Best wishes to the Kilkenny Senior Hurling Team and Management from all at St. Patrick’s Parish
Clear Skies and Low Humility
In some respects the journey from childhood tends to be one where we eventually realise that we’re not it, that there are actually more people to be considered than us. In short, the world doesn’t revolve around you. Mind you, there are some people who never fully make the transition – but that’s another story. In fact it’s more than a Gospel story, it’s a parable of our lives.
In considering our place in the scheme of things, we tend to play safe on public occasions. But, we have all made the honest mistake of sitting where we were not supposed to. It’s not that we demean ourselves, or put ourselves down. Instead, we simply understand that we’re not the big deal we thought we were. While pride makes us artificial, humility makes us real.
People who are happy in themselves rarely see the need to self-promote or to seek attention, power, or exaltation over other people. We see it all around us, in politics, in sports and entertainment, in our workplaces, in the home and yes – in Church. It’s just possible that if you take a seat where ‘someone’ always sits – you will be abruptly reminded. Today, the Master reminds us that without humility, there can be no humanity. That we come nearest to the great when we are great in humility.
‘the greater you are, the more you should behave humbly….’ [first reading]
Fr Tom Cox
Website of the Week
www.recongress.ie
Website for the National Religious Education Congress
Questions People Ask
Q. How applicable are the psalms to today? Isn’t the world of today totally different to the time of the psalms?
A. The psalms have an enduring appeal because they express unchanging human experiences and emotions, always seen in the light of a faith that is straining for God. They form a wonderful school of prayer where we learn how to express ourselves to God in adoration, praise, humiliation, heartfelt contrition, sighs of longing, cries from darkness or urgent petitions for help. Since they are part of the inspired word of God, the psalms enable us to pray to God in God’s own words.
Fr Silvester O’Flynn OFM Cap
Pray for the Deceased
Recently Deceased: Mark Keogh, Callan; Eileen DeLoughry, Butts Green.
Anniversaries: Ann Marie Manogue (Sat 6.15), Jim Ryan (Sat 7.00), Jacqueline Rainey (Sun 12.30), Oliver O’Connor (Fri 9.30), Brigid Kenny (Fri 10.30), Patti Mulhall, Joe Dunne, Mary & Patrick Blanchfield, Beezie Slattery, John & Mary Brennan, Tom Byrne, Moscow Larkin.
Anniversaries Next Weekend:
Tommy McGuire (Sat 6.15), Matthew Dwyer (Month’s Mind Sat 7.00), Ernie Harrington (Sun 10.00), Patrick Walsh (Sun 11.00), Enda Coady (Sun 12.30).
Young Priests Society
The September meeting of the St. Joseph’s Young Priests Society will take place on Friday, 14th September in St. Fiacre’s Church after the 10.30am Mass. All are welcome.
Westcourt News
The September Mass for the canonisation of Blessed Edmund Rice will be celebrated in Westcourt on Monday, 3rd September at 8.00pm. The members of the Camphill community are preparing the liturgy for this Mass. All are cordially invited to join in the special celebration.
A September Saint
St Gregory the Great was born in 540 into a wealthy Roman family. After a classical education he became a civil servant and was appointed prefect of Rome at the age of thirty. His administration of the city, many of its buildings in ruins, won the admiration of the entire people. After the death of his father in 575, he became a monk, turning his family home into a monastery and founding six other monasteries. After the death of Pope Pelagius II in 590, he was chosen as his successor, the first monk to become pope. He guided the city and much of Italy in a time of war and famine. He sent a group of forty monks, under the leadership of Augustine (of Canterbury) to bring Christianity to Britain. His name is linked to liturgy as a reformer, composer of homilies and prayers, promoter of plainchant (later to be known as Gregorian chant). As a theologian, he is known as one of the four great Western doctors of the Church, along with Ambrose, Augustine and Leo the Great. As bishop of Rome he preferred to be known as ‘servant of the servants of God’. He died on 12 March 604 and his feast day is celebrated on Monday, 3rd September.
Blessed Virgin Mary
On Saturday, 8th September we celebrate the Birthday of the Blessed Virgin Mary, who brought the dawn of hope and salvation to the world. She is the true Ark of the covenant, the temple of God, because her body received the one Mediator.
Rosary on the First Sunday
The monthly rosary on the first Sunday in James Green at the Statue of Our Lady of Kilkenny continues on this Sunday, 2nd September at 3.00pm. All are welcome.
Castlecomer Community School
Computer Night Classes will begin again in Castlecomer C.S. in September. Classes will be laid on for those wishing to pursue the Basic ECDL (€350) and ECDL AutoCAD (€280). These prices include all tests and notes. All classes run for two to two and a half hours per night, one night per week. Please contact 086 823 0888 for booking.
Diocesan Priesthood
Have you ever thought about the possibility of becoming a priest of the Diocese of Ossory? While there has been a slight increase in the numbers studying for the priesthood in recent years this has not materialised in our diocese. At present we have no students preparing for priesthood in Ossory and we have not heard of any enquiries for this year.
If you have ever considered the possibility please feel free to talk to any of the priests in the parish or visit our diocesan website (www.ossory.ie) and click on the vocations page. There you will find contact details for our Vocations Director, Fr. Paddy Carey.
Loreto Secondary School
Enrolment dates for Loreto Secondary School, Kilkenny are from 1st October 2007 to 13th October 2007. Applications forms may be obtained from the school office.
Parish Choirs
We are blessed to have musicians and choirs at five of our eight weekend Masses. Practice for all choirs begins again soon. Please contact the Presbytery (056 776 4400) if you would like to join a choir this year. We are particularly in need of musicians and singers for the Children’s Liturgy at 10.30am each Sunday. Could you help?
Parish Draw
Thanks to all who support our draw. All funds raised from the draw go toward the new parish centre. If you are not currently in the draw then you can join by contacting any of the promoters, the sacristans or the priests of the parish. Good prizes and a very good cause. Please join us.
