25-05-2008 Newsletter

BUNCLODY MASS INTENTIONS  

Eucharistic Adoration

...takes place in The Church of the Most Holy Trinity, Bunclody every Monday from 9.30am to 8pm.Irish Catholic: please leave your name into the Parish Office if you would like to subscribe to the Irish Catholic.

The Rosary:

..will be said each evening for the month of May at the Grotto, St. Mary’s Villas, at 7pm. and on Saturday at 6pm. Please come along and join in. All are welcome.

Irish Cancer Society

..will hold their church gate collection weekend on 24th. and 25th. May.

Lourdes Pilgrimage 2008:

There are over 1,200 people from our Diocese now in Lourdes. This Special Jubilee Year. There are over 100 sick, ("Assisted Pilgrims") making this Spiritual Journey. We at home can link up with this Pilgrimage in Lourdes and be united as a Family in Prayer, By saying The act of Consecration Prayer for the five days 17th to 22nd May. These prayers are available in the porch of the church, you are invited to take one home, and maybe give one to a neighbour or someone you might know that is sick or housebound.

Pre-Signed Mass Cards:

"The three Catholic ecclesiastical in Ireland- the Bishop’s Conference, the Conference of Religious and the Irish Missionary Union- have repeatedly stated that the practice of selling pre-signed Mass cards in shops and retail outlets should cease. Research has shown that the names of some of the priests used on cards are there without their permission; in other cases the priests are deceased and in other cases, the priests have either left the ministry or are not in good standing with their bishops or religious superiors".

Kilmyshall Church Notes

• Saturday 17th. 8pm. Martin Murphy, The Laurels and deceased members of the Murphy family.
• Sunday 18th 10.30am. Christy, Mary, Katie and William Atkinson, Gurteen.
• Saturday 24th. 8pm. Matthew & Marie Byrne, Caimtaigue.
• Thursday 22nd at 8pm., Information Meeting about the trip to Switzerland will take place in Kilmyshall Hall.

Corpus Christi in Kilmyshall:

Mass at 10.30am followed at 11.15am., by Procession through Ballyphilip Heights accompanied by members of Ballindaggin Pipe Band.

Parish Council of Kilmyshall:

..at their recent meeting the officers for the council were chosen-

• Chairperson - Nicky Cummins. Vice- Chairperson - Margaret Doyle.
• Secretary - Mary Jordan. Vice - Secretary Joanne Kenny.
• Treasurer - Philomena Coleman. Vice- Treasurer - Margaret Reck.
• P.R.O. - Michéal Mahon.
• Other members of the Kilmyshall Parish Council are Bernie Cullen, Kathleen Crean, , Gabriel Wade, Tom Byrne, Pat Crean, Martina Kelly, Harold Bumann.

Bunclody Credit Union Ltd.

Winners of the members free monthly draw for May 2008

• Karen Gethings, Termonbarry.
• Eamon Nash, Castleinch, Ballinavocran.
• Ronald Partridge, Oliver Plunkett Park.

Bunclody Adult Education and Training Centre.

Open day with photographic and art exhibition on the 3rd June @ 3pm. All welcome, come along and see if there is something to suit you. for further information contact Maeve Ph. 053 93 77326, Fax 053 93 76089 E-mail vtosbunclody2@eircom.net

Cemetery Visits:

The Cemetery gates will be open each Sunday from 9am. to 6pm. To avoid cars being interfered with visitors may drive into the Cemetery so that they can keep their cars in view. Week-days open 9am to 5pm. NO VANS ALLOWED

The Deep End • Shock Therapy Eucharist

Nowadays who knows, or cares, what ‘manna’ means? It’s mentioned in today’s First Reading (Exod 8:2-3,14-16). At one level it’s food provided by God for his people in the desert. Yet it’s more than that. It’s a lesson to drive home a fact of life: we need more than bread for survival. We need God, and every word that comes from his mouth. This is shock therapy for the Israelites, because both ‘manna’ and messages are new, and different to what they’ve been used to.

Originally, ‘manna’ may have referred to a sweet resinous substance that exuded from a desert tree called tamarix mannifera. However, in John 6:49, this lowly substance prefigures the true, living bread from heaven. That’s the bread we have access to in our modern desert. Taking it, however, may be shock therapy for us too when we realize its significance. In today’s Gospel reading (John 6:51-58) Jesus doesn’t try to explain away the giving of his body and blood as food and drink. He leaves the mystery.

Whether we know, or care, what ‘manna’ means, we must know, and care, what Eucharist means. It means ‘thanksgiving’ that God is with us, among us and in us. That’s the shock.

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Sponsorship of the Newsletter for the month of  April is courtesy of
Jack Maher, Maher Foodstore. Main Street, Bunclody

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