16-12-2007 Newsletter

BUNCLODY MASS INTENTIONS                  . 

Eucharistic Adoration

..takes place in The Church of the Most Holy Trinity, Bunclody every Monday from 9.30am to 8pm.

Envelopes for November:

• Sun. 4th Nov. €1072
• Sun. 11th. Nov. €1147
• Sun. 18th. Nov. €1084
• Sun. 25th. Nov. €1509

Bunclody Parish Council 2008 - 2011

The following have been ELECTED:

• Jim Dunne, Gurteen
• Mary Hogan, Hospital Hill
• Michael Roche, Carrigban
• Mary Canning, Main Street
• Kevin Brennan, Old Forrest
• Lily Byrne, St. Mary’s Villas
• Jack Maher, Mill Road
• Joe Byrne, Ballinavocran
• Mary Cowman, Ryland Road
• Ronnie Weston, Barker’s Road
• Joe Guinan, Carrigduff
• Julie Black, Barnahask

There are a further two places to be filled and a number to be co-opted. Fr. Jones and Fr. Doyle would like to thank the out- going committee for their work and service. We welcome the new committee and wish them well for their term of office.

Penitential Service

..on Monday 17th. at 7.30pm. in the church of The Most Holy Trinity, Bunclody. Followed by a Gospel Reflection (in church) not in the Parish Hall. Visiting of the sick and housebound for Christmas will take place on Friday the 21st. December.

Invitation:

Rev. Fr. Aidan Jones and Fr. Jim Doyle would like to invite all the people who are involved in the various jobs associated with the Parish to their Annual Christmas Party on Monday 17th. Dec. at 9pm.in Redmond;s Lounge

Kilmyshall Church Notes

• Saturday 15th. Dec. 8pm. Mary & John Dwyer, Maggie Carroll, Ballypreacus, John & Nellie O’Leary, Rossard.
• Sunday 16th. Dec. 10.30am. Paul & Margaret o’ Brien.
• Tuesday 18th. Dec. 7.30pm. Penitential Rite.
• Thursday 20th. Dec. 9.30am. Mass in the church attended by The Kilmyshall School Children.
• Saturday 22nd Dec. 8pm. Sunday 23rd. Dec. 10.30am.
• Sunday 23rd. Dec. 8.00pm. Prayer and Carol Service in Kilmyshall Church. All Invited.

Weekday Mass at 9.30am. each morning.

.Fr. Gabriel Barros Phone: 053 9377188 Deacon Harold Bumann Phone:053 9377188

Eucharistic Adoration

..takes place in Kilmyshall Church every Tuesday from 10.00am to 5.00pm. also daily from 8.00am. to 9.20am.before Mass at 9.30am.

Kilmyshall Christmas Party on Sunday 9th Dec.

We wish to thank all those who supported and attended the party, and special thanks to all those who supplied the food and helped in any way with the catering, which all helped to make it a great success. Best wishes to all for Christmas and the New Year, from the Parish Council.

Bunclody Lions Club:

Church Gate Collection on Sat.15th. & Sun. 16th. for the Christmas Food Appeal.

St Vincent De Paul (St Theresa’s Conference).

Wish to thank most sincerely all who contributed to the church gate collection & also the organisers of the Whist Drive in St. Aidan’s Hall on Sunday afternoon.

Bunclody Parish Christmas Cards for sale in the

Parish Office. 1 Pack €4.00 2 Packs €7.00 3 Packs €10.00 The profit made from the sale of the Christmas Cards will go to the charity WINGS (World in need groups in Kenya) Founded by Fr. Anthony Clarke.

Please note:

Anyone who has notices to put in the newsletter over The Christmas and early New Year period please leave into the Parish Office or into the green post box outside the Parish Office before lunchtime on Wednesday 19th. The Parish Office will close on Friday 21st.at 3.30pm. and re-open on Wednesday 2nd. January.

Bunclody Tidy Towns Committee

..wish to thank all those who subscribed most generously to their Trader fundraiser and also their recent Church Gate Collection.

Used stamps

.. for the Missions gratefully accepted. Contact: Jack McDonald, Irish Street.

Bunclody Community Games.

Indoor soccer: for boys U13’s & U15’s on Sunday morning’s at 11am in soccer pavilion, Church Rd. Please note: soccer County finals on 12th & 13th January in Bunclody. Chess: on Friday at 2.30pm. in our Lady of Lourdes National School, Bunclody.

Margaret Nolan (Chiropodist)

Surgery closed on Fri. 21st. at 5.00pm. and re-opens on Thur. 3rd. at 9am.

Home Help Wanted:

Immediately 3 Children, 2 School going .From 8am. to 6pm. Phone 086 / 3844651

A Living Masterpiece

To be dead is to stop believing in the masterpieces we will begin tomorrow. So claimed Patrick Kavanagh as citied in John O’Donoghue’s book, Eternal Echoes. Too good to be true about the masterpieces, you might think. Well, that depends on how you eye a masterpiece. We can all to easily sell ourselves short. There is more to each of us than meets the eye especially our own.

Have you ever surprised yourself ? Have you ever done something you thought you never could, shown a humanity you didn’t know you had, opened to an insight that took your breath away, gone that extra mile exhausted yet finished quite refreshed ? And, have you discovered that exquisitely subversive truth that the more you give, the more you realise you have to give?

If so, Isaiah’s words today (35:5-6a) will make sense to you: Then the eyes of the blind shall be opened, and the ears of the deaf unstopped, than the lame shall leap like a deer, and the tongue of the speechless sing for joy. But they will make sense in a way you never dreamed of.

You’ll gasp as you grasp that, in fact, they refer to you!

Please Note:

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

Sponsorship of the Newsletter for the month of December is
D & M Laundrette, Main Street,  Phone: 053 9377314

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