Enniskerry

COMMUNITY GAMES

Training for athletes takes place every Tuesday in Bog Meadow from 6 p.m. Children can just turn up and have fun.

WALKERS

Tuesday night marks the start of the summer season. Enniskerry Walkers meet at Windsor’s Spar opposite Town Clock at 7 p.m.

DARTS

The bubble burst last Tuesday when the Powerscourt Arms team lost for the first time in 2017. It was back to league matters last week.Powerscourt/Kilbride

Services of Worship in Powerscourt for Sunday, April 23 – Easter 2: 8.30 a.m. – Holy Communion (Said); 11.30 a.m. – Morning Prayer Two

Daily Prayer and Open Church, midday to 5 p.m. each day: Powerscourt Church has reopened for daily prayer. This year there will be two times of prayer, midday and 5 p.m. with the church being open between those times for quiet space and personal prayer. We are making this change because the afternoon seems to be most popular time for visitors and it also makes the best use of our team of volunteers who mind the church and lead the prayer. If you would like to help, please give your name to the parish clergy for inclusion in the rota. You will enjoy the quiet space for yourself and make a very valuable contribution to the community near and far.

Thursdays in Powerscourt Church: 10 a.m.: Holy Communion and Prayer for the sick.

Services of Worship in Kilbride for Sunday, April 23 – Easter 2: 10 a.m. – Morning Prayer Two.

GOLF CLASSIC

The Enniskerry Joint Parishes Community golf classic will take place at Powerscourt Golf Club on Sunday, April 30,. Supporting: Enniskerry Joint Parishes, Charabanc, Enniskerry. Format – Double Shotgun Start, team of four, Rumble (2 to count), Full Handicaps. Tee Times 9.30 a.m. or 2.30 p.m. Cost – Team of four – €400.

Tee/Green sponsorship €150. Book now to avoid disappointment. Contact John Prosser 087 2439592, Ricky Rountree 087 2767564, Marcus Magnier 086 2555161, Barbara Davis (Charabanc) 086 8056817, Dara Connolly (GAA) 086 1741050.

ST MARY’S CHURCH

Sacrament of Reconciliation – (Confessions): St Mary’s – Enniskerry: Saturday after 10.15 a.m. Mass; Our Lady Queen of Peace, Putland Road, Bray – Saturday after 10.30 a.m. and 6.30 p.m. Masses; Church of the Most Holy Redeemer, Main Street, Bray – Saturday after 10 a.m. Mass.

Invitation: For those who have attended the prayer service training and anyone involved with children’s liturgy in the Pastoral Area, you are invited to attend a workshop to cover Use of colour in liturgy – Art work and symbolism – Appropriate music and use of technology – Understanding the liturgical seasons. This workshop will also encourage the parallel use of traditional and culturally modern in liturgical services. Date: Saturday, May 13, in the Church of the Most Holy Redeemer, Bray, from 10 a.m. to 1 p.m. Coffee and scones will be on the go all morning and parking permits organised. Please inform the parish office at Holy Redeemer if you are attending so we can have enough for everyone. Looking forward to seeing you all.

Cuppa Sunday: On Sunday, April 30, after the 10 a.m. Mass in St Mochonóg’s. All parishioners and visitors very welcome.

The Rosary: The Rosary is recited each morning (Monday to Saturday) at 10 a.m. (before Morning Mass and at 7 p.m. in the Prayer Room in St Mary’s on the first Monday of the month.

Baptisms: Baptisms are now held on the second Saturday of the month in St Mary’s Church, Enniskerry, for parishioners only. Please arrange with parish office. Parishioners are asked to please give two weeks notice if you wish to book a baptism.

Helpers Wanted: God’s Housekeepers are looking for help on Monday mornings for half an.

hour from 10.45 a.m. to 11.15 a.m. to clean St Mary’s Church, even if you cannot commit to every week, every second week, once a month, all help appreciated.

Legion of Mary – Kilmacanogue Presidium: Meet at 3.30 p.m. every Tuesday in the Sacristy of St Mochonog’s. New members are most welcome. Group recite the Rosary on the first Saturday of each month at midday at the Grotto in the church grounds. Click on the link legionofmary.ie to view website.

Parish Shop: St Mary’s Church Shop (at rear of Church on the left) opens after all Masses. All occasion cards, prayers, statues available plus items, for baptisms, weddings and other Special Occasions.

HISTORY SOCIETY

Last Thursday night the final lecture in the Spring programme of the Enniskerry History Society took place at 8.30 p.m. in the Powerscourt Arms and Country House Hotel in the Village, at which John Lennon from the Dundrum and District Historical Society presented his lecture on ‘The story of Airfield, Dundrum.’

John Callan takes this opportunity to extend his sincere thanks to the management and staff of the Powerscourt Arms and Country House Hotel for this assistance and help with meetings of the society, to the visiting speakers who presented lectures on a variety of subjects and events, to members and their families, and the friends of the society, who supported its activities.

Meetings of the Enniskerry History Society will resume in the autumn and already work on that programme has commenced.

In the meantime members of the Enniskerry History Society are invited to tomorrow (Thursday) nights 8 p.m. lecture by Tom Conlon on ‘Victorian Kingstown – A Town Divided’ in which he will fascinating insight into how the poor of the town were hidden from sight to the Bray Cualann Historical Society in the Royal Hotel, Bray. Members free – visitors €5.

Members are also invited to next Monday night’s 8 p.m. meeting of the Wicklow Historical Society in the Old Boathouse beside the Leitrim Inn in Wicklow Town at which Chris Corlett will present his lecture ‘Here Lieth...’ Further information on the Enniskerry History Society and its activities available from John Callan at 01 2867853.

ENNISKERRY LIBRARY

Opening hours are as follow: Tuesday and Wednesday – 2 p.m. to 5 p.m. and 6.30 p.m. to 8.30 p.m.; Friday – 11 a.m. to 1 p.m. and 2 p.m. to 5 p.m., and Saturday – 3 p.m. to 5 p.m. The Book Club will be continuing and will meet on the last Wednesday of every month. New members to both the Library and Book Club are always very welcome. Please phone 01 2864339 for further information.

CAR BOOT SALE

The Enniskerry car boot sale, in aid of parish church funds, will take place from 9 a.m. to 1 p.m. on Saturday, April 29. The venue is opposite the Powerscourt gates. Cars cost €10 (no large vans). Enquires to 086 3815151.