain here today also, and tomorrow I will send you back.’ So Uriah remained in Jerusalem that day. On the next day, David invited him to eat and drink in his presence and made him drunk; and in the evening he went out to lie on his couch with the servants of his lord, but he did not go down to his house. In the morning David wrote a letter to Joab, and sent it by the hand of Uriah. In the letter he wrote, ‘Set Uriah in the forefront of the hardest fighting, and then draw back from him, so that he may be struck down and die.’
John 6: 1-21
After this Jesus went to the other side of the Sea of Galilee, also called the Sea of Tiberias. A large crowd kept following him, because they saw the signs that he was doing for the sick. Jesus went up the mountain and sat down there with his disciples. Now the Passover, the festival of the Jews, was near. When he looked up and saw a large crowd coming towards him, Jesus said to Philip, ‘Where are we to buy bread for these people to eat?’ He said this to test him, for he himself knew what he was going to do. Philip answered him, ‘Six months’ wages would not buy enough bread for each of them to get a little.’ One of his disciples, Andrew, Simon Peter’s brother, said to him, ‘There is a boy here who has five barley loaves and two fish. But what are they among so many people?’ Jesus said, ‘Make the people sit down.’ Now there was a great deal of grass in the place; so they sat down, about five thousand in all. Then Jesus took the loaves, and when he had given thanks, he distributed them to those who were seated; so also the fish, as much as they wanted. When they were satisfied, he told his disciples, ‘Gather up the fragments left over, so that nothing may be lost.’ So they gathered them up, and from the fragments of the five barley loaves, left by those who had eaten, they filled twelve baskets. When the people saw the sign that he had done, they began to say, ‘This is indeed the prophet who is to come into the world.’ When Jesus realized that they were about to come and take him by force to make him king, he withdrew again to the mountain by himself. When evening came, his disciples went down to the lake, got into a boat, and started across the lake to Capernaum. It was now dark, and Jesus had not yet come to them. The lake became rough because a strong wind was blowing.
When they had rowed about three or four miles, they saw Jesus walking on the lake and coming near the boat, and they were terrified. But he said to them, ‘It is I; do not be afraid.’ Then they wanted to take him into the boat, and immediately the boat reached the land towards which they were going.
NEWS ITEMS
SUMMER FÊTE
The proposed date of the fête on Saturday 7th August (unless public health guidelines change between now and then) at St James’s Church, Mallow from 11.00am to 2.30pm is drawing ever closer. Less than a fortnight to go!
SELECT VESTRY MEETING
At a recent meeting of the Select Vestry of Mallow Union useful discussions were had, and decisions taken about:
1) Management of the Parish Hall,
2) Maintenance Committees for each of our three churches,
3) Five new policies relating to governance of Mallow Union as a Charity
4) Harvest thanksgiving services in October.
PARISH HALL
It is very encouraging to report that various community-based organisations have been in touch to enquire about hiring the Parish Hall. At this stage, before a Parish Hall management committee reconvenes, all bookings are held by the Rector, and it would be helpful at this stage if all enquiries could be made through him. The Hall is an asset for our life together as a parish as we seek to serve our communities.
HARVEST THANKSGIVING
These services will be held as follows:
October 3: 10.00 St Mary’s Doneraile and 11.45 St James’s Mallow
October 10: 10.00 St Mary’s Casteltownroche
Please make a note of these dates which are important occasions for all our churches.
FOR YOUR PRAYERS
For Paul, our Bishop; and for the clergy and people of this united Diocese. In the Anglican Communion, for the Scottish Episcopal Church.
We pray for all those known to us, including Jimmy Sheehan, Thomas, Peter, Nicky, Ned Foott, Ann Ladd, Melissa, Margaret, Imran.
We give thanks to God for all who have received their vaccination – and pray for those waiting to be called, along with all who work in the healthcare sector.
We pray for all who are on holiday at this time and those whose work and family commitments make holidays impossible at this time.
We commend to God’s mercy all who have recently died, along with those we have loved and lost whose anniversary of death occurs at this time of year. KEEPING IN TOUCH
The Reverend
MEURIG WILLIAMS
Rector of Mallow Union
Telephone (022) 21473
mllwyd@aol.com
www.mallow.cloyne.anglican.org
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Diocesan Readers
Avril Gubbins (022) 24267
Emmanuel Adebisi
0868467464
NEXT SUNDAY
1st August 2021 (The Ninth Sunday after Trinity)
Exodus 16. 2-4, 9-15; John 6. 24-35
10.00am MORNING PRAYER in St Mary’s, Castletownroche
10.00am THE EUCHARIST in St Mary’s, Doneraile
11.45am THE EUCHARIST in St James’s, Mallow