St Mary s Parish, Bennekerry Sixth Sunday in Ordinary Time

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1 Fr. Tom Little Fr Liam Morgan Sr. Joan Pierse ASKEA PARISH COLLECTIONS Development 1,824 Offertory 1,579 *************** Emergency Priest on Duty Askea Parish Community Centre Phone & Fax Mass Times: Askea 9.30am Mon-Fri Sat 7pm; Sun 9am, 10.30am & 12 Noon Bennekerry Sun 11.30am Tinryland Wed 9.30am Sunday 10am ************ Deadline for items for Newsletter if 5pm on Wednesday by phone or fax to or to Website: 16 th February 2014 Vol 24 No 11 Sixth Sunday in Ordinary Time Sixth Sunday in Ordinary Time You can do the right things for the wrong reason, like going to Mass to be seen there, or to avoid God s displeasure, like helping someone in school to look well for a teacher and then our virtue is no deeper than a hypocrite s. We are people of mixed motivations, and God wants our goodness to be sincere. In the intention of the heart, God is pleased, wanting our lives to be lived in love. The smallest help to another, done from love, is worth more than the biggest done to get approval; that s what Jesus meant when he praised the poor woman who gave away a small amount all she had; and what it means is that God never asks more than we can give. And we can give everything away, even our bodies in death, but if we have no love, it means nothing at all. And what could look less than the piece of bread at Mass? But this is God giving all of himself to us. We ask for the gift of sincerity. St Mary s Parish, Bennekerry Sixth Sunday in Ordinary Time Everyone Needs Someone People need people and friends need friends And we all need love for a full life depends Not on vast riches or great acclaim, Not on success or on worldy fame, But just in knowing that someone cares And holds us close in their thoughts and prayers- For only the knowledge that we're understood Makes everyday living feel wonderfully good, And we rob ourselves of life's greatest need When we "lock up our hearts" and fail to heed The outstretched hand reaching to find A kindred spirit whose heart and mind Are lonely and longing to somehow share Our joys and sorrows and to make us aware That life's completeness and richness depends On the things we share with our loved ones and friends. by Helen Steiner Rice 16 th February 2014

2 St Mary s Parish, Bennekerry Fr Tom Little PP Phone / Fr Liam Morgan CC Newsletter Items Deadline for News items: - 9pm Wednesdays Emergency Number for the Priest on Duty Parish Office Website: office@askeaparish.ie Anniversaries Sunday 16 th February 2014 at 11.30am Andrew O Keeffe, Crew, England Tom Hutton, Rutland Terrace Bennekerry Offertory 207 Development 189 PALATINE G.F.C. Lotto Results:- 10/02/2014 No Jackpot Winner. Numbers:- 01, 09, 11 & 13 JACKPOT: NO WINNER 9 MATCH 3WINNERS 25 each WINNER PROMOTER Beth Farrell Ann Nolan/Pal House Geraldine Dooley Noel Rea Con Dempsey John Fitzpatrick Baby Kenneth Bernie Bolger Joe Hickey Valerie Tracey Elaine O'Shaughnessy W. Mullins Craig Kearney Nicky Parle Caydon Stronge Vincent Toner Nicola Vincent Toner /Pal House SELLERS PRIZE: 70 Bernie Harmon. Next Draw on Monday 17th February 2014 in Palatine GFC at 10:00pm. Tickets :- 2 each. JACKPOT- 19,200 Céad Míle Fáilte Bishop Denis Nulty has appointed Fr Alex Kowchatt as curate to the parishes of Askea, Bennekerry and Tinryland. Fr Alex takes up his new appointment from Monday 17 th February. He will reside at the Parish House in Askea. A native of India, we are delighted to welcome Alex and we hope he will be truly happy with us and among us. We pray God s blessing upon you Fr Alex as you begin this new chapter in your life. Rainbows This programme is for children aged 7 to 12 years whose parents have separated or for children who have experienced the death of a family member. The programme runs in Askea Parish Community Centre. Application forms are available in Askea Parish Community Centre. Please call in or telephone Exposition of the Blessed Sacrament takes place every Wednesday following the 9.30am Mass in Holy Family Church, Askea and continues until 7pm. Kildare & Leighlin Weekly Lotto Results For Wed 12 th February Numbers drawn were 3, 10, 22 & 30. No Jackpot Winner. 11 Match 3s shared 1, each There were Match3s from Askea / Bennekerry. New Jackpot 20,000. Winner Joe & Dad Mary Keating William Fitzgerald Sister Anne Marie Promoter Mag & Pat Carr Marie Nolan William Fitzgerald Frank O Brien Tickets 2 each available from Askea Parish Centre. Please note the draw takes place on Wed at 4.30pm in Portlaoise. Tickets must be returned by 5pm each Tuesday to Askea Parish Centre. Clonfert There will be a bus going to the Emmanuelle House of Providence, Clonfert on Saturday 22 nd February 2014 for a Day of Prayer & Healing. Contact Ila or Lily

