Eaglais na hÉireann + The Church of Ireland
MALLOW UNION
of Parishes
SUNDAY 3rd OCTOBER 2021
The Eighteenth 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.
Very happily, we are now able to resume refreshments after services on Sundays for those who wish to stay. We are grateful to those who have offered to help in making and serving refreshments – as well as making sure we can enjoy one another’s company in safety.
SERVICES TODAY
10.00am at St Mary’s, Castletownroche MORNING PRAYER
10.00am at St Mary’s, Doneraile HARVEST FESTIVAL EUCHARIST
11.45am at St James’s, Mallow HARVEST FESTIVAL EUCHARIST
Our offerings this year go towards the work of Christian Aid in Haiti and Afghanistan. Thank you in advance for your generosity NEXT WEDNESDAY 6th October
11.00am
THE EUCHARIST in St James’s Church Mallow
Jonah 4
Luke 11.1-4
TODAY’S READINGS
Please note these readings are for use in Castletownroche only. The readings for Harvest Thanksgiving in Doneraile and Mallow will be included in the special service booklet.
Genesis 2. 18-24
Then the Lord God said, ‘It is not good that the man should be alone; I will make him a helper as his partner.’ So out of the ground the Lord God formed every animal of the field and every bird of the air, and brought them to the man to see what he would call them; and whatever the man called each living creature, that was its name. The man gave names to all cattle, and to the birds of the air, and to every animal of the field; but for the man* there was not found a helper as his partner. So the Lord God caused a deep sleep to fall upon the man, and he slept; then he took one of his ribs and closed up its place with flesh. And the rib that the Lord God had taken from the man he made into a woman and brought her to the man. Then the man said, ‘This at last is bone of my bones and flesh of my flesh; this one shall be called Woman, for out of Man this one was taken.’ Therefore a man leaves his father and his mother and clings to his wife, and they become one flesh.
Mark 10: 2-16
Some Pharisees came, and to test Jesus they asked, ‘Is it lawful for a man to divorce his wife?’ He answered them, ‘What did Moses command you?’ They said, ‘Moses allowed a man to write a certificate of dismissal and to divorce her.’ But Jesus said to them, ‘Because of your hardness of heart he wrote this commandment for you. But from the beginning of creation, “God made them male and female.” “For this reason a man shall leave his father and mother and be joined to his wife, and the two shall become one flesh.” So they are no longer two, but one flesh. Therefore what God has joined together, let no one separate.’ Then in the house the disciples asked him again about this matter. He said to them, ‘Whoever divorces his wife and marries another commits adultery against her; and if she divorces her husband and marries another, she commits adultery.’ People were bringing little children to him in order that he might touch them; and the disciples spoke sternly to them. But when Jesus saw this, he was indignant and said to them, ‘Let the little children come to me; do not stop them; for it is to such as these that the kingdom of God belongs. Truly I tell you, whoever does not receive the kingdom of God as a little child will never enter it.’ And he took them up in his arms, laid his hands on them, and blessed them.
NEWS ITEMS
MOTHERS’ UNION The Diocesan MU President, Hilary Dring, will be coming to St James’s Mallow on Monday October 4th (tomorrow), 2pm. She intends to have a walk in every parish, to offer prayers, to meet with people over refreshments afterwards. Donations will be gladly received towards the “Mums in May” fund which supports MU projects in Ireland and beyond. All are welcome to a short service of prayer, before the walk, at 2pm. Donations
THANK YOU to Jean & John Gardiner for their generous hospitality in making so many of us welcome at their home and sharing their produce to support the mission and ministry of this Union of parishes.
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 (The Third Sunday before Advent/ Remembrance Sunday) 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 is now available in all our churches for people to add the names of their loved ones they would like to be remembered at this service.
The SELECT VESTRY will meet on Wednesday next, 6th October at 8.00pm sharp in the Parish Hall, Mallow.
THE BISHOP is recovering at home after a short spell in hospital last weekend and, for the time being, Archdeacon Adrian Wilkinson is the Bishop’s Commissary with responsibility for the care of the Diocese. We keep Bishop Paul (and Susan) much in our prayers.
FOR YOUR PRAYERS
For Paul, our Bishop; and for the clergy and people of this united Diocese. In the Anglican Communion, for The Church in Wales.
We pray for all those known to us, including John Ladd, Jimmy Sheehan, Peter, Nicky, Ned Foott, Marjorie Thompson, Melissa, Margaret, Imran, Katie.
We commend to God’s mercy all who have recently died, among them Cyril Hoffman, Phil Morrissey, Thomas O’Sullivan and Margaret Clifford along with those we have loved and lost whose anniversary of death occurs at this time of year, especially Ralph Gubbins.
We pray for all those people who are beginning to return to their place of work after a long absence and for all young people in the early weeks of third level education.
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
www.facebook.com/Mallow-Union-of-Parishes-153486538476524/
@MallowUnion
Diocesan Readers
Avril Gubbins (022) 24267
Emmanuel Adebisi
0868467464
SERVICES NEXT SUNDAY
10th October 2021 (The Nineteenth Sunday after Trinity)
Amos 5: 6-7, 10-15; Mark 10. 17-31 (Doneraile & Mallow)
Joel 2. 21-27; Matthew 6. 25-33 (Castletownroche)
10.00am MORNING PRAYER in St Mary’s, Doneraile
10.00am HARVEST THANKSGIVING EUCHARIST in St Mary’s, Castletownroche
11.45am THE EUCHARIST in St James’s, Mallow