By way of special collections and donations agreed by the Select Vestries of Sandford and St Philip’s, a total of €12,144 has been given to a variety of good causes during 2016. This amount includes donations to Bishop’s Appeal, Salvation Army, Focus Ireland, Christian Aid, Alzheimer’s Society of Ireland, Our…
Choral Compline, which is a short reflective evening service sung throughout, continues in Sandford Church every Friday evening at 7 pm. All parishioners are most welcome to come to experience this service, which lasts around twenty minutes and provides a brief escape from the busy Friday evening rush hour.
There are vacancies for members of the Choral Scholars: if you know of any young musicians, aged fifteen upwards, who might be interested, please contact doshea3@gmail.com.
The Parish Choir is presently working on music for Lent and Palm Sunday, as well as looking forward to the 150th anniversary celebrations of St Philip’s Church in May. New members from both Sandford and St Philip’s are always most welcome to come along to rehearsals on Wednesday evenings at…
In February we walked the Grand Canal from Charlemont LUAS stop to the Basin and the confluence of the canal with the River Liffey. Those lock gates, which proclaim the endurance of Victorian engineering works, are impressive. En route we visited the Design Tower and were delighted to visit two…
We had planned to kick off the New Year with a timely talk on re-using and recycling but unfortunately our guest speaker, like many others, succumbed to the flu. So at very short notice Claire Devlin, Lecturer at the Dublin School of Business, filled in with a very interesting and…
Tender documents for building the Garden of Remembrance have been sent out. Once approved, those who signed up for a plot will receive notification and asked to pay the appropriate fees involved. It is expected that the project will be entirely self-funding. If you have any queries, please contact Joanna O’Reilly…
The work on the organ in Sandford Church is progressing steadily, and within the last couple of weeks the old swell soundboard was removed to make way for the installation in March of the new one. Though less than half of the organ is playing at the moment, a number…
Sandford & St Philip’s Milltown Craft Group * New initiative * First gathering: Monday 20 March at 7pm in Cinnamon, Ranelagh A community group to meet regularly to pool resources and ideas and to work towards the goal of supplying the stalls at the Christmas & Spring Bazaars. All welcome!
St Philip’s Church is celebrating its 150th anniversary this year. As part of the celebrations we are having a flower festival and exhibition running from 12 to 14 May. The official opening will take place on the evening of Thursday 11 May and the celebrations will close with a special…