WELCOME
Welcome to the Cashel, Ferns, Ossory Mothers' Union website. The website will carry news, articles and photographs of Mothers' Union events throughout the United Diocese and All-Ireland news.
The website will be regularly updated and if any Branch wishes to have an event, article or photograph published on the website please forward it to our Diocesan Secretary, Margaret Jacob. Email: cfomothersunion@gmail.com
Please ensure that you have permission from any person who is going to be named in a photograph before sending it in to appear on the website.
All photographs and articles will remain copyright of the website and may not be copied.
News Updates
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UPCOMING EVENTS
Tea Cosy Competition
Mums in May
Closing Date for entries is
10th October 2018
(Note change of Closing Date)
(See Mothers' Union Ireland page for details)
Service of Thanksgiving
Christ Church Cathedral, Dublin
on
Saturday 6th October 2018 @ 3pm
NB: Attendance by ticket only
(contact the Diocesan Secretary to book tickets)
Celebrant: The Most Rev. Michael Jackson
Archbishop of Dublin
Address: The Most Rev. Richard Clarke
Archbishop of Armagh
CARLOW / KILLESHIN MOTHERS' UNION
CELEBRATE 100 YEARS
Carlow/killeshin Branch 100th Anniversary
Service in St. Mary's Church, Carlow
Wednesday 10th October @ 12.00p.m.
Preacher: Bishop Michael Burrows
Women's Getaway Weekend
12th & 13th October
Cavan Crystal Hotel
Co. Cavan
AUTUMN COUNCIL 2018
The Faith Mission Centre ~ Durrow
Thursday 8th November
CONTACT DETAILS
Cashel, Ferns, Ossory
Diocesan Secretary: Margaret Jacob
Cashel, Ferns, Ossory Mothers' Union
Shroughmore,
Enniscorthy,
Co. Wexford
Y21 VW30
Lynne Tembey (Worldwide President) &
Revd. Margaret Sykes (Diocesan President)
A Letter from the Diocesan President
Revd, Margaret Sykes
Welcome to Cashel Ferns and Ossory Mothers’ Union Website. As you navigate our Website you will find many areas of interest. Events past, present and future, a gallery of photographs covering many of the celebrations marking 130 years of Mothers’ Union in Ireland and news from Branches and members. Keep sending in your news and photographs.
2017 was a wonderful year of Celebration for Mothers’ Union in Ireland. We have so much to give thanks to God for as we travelled through this wonderful year. In this Diocese "130 years of Love and Service" has been celebrated in many ways, Prayer Walks, Afternoon Tea Parties, Festival Service, Tree Planting Ceremony, 130th Birthday Party and individual Branches hosting events in different parts of the United Diocese, the photographs which have been inserted in Comun tell the story of many of these special days.
Just some of the highlights – The M U Way - All-Ireland President, Phyllis Grothier visited all twelve Dioceses during May. Accompanied by Mrs. Lynne Tembey, World-wide President, she visited Cashel Ferns and Ossory for a Prayer Service in St. Laserian’s Cathedral followed by a Tree planting ceremony in the grounds of the Cathedral. CFO MU now own a spade!!! The Festival Service in May on the Feast of the Visitation in St. Canice’s Cathedral, Kilkenny at which seven new members of the Trustee Board were commissioned by Bishop Michael. The Big Sing in the National Concert Hall, Dublin, in September was a wonderful occasion and enjoyed by all who attended.
Autumn/Winter activities have begun in many Branches throughout the Diocese. I wish you God’s blessing on all that you have planned for the coming months.
Thirteen decades of M.U. outreach and witness has been celebrated, as we go forward we give thanks to God for all his blessings and as Mary Sumner herself prayed let us be those who hear God’s call to touch as many lives as possible through our words and actions not only in our Parishes but the wider community as well.
Every Blessing
Margaret Sykes
Diocesan President
Mothers' Union Video
Click on the Mothers' Union emblem below to see the video highlighting the work of Mothers' Union which was filmed at the Triennial Conference in Termonfeckin in March 2017
The video features members of Mothers' Union from around Ireland telling all about the organisation and the many different projects supported by Mothers' Union both here at home and in Third World Countries.
One of the clips features our very own Joan Blake who can be seen knitting a matinee jacket and talking about the Mothers' Union Knitting Project
Members from Cashel, Ferns & Ossory at the Triennial Conference
MULOA is a new initiative from Mothers' Union
which aims to look at Mothers' Union going forward.
You will be hearing a lot about it at Branch Level in the coming months.
Click on the MULOA symbol to see a short video about this initiative.
PRAYER FOR MULOA
We pray that our God will make us fit for what he’s called us to be,
that he’ll fill our good ideas and acts of faith with his own energy
so that it all amounts to something.
As our lives honour the name of Jesus,
may he honour us, by his grace; our God giving himself freely,
the Master, Jesus Christ, giving himself freely. Amen
Based on 2 Thessalonians 1:11-12 (The Message)
Click on picture to access Poster for Getaway Weekend
Click on picture to access Booking Form
Women's Getaway Weekend
Click on images on left to access Booking Form
& Poster
Charity Number:
Republic of Ireland:
Mothers’ Union in Ireland is recognised as a Charity by the Revenue Commissioners, 5161.
Mothers’ Union in Ireland is recognised as a Charity by the Revenue Commissioners, 5161.
Registered Charity Number - 20007331 (Charities Regulatory Authority).
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