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St Brigid’s and All Saints’ Newsletter November 2014 The Rector writes... PARISH DETAILS Clergy: Rev. Ian Gallagher 2881091 086-8119544 Rev. Robert Marshall 2886170 Rev. Jack Black 2780300 086-8120004 Rev. Kevin Conroy 086 0406256 Parish Secretary: Clare MacManus Parish Office Open: Tues, Wed, Thurs 9.30am—12.30pm Tel: 2881091 / Email: [email protected] www.stbrigidsandallsaints.com facebook.com/StBrigids Hall Committee Hon. Secretary: Anona Fitzell Ph. 2722130 Director of Music: Clive Armstrong Tel: 087-2588481 St. Brigids National School Merville Road, Stillorgan Principal: Ann Andrews Ph: 2833095 St. Brigids Parish Playschool St. Brigids Church Road, Stillorgan Contact: Barbara FitzPatrick Tel: 0871202245 All SaintsNational School Carysfort Avenue, Blackrock Principal: Andrea Black Ph: 2885355 Remembrance is something we do in Church Sunday by Sunday as part of the celebration of Holy Communion as we recall our Lords instruction Do this in remembrance of me.It is also good to call to mind the things that have made a valuable contribution to our daily lives—people and places that have shaped who we are. November is a special month for remembering. On the first day of the month we remember all those saints who have left us an example and an encouragement to run the race and keep the faith.On November 9 th , many of us will wear poppies on Remembrance Sundayas we recall and give thanks for all who died in two World Wars and continue to serve throughout the world as peace keepers and in the fight against terrorism. The act of remembering allows us to reflect on how fortunate we are in so many ways. One of those ways is our membership of a Christian Community – the parish of Stillorgan and Blackrock. Both churches also have their annual gift day in November and your support, as best you can, would be very much appreciated. As we remember in November, may I remind you that church on Sundays is at 10.00 am in All Saintsand 11.30 am in St. Brigids and if you havent been with us for a while we would love to see you there. Compline Services Compline Services will be held in All SaintsChurch on the following dates at 7.30pm: Monday 1st December Monday 8th December Monday 15th December A Patronal Festival Service will take place, in the context of the Eucharist, in All SaintsChurch on Sunday 2nd November at 10.00 am. It is intended, in this service, to incorporate our act of thanksgiving for all those who have departed this life, and whom we still remember with love before Almighty God. If you wish to have someone particularly remembered at that service, please write their name on the sheet provided at the back of the church. Time will be set aside during the service for quiet reflection and for the reading out of these names. Deaths We extend our deepest sympathy to Robert and Karen Lambert and family on the death of Karens mother Ruth.

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St Brigid’s and All Saints’

Newsletter

November 2014

The Rector writes...

PARISH DETAILS

Clergy: Rev. Ian Gallagher 2881091 086-8119544 Rev. Robert Marshall 2886170 Rev. Jack Black 2780300 086-8120004 Rev. Kevin Conroy 086 0406256 Parish Secretary: Clare MacManus