3 ASKEA AREA COMMUNITY GAMES We had two U10 Indoor Soccer Teams competing in the County Competitions last weekend. Our boys team of Ben McCarron, Adam Dalton, Cian Rea, Tom Roche, Alan Bohanna, Alex Delaney, David Martin & John Phiri coached by Trevor McCarron played brilliantly, goal scorers: Tom Roche (1), Alex Delaney (2) and Alan Bohanna (1), Cian Rae (1) and Ben McCarron (1) Our U-10 Girls team of Emer O Hanlon, Ella Sullivan, Niamh Gray, Nicole Doyle, Lauren Kenny & Captain Kaylee Hade were delighted to become silver county medalists. Goal scorers: Kaylee Hade (1) & Lauren Kenny (1) coached by John Cleary, Pat Kenny & Liz Murphy. Fantastic result from our U-10 and U-12 mixed Draughts Teams are silver medalists in the County Final U-10 Draughts Team Darragh Harvey, Darragh Brennan, Adam Dalton, Dylan McGrath, Aaron Cotter and Brooke Lawlor U-12 Draughts Team, Aoife Lanigan, Rebecca Lynch, Jack Murphy, Ronan Quinlan, Cillian McGrath and Tim Phelan Area Art Results: We had over 40 children turn up for the Competition. Results: Girls U-6, 1st Sienna Hade, U-8, 1st Kate Culleton, 2nd Roisin Kennedy, 3rd Amber Bolger O Neill, 4th Eve O Brien. U-10 1st Laila Callinhan, 2nd Lauren Kenny, 3rd Emer O Hanlon, Joint 4th Brooke Lawlor, Ella Sullivan. U-12 1st Aoibhe Bowe, 2nd Sara Dalton, 3rd Eva Kilbride, 4th Natalia Connolly. Boys U-6 1st Peter Lynch. U-8 1st Kevin Dowling, 2nd Eoghan Brennan, 3rd Ronan Sullivan, 4th Aidan Martin. U-10 1st Tadgh Dowling, 2nd Jack O Brien, 3rd Dylan McGrath, Joint 4th Darragh Harvey, Aaron Cotter & Ross O Hanlon. U-12 1st Cillian McGrath, 2nd Ronan Quinlan, 3rd Tim Phelan. Model Making U-10 1st Emily Doyle We wish all our 1st, 2nd and 3rd place the best of luck in the final on Sat 8th Feb in Ballon National School. Basketball training for U-11 mixed team and U-13 girls & boys teams is on Friday s from 4 5pm in the CBS Gym. If interested contact Ita at Thanks to all who helped out and supported our Flag Weekend The Poor Clare Monastery Graiguecullen Carlow would like to invite young women over 18yrs who may be discerning a religious vocation at this time, to a Monastic Experience day on Sat 22nd Feb 2014 at their Monastery in Graiguecullen from 10.30am to 5pm. For more information on this Monastic Experience Day please visit our web-site on Paulie s Boot Camp Fitness Training OR Self Defence by Expert Trainer Paul Ward in Carlow Hurling Club. Classes are Tuesday & Thursday evenings and Saturday mornings. Now taking names for a mid-week morning Boot Camp which is staring soon. Krav Maga Self Defence classes are Monday evenings & Saturday Mornings Askea Girls School will hold a Church Gate next weekend 22 nd and 23 rd February. Your support would be appreciated. Carlow Ladies Football Association are running a Table Quiz in aid of the u16 team on Wed 19th Feb at 8pm in Carlow Town Hurling Club. Table of lots of top prizes on the night. All are welcome. Asca GFC juveniles are back! Indoor training sessions until end March in the Presentation College Hall at 7pm on Thursdays. New members of all ages welcome. Ring if you have any questions Carlow Choral Society table quiz Friday 21st Feb. in the Irishman s, College Street at 8pm. Table of four 40. All welcome.

