Day for Life
When I started using a computer for the first time I had to download some loony lingo into my brain. Acronyms were all the go. You had WYSIWYG: what you see is what you get, or don’t blame your computer for your silly mistakes. Another was GIGO: garbage in, garbage out, or, don’t blame your computer for spewing out your sow’s ear instead of a silk purse. The GIGO maxim applies not only to computers but also to life, especially today as we celebrate Ireland’s ‘Day for Life’. It’s a response to the proposal of the late Pope John Paul that “a day for life be celebrated each year in every country to foster individual consciences, in families, in the Church and in civil society, a recognition of the meaning and value of human life at every stage and in every condition.” Now, back to GIGO, or, what you put into life is what you get out if it. In today’s Second Reading Paul tells us what to put in: truth, honour, justice, purity, excellence, and whatever is pleasing, commendable, or worthy of praise. We should focus on these, absorbing them, savouring them and allow them to do their work of bringing happiness, gratitude, and peace into the human heart. Perhaps, GIGO needs an update; goodness in, goodness out.
Fr. Tom Cahill SVD
Pastoral Letter
The Catholic Church in Ireland will mark the ‘Day for Life’ 2008 on this Sunday at Masses throughout the country with a Pastoral Letter addressing an important aspect of health care: mental health. Copies of the Pastoral are available at the back of the churches and on www.catholicbishops.ie. This year’s Day for Life focuses on the issue of mental health and, in particular, on the needs of those affected by mental ill-health, their family, friends, and carers. It also acknowledges the support which the parish community and the professional services can bring to those affected.
When I started using a computer for the first time I had to download some loony lingo into my brain. Acronyms were all the go. You had WYSIWYG: what you see is what you get, or don’t blame your computer for your silly mistakes. Another was GIGO: garbage in, garbage out, or, don’t blame your computer for spewing out your sow’s ear instead of a silk purse. The GIGO maxim applies not only to computers but also to life, especially today as we celebrate Ireland’s ‘Day for Life’. It’s a response to the proposal of the late Pope John Paul that “a day for life be celebrated each year in every country to foster individual consciences, in families, in the Church and in civil society, a recognition of the meaning and value of human life at every stage and in every condition.” Now, back to GIGO, or, what you put into life is what you get out if it. In today’s Second Reading Paul tells us what to put in: truth, honour, justice, purity, excellence, and whatever is pleasing, commendable, or worthy of praise. We should focus on these, absorbing them, savouring them and allow them to do their work of bringing happiness, gratitude, and peace into the human heart. Perhaps, GIGO needs an update; goodness in, goodness out.
Fr. Tom Cahill SVD
Pastoral Letter
The Catholic Church in Ireland will mark the ‘Day for Life’ 2008 on this Sunday at Masses throughout the country with a Pastoral Letter addressing an important aspect of health care: mental health. Copies of the Pastoral are available at the back of the churches and on www.catholicbishops.ie. This year’s Day for Life focuses on the issue of mental health and, in particular, on the needs of those affected by mental ill-health, their family, friends, and carers. It also acknowledges the support which the parish community and the professional services can bring to those affected.
Pray for our Deceased Friends
Recently Deceased: Anne Roche, 19 Beechpark. Requiem Mass at St. Fiacre’s Church at 12 noon on Sunday. Burial afterwards in Ballymore Eustace cemetery. Thomas Kealy, Connolly Street.
Months Mind: Ben Delahunty (Sun 12.30)
Anniversaries: Billy Roche (Sat 6.15), Dan Gorey (Sun 10.00), Joanie Waters (Sun 11.00), Evelyn Coppinger, John & Mary O’Connell (Tues 9.30), Bridget McKenna, Mark Nugent, William Tallent, Tom O’Neill, Anne Conway, Garry & Norah Dunne, Eileen Barry, Paddy Ryan.
Intentions next weekend: Eddy Dean (Sat 6.15), Judy Owens (Sat 7.00), Patsy Walsh (Sun 10.30), Kit Grace (Sun 12.00 Months Mind), Evelyn Coppinger (Sun 12.30).
St. Patrick’s Parish Cookery Book
St. Patrick’s Parish cookery book, Good Food for Healthy Living, contains about 120 easy-to-follow recipes submitted by the sportspeople of our parish, city and county. The book is excellent value at €10 and is available at the Presbytery and the sacristies of all our churches.
