Eaglais na hÉireann + The Church of Ireland
MALLOW UNION of Parishes
SUNDAY 20 th MARCH 2022
The Third Sunday in Lent
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.
Holy Communion will be administered in one kind only for the time being and worshippers will receive the consecrated
bread. The Church of Ireland welcomes all baptized Christians to receive communion at celebrations of the Eucharist.
Please continue to make our churches safe for everyone.
Those who wish to continue wearing face coverings are welcome to do so.
SERVICES TODAY
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
Please note there will be a retiring collection today to be donated to the Church of Ireland Bishops’
Emergency Fund for Ukraine
NEXT WEDNESDAY
23 rd March The Annunciation of our Lord to the Blessed Virgin
Mary
(Lady Day)
11.00am
THE EUCHARIST attended by members of the Mothers’ Union
collection today to be donated to
the Church of Ireland Bishops’
Emergency Fund for Ukraine
Isaiah 7. 10-14; Luke 1.
26-38
TODAY’S READINGS
Isaiah 55: 1-9
Ho, everyone who thirsts, come to the waters; and you that have no money, come, buy and eat! Come, buy wine and milk without money and without price. Why do you spend your money for that which is not bread, and your labour for that which does not satisfy? Listen carefully to me, and eat what is good, and delight yourselves in rich food. Incline your ear, and come to me; listen, so that you may live. I will make with you an everlasting covenant, my steadfast, sure love for David. See, I made him a witness to the peoples, a leader and commander for the peoples. See, you shall call nations that you do not know, and nations that do not know you shall run to you, because of the Lord your God, the Holy One of Israel, for he has glorified you. Seek the Lord while he may be found, call upon him while he is near; let the wicked forsake their way, and the unrighteous their thoughts; let them return to the Lord, that he may have mercy on them, and to our God, for he will abundantly pardon. For my thoughts are not your thoughts, nor are your ways my ways, says the Lord. For as the heavens are higher than the earth, so are my ways higher than your ways and my thoughts than your thoughts.
Luke 13: 1-9
At that very time there were some present who told Jesus about the Galileans whose blood Pilate had mingled with their sacrifices. He this way they were worse sinners than all other Galileans? No, I tell you; but unless you repent, you will all perish as they did. Or those eighteen who were killed when the tower of Siloam fell on them—do you think that they were worse offenders than all the others living in Jerusalem? No, I tell you; but unless you repent, you will all perish just as they did.’ Then he told this parable: ‘A man had a fig tree planted in his vineyard; and he came looking for fruit on it and found
none. So he said to the gardener, “See here! For three years I have come looking for fruit on this fig tree, and still I find none. Cut it down! Why should it be wasting the soil?” He replied, “Sir, let it alone for one more year, until I dig round it and put manure on it. If it bears fruit next year, well and good; but if not, you can cut it down.” ’
NEWS ITEMS
LENT COURSE The third of four sessions exploring The Gospel According to St Luke takes place in St Mary’s, Castletownroche on Tuesday next (15 th March) at 8.00pm with the final session in Mallow on April 7 th . Please see Lent leaflet for more details. Each session ends with refreshments and a short service of Night Prayer.
All are very welcome.
Thanks to all, including our Churchwardens, who gave of their time last week to open our churches for prayer, study and worship.
Our AGM (Easter Vestry) will be held this year on April 25 th (St Mark’s Day) at 8pm, St James’s Mallow.
CONCERT IN DONERAILE A concert will be held in St. Mary’s Doneraile on Friday, 29th April next at 8pm. It will feature Slovakian violinist, Vladimir Jablokov, accompanied by his sister, Olga. He has previously headlined performances in the National Concert Hall, INEC and the Cork Opera House. Tickets are €20 each and are available at Centra, Doneraile.
BUILT HERITAGE INVESTMENT SCHEME We are delighted that St Mary’s Church, Castletownroche, has been awarded a grant of €15,000 to assist with the cost of repairs to the tower (the highest value grant awarded by Cork County Council under the scheme this year). Grateful thanks to the wardens for their part in helping to prepare the grant application.
PRAYERS FOR UKRAINE ‘To clasp the hands in prayer is to begin an uprising against the disorder of the world’ (Karl Barth). The Church of Ireland has published prayers for the people of Ukraine and those displaced by war on the website, which can be accessed at www.ireland.anglican.org/prayer-worship/worship- resources/prayers-in-a-time-of-war-in-the-ukraine
FOR YOUR PRAYERS
For Paul, our Bishop; and for the clergy and people of this united Diocese. We join with our sister churches of the Anglican
Communion in praying today for The Anglican Church of Mexico (La Iglesia Anglicana de Mexico).
We pray for all those known to us, including Marjorie Thompson, Olive
those we have loved and lost whose anniversary of death occurs at this time of year, especially John Coulter.
We pray for the people of Ukraine, their leaders & all who are suffering the impact of war. We pray, too, for all Ukrainian people living in Ireland and those arriving here having fled their homeland, giving thanks for the generosity with they are being welcomed.
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
27 th MARCH 2022
The Fourth Sunday in Lent (Mothering Sunday)
Joshua 5. 9-12; Luke 15. 1-3, 11b-32
10.00am THE EUCHARIST in St Mary’s, Castletownroche
10.00am MORNING PRAYER in St Mary’s, Doneraile
11.45am A SERVICE OF THE WORD FOR MOTHERING SUNDAY