Eaglais na hÉireann + The Church of Ireland
MALLOW UNION
of Parishes
SUNDAY 8th August 2021
The Tenth 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
NEXT WEDNESDAY 11th August
St Fachtna,
Bishop of Ross, 6th Cent.
11.00am
THE EUCHARIST
in St James’s Church Mallow
Ezekiel 34. 11-16
John 10. 11-16
TODAY’S READINGS
1 Kings 19: 4-8
Elijah went a day’s journey into the wilderness and came and sat down under a solitary broom tree. He asked that he might die: ‘It is enough; now, O Lord, take away my life, for I am no better than my ancestors.’ Then he lay down under the broom tree and fell asleep. Suddenly an angel touched him and said to him, ‘Get up and eat.’ He looked, and there at his head was a cake baked on hot stones, and a jar of water. He ate and drank and lay down again. The angel of the Lord came a second time, touched him, and said, ‘Get up and eat, otherwise the journey will be too much for you.’ He got up and ate and drank; then he went in the strength of that food for forty days and forty nights to Horeb the mount of God.
John 6: 35, 41-51
Jesus said to them, ‘I am the bread of life. Whoever comes to me will never be hungry, and whoever believes in me will never be thirsty.
Then the Jews began to complain about him because he said, ‘I am the bread that came down from heaven.’ They were saying, ‘Is not this Jesus, the son of Joseph, whose father and mother we know? How can he now say, “I have come down from heaven”?’ Jesus answered them, ‘Do not complain among yourselves. No one can come to me unless drawn by the Father who sent me; and I will raise that person up on the last day. It is written in the prophets, “And they shall all be taught by God.” Everyone who has heard and learned from the Father comes to me. Not that anyone has seen the Father except the one who is from God; he has seen the Father. Very truly, I tell you, whoever believes has eternal life. I am the bread of life. Your ancestors ate the manna in the wilderness, and they died. This is the bread that comes down from heaven, so that one may eat of it and not die. I am the living bread that came down from heaven. Whoever eats of this bread will live for ever; and the bread that I will give for the life of the world is my flesh.
NEWS ITEMS
SUMMER FÊTE
Grateful thanks to everyone who worked so hard to make yesterday’s fête such an enjoyable occasion. As well as raising much-needed income for this Union of parishes, it was a wonderful opportunity to open the doors, fling wide the gates (literally and otherwise!), and welcome people from the wider community to see something of our life as a Christian community.
PARISH HALL
It is very encouraging that various community-based organisations have enquired about hiring the Parish Hall in Mallow. At this stage, before a Parish Hall management committee reconvenes, all bookings are held by the Rector. 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.
ART EXHIBITION Congratulations to Mel O’Dea who is exhibiting her paintings in Mallow Library from 4th-18th August. All are welcome to view Mel’s work and you can contact her directly for further details on 086 8763968.
SUNDAY 29th AUGUST
As is the custom in this Union of parishes, there is one service only on the fifth Sunday of the month. This enables us all to come together from the three congregations and to enjoy one another’s company as we worship as one body. On Sunday 29th August, the Eucharist will be celebrated at St Mary’s, Doneraile at 11.00am. We are hoping to have the service outside (please start praying for fine weather!) followed by a picnic lunch. If we are able to worship outside, then we will be able to sing!
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
FOR YOUR PRAYERS
For Paul, our Bishop; and for the clergy and people of this united Diocese. In the Anglican Communion, for the United Church of South India.
We pray for all those known to us, including Jimmy Sheehan, Thomas, Peter, Nicky, Ned Foott, Melissa, Margaret, Imran, Pat McDonagh and family, the Burke family.
We give thanks to God for all who are receiving and administering vaccines.
We pray for all who are on holiday at this time and those whose work and family commitments make holidays impossible.
We commend to God’s mercy all who have recently died, among them Andrew McDonagh, Michael Burke, Anne Evans, Cyril Hoffman, Fr Con Cronin 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
www.facebook.com/Mallow-Union-of-Parishes-153486538476524/
@MallowUnion
Diocesan Readers
Avril Gubbins (022) 24267
Emmanuel Adebisi
0868467464
NEXT SUNDAY
15th August 2021 (The Eleventh Sunday after Trinity)
Proverbs 9.1-6; John 6.51-58
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