Parish Office

Open: Tues, Wed, Thurs 9.30am—12.30pm

Tel: 2881091 / Email: [email protected] www.stbrigidsandallsaints.com

facebook.com/StBrigids

Hall Committee Hon. Secretary: Anona Fitzell Ph. 2722130

Director of Music: Clive Armstrong Tel: 087-2588481

St. Brigid’s National School Merville Road, Stillorgan Principal: Ann Andrews

Ph: 2833095

St. Brigid’s Parish Playschool St. Brigid’s Church Road, Stillorgan

Contact: Barbara FitzPatrick Tel: 0871202245

All Saints’ National School

Carysfort Avenue, Blackrock Principal: Andrea Black

Ph: 2885355

Remembrance is something we do in Church Sunday by Sunday as part of the celebration of Holy Communion as we recall our Lord’s instruction “Do this in remembrance of me.” It is also good to call to mind the things that have made a valuable contribution to our daily lives—people and places that have shaped who we are. November is a special month for remembering. On the first day of the month we remember all those saints who have left us an example and an encouragement to “run the race and keep the faith.” On November 9th, many of us will wear poppies on “Remembrance Sunday” as we recall and give thanks for all who died in two World Wars and continue to serve throughout the world as peace keepers and in the fight against terrorism. The act of remembering allows us to reflect on how fortunate we are in so many ways. One of those ways is our membership of a Christian Community – the parish of Stillorgan and Blackrock. Both churches also have their annual gift day in November and your support, as best you can, would be very much appreciated. As we remember in November, may I remind you that church on Sundays is at 10.00 am in All Saints’ and 11.30 am in St. Brigid’s and if you haven’t been with us for a while we would love to see you there.

Compline Services Compline Services will be held in All Saints’ Church on the following dates at 7.30pm: Monday 1st December Monday 8th December Monday 15th December

A Patronal Festival Service will take place, in the context of the Eucharist, in All Saints’ Church on Sunday 2nd November at 10.00 am. It is intended, in this service, to incorporate our act of thanksgiving for all those who have departed this life, and whom we still remember with love before Almighty God. If you wish to have someone particularly remembered at that service, please write their name on the sheet provided at the back of the church. Time will be set aside during the service for quiet reflection and for the reading out of these names.

Deaths We extend our deepest sympathy to Robert and Karen Lambert and family on the death of Karen’s mother Ruth.

Schedule of Worship

St Brigid’s Church All Saints’ Church

NOVEMBER NOVEMBER

Sunday 2nd November 10.00 am HC Patronal Service Sunday 9th November 10.00 am MP Sunday 16th November 10.00 am HC Sunday 23rd November 10.00 am MP Sunday 30th November 10.00am HC

DECEMBER

Sunday 7th December 11.30 am HC 6.00 pm SET (including a special visitor for the children!) Sunday 14th December 11.30 am MP SS

Thursday 18th December 7.00 pm St. Brigid’s School Carol Service Sunday 21st December 4.00 pm Service of Nine Lessons & Carols Wednesday 24th December CHRISTMAS EVE Childrens’ Nativity Service 7.00 pm First Eucharist of the Nativity 11.30 pm HC Thursday 25th December CHRISTMAS DAY Family Eucharist 11.30 am HC Sunday 28th December 11.30 am SOW

DECEMBER

Sunday 2nd November 11.30 am HC 6.00 pm SET Sunday 9th November 11.30 am MP SS

Sunday 16th November 11.30 am HC SS

Sunday 23rd November 11.30 am SOW Sunday 30th November 11.30 am SAT

Sunday 7th December 10.00 am HC Friday 12th December 7.30 pm Silent Night (A service of quiet reflection)

Sunday 14th December 10.00 am MP Wednesday 17th December 7.00 pm All Saints’ School Carol Service Sunday 21st December 7.00 pm Service of Nine Lessons & Carols Thursday 25th December CHRISTMAS DAY Eucharist 10.00 am HC Sunday 28th December 10.00 am MP

Regular services: 8.30 a.m. Holy Communion St Brigid’s Church Every Sunday 10.00 a.m. Holy Communion St Brigid’s Church Every Wednesday

HC Holy Communion MP Morning Prayer SOW Service of the Word SET Sunday Evening Together SAT Sunday All Together SS Sunday school during this service

