Advent Series of Talks
The Diocese of Ossory has organised a series of talks for Advent entitled Look not on our sins but on the faith of Your Church. The programme consists of three reflections exploring what it is to be Church today. Our Church is sinful and broken – have we embraced this reality fully? What does this reality say about us? What impact does it, or should it have on us? Surely there must be hope but what is it?
Why not join us for the series as we explore these and other questions?
Tuesday, 30th November: “One of you is about to betray me: Acknowledging the Judas’ among us”. Speaker: Fr. Dermot Ryan.
Tuesday, 7th December: “Deciding to stay? Looking for a renewed vision of Church”. Speaker: Ms. Ann Daly.
Tuesday, 14th December: “The people who have walked in darkness have seen a great light”: Our search for that light today”. Speaker: Fr. Dan Bollard
The talks will take place at St. Patrick’s Parish Centre and the format of each evening will be a short reflection for about 30 minutes and then the opportunity for discussion and questions. Time: 8.00 – 9.00pm each evening.
The same talks will be presented in Ballyragget (29th November, 6th and 13th December) and Mullinavat (1st, 8th and 15th December).
Family Liturgy and Choir
It’s that time of year again! - the Children's Liturgy and Choir will start for the Advent Season on Sunday, 5th December. We will be meeting for practise on Wednesday evening between 6.30 and 7.15pm and all our young people and their parents are welcome. We would especially welcome new comers and musicians be they young or old.
Is Priesthood for You?
“They shall beat their swords into plowshares and their spears into pruning hooks…” If you think that God is calling you to serve the Lord of the Harvest as a priest call Fr. Willie Purcell, Vocations Director @ the Vocations Office 056 777 0261 or ossoryvocdir@gmail.com.
Questions People Ask
Isn’t Advent a season of preparing for Christmas? Why is there never any reference to this on the First Sunday of Advent?
Advent is certainly a preparation for Christmas but is has other dimensions too. Advent prepares for the coming of Christ, past, present and future. Christmas celebrates Christ’s coming once upon a time in past history. But it also includes the coming of Christ to us each present day. And its future dimension is a reminder to be ready for the coming of Christ at the end of life, a date we do not know. The future coming of Christ is the focus of attention in the liturgy of Advent’s first Sunday.
Fr. Silvester O’Flynn OFM Cap
Weekly Envelope Collection
The envelope collection last week amounted to €1,140. Thanks for your continued generosity.
Pray for our Deceased FriendsRecently Deceased: Sr. Catherine Mary (Stephen) Begadon, Presentation Convent, Parnell Street. Requiem Mass at St. Mary’s Cathedral at 11.00am on Sunday followed by burial in Durrow Cemetery. Brigid Gilligan, 19 Cypress Grove. Margaret Delaney/Snype, Shandon Park. Nora Mahony, Keatingstown, John Seaver.
Months Mind: Mamie Shortiss (Sun 10.30). Johnny Delaney (Tues 9.30).
Anniversaries: Una Heffernan (Sat 6.15), James Fox (Sat 7.00), Mairead & Ger Carmody, John & Nora Mullan (Sun 9.30), Kathleen Brown (Sun 10.00), Thomas Dowling (Sun 10.30), Kitty McMyler (Sun 12.00), Raymond & Breda Dowling, Marie, Phyllis & Thomas Dowling (Sun 12.30), Jeremiah Mullally (Wed 10.30), John McCarthy, Ollie Bergin, Maureen Nolan, Joe McKane, Eileen Barry, Rory McPhillips, Thomas & Margaret Beehan, John O’Shea.
Intentions for next weekend: Tom O’Dowd (Sat 6.15), Julia O’Carroll (Sat 7.00), Angela Murphy (Sun 10.00), Laurence Healy (Sun 10.30), Elaine Kelly (Sun 11.00), Michael Dwyer (Sun 12.00), Michael Fitzmaurice (Sun 12.30).
Kermit High School Choir
The Honor Choir from Kermit High School, Texas, USA sing during the 6.15pm Mass at St. Fiacre’s Church on next Saturday. The choir will give a short concert after the Mass.
The Knights of St. Columbanus?
Who are the Knights of St. Columbanus? They are not a bunch of elite, conservative Catholics who belong to a secret organisation and who oppose all attempts to bring the Catholic Church into the modern world. So who or what are the Knights? They are an organization of Catholic men who have come to know a God of love and want to share that love with others through helping those who need help. They organise events such as a Christmas party for the less well off and provide funding for drug education for school children. You know, the practical things which help to make life better for others. Interested? Call Peter 087 237 3043 or Brian 086 085 3242.
Dochas Nasamu
Used clothing appeal for Irish run orphanage in Nairobi, Kenya. Place bags inside gates of St. Patrick’s Parish Centre before noon on Monday. Contact Marie on 087 689 0995.
Cookery Demonstration
Ann Neary will give a cookery demonstration in Coláiste Éamann Rís, Callan at 8.00pm on Thursday, 2nd December. A great nights entertainment guaranteed. Tickets are €20 and all proceeds are in aid of the school. Tickets available from the school at 056 772 5340 or any member of the Parent's Council.
Village Crafts
Christmas Exhibition and Sale
Ormonde College, Saturday & Sunday, 4th and 5th December. Woodturning: Mick Morrissey, Canice Ryan, Ciaran Walsh. Painting: Pat Holland. Come and have a look.
Trinity Singers and Boydell Singers
Choral Concert, Saturday, 4th December, 8.00pm, St. John the Evangelist Church, Dublin Road, Kilkenny. Adm €5/€3. The Boydell Singers, conducted by Patrick Barrett, perform pieces by Britten, Liszt and Kodály plus Christmas favourites. Trinity Singers, conducted by Róisín Blunnie, present works by Bruckner, Mendelssohn, Rheinberger, Gorecki, Whitacre, Orbán and Pärt.
Buket List
The 2007 film ‘The Bucket List’ starred Morgan Freeman and Jack Nicholson as two terminally ill men who put together a wishlist of things to do before they ‘kick the bucket’. They do a skydive, get tattoos, visit the pyramids. Several of the items on the to-do list are more abstract – witness something truly majestic; help a complete stranger for the good; find the joy in your life. We often hear the advice that we should live each day as if it’s our last. Of course we would live very differently if we knew our own days are numbered, or if it was our last day on earth. Likewise we would treat a family member, friend, or colleague differently if we knew they were to be struck by illness or accident. Sometimes it is only when the fragility of life is laid bare that we manage to get our priorities in order. Yet living differently is exactly what today’s readings demand of us. They set the tone for the period of preparation that is Advent. The Gospel of Matthew uses the metaphor of the thief in the night to highlight of the unexpected nature of the second coming of Jesus. Naturally we would be well prepared if we knew when a burglar would strike our home! The flood took Noah’s contemporaries by surprise as they went about day to day life – eating, drinking, and marrying. ‘So too will be the coming of the Son of Man’. St. Paul gives us a lovely image in today’s Second reading: ‘Put on the armour of light’. Live differently. Stay awake. Be prepared.
Triona Doherty
U-12 panel qualify for final
The Village U12 panel scored a tremendous 1 point win over a very strong St. Mary's (Clonmel) in the semi-final of the Carrigeen floodlight winter hurling tournament.
Loughboy library
Exhibitions- currently o display are works fromt eh Traveller Community—please come in and have a look. Artists—please book your FREE space for 2011/
Toddler Hour continues next Thursday at 11.30am - all welcome.
Christmas - we have a large stock of cookery and craft books.
