Rathkeale and Kilnaughtin Group of Parishes church services in August 2019

‘Be like those who are waiting for their master to return … so that they may open the door for him as soon as he comes and knocks’ (Luke 12: 36) … ‘Behold I stand at the door and knock’ … a window in Saint Mary’s Church, Killarney (Photograph: Patrick Comerford)

Sunday 4 August 2019 (Trinity VII):

9.30 a.m.: The Parish Eucharist (Holy Communion 2), Saint Mary’s Church, Askeaton.

11.30 a.m.: Morning Prayer, Saint Brendan’s Church, Kilnaughtin, Tarbert (with Colonel Edward Buckingham).

Readings: Hosea 11: 1-11; Psalm 107: 1-9, 43; Colossians 3: 1-11; Luke 12: 13-21.

Hymns:

569, Hark, my soul, it is the Lord (CD 33)
260, Christ is alive! Let Christians sing (CD 16)
41, God, whose farm is all creation (CD 3)

Sunday 11 August (Trinity VIII):

9.30 a.m.: The Parish Eucharist (Holy Communion 2), Castletown Church

11.30 a.m.: Morning Prayer, Holy Trinity Church, Rathkeale

Readings: Isaiah 1: 1, 10-20; Psalm 50: 1-8, 23-24; Hebrews 11: 1-3, 8-16; Luke 12: 32-40.

Hymns:

570, Give me oil in my lamp, keep me burning (CD 33)
672, Light’s abode, celestial Salem (CD 39)
670, Jerusalem the golden (CD 39)

Sunday 18 August (Trinity IX):

9.30 a.m.: Morning Prayer, Saint Mary’s Church, Askeaton

11.30 a.m.: The Parish Eucharist (Holy Communion 2), Saint Brendan’s Church, Kilnaughtin, Tarbert

Readings: Isaiah 5: 1-7; Psalm 80: 1-2, 9-20; Hebrews 11: 29 to 12: 2; Luke 12: 49-56.

Hymns:

645, Father, hear the prayer we offer (CD 49)
636, May the mind of Christ my Saviour (CD 36)
352 Give thanks with a grateful heart (CD 21)

Sunday 25 August (Trinity X):

9.30 a.m.: Morning Prayer, Castletown Church (with the Revd Joe Hardy)

11.30 am: The Parish Eucharist (Holy Communion 2), Holy Trinity Church, Rathkeale (with the Revd Joe Hardy)

Readings: Jeremiah 1: 4-10; Psalm 71: 1-6; Hebrews 12: 18-29; Luke 13: 10-17.

Hymns:

104, O for a thousand tongues to sing (CD 7)
631, God be in my head (CD 36)
514, We cannot measure how you heal (CD 29)

Sunday 1 September 2019 (Trinity XI):

9.30 a.m.: The Parish Eucharist (Holy Communion), Saint Mary’s Church, Askeaton (with the Revd Joe Hardy)

11.30 a.m.: Morning Prayer, Saint Brendan’s Church, Kilnaughtin, Tarbert (with the Revd Joe Hardy)

Readings: Jeremiah 2: 4-13; Psalm 81: 1, 10-16; Hebrews 13: 1-8, 15-16; Luke 14: 1, 7-14.

Hymns:

553, Jesu, lover of my soul (CD 32)
525, Let there be love shared among us (CD 30)
630, Blessed are the pure in heart (CD 36)

Feast Days and Saints’ Days in August:

6 August: The Transfiguration of our Lord
24 August: Saint Bartholomew

The Transfiguration in a window in Saint Nicholas Collegiate Church, Galway (Photograph: Patrick Comerford, 2019)