All Saints’ News Welcome to Kevin Kevin – a big welcome from all of us in All Saints on taking up your position as Intern Deacon with All Saints and St. Brigid’s. We hope that you will have a very happy time with us; and the welcome and best wishes naturally extend to include Olive and family. Please feel to approach any of us if you think we can be of assistance at any time; and we promise not to ask you to fix broken pcs and phones! Invitation to All Saints and St. Brigid’s parishioners. We have been given a number of hardback books, relating mostly to Christian mystical thought and writing. These books are free for anyone to take, read and keep - or pass to a friend. The books are located in the Trinder Room, where you can make your choice. If it is not easy for you to gain access to the Trinder Room, ring Ken Mawhinney at 2955415 and he will choose and hold the book for you. The book titles (briefly) include Julian of Norwich, Revelations of Divine Love; Dean Inge, Christian Mysticism; The Cloud of Unknowing; Meister Eckhart; Charle Peguy, Basic Verities; Jacob Boehm; Confessions of St. Augustine; William Law, Selected Mystical Writings and Defence of Church Principles; Wisdom of John Woolman; The Mysticism of St. Francis of Assisi. On the subject of books, you may be interested to view on the Church Times website www.ct100books.co.uk the results of a project aimed at choosing the 100 Best Christian Books. Deciding on the best of anything will always be fraught with a bit of controversy; though, indeed, for that reason alone such an exercise is worth undertaking. The list will stimulate your thinking by encouraging you to read some of the books chosen, and to argue as to why some of your favourites are not included. Some of the books above are in the list, including two in the first ten. Which two? Patronal Service The Patronal Service will take place on Sunday 2 November. Pages on which to write the names of persons to be remembered are at the back of the church. Church Cleaning Those parishioners who clean the church in the week after the Harvest Service now wish to be known as

“Gleaners”.

We have been on a very busy rollercoaster since we

started back at the end of August and can hardly believe we are looking forward to the Hallowe’en holidays. We have a new Principal, Ms Andrea Black and a new Resource teacher Mr. Darren O’Neill who are so welcome to the school along with all our new pupils throughout the school including our lovely Junior Infants. A couple of weeks ago the Middle and Junior Rooms visited the Pavilion Theatre to listen to the stories of Julia Davidson and join in a song singing session. This was great fun and all the children were presented with a free book by Julia. In the run up to Hallowe’en the Fire Brigade had their annual visit to our school to tell the children about fire safety throughout the year but especially at this time. Ten lucky children from the Senior Room were taken to Christ Church Cathedral for the Diocesan Service for Primary Schools and Junior Schools. This was a beautiful celebration of the school year and afterwards the children went to McDonalds to finish the day off in style!!! We are back in routine with lots of activities including swimming and P.E. but a new addition this year is Hurling. Mr O’Neill who has played hurling for Kilkenny has been taking the Senior room for Hurling and it has proved very popular indeed so we’ll wait and see if we have any budding Allstars in the future. At the time of writing we look forward to our dress-up day and Pumpkin carving competition just before we take our mid-term break. Best wishes All the Staff and Children of All Saints’ National School.

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Our December SET service will be held at 6.00 pm on Sunday 7th December.

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Dear Heavenly Father, So far, today, I've done all right. I haven't gossiped or lost my temper. I haven't been greedy, grumpy, nasty, or self centered. I'm really happy about that so far. But in a few minutes I'm going to be getting out of bed and then I'm going to need a lot of help. Thank you! Amen

***************************************** A collector of rare books ran into an old friend who told him he had just thrown away an old Bible that he found in a dusty, old box. He happened to mention that Guten-somebody-or-other had printed it. "Not Gutenberg?" gasped the collector. "Yes, that was it!" "Do you know what you have done? You've thrown away one of the first books ever printed. A copy recently sold at auction for half a million euros!" "Oh, I don't think this book would have been worth anywhere close to that," replied his friend. "It was scribbled

all over in the margins by some guy named Martin Luther."

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ST BRIGID’S INDOOR BOWLING CLUB

We are delighted to be back bowling again after the summer break and happy to welcome back one of

our past members Robert Prole. We have already played one friendly match

and are looking forward to the busy season ahead once our league matches

start at the end of October. Our first match will be against Castleknock and

between then and Christmas we will play against; Rathfarnham, Finglas,

Taney, Crumlin and Glenageary. I would like to wish everyone a good

bowling

season.

Vera Bolger

Hon. Secretary

(087-2809931 or 2780074)

A short history of medicine "Doctor, I have an ear ache."

