Bray
CHRIST CHURCH COI
Services of Worship for Sunday, January 14 – Epiphany 2: 8.30 a.m. – Holy Communion One; 11 a.m. – Morning Prayer; 6 p.m. – Confirmation Class.
HOLY REDEEMER PARISH
Evening Mass: There will be no Evening Mass this week.
First Communion Mass – Do This In Memory: This Sunday there will be a Holy Communion Programme Mass for all children making their First Holy Communion in 2018. We look forward to seeing the boys and girls and their parents or guardians for this special Mass.
Thank You: Celebrations such as our Christmas ones don’t just happen. We would Like to thank all of you, far too numerous to mention, who helped us in any way. We pray that the peace and joy of Christmas will colour all our actions throughout 2018.
Christmas Dues: The priests of the parish gratefully acknowledge the receipt of your kind Offering of Christmas dues and thank you very much for your continued support. When returning your Christmas dues envelopes, please place them in the boxes which are fitted in the walls near the doors of the church. For further details or to download a Standing order form, please see our website hholyredeemerbray. ie or contact the parish office 012868413or email us at: office@ holyredeemerbray.ie.
The Coffee Dock: The Coffee Dock re-opened last Monday after 10 a.m. Mass.
ST PETER’S PARISH
Christmas Dues: We would like to thank those who have handed in their Christmas dues to date. Your contributions are greatly appreciated.
Do This in Memory Mass: Will take place this Sunday at 11.30 a.m. Mass. We look forward to seeing the boys and girls and their parents or guardians for this special Mass.
St Vincent de Paul Monthly Collection: The monthly collection will take place this Sunday at all Masses. Your support is greatly appreciated.
Young at Heart Dinners: Young at Heart dinners will resume in February. Date to be confirmed.
Monday Club is a social club for people with memory loss and their family carers. Support activities, fun and outings. For more information contact 089 4286928. Monday Club will recommence next Monday (January 8).
ST FERGAL’S PARISH
Parish Trip 2018 to Croatia from May 23 to May 30: This trip covers eight Days and seven Nights, The price includes seven Nights Bed and Breakfast; Dinner on five Evenings at 3* Hotel Delfin; Coach transfer to and from Airport; Tour guide for the duration of the trip, plus three Day Trips: (1): Day Trip to Trogir, Šibenik, and Split; (2): Day Trip to Rijeka; (3): Day Trip to Plitvice Lakes. Cost: €799 per person sharing (based on 26-30 people); €849 per person (based on 21-25 people); €915 per person (based on 15-20 people). Single Room Supplement (€35 for seven nights) If you are interested Booking Deposit of €250 required during the first week in January (non-refundable); A further €150 per person is required by January 30 with the final payment due seven weeks prior to travel. See Posters at the back of the church.
Family Offering Boxes 2018: For the households in our parish who do not have a collector for the family offering, can you please collect your boxes from the table at the back of the church. Many Thanks.
OUR LADY QUEEN OF PEACE
Christmas Stamps: If you have any used stamps, please leave them in the Villa Pacis during office hours. Please leave at least a quarter inch around each stamp. Thank you.
Church Cleaners: We are in need of cleaners for the church for Wednesdays 11 a.m. to midday. Please contact the sacristy at 01 2723865.
Bethany Bereavement: Bethany Bereavement Support Group would like to invite people who wish to become volunteers in the Bethany Group. Training will take place in Drumcondra during January 2018 and will be paid for by Bethany. If you would like to volunteer and be trained please contact us on the Bethany Mobile for details 086 1696765. Volunteers will be interviewed by Bethany Bereavement Support Group General Executive Council.
QOP YOUTH CLUB
An induction course for new leaders will be run by the Queen of Peace Adventure Youth Club this month. Five people have expressed interest and there is room for more. There are plans to extend the range of the club activities and this will require more leaders. The club has 10 leaders at the present, 50 members, and run 90 events each year. This is the 51st year of the club and there are great expectations for expansion. Call 01 2860837 if interested.
DIVING CLUB
Bray Divers extend a warm watery welcome to new member Tony. He observed some of Brendan Moran’s excellent underwater photographs at an exhibition in the Glenview Hotel, and being a very keen photographer himself he decided to become an underwater diving photographer. To date two sessions have been completed and he is now ready to begin sea snorkelling.
The club is now preparing to enrol two more new trainees, and advise that the courses are tailor made to suit the candidates. Call Albert at 087 6756439, and you could be diving in the very near future.
CUALANN SOCIETY
The AGM of the Bray Cualann Historical Society, the local history society for Bray and North Wicklow, will take place at 8 p.m. on Thursday, January 18, in the Royal Hotel Bray and all members are requested to attend. The meeting will conclude with presentations by Brian White on ‘Bray 1918’ and ‘Votes for Women’ – all welcome, admission free for members and €5 for visitors, Those wishing to join the society can do at this meeting.
Further information on the Bray Cualann Historical Society programme available on the Society’s website cualannhistoricalsociety.ie.
In the meantime events which may be of interest to members of the society are tomorrow night’s (Thursday) 8.30 p.m. lecture by Brian White looking at ‘Enniskerry 1914 – 1918’ to the Enniskerry History Society in the Powerscourt Arms and Country House Hotel, Enniskerry Village – admission €5 ; this Friday night’s 8 p.m. lecture by Dr Harman Murtagh on ‘French military intervention in; Ireland 1689-1691’ to the Military History Society of Ireland in Griffith College, South Circular Road, Dublin eight. All welcome – wheelchair access available; next Tuesday night’s 8 p.m. of the Foxrock Local History Club in Foxrock Parish Pastoral Centre, rere Foxrock RC Church, Foxrock, Co. Dublin, at which Harry Bradshaw will present the Main Talk on ‘From 2RN to RTÉ Raidio’ and will be preceded by a Short Talk by Myles Reid looking at ‘The remaining, the lost and the forgotten Gate Lodges in our area’. All welcome – admission €5; and next Wednesday night’s 8 p.m. meeting of the Dun Laoghaire Borough Historical Society in the Royal Marine Hotel, Marine Road, Dun Laoghaire, Co. Dublin, at which Vincent Delaney will present his lecture ‘History of the Water Wags’. All welcome – entrance €3.
JOSEPHINE HEFFERNAN
Last Sunday the 47-minute documentary ‘Josephine H’ about Bray woman, Josephine Heffernan, who served a nurse with the US Army in France during 1918, and is buried in St Peter’s Cemetery, Little Bray, was screened on the French TV two channel at 1.25 p.m. and was repeated at 0.45 a.m. on the same channel last Monday.
In Ireland we will have to wait a week to see it on Replay France two. The following link to France two documentary about Josephine is francetvinfo.fr/replay-magazine/ france-2/13h15/13h15-du-dimanche-7-janvier-2018_2539393. html. It is expected that the documentary will be aired on TV5 Monde in the near future.