Enniskerry
WALKERS
The first Tuesday night for the Enniskerry Walkers is set for April 18. Two more Saturday walks are planned for March 24 and April 7.
CLOCKS
Summer Time is here to say good riddance to he Beast from the East, so don’t forget to put your clocks backon this Saturday night/Sunday morning.
DARTS
A mixup by the league fixtures lead to a night off for Powerscourt Arms, who organised a competition of their own, which was enjoyed by all.
POWERSCOURT/KILBRIDE
Powerscourt Tomorrow (Thursday): 10 a.m. – Holy Communion and Prayer for the sick.
Services of Worship in Powerscourt for Sunday, March 25 – Palm Sunday: 8.30 a.m. – Holy Communion One (Said); 11.30 a.m. – Liturgy of the Palms and Reading of the Passion.
Services of Worship in Kilbride for Sunday, March 25 – Palm Sunday: 10 a.m. – Liturgy of the Palms and Reading of the Passion.
Holy Week Timetable: Wednesday, March 28: 8 p.m. – Holy Week Service of Wholeness and Healing in Kilbride; Thursday, March 29: 10.30 a.m. – Holy Communion in Powerscourt Church; 7 p.m. – Seder Meal and Liturgy in the School Hall. Friday, March 30 – Good Friday
3 p.m. – Ecumenical Way of the Cross begins in St Mary’s followed by Good Friday Meditation. Saturday, March 31.10 a.m. – Decoration of the churches for Easter.
Invitation: As always in Holy Week we will walk together as an ecumenical community on Good Friday from one church to the other for the Way of the Cross. Do join us in St Mary’s at 3 p.m. on Good Friday. Powerscourt congregation invites anyone who would like to join them for the ‘Sonrise’ Service at dawn on Easter morning at official sunrise at 6.58 a.m. at the old church opposite the Golf club in Powerscourt estate. After lighting the Paschal fire we will process the light to Powerscourt church for the first Eucharist of Easter and then share breakfast in the School Hall.
Easter Day: 6.58 a.m. – Sonrise Service begins in Powerscourt Old Church followed afterwards and breakfast in School Hall; 8.30 a.m. – Holy Communion One in Powerscourt; 10 a.m. – Festival Eucharist in Kilbride; 11.30 a.m. – Festival Eucharist in Powerscourt followed by children’s Easter Egg Hunt.
Kilbride Easter Vestry: Kilbride Easter Vestry will be held on Wednesday, April 11, at 8 p.m. in the Parish Room. All registered vestry men and women are entitled to vote at this meeting. It is followed by a short meeting of the newly electe|d Vestry members. The church will be decorated for Easter on Saturday, March 31, at 10 a.m. and anyone who would like to come along and help decorate will be made very welcome.
Tonight (Wednesday, March 21): 7.30 p.m. – Midweek Lenten Study continues in Powerscourt School Hall with ‘Eco Congregation Ireland – a diocesan perspective from the diocese of Cashel and Ossory’ – Venerable Andrew Orr
ST MARY’S CHURCH
Sacrament of Reconciliation – St Mary’s: Confessions are held after 10.15 a.m. Mass on Saturday morning. Exposition of Blessed Sacrament after 10.15 a.m. Prayer Service each Friday morning. The Rosary is recited each morning at 9.55 a.m. in the Prayer Room. The Rosary Group meet on first Monday of each month.
Saturday Evening Mass: There will a celebration of the 7 p.m. Saturday evening Mass this Saturday in St Mary’s Parish Church.
Holy Week Timetable: Wednesday, March 28: 7.30 p.m. – Easter Penance Service in St Mary’s; Thursday, March 29 – Holy Thursday: 7.30 p.m. – Mass of the Lord’s Supper followed by Adoration till 9 p.m. in St Mary’s; Friday, March 30 – Good Friday: midday – Stations of the Cross in St Mary’s; midday – Stations of the Cross in St Mochonog’s; 3 p.m. – Way of the Cross – commencing in St Mary’s processing through the village to Powerscourt Church; 7.30 p.m. – Liturgy of the Lord’s Passion in St Mary’s.
Easter Timetable: Saturday, March 31 – Holy Saturday: 9 p.m. Vigil Mass in St Mary’s; Easter Sunday – April 1: 9 a.m. – Mass in St Kevin’s, Glencree; 10 a.m. – Mass in St Patrick’s and St Mochonog’s; 11 a.m. – Mass in St Mary’s
Rucksack Appeal: Do you have any spare rucksacks or schoolbags that you don’t really need anymore? The Alice Leahy Trust, which provides medical and related services for people who are homeless, is appealing for rucksacks or schoolbags that are clean, empty and in good working condition. The rucksacks are invaluable to people who are homeless as they can carry their possessions in them. If you can help, please leave your spare rucksacks outside the confessional at the back of St Mary’s Church at any time in the next week where one of our parishioners who is supporting the appeal will collect them. Your help is greatly appreciated and really will make a difference to people suffering the hardship of homelessness. Thank you.
Trocaire: Trócaire boxes are available at the back of the church, please take one and return to the church at the end of Lent.
