Eaglais na hÉireann + The Church of Ireland
MALLOW UNION of Parishes
SUNDAY 12th SEPTEMBER 2021
The Fifteenth 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
THE EUCHARIST
We are very glad to welcome The Reverend Tony Murphy to celebrate the Eucharist today. NEXT WEDNESDAY 15th September
11.00am
THE EUCHARIST
in St James’s Church Mallow
1 Timothy 3. 14-16
Luke 7. 31-35
TODAY’S READINGS
Isaiah 50: 4-9a
The Lord God has given me the tongue of a teacher, that I may know how to sustain the weary with a word. Morning by morning he wakens—wakens my ear to listen as those who are taught. The Lord God has opened my ear, and I was not rebellious, I did not turn backwards. I gave my back to those who struck me, and my cheeks to those who pulled out the beard; I did not hide my face from insult and spitting. The Lord God helps me; therefore I have not been disgraced; therefore I have set my face like flint, and I know that I shall not be put to shame; he who vindicates me is near. Who will contend with me? Let us stand up together. Who are my adversaries? Let them confront me. It is the Lord God who helps me; who will declare me guilty? All of them will wear out like a garment; the moth will eat them up.
Mark 8: 27-38
Jesus went on with his disciples to the villages of Caesarea Philippi; and on the way he asked his disciples, ‘Who do people say that I am?’ And they answered him, ‘John the Baptist; and others, Elijah; and still others, one of the prophets.’ He asked them, ‘But who do you say that I am?’ Peter answered him, ‘You are the Messiah.’* And he sternly ordered them not to tell anyone about him. Then he began to teach them that the Son of Man must undergo great suffering, and be rejected by the elders, the chief priests, and the scribes, and be killed, and after three days rise again. He said all this quite openly. And Peter took him aside and began to rebuke him. But turning and looking at his disciples, he rebuked Peter and said, ‘Get behind me, Satan! For you are setting your mind not on divine things but on human things.’ He called the crowd with his disciples, and said to them, ‘If any want to become my followers, let them deny themselves and take up their cross and follow me. For those who want to save their life will lose it, and those who lose their life for my sake, and for the sake of the gospel,* will save it. For what will it profit them to gain the whole world and forfeit their life? Indeed, what can they give in return for their life? Those who are ashamed of me and of my words* in this adulterous and sinful generation, of them the Son of Man will also be ashamed when he comes in the glory of his Father with the holy angels.’
NEWS ITEMS
HARVEST THANKSGIVING Services this year will be as follows:
Doneraile and Mallow: Sunday, October 3rd, 10.00 and 11.45
Castletownroche: Sunday, October 10th, 10.00
MALLOW FARMERS’ MARKET has begun making its new home in the grounds of St James’s Church, Mallow, every Friday from 9am – noon. This is an excellent opportunity to engage with the life of the town and support local producers from the surrounding area. The church will also be open for prayer and reflection during this time.
REFRESHMENTS from Sunday 3rd October, it is planned to offer refreshments after worship in St James’s Mallow. This is contingent upon compliance with Government and public health guidelines as they apply at the time. We are grateful to those who have offered to help with preparing and serving refreshments and enabling this to happen in a safe and comfortable environment. If anyone is uncomfortable or unsure about staying for refreshments, there is no obligation to do so.
SUNDAY 31st OCTOBER is the Eve of All Saints’ Day and the Fifth Sunday of the month. There will be one service only in the Union that day at 11.00am in St James’s Church, Mallow which will be a Festival Eucharist to celebrate All Saints’.
SUNDAY 7th NOVEMBER in addition to the usual pattern of worship, when all morning services will include an Act of Remembrance for those who have lost their lives in the world’s conflicts, there will also be a Service of Reflection and Remembrance (as the Sunday following All Souls’ Day) in St James’s Church, Mallow at 4.00pm. This is offered as an opportunity to celebrate our faith in the resurrection, to remember before God those we have loved and lost by name, and especially those who have died during the period of the pandemic. A list will appear in all our churches for people to add the names of their loved ones at the beginning of October.
FOR YOUR PRAYERS
For Paul, our Bishop; and for the clergy and people of this united Diocese. In the Anglican Communion, for the Anglican Church of Tanzania.
We pray for all those known to us, including Jimmy Sheehan, Peter, Nicky, Ned Foott, Melissa, Ann Lysaght, Margaret, Imran, Katie, Pat McDonagh and family, the Burke family.
We commend to God’s mercy all who have recently died, among them Andrew McDonagh, Michael Burke, Ann Evans, Cyril Hoffman, Fr Con Cronin, Phil Morrissey, Fr Corkery, Thomas O’Sulivan, 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
Social-Media Channels
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@MallowUnion
Diocesan Readers
Avril Gubbins (022) 24267
Emmanuel Adebisi
0868467464
SERVICES NEXT SUNDAY
19th September 2021 (The Sixteenth Sunday after Trinity)
Wisdom 1. 16 – 2.1, 12-22; Mark 9. 30-37
10.00am THE EUCHARIST in St Mary’s, Doneraile
10.00am MORNING PRAYER in St Mary’s, Castletownroche
11.45am THE EUCHARIST in St James’s, Mallow