2000 BC - "Here, eat this root."

1000 BC - "That root is heathen, say this prayer." 1850 AD - "That prayer is superstition, drink this potion."

1940 AD - "That potion is snake oil, swallow this pill."

1985 AD - "That pill is ineffective, take this antibiotic." 2000 AD - "That antibiotic is artificial. Here, eat this root!"

THE READING GROUP

Fourteen of us met on Monday 13th October. (It is advised that 8-10 people is a good number for discussion as with a bigger group some people never get a chance to speak; however in looking around there was no evidence of anyone being left out!). The Cuckoo’s Calling by Robert Galbraith , the pseudonym of J K Rowling when writing fiction other than Harry Potter, is a detective story. The detective in question is Cameron Strike who has fought in Afghanistan but when we meet him he is a down and out detective living in his office. Splashed across the headlines of the daily

newspapers one morning is the report of a well known model’s death apparently by suicide as she fell from her high rise apartment window. Two figures were seen running away from the scene. The police look around and say the case is closed. But shortly afterwards John Bristow enters the detective’s office and asks him to investigate his sister’s death. And so the mystery and the solving of the story starts. It was quite complicated and we felt there were too many characters in the plot but the book was easy to read though that does not mean we all solved it long before the conclusion. The next book for Monday, November 10th, is All Families are Psychotic by Douglas Coupland. Meet at 11am at The Wishing Well. Barbara Lowen 2887910 Ida Heavenor 2887592 Aileen Prole 2889565

Garden Club News We had a wonderful start to the new term. Beds have been dug over and fertilised ready for Spring planting. We have noticed a lot of frogs living amongst the long grass and have been visited by many different species of butterflies. The bees have been working hard and we suspect that we’ll have another swarm next May. Many thanks to Robert Dalzell for sharing his beekeeping skills. More and more visitors arrive on Saturday afternoons to see the hens and turkeys and perhaps buy some of our organic produce. We are continuing to build a ‘nature trail’ giving information about all the wonderful habitats that the garden provides. Tesco’s are running a prize fund for local communities and we have application forms in the garden if you would like to nominate us . As usual thanks to all the team who keep this project going and we always welcome new members . (Thanks to Ben Fitzpatrick who has been helping us on Saturdays as part of his Scouts community assignment – also to the GIY Dundrum group who arrived en masse to cut the wild meadow in August.)

St Brigid’s Community Garden wins National Prize Earlier this year, Caroline Jolley, who started the garden over 5 years ago, decided that sufficient progress had been made in recent years that it would be worth entering the garden for the RDS National Community Garden Competition. During the summer the garden was visited on separate occasions by two adjudicators and Caroline then received an invitation to the prize-giving ceremony. On September 19th, Caroline, accompanied by her team of volunteers [Geoff (general planning and daily maintenance), Peter (polytunnel & vegetables), Loyola (horticulturist) and Margot (arts & crafts)], headed into Ballsbridge to hear how they had fared. After the usual preliminaries they learned that the garden was placed second in the country, only being beaten by a narrow margin by a garden in Cork. Caroline was presented with a “Certificate of Excellence” and a very

handsome cheque that will go towards the never ending expenses of the garden. The garden, situated behind the school, is open on most days from 3 pm to 5 pm and there are usually delicious free range eggs for sale along with plants and vegetables (in season).

Visit our facebook page : https://www.facebook.com/Growing2gether

A woman had just returned to her home from an evening of

church services, when she was startled by an intruder. She caught

the man in the act of robbing her home of its valuables and yelled:

‘Stop! Acts 2:38!

(Acts 2:38 says “Repent and be baptized every one of you in the

name of Jesus Christ, for the forgiveness of your sins.”)

The burglar stopped in his tracks. The woman calmly called the

police and explained what she had done.

As the officer cuffed the man to take him in, he asked the burglar:

‘Why did you just stand there? All the old lady did was yell a

scripture to you.’

‘Scripture?’ replied the burglar. ‘She said she had an Ax and

Two 38s!’

Children’s Bible Quiz: 1. What was the first thing that God created?

