Dear parishioners and friends, I hope you are enjoying the Bank Holiday weekend. I think the mood of the nation was raised considerably on Thursday evening with the government announcement that the lifting of the public health restrictions will be accelerated this month. As regards the parish, it will mean that from Monday 10 May, services can once again be held in our church buildings, subject to all the [...]
Dear parishioners and friends, On Wednesday and Thursday this week, we held our annual general meetings as a parish . I thank those who attended the online meetings, and congratulate those elected to serve as vestry members and office holders in this parish for the forthcoming year. We are indebted to them.The results of these elections were sent to you yesterday from the Parish Office. This parish simply could [...]
As advertised, the Frankfield Easter General Vestry takes place on Wednesday 21 April at 8pm on Zoom. The link below will be open a few minutes before we are due to start. Adrian Wilkinson is inviting Frankfield Parishioners to a scheduled Zoom meeting. Join Zoom Meeting https://us04web.zoom.us/j/79998393068?pwd=L0Z5VjBiZm5lb25ZR1NnSDdOdmY5dz09 -- Archdeacon of Cork, Cloyne and Ross. The Rectory, Carrigaline Road, Douglas, Cork. T12 A2RC [...]
Dear parishioners and friends, While it was good to see a number of you on screen last Sunday morning for our live service on Zoom, this weekend we resume the usual pattern of putting up a recorded service on the Parish YouTube Channel. It will be available from this evening at the usual link which is below: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCZDmEQt2VvcJI9ErW29vxPA/videos Sunday 18th April (Service of the Word) I also [...]
Dear parishioners and friends, For a change tomorrow, there will not be a recorded service on our Parish YouTube Channel. Instead our service will be live on Zoom at 11.00am sharp. It will be a short Service of the Word and I will share the liturgy on screen with you when we start. I hope as many of you as possible will join me [...]
Dear parishioners and friends, Tomorrow we celebrate the most important day in the church calendar, Easter Sunday. Please find attached the order of service for our Parish Eucharist that will be available on our Youtube Channel from this evening. It is a service full of resurrection joy with some well loved and familiar Easter hymns. I hope you enjoy it! The link [...]
Dear parishioners and friends, Today is Maundy Thursday, the day in the church calendar when we remember the Last Supper Jesus shared with his disciples. As always it is marked with a service of Holy Communion. At the end the Stripping of the Altar is done and the church is made ready for Good Friday, leaving it in darkness. Unfortunately again this year we cannot be [...]
Dear parishioners and friends, Tomorrow we begin in our commemoration of the dramatic events of Holy Week. Our service of Holy Communion for Palm Sunday involves a dramatised reading of the Passion Gospel according to Mark. I would like to thank all those who recorded themselves in their own homes and were involved in this reading. The service will be put up on our Parish YouTube Channel this evening [...]
Five Psalms Five weeks Finding Hope in the Psalms I don't know about you but for me right now life is hard, keeping within my 5km, not visiting people, worrying about Covid-19, and all that on top of what we normally deal with in life. In fact, life could seem hopeless right now. I began to reflect on where does our hope actually comes from. [...]
Dear parishioners and friends, It is hard to believe that our churches have been closed for public worship for three full months. The last services were held on Christmas Day. This Sunday we begin the most important week in the year - Holy Week. It starts on Palm Sunday when we usually distribute Palm Crosses at our services. Tomorrow (Saturday 27th) our 4 churches (St Luke's Douglas, St [...]
