Kilmore
Parish Church
Fr Denis Doyle, P.P.
Newsletter
Weekly newsletter of St Mary's Church, Kilmore, Co Wexford, incorporating the
curacy of Mulrankin/Tomhaggard. Website: www.kilmoreparish.com.
Parish Priest: Fr Denis Doyle, Telephone: (053) 913 5181 or (087) 926 0430.
Newsletter Editor: Jim Hurley, email newsletter2@eircom.net.
This issue dated the weekend of 21-22 March 2009.
type of experience Khalid had. He was
Happy Mother’s Day
a refugee as a child in Egypt and all
We pray
throughout his public ministry he was
For new mothers, coming to terms with responsibility
an itinerant preacher. Since 1962
For expectant mothers, wondering and waiting
Burma has been ruled by the army
For those who are tired, stressed or depressed
who have continued to attack religious
For those who struggle to balance the tasks of work and family
and ethnic minorities, burning villages,
For those who are unable to feed their children due to poverty
arresting people and forcing
For those whose children have physical, mental, or emotional
thousands into forced labour.
disabilities
For those who have children they do not want
Almost one million people have been
For those who raise children on their own
forced to leave their homes and more
For those who have lost a child
than 150,000 have fled to temporary
For those whose children have left home
refugee camps along the Thai/Burma
For those who are grieving the loss of their own mother
border. Trócaire continues to
For those who never knew their biological mother, and now
campaign for change in Burma while
yearn for her
also supporting and educating those
For those who have experienced the wonder of an adopted mother’s love
living in refugee camps. This Lent we
And for those whose desire to be a mother has never been fulfilled.
ask that you support the people of
Bless all mothers, that their love may be deep and tender, and that they may lead
Burma and other oppressed minorities
their children to know and do what is good.
around the world by donating to
May we wish all of them a very happy and blessed Mother’s Day.
Trócaire this Lent. For more inform-
ation log onto www.trocaire.org/lent.
Table quiz on Wednesday
Mass times for Lent
Tops Group on stage
Kilmore Youth Club is holding a table
Mass continues for the Lenten Season
May we wish the Tops Group the best
quiz on Wednesday (25th) at 9.30pm
in Kilmore at 7.30pm on Tuesday and
of luck with their show on Monday
in Mary Barry's, Kilmore. €5.00 per
Friday evenings, and in Tomhaggard
night (23rd). If by chance they get to
person. All are welcome.
on Friday evening at 7.30pm.
the final (which they will) on next
Friday night (27th), tickets will be on
Family Fun Table Quiz
Children’s Mass
sale from Tuesday morning (24th) in
Kilmore National School Parents’
The children’s mass continues this
Bridgetown P.O., Kilmore P.O., and
Association is holding a Fun Family
Sunday at 12 noon. All children are
Bradys’ Foodstore, Kilmore Quay. Be
Table Quiz next Sunday (29th) at
most welcome.
sure to get your tickets early.
4.30pm in Hotel Saltees. Bring the
whole family along for a fun
Jackpot reaches € 10,000
Monster Music Table Quiz
afternoon. Loads of prizes. Cost per
The winning numbers in last week’s
A Monster Music Table Quiz takes
table €10 (please note the change in
lotto were 10-15-16-17. There was no
place in Hotel Saltees this Saturday
cost per table). All welcome. Should
jackpot winner and we had only one
(21st) at 9.00pm. Teams of four at
you have any queries please contact
match-three winner who received
€10.00 per person including admission
Vivienne at (087) 988 4797.
€200.00. The winner was Esther
to after-quiz disco. Proceeds are for
McDonald (Kilmore Parish). Ticket
the Wexford & District Schoolboys
Eucharistic Adoration
sales were up a little from 905 to 917.
League. Enquiries to (086) 403 7879.
Joe Lambert, a lay member of the
Our jackpot now stands at
Apostolate of Perpetual Eucharistic
€10,000.00. Thank you for supporting
Oppressed minorities
Adoration, has been invited to speak
our community lotto.
In the Old Testament we hear many
at masses this weekend.
stories of exile. The Jewish people
The Apostolate is an international
Good Friday fast
were very familiar with being forced to
association of lay adorers of the
As you know Good Friday is just a few
flee from their home. The exiles to
Blessed Sacrament. It was founded in
weeks away, we will be having our
Babylon and to Egypt are the most
1985 by the late Mr Owen Traynor, a
Good Friday twelve-hour sponsored
famous examples of this. They knew
Catholic businessman in Los Angeles,
fast on that day. Sponsorship cards
what it was to be without the comfort
U.S.A., and was erected and decreed
will be available from next weekend.
and security of being in their own
home. Jesus too was familiar with the
by the Vatican on the Feast of Corpus
Around the Parish
Sunday of the Year (with page number in Parish Mass Book, Year 2, Part 1). This week-
end is the 4th Sunday of Lent (page 76) and next weekend is the 5th Sunday of Lent (page 78).
