Decorating churches for Christmas –

Everybody should help with this. We all love to go to a beautifully decorated church for Carol Services & Christmas & other festivals. Who does all this? Afaithful few! If you cannot help decorate, please give flowers etc or make a small donation to the cost – there is one!

Drop in Coffee morning –

Our next one will be when the redecoration & repairs made necessary by the flooding of the rectory (after the thaw)have been completed.

Decorations for Christmas –

It is usual to decorate our churches in time for the Carol Services. This does not happen by magic, nor do we have decorating elves in any of our churches!

If you want to enjoy the festive decorations in your church, ring the churchwardens or a fellow parishioner and help them arrange for a day and time to do the decoration – you bring, of course, contributions towards the final effect and you help with the dismantling after Christmas.

Decorating Old St Marys Church Clonmel for Confirmation–

For the Confirmation Service – Saturday, 26th June from 2.00pm – It would be good if the candidates helped prepare the church.

Harvest Thanksgivings –

These special occasions owe some of their appeal to the church decorations. In recent years contributions of flowers vegetables, fruit and greenery and help in actually doing the decorating has not been good. The same is true for Christmas and Easter.
Where the service is on a Sunday, Saturday would be the day for decorating – probably in mid-afternoon and for a weekday, during the day, up to 4.30pm approx would be suitable. And don’t forget the dismantling – we don’t have anybody to do this for us and many hands really do make light work!

HOLY WEEK

Tuesday,7th April – Evening Prayer – St. Paul’s, Cahir @ 8.00pm

Wednesday,8th April- Compline – Holy Trinity, Fethard @ 8.00pm

MaundayThursday,9th April – H.C. - Old St. Mary’s @ 8.00pm

Good Friday,10th April:
Holy Trinity,Fethard @ 9.00am
St. Paul’s,Cahir @ 10.30am
Old St. Mary’s, Clonmel @ 12 noon

Easter Eve, 11th April:
Old St. Mary’s- Lighting of Paschal Candles& amp; Easter Vigil @7.30pm

The churches should be decorated on Saturday. This is not the preserve of a few.
All are welcome, but particularly we need donations of flowers and foliage.

Christmas Fair

Saturday, 13th December 2008
in Scoil Mhuire na nAingeal, (Sisters of Charity)
Mary Street,
Clonmel

Parish Christmas Fair, Cakes, Bric-a-Brac, Christmas Decorations, Tombola etc..
Santa will visit to receive children’s letters.

All welcome..