16-03-2008 Newsletter

BUNCLODY MASS INTENTIONS    

Mass in Polish:

...from Saturday 15th. March there will be a Mass in Polish every Saturday at 5.00pm.

Easter Ceremonies in Bunclody 2008

Holy Thursday

Evening Mass of the Lord’s Supper at 8.00pm. The Parish Readers and Eucharistic Ministers will be Re-commissioned for the coming year at this Mass. All of them are encouraged to attend. Adoration of the Altar of Repose from after Mass until 11.30pm.Flowers for the decoration of the Altar will be welcome. Please leave same in the Parish Office before 1.00pm. on Wednesday.

Servers:

Team B.

Readers:

Marie Granger and John McColgan

Eucharistic Ministers:

Kathleen Furlong and Maura Quinlivan. Practise: 10.00am.

Good Friday

A day of fast and abstinence. Celebration of the Lord’s Passion at 3.00pm. Way of the Cross at 7.30pm.

Servers:

Team C.

Readers:

Lucy Wall Murphy, Brian Gilsenan, Annie Meyler, Gertrude Rowlands and Patsy Cowman.

Eucharistic Ministers:

Ann Behan and Ellen Delaney Peterson. Practise: 10.00am.

The collection on Good Friday will be for the Christians of the Holy Land.

Easter Saturday: Vigil at 9.00pm.

Readers:

Elizabeth Connell Jones, Willie Doyle, Evelyn Mulrennan and Joe Byrne.

Servers:

Team A.

Eucharistic Ministers:

Goretti Kavanagh, Frank Mulrennan and Piotr Machel. Practise: 10.00am.

Confessions:

Holy Thursday 7 --7.45pm. Holy Saturday 12.00noon -- 1.00pm. Salt will be blessed before the 9.00am. Mass on Easter Day.

Trocaire boxes to be returned on Good Friday. Thank You for your contribution and , if possible, please convert your money to larger coins or notes to assist the counters.

Kilmyshall Church Notes

• Saturday 15th. 8pm. Matthew & Bridget Fogarty (Limerick)
• Sunday 16th. 10.30am. , Mogue Hendrick, Katie Hendrick, Gurteen.
• Saturday 22nd March 8.00pm. Larry Doyle, Kilmyshall
• Sunday 23rd March 10.30am. Patrick & Nora Tobin & Ann Buckley and John Ellis.

During Holy Week all the Masses will be celebrated in the Church.

Silver Circle Results Week 5

• First prize: €250 -Phil & Willie Kavanagh, Clonmullen.
• Second prize: €100-Denis O’Connor main St.
• Third prize: €50- Frances Carroll, Barnahask.

Promoters prize: €20- Michael & Patricia Roche, Carrigban
Fully Subscribed Members Draw Prize €100 Kevin Raleigh St. Mary’s Villas.

Many thanks to all our families & friends who supported our draw over the past five weeks.

Coffee Morning

Bunclody Day-Care Services are holding their Annual Coffee Morning & Bring and Buy Sale on Holy Thursday, 20th March 2008 10am to 12.30pm. In St. Aidan’s Hall, Irish Street. Please support by collecting books, crafts, Jams, preserves, cakes, bread etc. etc No clothes or magazines please. Do come along and enjoy a cuppa and a chat.

Our Lady of Lourdes N.S.

..is accepting names for enrolment of children for 2008/2009. Parents can call to the school on any school day or contact the school @ 053 9377380

St. Patrick ‘s Day Parade

..all children from Kilmyshall school taking part in the parade please assemble at the Car-park at the Millrace Hotel at 9.45.

Bunclody St. Patrick’s Day Parade will leave the Millrace Hotel Car-park at 10.30am. sharp. Blessing of Shamrock will take place ate Market Sq. at 10.45am. On Monday 17th. Those taking part in the parade are asked to gather in the Hotel Car-park between 9.30am. and 10.00am.

All Made In Ireland Bunclody, Co. Wexford.

A range of Irish made products including Homemade Jam, Jelly, Chutney & Homemade Fruit Juice Irish Made Jewellery, Cards and Crafts 1, Irish St., Bunclody, Co. Wexford.

U16 Football

Half-Way-House/Bunclody V Ballinastragh Gaels in Church Rd. Bunclody at 11.30am on Sunday 16th March . Your Support would be welcome.

Medjugorie Pilgrimage 2008

will take place from the 26th April to 3rd May. Canon Séamus de Val will be the Spiritual Director. Cost €599. Deposits of €80 secures a seat, please contact Anne Murphy, 053 9377632

D&M Launderette Bunclody

..need your Dry Cleaning done? LOOK NO FURTHER we are now agents for Enniscorthy Cleaners leave your clothes in on a Monday have them Wednesday. Leave them in Wednesday get them back Friday, on Friday get them back Monday. Call: 053 9377314

Bunclody Tidy Towns & Community Council

Monthly Clean Up Saturday 29th March 10am At Church Grounds Gloves & Rubbish Bags Provided Please support in Keeping our town beautiful

The Deep End • Palming off Bread

Mahatma Gandhi once said that the only form in which God dare appear to a starving statement is in the form of bread. A startling statement indeed! but is it true? Not entirely, because it doesn’t go far enough. It stops at the ‘incarnation’ of bread.

Today’s second reading (Philippians 2:6-11) goes all the way. It tells of Jesus, who - though in the form of God - empties himself to become a slave. No salvation from a distance here. Furthermore, the God-man then humbles himself and accepts death on a cross - not to provide a staving man with bread , but to offer him eternal life.

What that reading from Philippians tells us is truly awesome and frightening. It’s awesome because it’s so up-front about God. Not only does it challenge us to believe in God’s existence, it presents that God as so besotted by love for humanity that he becomes one of us - compounding to the nth degree any difficulties we might have with God’s existence in the first place. It’s frightening because it doesn’t try to make things easy. No half-measures with God. Appearing as bread is comprehensible. But appearing as another starving man is breathtaking.

God became one of us. How closely do we identify with those who starve?

Please Note:

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

Sponsorship of the Newsletter for the month of  March is courtesy of
Padraic & Kathleen Sinnott, Sinnott’s Pub Ryland

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