2. Which day did God create plants?

3. What was the boat Noah built called?

4. How many of each type of animal did Noah have on the ark?

5. What is the symbol of God's promise to Noah?

6. Who received the 10 commandments from God?

7. What are we told to do in the fifth commandment?

8. What was the name of Moses' brother?

9. What food do we ask God to give us in the Lord's prayer?

10. People look on the outward appearance, but what does God look on?

11. His father gave him a coat of many colors.

12. Who was thrown into a lions' den by King Darius? This person prayed to God three times a day.

13. This young boy defeated a giant.

14. This prophet was swallowed by a fish.

15. What animal was often used for transportation in the Bible?

16. Who was the Son of God?

17. What was the name of Jesus' mother?

18. What did Jesus' father do for a job?

19. Jesus told a parable about a prodigal _____.

20. What is the shortest verse in the Bible?

KIDSZONE

ANSWERS 1. LIGHT

2. THIRD

3. AN ARK

4. TWO

5. RAINBOW

6. MOSES

7. HONOR OUR FATHER AND OUR MOTHER

8. AARON

9. BREAD

10. The HEART

11. JOSEPH

12. DANIEL

13. DAVID

14. JONAH

15. CAMEL or DONKEY (either answer is correct)

16. JESUS

17. MARY

18. CARPENTER

19. SON

20. JESUS WEPT

Church Review and Newsletter items Please note that the deadline dates for the above publications are as follows: Church Review: Wednesday 12th November Newsletter: Tuesday 18th November Items to be left at The Rectory marked for my attention or e-mail them to [email protected] Thank you

Clare

DATES FOR YOUR DIARY: LOOKING AHEAD: TRUST:

The Mothers’ Union will continue our support of TRUST for the month of November. We will be collecting hats, scarves, gloves, chocolate bars and cup-a-soups for November.

Thursday 6th November AGM in the Good Room of St. Brigid’s Parish Hall. Followed by tea and games.

Thursday 20th November Diocesan Council meeting at 7.30 pm in St. Brigid’s Parish Hall. Tea available from 7pm.

Thursday 4th December Early Bird Dinner at Green’s at the Leopardstown Inn. 7.30 pm. Kris kindle present max €5. Please let Barbara or Clare know if you will be attending.

On Thursday 2nd October, Andrew Leech of Rocket Foods on Deerpark Road in Mount Merrion gave a brilliant cookery demonstration of Eastern Mediterranean Food. Whilst the ladies had a glass of something with some nibbles, Andrew cooked up falafel, tzatziki, bulgur wheat with lemon zest and herbs and a chicken tagine full of flavour and gentle spices followed by iles flotants with crème anglaise. All this whilst throwing out interesting titbits to his audience about food provenance, the importance of bees and pollination, the excellence of Irish produce and many other interesting facts. We ate our fill and fired him with questions, all of which he ably answered and generously shared his knowledge with us. The evening was great fun and we have all been filling our shopping baskets with bulgur wheat, chickpeas and pink salt in order to cook the recipes that Andrew left with us. If anyone would like a copy of these recipes please get in touch with Clare or Barbara. The Harvest Lunch on Sunday 5th October was a sociable and enjoyable occasion with 68 parishioners enjoying delicious food supplied by the caterer, Susan O’Kane, and a wonderful variety of dessert crumbles cooked by the branch members followed by tea / coffee and chocolates. There was a great buzz in the hall and we hope that more parishioners from both churches will join us for this event next year. You will see below that on Thursday 20th November there will be a Diocesan Council Meeting held in St Brigid’s Parish Hall at 7.30 pm. Coffee / tea will be available from 7 pm. There will be a ‘bring and buy’ stall for MU funds and your support would be much appreciated. Please note that ALL branch members are invited to attend this meeting to hear the latest news of the Mothers’ Union in the Dublin & Glendalough Diocese. Christmas Shoeboxes – Once again, we will be collecting Christmas shoeboxes to distribute to the children in Darndale crèche. If you would like to put together a shoebox please follow the link below for suggestions: Http://www.dublinmothersunion.ie/shoe-box-for-creche.html or ask Barbara or Clare for a list. Please bring shoeboxes to the MU meetings on 6th or 20th November or we will arrange to collect them from you. As you may be aware, the children in this area face significant challenges in their everyday lives and the shoeboxes provide a rare and much-valued gift at Christmas time and your support for this project is much appreciated.