St Mary’s and St Gerard’s School car park: For security reasons the Enniskerry school car park must be closed after 11 a.m. Mass in St Mary’s. Can you ensure that if you are the last person leaving the car park after 11 a.m. Mass that you close the gate.
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.
Midweek Lenten Study Programme 2018: Takes place on Wednesdays at 7.30 p.m. in Powerscourt School Hall – theme ‘Climate Justice’. Tonight (Wednesday ‘An Eco Congregation 2017 (Shankill) – an ecumenical parish perspective’ by Rev Trevor Stevenson. This is the final session.
Parish Seminar for all those who volunteer in our Parish: This will take place in Glencree Reconciliation Centre this Saturday from 11 a.m. to 3 p.m. If you are part of our volunteer work team in our parish please do come along. Coffee will be served on arrival and lunch included at 1 p.m. Prayer service will conclude the Seminar at 2.30 p.m. Please let the parish office know if you plan to attend.
Confirmation and Holy Communion Dates for the parish of Immaculate Heart of Mary 2018: Confirmation: Enniskerry – tomorrow (Thursday) at 11 a.m. First Confession: Kilmacanogue: tomorrow (Thursday) at 7.30 p.m. First Holy Communion: Enniskerry – Saturday, May 12, at 11 a.m.; Kilmacanogue: Saturday, May 19, at 10 a.m.; Curtlestown: Saturday, May 26, at 11 a.m.
Baptism: Baptisms will be held in St Mary’s on Sunday, April 8, at midday and on Sunday, May 13, in St Mary’s at midday. If you wish to book a baptism please phone parish office at least two weeks beforehand.
The Irish Catholic: Copies of the Irish Catholic are available at the back of St Mary’s Church – please leave the payment of €2 for same in the shrine in Prayer Room.
Save the Date: The Archdiocese of Dublin Knock Pilgrimage will take place on Saturday, April 21, The theme is ‘We are Pilgrims – Knock invites us to Healing and Peace’.
Legion of Mary – Kilmacanogue Presidium: Meet at 11.30 a.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.
Facebook page: Enniskerry, Curtlestown, Glencree and Kilmacanogue are part of the Bray and Enniskerry Pastoral Area. A Facebook page has been created to coordinate any and all activities common to all parishes in the area. So please link in with it and like our page. To find: type Bray and Enniskerry Pastoral Area on your own Facebook page and like it please.
HISTORY SOCIETY
Guest speaker for the 8.30 p.m. Thursday, April 12, meeting of the Enniskerry History Society in the Powerscourt Arms and Country House will be John Lennon, who will present his lecture ‘A History of the Main Street, Dundrum, Co. Dublin’ based on his recently launched booklet on Main Street, Dundrum, All are welcome to attend – admission €5.
Further information on the Enniskerry History Society and its activities are available from John Callan at 01 2867853. Other events which may of interest to members of the Enniskerry History Society are tonight’s (Wednesday 8 p.m. lecture by Rob Goodbody on ‘Ballycorus Lead Works’to the Dun Laoghaire Bor- ough Historical Society in the Royal Marine Hotel, Marine Road, Dun Laoghaire, Co. Dublin – all welcome, admission €3; this Fridays 11.30 a.m. talk by James Scannell recalling ‘Easter 1918 in Bray, Co. Wicklow’ in Bray Library, Eglinton Road, Bray – all welcome, admission free; Saturdays Local History Group Day in Dublin City Library and Archive, 138-144 Street, Dublin two, from 9.45 a.m. to 2.30 p.m. at which the following talks will take place: 10.05 a.m. – ‘Starting a Local History Group’ by James Madigan, Liberties Cultural Association; 10.35 a.m. – ‘Closure of a Unremunerative Railway Line: Harcourt Street to Bray, 1958’ by James Scannell, The Old Bray Society; 11.05 a.m. – ‘The meeting at Rochestown Avenue, 1884 and related history’ by Thomas Burke, Local History Alumni Group; 11.35 a.m. – ‘Dear Miss B’ – a collection of Edwardian Postcards, by Brian McCabe, Kill History Group; 12.05 p.m. – Tea or coffee; 12.30 p.m. – ‘An Irish Country House in Cloyne, Co. Cork’ by Marie Guillot, Cloyne Literary and Historical Society; 1.05 p.m. – ‘Lesser Known Dubs – The Good, the Bad and the Downright Despicable’ by Ken Finlay, The Old Dublin Society; 1.35 p.m. – ‘My Experience as a Dublin Docker, 1963-2009’ by John Walsh, Dublin Dock Workers Preservation Society; 2.05 p.m. – ‘irishhistoryonline.ie – a Resource for Local History Groups’ by Jacqueline Hill, NUI Maynooth; 2.20 p.m. to 2.30 p.m.: Discussion and Close. All welcome – admission free; and next Wednesday night’s 6 p.m. meeting of the Old Dublin Society in Dublin City Library and Archive at which the annual Members’ Night will take place as well as a presentation on the Old Dublin Society website and library. All welcome – admission free.
ENNISKERRY LIBRARY
The 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.