Kilmore
Parish Church
Fr Denis Doyle, P.P.
Newsletter
Weekly newsletter of St Mary's Church, Kilmore, Co Wexford.
Fr Denis Doyle, P.P. Telephone: (053) 913 5181 or (087) 926 0430.
Website: www.kilmoreparish.com. E-mail: newsletter2@eircom.net.
This issue dated the weekend of 16-17 February 2008 .
Reflection and prayer
Parish lottery results
Good Friday fast
“Kind words can be short and easy to
The winning numbers in this week‟s
As you know Good Friday is just a few
speak, but their echoes are truly
community lotto were 15-16-22-28.
weeks away and here in Kilmore we
endless”. Lord, every day I wash
We had no jackpot winner and we had
normally have a Twelve Hour Fast on
myself, make tea and cook, wash my
two match-three winners who each
that day. This year will be no different.
car, water the garden, using the water
received €100.00. The winners were
We will be having our fast as normal
that comes from the tap in my home.
John Keane (Scope) and Deirdre
and the cards will be available in the
Teach me to be grateful for this facility
Houlihan (Kilmore Parish). Ticket sales
next week or two!
and to use this resource with care,
were down a little from 959 to 930.
keeping families in Africa in mind.
Our jackpot now stands at €4,600.00.
Photocopying and fax
Refresh my heart that may have
Thank you for supporting our
Photocopying and fax services are
grown selfish and dry with the
community lotto.
available at the AOH Hall.
renewing waters of generosity and
charity. May I have the humility to
Primary school enrolment
draw on the unending supply of your
Lisbon Treaty meeting
love and mercy?
for next year
Do we want our Christian values
Would parents please note that we are
diminished and taken away by
currently taking applications for
European bureaucrats in the E.U.? If
Children’s Mass continues
admission to school for the new school
you are concerned, why not come to a
Children‟s Mass continues this Sunday
year and invite you to either call into
meeting in the Talbot Hotel, Wexford,
at 12 noon. All children most welcome.
the school for an application form or
on Tuesday evening (19th) at 8.00pm
contact the school on (053) 913 5230.
and listen to an interesting panel of
Trócaire boxes available
Parents who have already completed a
speakers.
If you didn‟t get a Trócaire box yet
form for enrolment will be contacted
please take
in due course.
Leinster quarter-final
one as you
Kilmore United are the sole
leave the
Computer courses
representatives from Wexford left in
Church and
The evening class for beginners will
the Leinster Shield competition. They
by our
start on Tuesday 4th March in Kilmore
will try to get in to the last four this
sacrifices for
Community Hall from 7.00pm to
Sunday the 24th when they take on
Lent, try to really help someone less
9.00pm and is now full. All three day
Glencormac United from Wicklow. The
well off than ourselves.
classes are up and running and are all-
match is at home at 2pm, so all
full. A date for the intermediate class
support is needed.
Mass times for Lent
has not yet been fixed and there are
During the Lenten season we will have
still two places left for this course so if
Community Games quiz
evening mass in Kilmore at 7.30pm on
you are interested please contact the
The Community Games Table Quiz will
Tuesday and Friday and in Mulrankin
Information Centre on (053) 917 5722
take place on Wednesday (20th).
on Tuesday at 8.00pm and on Friday
for more information. It is hoped that
Children interested in taking part
at 7.00pm.
we will start a four-week course on
should contact Michael Cooney (087)
digital imaging in April, again contact
211 8571 or (053) 917 5888. This is
Recent Baptism
Catherine or Dianne for more
an under-14 event so children born
We congratulate and welcome into our
information.
after 31st July 1994 are eligible to
community Orla Evelyn Lambert,
take part.
daughter of Billy and Fiona Lambert,
‘Alive’ newspaper
Rackardstown, who was baptised in
The Catholic newspaper "Alive" is free
Golf AGM and prize giving
Kilmore last weekend.
and is available in the church porches.
Guillemot Golfing Society AGM and
Do take a copy or two as you leave
Annual Presentation of Prizes will be
Adoration retreat
the church.
held in The Stella Maris Centre on
There will be an afternoon of
Tuesday (19th) commencing at
thanksgiving, renewal and adoration in
Church Area Meeting on
8.30pm. There will be refreshments
Clonard Church this Sunday (17th)
Wednesday
served. All members are requested to
from 2pm to 5.30pm. The retreat will
There will be a meeting of the above
attend and new members would be
include confessions, mass, reflections
committee on next Wednesday
most welcome. First tee off is
and adoration. Everyone is welcome
evening (20th) in the parochial house
expected to happen around the first
and teas will be served. Donation €3.
at 8.00pm.
weekend in March.
Around the Parish
Sunday of the Year : (with page number in Parish Mass Book Year A, Part 1). This weekend is
[See overleaf for notice of
the 2nd Sunday of Lent (page 75) and next weekend is the 3rd Sunday of Lent (page 77).
changes, if any, during the
coming week.]
