Eaglais na hÉireann + The Church of Ireland
MALLOW UNION
of Parishes
SUNDAY 19th SEPTEMBER 2021
The Sixteenth 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
MORNING PRAYER
10.00am at St Mary’s, Doneraile
THE EUCHARIST
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 22nd September
St Matthew
11.00am
THE EUCHARIST
in St James’s Church Mallow
Proverbs 3. 13-18
Matthew 9. 9-13
TODAY’S READINGS
Wisdom 1: 16 – 2: 1, 12-22
The ungodly by their words and deeds summoned death; considering him a friend, they pined away and made a covenant with him, because they are fit to belong to his company. For they reasoned unsoundly, saying to themselves, ‘Short and sorrowful is our life, and there is no remedy when a life comes to its end, and no one has been known to return from Hades. ‘Let us lie in wait for the righteous man, because he is inconvenient to us and opposes our actions; he reproaches us for sins against the law, and accuses us of sins against our training. He professes to have knowledge of God, and calls himself a child* of the Lord. He became to us a reproof of our thoughts; the very sight of him is a burden to us, because his manner of life is unlike that of others, and his ways are strange. We are considered by him as something base, and he avoids our ways as unclean; he calls the last end of the righteous happy, and boasts that God is his father. Let us see if his words are true, and let us test what will happen at the end of his life; for if the righteous man is God’s child, he will help him ,and will deliver him from the hand of his adversaries. Let us test him with insult and torture, so that we may find out how gentle he is, and make trial of his forbearance. Let us condemn him to a shameful death, for, according to what he says, he will be protected.’ Thus they reasoned, but they were led astray, for their wickedness blinded them, and they did not know the secret purposes of God, nor hoped for the wages of holiness, nor discerned the prize for blameless souls;
Mark 9: 30-37
Jesus and his disciples passed through Galilee. He did not want anyone to know it; for he was teaching his disciples, saying to them, ‘The Son of Man is to be betrayed into human hands, and they will kill him, and three days after being killed, he will rise again.’ But they did not understand what he was saying and were afraid to ask him. Then they came to Capernaum; and when he was in the house he asked them, ‘What were you arguing about on the way?’ But they were silent, for on the way they had argued with one another about who was the greatest. He sat down, called the twelve, and said to them, ‘Whoever wants to be first must be last of all and servant of all.’ Then he took a little child and put it among them; and taking it in his arms, he said to them, ‘Whoever welcomes one such child in my name welcomes me, and whoever welcomes me welcomes not me but the one who sent me.’
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 next Sunday, 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 the Province of Uganda.
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, 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
SERVICES NEXT SUNDAY
26th September 2021 (The Seventeenth Sunday after Trinity)
Numbers 11: 4-6, 10-16, 24-29; Mark 9. 38-50
10.00am MORNING PRAYER in St Mary’s, Doneraile
10.00am THE EUCHARIST in St Mary’s, Castletownroche
11.45am THE EUCHARIST in St James’s, Mallow