[See overleaf for notice
of changes, if any,
Feast days this coming week : Wednesday (25th) The Annunciation of the Lord.
during the coming
week.]
Newsletter sponsor : This is the second week’s sponsor by a parishioner who wishes to
remain anonymous who is sponsoring our newsletter for five weeks. Thank you.
Kilmore
Readers of the Word . Kilmore : 21st: Niall Crosbie; 22nd: Rita Power; 28th: Susan
Fr Denis Doyle, P.P.
Evans; 29th: Jane Crosbie. Mulrankin : 22nd: Aidan Miskella; 29th: Mary Doyle.
Telephone:
(053) 913 5181 or
Eucharistic Ministers . Kilmore : 21st: Christine Murphy and Anne Cousins; 22nd: T. J.
(087) 926 0430.
and Mary Power; 28th: Martin Bates and Teresa McDonnell; 29th: Rose Hurley and Pádraig Flynn.
Masses
Mon - Friday: 9.00am.
This weekend we pray for the souls of . . .
Saturday: 10.00am and
Kilmore
7.30pm.
John Bates , Grange, 7.30pm mass Saturday 21st,
Sunday: 10.00am (mass
Breda Kehoe , Gentstown, 10.00am mass Sunday 22nd,
broadcast on the radio at
103.9 FM) and 12 noon
Eamonn Murphy , Mayglass, 10.00am mass Saturday 28th,
(special Children’s mass).
Willie Boggan , Ballygrangans, 7.30pm mass Saturday 28th,
Mary Costello , Grange, 12noon mass Sunday 29th, (Month’s Mind),
Adoration : Thursday
Molly Clare (née Duggan), Inch, Gorey, formerly Ballygrangans, and
10.00am to 9.00pm.
Nicholas Boggan , Mayglass, (Ballybough) who died last Friday.
Mulrankin
Mulrankin
Damian Carroll , Lakelands, 11.00am mass Sunday 22nd,
Fr Pat O’Conor, C.C.
Telephone:
Patrick Roche , Gentstown, 9.45am mass Tuesday 24th, and
(053) 917 5705 or
Donna Conway , 11.00am mass Sunday 29th.
(087) 627 2525.
Tomhaggard
Masses
Pat Troy , Tomhaggard, 7.30pm mass Saturday 21st, and
Tues - Friday: 9.45am.
Sunday: 11.00am
Breda Kehoe , Gentstown, 7.30pm mass Saturday 28th.
Adoration : Tuesday
We also remember, and pray for, all our loved ones who died and all those whose anni-
9.30am to 12 noon and
versaries occur about this time. May they rest in peace.
6.00 to 9.00pm.
Christi, 2 June 1991. On the
Kilmore Quay
occasion of Owen Traynor’s
Fr Jim Cogley, C.C.
visit to Pope Paul ll in May
Telephone:
To witness to the light
(053) 912 9638 or
1986, he was presented
John 3:14-21
(086) 247 1063.
with a monstrance by the
Masses
Pontiff bearing the Pope’s
Tues - Friday: 9.30am.
personal crest and motto:
Saturday: 6.30pm.
“Totus tuus” . A business
Sunday: 10.30am.
meeting between Mr
Traynor and an Irish
Adoration : Saturday
layman, Mr Cathal Magee,
2.00pm to 6.30pm.
which extended into a
conversation on the success
Tomhaggard
of the Eucharistic Adoration
Fr Pat O’Conor, C.C.
Centre in Los Angeles
Telephone:
parish, resulted in the
(053) 917 5705 or
establishment of an Irish
(087) 627 2525.
branch of the Apostolate in
Masses
1987. With the blessing of
Monday: 9.30am.
Saturday: 7.30pm.
the bishops and clergy
everywhere, up to one
Adoration :
thousand Adoration Groups
Monday
have now been established.
9.30am to
7.00pm.
There are seventy Adoration
Groups in the Diocese of
Ferns. Represented in every
Secretarial Services
diocese of the country, the
For all your needs,
organisation and
photocopying, fax and
administration of the groups
laminating services are
is undertaken by the local
available at the Kilmore
lay parishioners under the
SCOPE Information
guidance of the priests. For
Centre in the AOH Hall,
further information contact
Bridgetown, telephone
(01) 662 5899 or Joe
(053) 917 5722.
Lambert at (051) 563 306.