The latest FWCC EMES newsletter (21 March 2025) is now available.
This newsletter includes information about
Janet Scott will speak to this theme at a Churchtown Coffee Morning on Wednesday 2nd April during 10.30-12.00. Friends are asked to have a Bible with them.
You can find more information, including the Zoom link for joining online in this flyer.
In the first Earth Hour in 2007, more than 2.2 million people in Sydney, Australia turned off their lights for one hour to show their concern about climate change. Once then, Earth Hour has become a global event, with individuals from around the globe switching off their lights to show symbolic support for the planet and to raise awareness of the environmental issues affecting the Earth.
Since 2023, Earth Hour has asked people to not only switch off their lights for an hour, but also to pledge an hour of their time to do something for the Earth. Watch this short video to see how an hour can help change the world.
How can you be part of Earth Hour 2025? It’s entirely up to you! Choose any activity that helps you reconnect with nature, restore the planet, learn more about our planet, or inspire others to care for it. Find out more about how you can give an hour for the Earth.
Earth Hour starts on March 22, 2025 at 8.30pm local time.
This article by Simon C. Lamb is now available under the Friendly Reflections area of the quakers.ie website. The article presents the text of Simon’s Keynote Address given to the 20th FWCC Triennial on July 23, 2000 at Geneva Point, New Hampshire, USA.
An Evening of Light-hearted Entertainment will be held at Monkstown Meeting House on Wednesday 26th March, 2025 at 7.30 pm presented by Suzanne Hayes (Poet), John and Clodagh McCormick (Puppets) and Wendy Goodbody & the Druidy Druids (Music and Song).
No admission fee, but donations to Tiglin will be welcomed.
These documents are now available at the Junior Yearly Meeting section of the website.
Please share with all in your Meeting who may be interested. Meetings are encouraged to send a representative if possible. If you would like to attend JYM 2025 but feel it would be a financial strain, please contact the Clerk of your Meeting or one of the JYM organisers to see about getting financial support.
The latest FWCC EMES newsletter (2 March 2025) is now available.
Note that registration for the EMES Annual Meeting in Warsaw is now open, and the registration deadline for the EMEYF Spring Gathering in Sweden has been extended to March 7, 2025.
The first of four Global Online Worship Meetings, each to be hosted by a different Section of the Friends World Committee for Consultation (FWCC), will take place this Sunday 2 March starting at 13:30 Irish time.
You can get more information and register to get the Zoom link by clicking on the link at the start of this post.
In 1937, the well known American Quaker Rufus M Jones wrote “…I have become a good deal disillusioned over ‘big’ conferences and large gatherings. I pin my hopes to quiet processes and small circles, in which vital and transformative events take place.”
It is in the spirit of these words that you are invited to set time aside on the third Saturday of each month, when the Limerick Meeting House will be open for an hour from 2.00-3.00pm for those who wish to join others silently “sitting for peace”.
The next of these monthly silent vigils for peace will take place on Saturday 15th March from 2.00 – 3.00pm.
Please feel free to spread the word among your friends, family and other networks.
This is not a protest, rather it is an opportunity to hold a hope for peace with others.
Pat Oakes will reflect on “Soul and Spirit” at a Churchtown Coffee Morning on Wednesday 5th March during 10.30-21.00.
You can find more information, including the Zoom link for joining online in this flyer.
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