Enniskerry
PEDAL FOR PIETA
Enniskerry GAA Club are organising a ‘Pedal for Pieta’ cycle on Saturday, June 30. Two routes are available. See poster at the Powerscourt Arms hotel car park for more details.
DEATHS
Enniskerry lost two more people last week, Norman Roe and Maureen Rafferty. May they rest in peace.
WALKERS
The Enniskerry Walkers leave from Spar opposite town clock every Tuesday nights at 7 p.m. Powerscourt/Kilbride Powerscourt Tomorrow (Thursday): 10.30 a.m. – Holy Communion in Powerscourt Church.
Services of Worship in Powerscourt for Sunday, July 1 – Trinity Five: 8.30 a.m. – Holy Commun- ion One (Said); 11.30 a.m. – Holy Communion Two and Holy Baptism.
Daily Prayer and Open Church: Daily prayer is offered at midday and 5 p.m. and the church will be open for prayer and reflection between those hours every day till September.
Daily Worship App: The Church of Ireland has brought content from the book of Common Prayer (BCP) into the smartphone era by launching its Daily Worship app at the General Synod in Armagh. The app is an initiative from the church’s Central Communications Board in close co – operation with the church’s Liturgical Advisory Committee. Daily Worship presents Bible readings, prayers, canticles and Services from the BCP in one place and in asimplified format. These are available for each day of the year, covering five Services: Morning and Evening Daily Prayer, A Late Evening Office, Compline, and Holy Commun- ion. Daily Worship can now be purchased for €1.09/99p, and downloaded from the App Store and Google Play for use on Apple iOS and Android devices.
Services of Worship in Kilbride for Sunday, July 1 – Trinity Five: 10 a.m. – Holy Communion One.
Car boot sale: This Saturday, the third of these in aid of Powerscourt parish funds, which are held on the last Saturday of the month from April to August, will take place in Powerscourt Church Paddock from 9 a.m. to 1 p.m. For further information contact Robert Allison at 086 3815151.
ST MARY’S CHURCH
Sacrament of Reconciliation – Confessions are held in St Mary’s after 10.15 a.m. Mass on Saturday morning.
Exposition of Blessed Sacrament: After 10.15 a.m. Prayer Service each Friday morning in St Mary’s.
Annual Blessing of graves – 2018: Killegar Cemetery on Thursday, July 5, at 7.30 p.m.; St Mochonog’s, Kilmacanogue, on Sunday, August 19, at 3 p.m.; St Kevin’s, Glencree, on Sunday, September 2, at 9.30 a.m.; and St Patrick’s, Curtlestown on Sunday, September 2, at 3 p.m.
Sacred Heart Messenger: The July issue of the Sacred Heart Messenger has a piece on St Mary’s Church, Enniskerry. Copies are available in porch at St Mary’s, please place €1.75 in Our Lady’s Shrine.
Curtlestown Cemetery Clean Up: The summer clean-up continues tonight (Wednesday) at 7 p.m. Please bring strimmers, rakes, large bags and plenty of elbow grease. Cup of tea at 8.30 p.m.
The Rosary: This will be recited each morning at Our Lady’s Grotto in St Mary’s for the month of June. It will commence at 9.55 a.m. before 10.15 a.m. Mass/Prayer Service.
Bookstall: A bookstall has been placed in the rere of Enniskerry church to display suitable spiritual reading material. Please place money for books in shrines at back or front of church.
HISTORY SOCIETY
Meetings of the Enniskerry History Society have now concluded and will resume in October when the autumn 2018 programme will take place, and planning on this is currently under way. Information on the Enniskerry History Society available from John Callan at 01 2867853.
This next event of interest for members is today’s (Wednesday) 2 p.m. Office of Public Works free guided tour of the Irish National War Memorial Gardens, Islandbridge Dublin eight. Further information from 01 6770095 or see opw dublin commemorative. ie.
ENNISKERRY LIBRARY
Opening hours for the library are – Tuesday and Friday: 11 a.m. to 1 p.m. and 2 p.m. to 5 p.m.; Wednesday: 2 p.m. to 5 p.m. and 6.30 p.m. to 8.30 p.m., and Saturday: 11 a.m. to 1 p.m. New members to the library are always very welcome. Please phone 01 2864339 for further information or to renew books.
KILLEGAR CEMETERY
John Callan, president of the Enniskerry History Society, wishes to remind readers that on Thursday, July 5, the annual blessing of the graves in Killegar Cemetery will take place at 7.30 p.m. and all are welcome to attend.
There is a great deal of history attached to this site as it is known that it was a monastic settlement dating from the early Christian times.
After 400 AD, the earliest building were constructed of wood or wattle and daub but have not stood the test of time and so very little remains of them.
It was only with the arrival of the Vikings that the switch over to constructing buildings and churches with stone commenced as it was quickly discovered that these withstood the ravages of invasion better than wooden/timber buildings.
On this basis, the church at Killegar was built sometime during the ninth century with the site consisting of a small church and a number of small bee-hive huts where the monks lived. This cluster of buildings was enclosed by another inner wall which cut off the monks from the outside world. The cemetery also contains a Mass Rock dating back to the era of the Penal laws, with two of the oldest gravestones being dated 1830 and 1854 respectively.
About a quarter mile north-east of the church is a well known as ‘The Well of the church’, the waters from which were supposed to cure sore eyes. Some of the artefacts recovered from this site are thought to be at 1000+ years old.