10-08-2008 Newsletter

BUNCLODY MASS INTENTIONS

Please Note:

Friday 15th is a Holy Day -The Assumption of Our Lady. There will be Mass at 7pm. on Thursday 14th., and Mass at 9am. & 12am. on the 15th

Baptism :

Through the life-giving waters of Baptism, we welcome into our community Colin Mark Power.

Wedding:

Congratulations to Louise Cowman, Bunclody & Tómas Moynihan, Ferns.
Also Mary Cowman, Mill Rd., & Jason White, Tombrack who were married recently. We wish them every happiness & joy in their lives together.

St. Aidan’s Hall, Irish St.

Is closed until 18th August 2008. This is to facilitate upgrading of the heating system. Sorry for any inconvenience caused (The Committee) St. Aidan’s Hall Committee would like to thank everyone who supported their recent Church -gate collection. The amount raised was €936.82

Religious Booklets

..on sale at the back of the church. Please put money into envelope and place in the St. Vincent de Paul Box.

Kilmyshall Church Notes

• Saturday 9th 8pm.- Ciarán O’Connor, 1st Anniversary Mass, and Dolly O’Connor. Also Joe Murphy, Kilmyshall (22nd Ann.)
• Monday 11th -Kathleen & Joe Roberts
• Tuesday 12th - Mrs. Purcell.
• Wednesday 13th - Mrs. Hanlon
• Saturday 16th - Kitty Doyle, The Hollow.
• Thursday 14th 8pm. Mass for the Assumption of Our Lady.
• Friday 15th 10.30am Mass for the Assumption of Our Lady
• 16th -17th Masses will be celebrated by Fr. Seamus de Val
• Thursday 14th 2.45pm in Kilmyshall Car Park leaving to go to Clonmacnoise to the Youth Festival.

St. Padre Pio Healing Mass

Concelebrated Mass by Fr. Richard O.F.M. Cap. Communal and individual blessings with the Glove of St. Pio. In St. Aidan’s Church, Ferns. Tuesday 12th August, at 7.30pm.

Soccer Training

Under 8,9,10yrs., training will take place on Tuesday 12th August, at Church road.New members welcome

Bunclody and District Active Retired:

Members who have received an Invitation to Our Celebration Dinner in Millrace Hotel on 4th September, it is requested that you give confirmation of acceptance before 21st August. Contact Joan at 053-9377801 or Kathleen at 087-9623132.

Bunclody Horticultural Society

.. next meeting takes place on Monday 11th August, in Redmond’s at 8pm.

CAMOGIE TRAINING:

Under 10’s and under 12’s on Tuesday evenings from 6.30pm. to 7.30pm. in the GAA pitch. New members welcome.

THE CAMOGIE CLUB would like to thank everyone who supported their bag packing in Super-Valu last weekend.

Please Note:

Unwanted DVD’s needed for a stall in the Red Hot Deals Sunday, which is being held by the G.A.A. on Sunday 24th August. Please leave into parish office or to Maire Dunne, 0877788467.

Please note:

.you can now visit a new web site called My Local News. This free service is available to all community groups. www.mylocalnews.ie

Purse Found

Please Contact The Parish Office 053 9376190 Between 9am - 1pm.

Please Note:

The Parish Office will only be open in the mornings 9am to 1pm. for the next two weeks. August 11th to 25th. This is due to holidays. Thank You.

RED HOT DEALS SUNDAY

Fundraising event for Bunclody GAA club, all local traders welcome, venue Bunclody GAA grounds. Date Sunday 24th. August . For further details please contact Majella at 086 / 6037230

The Deep End • Shattered

In his Hymn of the Universe (p. 24) Teilhard de Chardin prays: ‘Shatter, my God, through the daring of your revelation the childishly timid outlook that can conceive of nothing greater or more vital in the world than the pitiable perfection of our human organism’.

Today’s First Reading (1 Kgs 19:9, 11 - 13) and the Gospel (Matt 14:22-23) put me in mind of that prayer:

They shatter the dubious certainties of small minds. They shatter the shaky security of a mind trapped inside predictable parameters, bound by the banal, fearful of the unknown, unable to probe the eternal. Those two readings come with thoughts and imagery nearly too powerful to comprehend and too incredible to accept.

You have Elijah meeting God at Horeb. And how does God appear? In a mighty rock-splitting wind? No. In a terrifying earthquake? No. In a ferocious fire? No. But in the most unlikely ‘sound of sheer silence’ (19:12 NRSV). When the clutter goes, God comes.

Then in the Gospel reading you have Jesus walking on water. Another epiphany of God’s presence in the creation of calm. The imagery of Psalm 107:29 is used here:’ he made the storm be still, and the waves of the seas were hushed’. When the noise and turmoil stops God’s presence begins to be felt.

This is the something ‘greater and more vital’ that Teilhard prayed for: the realisation that God is never far away, but is active within his creation, and for a purpose. Only an outlook shattered by revelation can hope to grasp its implications.

Please Note:

All items for the Newsletter must be in before Lunchtime on Wednesday.

Sponsorship of the Newsletter for the month of August is:

Peter G. Crean & Co. Solicitors
Enniscorthy & Bunclody Phone:053 9234500

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