20-07-2008 Newsletter

BUNCLODY MASS INTENTIONS          

Minimum age for marriage

The Policy in this Diocese is that the minimum age for marriage anywhere in the Diocese is eighteen [18] years of age and there are to be no exceptions.

Parish Patron

..in Old Cemetery on Friday 25th July at 7.00pm. and Calvary Cemetery , Ryland Road at 8.00pm.

Bunclody Horticultural Society

..next meeting on Monday 21st. July, at 8.00pm. in Redmond’s Lounge, Main Street, Bunclody

Bunclody Horticultural Society OPEN GARDEN DAY Raffle, Prizes, Books & plants for sale in aid of Multiple Sclerosis Society of Ireland in the gardens of Eamonn and Rita Butler, Knockanure, Bunclody, Co. Wexford. Sunday July 20th. from 2pm. - 5.30pm. Entrance fee €5.00 incl coffee/tea Directions: From Bunclody take left at Slaney Foods, turn right over bridge at Clohamon and watch for sign approx 1 mile on left.

Kilmyshall Church Notes

• Saturday 19th. 8.00pm. Maurice & Catherine Hayes
• Sunday 20th. 10.30am. Bridie Hanlon
• Monday 21st. 9.30am. Brigid Lewis Getwell
• Tues. 22nd. 9.30am. Kathleen Roberts Getwell

PLEASE NOTE: Tuesday 22nd. July Saint Mary Magdalene, Kilmyshall Mass in the Old Graveyard in Ryland Hill at 8.00pm. Celebrated by Fr. Harold Buman.

Saturday 26th. 7.45pm Blessing of the graves in Kilmyshall.

Kilmyshall National School Track suits and polo shirts with logo are now available in Maureen Moorhead’s, Irish Street, Bunclody.

Kilmyshall Field Day

..will take place on 27th July at 1.30pm.

Prizes are needed for the Wheel of Fortune e.g. (unwanted gifts ,toys etc.) . Philomena Coleman & Margaret Reck need bottles for the bottle stall. Anyone who would like to bake for the Field Day , please contact members of the committee. On the day we will have a Wheel of Fortune, Bottle Stall, Bonny Baby Competition, Dog Show, Vintage Tractor Rally & Cake stall. Please come along and support and enjoy the day.

Thank You!

I want to thank everybody, especially Fr. Jones, Fr. Barros, the parish council of Kilmyshall with their chairman, Nicky Cummins, the choir and each single person of Kilmyshall and Bunclody, who helped to prepare my First Mass in Kilmyshall and the party in the Community Hall on Sunday, July 13th. It was really great! Thank you very much.

Fr. Harold Bumann

Four County Football Tournament

Carnew, Tinryland, Graiguecullen and HWH/Bunclody

Second Semi-final on Monday 21st July at 7.30pm. in the GAA pitch, Church Road, Bunclody. Carnew V Graiguecullen Final on Wednesday 23rd. July at 7.30pm. in the GAA pitch, Bunclody. Support very welcome

STORYTELLING

..on Thursday 24th. July at 8.00pm. in St. Aidan’s Parish Hall, Irish Street, Bunclody. Please come along and enjoy the craic. All welcome.

Bunclody Polo Club

Tournament on 19th - 20th July, 12noon to 6pm. Also on 22nd - 23rd August. Visitors welcome to view Polo matches. Bring a picnic, Activities most Sundays from May to September. From 12noon to 4pm. Visitors welcome, bring refreshments. Entrance near Clohamon School.

Bunclody Tidy Towns & Community Council

Monthly Clean up.Saturday, 26th. July, Church Grounds 10.00am. Gloves & Rubbish Bags Provided Please support when you can to keep our town tidy& beautiful.

The Book I Was Cured at Knock by Marion Carroll, is on sale in the Parish Office. Price €7.99.

St. Vincent de Paul Whist Drive

In St. Aidan’s Hall every Monday night at 8.30pm. Sponsorship Welcome.

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

DIPLOMA SA GHAEILGE 2008 - 2010

A two year part-time Diploma in Irish Course for mature students, offered by University College Galway commences in Carlow in September ‘08. Full details and registration forms from Glór Cheatharlach. Phone (059) 9158105 or (085) 1340047or e-mail emma@glorcheatharlach.ie

The Deep End - A Word for the Weeds

You can sum up today’s long Gospel reading (Mt 13:24-43) in two words: Cool it! A most insightful piece of writing, it comes with a take you wouldn’t expect. It puts me in mind of something the late John O’Donohue wrote in his book Eternal Echoes (p.89): ‘Where all danger is neutralized, nothing can ever grow’. And it’s growth that Jesus’ parable is concerned with: your growth into the fullness of life.

Whatever harms life is alien to it. We don’t come into this world with embedded seeds of self-destruction. God creates us for life, not death; for wholeness, not sickness; for happiness, not horror; for joy, not gloom; for hope, not despair; and for glory, not damnation.

Somewhere along the line things went wrong. Still do. And when they do we shouldn’t get too hot and bothered about rooting out the cause. To put it starkly, we need to be able to live with sin. Not in it, but with it. For seriously minded people of faith that is possible, but only when their God is benign. When they know God to be the Compassionate One, who fashioned this beautiful creation so lovingly knowing it would be marred by evil - the price to pay for freedom.

If God can live with weeds until the harvest, then so can we. So must we. They can’t destroy the crop. No fear of that. But being violent with them will do more harm than good. So. cool it! God rules, not the weeds.

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