Newsletter sponsor : This is the first week‟s sponsor by a parishioner living abroad who
looks forward to reading our newsletter on the internet each weekend and who is sponsoring our
newsletter for three weeks. Thank you.
Kilmore
Fr. Denis Doyle, P.P.
Feast days this week : Friday (22nd) Chair of St Peter, Apostle. Saturday (23rd) St
Telephone:
Polycarp.
(053) 913 5181 or
(087) 926 0430.
This week we pray for the souls of . . .
Masses
Mary Ellen and Sam Bates , Grange, 7.30pm mass Saturday 16th,
Mon - Friday: 9.00am.
Michael Hurley , Grange, 10.00am mass Sunday 17th,
Saturday: 10.00am and
Sheila O’Brien , Mulrankin, 11.00am mass Sunday 17th,
7.30pm.
Josie Raftery , Ballask, 12 noon mass Sunday 17th,
Sunday: 10.00am.
Jane Hughes , Gollough, 9.00am mass Wednesday 20th,
Adoration : Thursday
Aileen Kielty , Longridge, 7.30pm mass Mulrankin Thursday 21st,
10.00am to 9.00pm.
Tommy , Katie and Kathleen O’Keefe , Mulrankin, 7.00pm mass Mulrankin Friday 22nd and
11.00am mass Sunday 24th,
Mulrankin
Peter Bates , Grange, 7.30pm mass Friday 22nd,
Masses
John Kehoe , Lannaghbeg, 7.30pm mass Saturday 23rd,
Tues - Friday: 9.45am.
Kitty Reville , Grange, 10.00am mass Sunday 24th, and
Sunday: 11.00am
Pat Fortune , Ballyhealy, whose anniversary occurs at this time.
Adoration : Tuesday
We also remember, and pray for, all our loved ones who died and all those whose anniversaries
9.30am to 12 noon and
occur about this time. May they rest in peace.
6.00 to 9.00pm.
Kilmore Quay
Activities in Kilmore Community Hall
Fr. Jim Cogley, C.C.
► Monday : Computer Beginners Class 11.00am to 1.00pm. Young at Heart Club 2.00pm to
Telephone:
5.00pm. Ladies Football Training 7.30pm to 8.30pm.
(053) 912 9638 or
(086) 247 1063.
► Tuesday : Art Class 11.00am to 1.00pm. Computer Beginners Class 2.00pm to 4.00pm.
Masses
Athletic Club Training 6.30pm to 8.30pm.
Tues - Friday: 9.30am.
► Wednesday : Mother and Toddler Group 11.00am to 12.30pm. Goff School of Irish Dancing
Saturday: 6.30pm.
Sunday: 10.30am.
4.00pm to 6.00pm. Teenager Tops Rehearsals 8.00pm to 10.00pm.
Adoration : Saturday
► Thursday : Senior Help Line Service 1.00pm to 4.00pm. Computer Beginners Class 2.00pm to
2.00pm to 6.30pm.
4.00pm. Under Age Soccer Training (Kilmore United) 6.00pm to 7.00pm. Adult Tops
Rehearsals 8.00pm to 10.00pm.
Tomhaggard
► Friday : Under Age Hurling Training 6.30pm to 8.30pm. Tops Rehearsals 8.45pm to 10pm.
Masses
Monday: 9.30am.
► Saturday : Senior Help Line Service 7.00pm to 10.00pm.
Saturday: 7.30pm.
► Sunday : Children‟s Tops Rehearsals 12.30pm to 1.30pm.
Adoration :
If you would like to participate in any of the above activities, please call the Information Centre in
Monday
9.30am to
the A.O.H Hall. Catherine or Dianne will give you names and numbers of people responsible for
7.00pm.
the various activities. If you wish to book the hall for meetings, children‟s birthday parties or
indeed any activity, the hall diary is kept and updated at the Information Centre.
Readers of the Word
Set dancing gets off the ground
Kilmore
There is a interest for set dancing to start up depending on numbers the venue to be announced
16th: Bernie Rowe
will be either the AOH Hall or Kilmore Community Hall. Contact the Information Centre on (053)
17th: Pearl Bates
917 5722.
23rd: Laura Hayes
24th: Frank Lonergan
Free spring course on the Power of Positive Parenting
Mulrankin
The Co Wexford Education Centre, Milehouse Road, Enniscorthy, is holding a Spring Course titled
17th: Marie Meleady
the “Power of Positive Parenting” with tutor Peadar Maxwell, Psychologist, on Tuesday (19th)
24th: Mary Kehoe
from 7.30pm until 9.30pm Admission is free of charge. If you would like to book please go to our
website www.ecwexford.ie and fill- in the online booking form or „phone Samantha at (053) 923
Eucharistic Ministers
9100.
Kilmore
16th: Patricia Bates and
Martin Bates
17th: T. J. Power and
Rose Hurley
23rd: Bernie Rowe and
Teresa McDonald
24th: Mary Power and
Pádraig Flynn