Cemetery Mass
Our
annual Foulkstown Cemetery Mass will take place on Thursday, 25th July at
7.30pm. Please remind your relatives and
friends, especially those who are living away from home.
Perhaps
it is also time to make a move to prepare family graves and the graves of those
neighbours who have no able family members remaining.
Contacting the
Parish by Telephone
St. Patrick’s Parish telephone number
is 056 776 4400. Upon dialling that number
you will be answered by an automatic communications system which will smoothly
connect you to the priest, Parish Office or extension number you require. Please note: if your business is urgent and
you need to talk to the ‘Priest on Duty’ please dial Ext. 2 when the automatic
system answers. Mass times are listed on
Ext. 3; those wishing to contact or leave a message for the Parish Office
should dial Ext. 1. Fr. Dan is at Ext.
4; Fr. Roderick is at Ext. 5 and Fr. Liam is at Ext. 6.
Theological Studies
Programme
This
programme ran for the second time last year with a group of 25 participants. It
was a resounding success and thoroughly enjoyed by all. The course aims at
providing religious education, faith formation and spiritual enrichment for
those actively engaged in parish life or in the pastoral care of people, young
and old. The programme runs for 24 weeks, September – May, Mondays and Thursdays,
7.00 – 9.00pm, with modules in the Old and New Testament Scriptures, Church
History, The Church, past and present, Moral Theology, Liturgy & Sacraments.
For further details apply to Declan Murphy,
Course Director, St Kieran’s College 087 908 1470 or 056 775 3624; email declanmurphy@ossory.ie or theology@ossory.ie.
Alternatively forms may be downloaded from www.ossory.ie
Coffee Morning
A Coffee Morning and Cake Sale in aid of the local
Medjugorje Youth Group will take place in the Parish Centre immediately after
the 10.30am Mass on next Friday 19th July.
Teas, coffees, cakes, pastries and other delicious products will be
available to consume on the premises or to take away. The event is organised by local young people
and all proceeds will be used to help some young people from our parish join in
the annual pilgrimage to the Medjugorje Youth Festival in early August.
Please support by your attendance or bringing cakes
and produce for sale on the day.
St. Swithin’Day if thou dost rain, for forty
days it will remain
St. Swithin’Day if thou be fair for forty days
‘twill rain nae mair.
On this Monday, 15th July, St. Swithin’s Day,
many people will be on the alert for the weather forecast. According to tradition, if the sun shines on
this date forty days sunshine are in store. But alas if it rains, forty days of
downpour will follow. Jane Struthers informs us in her book, Red Sky at
Night, that the Meteorological Office researched this theory and declared
it to be without foundation.
St. Swithin was bishop of Winchester in
England and wished to be buried out of doors, breaking with the tradition of
bishops being buried in the Cathedral.
Nine years later, an attempt was made to exhume his body and take it to
the Cathedral, but gales blew, rain fell and the attempt had to be abandoned.
Let us be happy and patient with whatever
weather God sends us, as patience brings relief.
Say the following prayer and one never knows
what will happen: Lord God, send us rain but not wet weather, may tomorrow’s
amount fall tonight. Amen.
Pray For Our Deceased Friends
Recently Deceased: David
Gaffney. Breda Dumbers, Loughboy. Agnes Walsh, Dublin.
Months Mind: Josie Kenny (Sun 10.30). Bernadette Gannon.
Anniversaries: Joan Coady (Sat 6.15). Jimmy Hackett (Sat 7.00).
Catherine Roberts (Sun 9.30). Jimmy Byrne (Sun 10.00). Dr. Paddy Boyd (Sun
11.00). Deceased Residents & Family Members of Dukesmeadows Community (Sun
12.00). Ger Doheny (Sun 12.30). Bridget
Kelly (Tues 10.30). Marty Neylon (Wed 10.30).
Aileen Kelly. Tony Henderson. Mary Slattery. Patrick O’Brien. John Walsh. John Grogan.
Jimmy Fahy. John & Esther Loughman. Peg Horrigan.
Intentions for next weekend: Vera Brannigan (Sat 6.15). Sr. Mary Buckley
(Months Mind Sat 7.00). James & Margaret Bambrick (Sun 9.30). Davina Crosby
(Sun 10.00). Mary Norris (Sun 10.30). Kitty Quinn (Sun 11.00). Aileen Kelly
(Sun 12.00). Joe Cody (Sun 12.30). May
they rest in peace.
Divine Mercy
An hour
of adoration and prayer in honour of Divine Mercy will take place in the Friary
Church on this Sunday, July 14th from 3.00pm - 4.00pm. All welcome.
Youth 2000 Summer Festival
Cistercian College,
Roscrea, Co. Tipperary from Thursday 15th to Sunday 18th
August 2013. For young people aged 16 -
35; an opportunity not to be missed to experience the Catholic faith and meet
many new people. This Festival has been nicknamed the “Holy Oxygen” with over
1,000 young people from all corners of Ireland attending last year. The
festival is donation only. Free buses from towns throughout Ireland. For
information and booking: www.youth2000.ie or phone 01 675 3690 or Facebook
(youthtwothousandIreland).
Parish Shop
Our Parish Shop offers a wide range of
religious items for sale at reasonable prices.
The shop is located in the foyer of our Parish Centre and is open during
office hours. Feel free to drop in and
have a look without obligation.
Thinking of a way to
celebrate this Year of Faith? Visit Lough Derg.
Traditional Three Day
Pilgrimage continues every day from now until Tuesday 13th
August. Boats between 11.00am and 3.00pm
daily. Public bus service and group organised pilgrimages available. For further information contact Maureen on
071 986 1518. www.loughderg.org.
An Irish run and Irish built aids orphanage in
Nairobi, Kenya, is holding a used
clothing appeal of ladies, gents and children’s - clothes, shoes, household
linens i.e. towels, sheets, blankets, soft toys, handbags etc. (whatever
condition - so long as the items are clean).
This appeal will take place on Friday, 19th July from 10.30 to 12.00
noon, at The Parish Centre Car park.
For further information, please contact Marie on 087
689 0995.A one to one support service for bereaved persons. For a confidential appointment ring 056 775 6538. Kilkenny Bereavement Support is a private, personal no fee service.
Why Not?
Thinking about
priesthood in the Diocese of Ossory? Contact Fr. Willie Purcell, Vocations
Director, St. Kieran’s College. 056 777
0261. Email: wpurcell@eircom.net
The Joy Rule
Think of Jesus,
think of Others, think of You!