St. Mary’s Autumn Fayre We would like to thank all those who supported the Lucky Dip and Tombola stalls at St. Mary’s Autumn Fayre in September. The Lucky Dip is the responsibility of St.Brigids and All Saints Parish and we are delighted to record the sum of €631 for the Lucky Dip plus €339 from the Tombola, totalling €970. The total proceeds from the Fayre are in excess of €10,500 an increase of €2,000 on last year. From the team of Cilla, Isabella, Hazel and Marion.

Stillorgan Scout Group We have been busy Beavers whether it is working out in Clonmore Park whilst eating sausages or learning how to be make a healthy Pitta Bread Pizza. There are now 27 Beavers in the lodge and our 12 new beavers will be Invested on the 12th November. Still a way to go yet as at a recent multiple choice Quiz there was much debate as to who had founded scouts over 100 years ago:-was it Mr Gallagher or Ms Andrews? Our new Cubs have settled in and will be formally invested on 20th of October as full Cub scouts. The Chief Scout awards will be presented to those ex Beaver who took on the challenge which was a great achievement with everything to had to do from going on a 10k hike , to planning their own camp to competing community service and achieving new skills . They should be very proud of themselves for achieving this

hard earned award at such a young age. We also have 3 TY students helping us out in Cubs as part of their Gaisce award. As two of them are past Cubs we are expecting great thing from them. Lough Dan is the location for the Scouts first camp since our Camp on the Green in September. They will need their winter woollies especially at night now that the winter has arrived in style with chilly skies. New tents are being tested on this camp so let’s hope the central heating holds up (ha, ha). We are delighted to have a Spanish scout join us this year as well as one brave girl scout so far . We hope some more girls will join too . New leaders welcome of course so please get in touch if you are interested in helping out on a Friday night or going on camps. Full training and support given. l We will be in Stillorgan Shopping Centre on Saturday 15th November selling tickets for a ‘12 days of Christmas Draw’ which is a fund raising drive for our Group. We get to keep the proceeds of any tickets we sell for new equipment and camps so please do stop by to say hello and yes you will have to buy a ticket of course !

Brownies Outing to Hidden Valley On Saturday 4th October, Mt Merrion District [Stillorgan Gold Pack (Friday Brownies), Tullow Brownies and Stillorgan Blue Pack (Tuesday Brownies)] took 40 Brownies to Hidden Valley, Rathdrum, Co. Wicklow. We started at 10 am and finished at 4pm. We all had a great time, building and floating rafts, with Leaders on top. Some sank and Leaders got very wet, others floated and came back with DRY Leaders. We all went kayaking and the Brownies got their Level 1 Kayak Cert. The day was glorious, full sunshine from beginning to end, what with the pouring rain on Friday night, we sure were happy campers. A couple of inches of water had to be let out of the kayaking pond, but it was great fun and learning experience. We played Team games, all the way from welly throwing, to helping to make a giant jigsaw and get the ball into the centre of the maze using a giant board and 4 Brownies. We learned archery, had lunch, played in the adventure playground, came down the big, dark chute and for the finale had a limbo dancing contest. The youngest Brownie had just come up from Ladybirds and was only 6 ½ yrs old, the eldest 10. I will not be giving the Leaders ages, suffice to say they ranged from 16 yrs to over 60 yrs. This will be one activity we will repeat and it was lovely to see smiley, happy faces, wet clothes drying on the fences, lunches eaten and more food looked for and BGs outside in the fresh air.

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Some thoughts for the month:

Don't let your worries get the best of you; remember, Moses started out as a basket case.

Some people are kind, polite, and sweet-spirited until you try to sit in their pews.

People are funny; they want the front of the bus, the middle of the road, and the back of the church.

