22nd February

Monday

Morning Prayer – St. Michael’s Church @ 11am

Badminton – CPH @ 8pm

 

Tuesday

Parish Art Group – Old Schoolhouse, Blackrock @ 10am.

Badminton – Marmullane @ 8pm. All welcome.

 

Wednesday

Badminton – Marmullane @ 10.30am

Holy Communion – St. Luke’s Church @ 11am

Old School House Lunch – Old School House, Blackrock @ 12.30pm

Confirmation Class – CPH @ 6.45pm- 7.30pm.

Bowls Club – CPH @ 7.45pm.

Lent Group – Theme ‘Growing in Prayer’ in the Rectory 8.00- 9.30pm.

 

Thursday

1st Cork Company The Boys’ Brigade. 6pm – 7pm  Anchors. 7.15pm – 8.30pm Junior and Company Sections.

 

Friday

Holy Communion – St. Michael’s Church @ 9.30am

 Select Vestry Meeting – CPH @ 8.00pm. 7.45pm (Review of Register)

 

Saturday

Coffee Morning – Marmullane Church Hall @ 10am – 12 noon

 2nd Lennox Robinson Literary Festival – Holy Trinity Church will host series of readings by Cliff Wedgbury, Pete Duffy and Jim Queally at 3pm.  

 

 

This Sunday’s Readings

Old Testament

Genesis 9: 8-17 p7 (NRSV)

Psalm

25: 1-9 p617 (B.C.P)

Epistle

1 Peter 3: 18-22 p232 (NRSV)

Gospel

Mark 1: 9-15 p33 (NRSV)

 

Notices 

Sunday 1st March the Lennox Robinson’s play, ‘Harvest’, will be staged in the Canon PackhamHall by the Cork Youth Theatre at 3pm. There will be a reading by Billy O’Callaghan and the festival’s special guest, Ying Tai Chang in St. Luke’s Church at 7pm.

Garryduff Sports Centre is Hosting a Karaoke Night on Saturday, 28th February @9pm. Everyone welcome. Fun guaranteed! Groups welcome.

The Coeliac Society of Ireland, Cork support Group, are holding a meeting on Tuesday, 3rd March at 8pm in SMA Centre Wilton. €4 entrance fee, refreshments provided.

The Douglas Union of Parishes Ladies’ Lunch will be held again this year in the Maple Suite, Rochestown Park Hotel, on Saturday 21stMarch at 12.30pm.  The guest speaker this year will be the Rev. Eileen Cremin.  Cost is €25 and tickets may be had by contacting Janet Dillon (086 2651960).  Other ticket sellers are Finola Burke (Frankfield), Sharon Kerr (Blackrock), Shirley Clarke Swanton (Marmullane), Judi McCarthy, Vicky Coomber, Sue Doherty (Douglas).  As this event was sold out last year, early booking is advisable to avoid disappointment.

 

PRAYER FOR LENT

Teach me to feel another’s woe;

To hide the fault I see;

That mercy I to others show,

That mercy show to me.

Alexander Pope 1688-1744