Questions People Ask
Q. This year of St. Paul bothers me. Was he not an anti-woman chauvinist who regarded women as inferior to man?
A. Quite the contrary. In a society where women were regarded as second class. Paul struck a mighty blow for the equality of the sexes: ‘There is no longer Jew or Greek, slave or free, male or female: for you are all one in Christ Jesus ‘(Gal. 3:28). When he writes to the Ephesians that the husband is the head of the wife, he is referring to their different roles in the family. This passage taken in its entirety makes greater demands on the husband in asking him to love his wife with the self-sacrificing love which Christ showed for his church.
Fr. Silvester O’Flynn OFM Cap
4-2-1 (Parish) Programme
St. Patrick’s Parish, as a community, has a duty to prepare our young people for the obstacles they will face in life. Drug use is just one of the obstacles. A programme has been developed in Kilkenny to help young people understand how the gifts of the Holy Spirit can help them to avoid the pitfalls of drug use. This programme is called the 4-2-1 (Parish) Programme. Young volunteers (15 to 18 years) are recruited and undergo a training which enables them to create their own Drug Awareness and Gifts of the Holy Spirit Programme. They then deliver these programmes to the Confirmation classes over an eight week period. Training takes place for two hours, one night a week for 14 weeks. It is designed to be fun and social and is based on the award winning 4-2-1 (Schools) Peer Drug Education Programme. Training is delivered by local drug and youth workers from Ossory Youth. Adult volunteers from the parish are recruited and undergo training in conjunction with the HSE Substance Misuse Team which equips them to work with young people and to train and support the young people in the delivery of the programme. If you are a young person aged 15 to 18 years who would like to become a peer educator or if you are an adult who would like to help please come along to a meeting at The St. John of God School, New Street at 7.00pm sharp on this Tuesday or contact Mel Bay on 087 984 5019 or Fr. Dan on 776 4400 for further information. See you there.
Do This In Memory
We welcome the young people who today enrol in the Do This In Memory Programme. The programme will run at the 10.30am Mass (Gaelscoil Osrai and KSP) and the 11.00am Mass (St. John of God’s and St. Patrick’s De La Salle) on one Sunday per month until next June.
Rosary
The monthly rosary on the first Sunday in James Green at the Statue of Our Lady of Kilkenny continues this Sunday, 5th October at 3pm. All are welcome.
Repainting St. Fiacre’s Church
The re-painting and re-carpeting of St. Fiacre’s Church continues this week. Masses at St. Fiacre’s Church will be as usual on Saturday evenings and Sunday mornings. There will be no weekday Masses at St. Fiacre’s Church until the work has been completed. Neither will there be exposition or access to the church while work is underway. We apologise for the disruption this will cause but allowing the workers full and easy access means they will finish earlier.
Daily Mass will be celebrated at St. Patrick’s Church at the usual time of 9.30am.
St. Joseph’s Young Priests Society
The monthly meeting of the St. Joseph’s Young Priests Society will take place on Friday, 10th October after the 9.30am Mass. The meeting will take place in St. Patrick’s Presbytery on the Ormonde Road. Please not the change of time and venue. All welcome.
Legion of Mary
The Rosary will be recited at the Grotto, Seville Lodge, Callan Road, each Sunday during October at 3pm. All are welcome.
Westcourt News
The October Mass for the canonisation of Blessed Edmund Rice will be celebrated in Westcourt on Monday, October 6th at 7.30pm. The Irish Nurses Guild are preparing the liturgy.
Series of Talks
In St. Patrick’s College, Thurles (sponsored by the Legion of Mary)
Tuesday, 7th October: “The Rosary” by Archbishop Dermot Clifford.
Tuesday, 14th October: “Mary Disciple & Mother” by Fr. John Littleton.
Tuesday, 21st October: “Mary Queen of Apostles: the call of all to be missionaries of “the Way, the Truth and the Life” by Bishop Séamus Freeman, Bishop of Ossory.
Talks will start at 8pm and tea will be served. Cost: €5.00. All welcome.
Helping to Defeat Depression
Aware is a not for profit national organization which helps those affected by depression by providing confidential support groups, depression information and a Helpline service. Volunteers, drawn from all walks of life, are essential to this. Aware-South East is currently seeking to involve volunteers in the facilitation of its support groups in Carlow and Kilkenny. The ideal volunteer is someone who has good listening skills, common sense and who can empathize in a non-judgmental way with those who have had or are experiencing depression. If you would like to be involved please contact Mick on 087 94 98 100 or email mick@awaresoutheast.com for further information or to arrange an informal interview. Full and ongoing training and support will be given to selected applicants. See our websites at www.awaresoutheast.com and www.aware.ie
Kilkenny Flower Club
Kilkenny Flower Club will host a teaching demonstration next Thursday in Butler House at 8pm. Demonstration by Margaret Collins. An informative and entertaining evening. All welcome.