Quit griping about your church; if it was perfect, you couldn't belong.

God Himself does not propose to judge a man until he is dead. So why should you?

Peace starts with a smile.

If God is your Co-pilot - swap seats!

And finally:

1 cross + 3 nails= 4 given.

Guide Notes The guides started back on culture night and paid a visit to Airfield. We enjoyed a tour of the house and garage, this was fo llowed by a very interesting talk on the wildlife big and very small and a craft and planting session. We had a short walk in the gardens in the dark and saw some resident frogs. Back in the hall we are following a new programme 'Free being me' , this is being led by Helen who is on the national committee running this programme. It encourages girls to look at themselves and the pressures the surrounding world can put upon them. They are working in groups and the level of discussion and input is very impressive. We have a large number of new girls who are working on their tenderfoot so that they can become full members and hope to have an enrolment before the end of the year. We welcomed a number of new girls and 4 who came up from brownies. Liane one of our leaders is running a pet care badge, Liane is a qualified veterinary nurse and we managed to get her to run this badge before she heads off to Australia for a year. We have plans to visit the vet practice in Stillorgan to enjoy a behind the scenes experience. The guides are also enjoying energetic games and captain ball which provides a great release after a busy week in school. We are heading off to Larchill for the bank holiday weekend on a district weekend the theme of the weekend is minions! I'm sure I will learn all about minions and who they are! The guide unit is now full , which is great news , this is due to the two brownie units we have operating in St Brigids. Helen has taken on the running of the Tuesday brownies which is great news and we are very thankful to Sally who is lending a hand. The Mount Merrion district brownies had a tremulously successful day out at happy valley where they enjoyed raft building, kayaking and a limbo dancing contest. This sounds like a venue the guides will have to try out. Susan

What’s on in our parish organisations?

Parish Mission Statement: ‘St. Brigid’s with All Saints’ aims to encourage people in their worship and in the formation, development and living out of their Christian faith, to promote friendship and caring in the community and wider world and facilitate everyone of all ages’

Day Time Activity Contact Tel:

Sunday 11.30 a.m. Sunday School 2nd and 3rd Sundays in St. Brigid’s

Parish Secretary For details

2881091

Monday 4.00 - 5.00

Ladybirds

Jeanette Mee

087 2210529

6.45—8.10 Cub Scouts Gwen Priestman 087 2214604

7.30 7.45

Indoor Football All Saints’ Choir

Martin Oakes Clive Armstrong

086-3128306 087-2588481

8.20—11.00 Badminton David Douglas 01 2881029

086 249 9708.

Tuesday 10.00—12.00 Tuesday Club (Mar-Oct)

Bruce Watchorn

2888162

5.15—6.45 Brownies Helen O’Reilly 085 1498976

5.30-6.30 6.30-7.30 7.30

Drama (Junior & Inter) Drama (Senior) Bowling Club

Sally Blair White Sally Blair White Vera Bolger

087-2870932 087-2870932 087-2809931

Wednesday 5.00—6.00 Beaver Scouts Karen D’Alton 2880198

7.30 St. Brigid’s Choir Clive Armstrong 087-2588481

8.00—10.30 Stillorgan Players Edwina Scanlon 087-417 0912

Thursday 10.30—12.00 Contact (Parish Room) Aileen White 2895193

8.00 Mothers’ Union (1st Thursday)

Barbara FitzPatrick 2889801 087-1202245

Friday 10.00—12.30 Bowling Club Vera Bolger 087-2809931

6.30—8.00 Brownies Eileen Dornan 087 2108059

6.45—8.10 Guides Susan Henry Diane Darlington

2954806 086 3770865.

8.15—10.00 Scouts Colin Roche 086-8295837

Saturday 10.00 - 1.00 Junior Badminton Eileen Larkin 086-1969311

Other Garden Club Caroline Jolley Andrew Dennison Jacque Armitage Karen D’Alton Geoff Lovegrove

087-2499436 087-2937903 086-8770597 087-2800127 087-2545090