21.09.2015
Invitation to Come and C Extended Throughout Dublin and Glendalough
The invitation to Come&C is to be shared with more and more members of the dioceses over the coming days and weeks. Following the very successful Come&C Day which welcomed over 200 people in the High School on Saturday September 12, meetings will now take place in each of the nine rural deaneries in Dublin and Glendalough. This will bring the message of Come&C to more people at a local level.
Come&C is a diocesan initiative offered to the entire United Dioceses and will look at ways of supporting individuals and parishes in their discipleship. It will also encourage people to see that what they do in their parishes nurtures and supports the whole dioceses. The Come&C initiative will run in Dublin and Glendalough throughout the year of 2016.
In this next phase, the clergy and four people who attended the Come&C Day will each be invited to double the numbers of people on this journey by inviting a friend to meetings in their own areas. Those parishes who missed the Come&C Day will also be able to send representatives along with members of Dublin and Glendalough Diocesan Synods and school chaplains from the dioceses (It would be appreciated if members of this group of people could confirm their attendance by emailing the Archbishop’s office at archdublinoffice@gmail.com). The initiative is an open one and new participants are very welcome indeed.
At the area meetings, those who attended the Come&C Day will broadcast what they heard to a wider audience of parishioners at a more local level and share their enthusiasm for an initiative that honours the parochial and the diocesan components by setting them in the context of the worldwide Anglican Communion with its Five Marks of Mission. They can also start to put flesh on the bones of some of the suggested projects and activities and focus on the practicalities of developing Witness, Worship and Welcome throughout Dublin and Glendalough as expressions of a sustainable response and outreach.
At the Come&C Day people shared their experiences of parish life. They also began to look to the future with a suggested focus on three groups of people:
1. The people who have not heard of Jesus or those who have but do not know him as they should like to.
2. Those who are curious and asking questions for whom we need to provide answers and an invitation to Come&C and the interaction of exploration and shared activity.
3. Those on the path to discipleship who need to be sustained and nurtured.
They were also asked to think of three areas:
1. Celebrating something that is already happening in parishes or the dioceses.
2. Encouraging, enhancing and deepening awareness of the Five Marks of Mission of the Anglican Communion in the activities already happening in the dioceses.
3. Developing new initiatives that will widen and deepen the marks of mission and make them the interpretative key to intentional discipleship in our parishes and our communities.
All of these will be looked at through the lens of Witness, Welcome and Worship. Much of this is happening already and we now are seeking to explore and express this in a sustained and exciting way for a full year of Come&C. It is to this that we are now being invited.
The schedule for Rural Deanery meetings is as follows:
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Rural Deanery |
Date and time |
place |
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Dublin |
St. Ann |
Sat 3rd Oct, 10.00a.m. – noon |
St Mary’s, Donnybrook |
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Fingal |
Tues 6th Oct, 8.00p.m. |
Parish Room, Swords |
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St. Mary |
Tues 29th Sept, 8.00p.m. |
Castleknock NS |
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Monkstown North |
TO BE ADVISED |
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Monkstown South |
Wed 30th Sept, 8.00p.m. |
Kill O’the Grange NS |
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Taney |
Wed 7th Oct, 8.00p.m. |
Whitechurch Stables (TO BE CONFIRMED) |
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glendalough |
North East |
Wed 7th Oct, 7.30p.m. |
Temple Carrig School, Greystones |
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South East |
Wed 7th Oct, 7.30p.m. |
Temple Carrig School, Greystones |
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West |
Tues 29th Sept, 8.00p.m. p.m. |
St. Kevin’s Community Centre, Blessington |
If you do not hear of a Come&C meeting taking place in your area soon, please contact your Rector or Rural Dean for the date and venue. There is scope for you to join a deanery other than your own if the timings suit you better. It will be necessary for you to let your Rector know.
The Come&C Report, from which these meetings have grown is available to download from the diocesan website at: http://dublin.anglican.org/dioceses/index.php
A report of the Come&C Day including suggestions for projects which might be adopted to enhance Witness, Worship and Welcome can be read at: http://dublin.anglican.org/news/2015/09/Witness-Worship-and-Welcome-People-of-Dublin-and-Glendalough-Plan-for-the-Future-at-Come-and-C-Day