4 Carlow Library: Benjamin Black, Amanda Brown, Graham Greene, Pink and Odin Redbeard; part of the literary rainbow here in the library. Horse-riding Lessons available individual or group lessons. All ages catered for. Contact Michelle at Line dancing lessons available. Why not learn a new skill in 2014 by mastering the art of line dancing. Private lessons or group lessons available. Contact Michelle at Daffodil Day Friday 28th March. There will be a meeting of committee members and anyone interested in helping out on Daffodil Day, on Mon 17th 8pm in Graiguecullen Parish Centre. Carlow Historical & Archaeological Society :Illustrated lecture by Mairead M. Johnston,textile & costume historian & consultant:" From fame to failure: the Abbeyleix Carpet Factory. Carpets for the first-class staterooms of the Titanic were made here. Seven Oaks Hotel,8pm Wednesday 19th February. Admission free. All Welcome. ÉIRE ÓG LOTTO WINNING NO s Mon Feb 10 th. 6, 23, 24 & 27. No Jackpot winner. 2 Match 3s received 75 each. Dean & Aoife Hayden c/o Brendan Hayden, Jim Connolly c/o Tony Noctor. NEXT WEEKS JACKPOT 2,300. Draw takes place every Monday night in Teach Asca at 9.00pm Shopping Trip to Birmingham Christmas Markets 4 nights Dinner / Bed & Breakfast for 345 with single supplement 95 at the Thistle Hotel, St Chads Queensway, Birmingham on Thursday 13 th, Friday 14 th Saturday 15 th and Sunday 16 th Returning home on Monday 17 th on the Mid Day Sailing from Hollyhead. The Christmas Markets are open from 10am to 9pm daily. There is also the famous Bull ring Shopping Area plus all the major Shops. Places must be booked by 23 rd February. Contact Ann Dunne at Askea Senior Citizens Holiday in May to Donegal Mount Eriigal Hotel, 5 days / 4 nights B/B/D & Tours. Cost 285. Discount for members. From Monday 5 th May until Friday 9 th May. Non-members welcome. Bookings from now. Savings Club available. Contact Marian at Askea Senior Citizens February Night Out On Wednesday 26 th February from 7pm to 10pm. Music, Bingo and cuppa. New members welcome. Contact Marian You are not alone Family Support Group for families living with drug abuse. Meetings in Askea Parish Centre on Wednesday from 5.30pm to 7.15pm. New Men s group continues on Thursday 20 th February 2014 from 7pm to 9pm and every second Thursday of the month for those who are affected by alcohol or drugs use within the family unit. Contact Rosary Beads Lost Lost recently in Carlow a long, white, pearl rosary beads, with a small Celtic cross and medals attached to it. It s of great sentimental value to its owner. Reward offered. Contact Occupational First Aid Fetac (Level 5) On Fridays 21 st, 28 th March and 4 th April in Enterprise Centre, O Brien Road, Carlow. 299 per person. This three day course provides Occupational First Aiders with knowledge, practical skills and the understanding required to provide and coordinate first aid arrangements. Places are limited. Contact Stephen Rooney or or Stephen@srsafetyenvironmental.ie For Sale Electric Exercise Bike BC-6720G. Programmable Magnetic Bike 175. Phone Wanted A DVD or VHS tape of the film Gone with the Wind. Please contact the Parish Centre at Thanks on behalf of Veronica O Boyle s niece Natalie from Sligo to everyone who contributed to the recent fundraising. Your support was greatly appreciated.

5 Novena to Our Lady of Perpetual Help 4 th March to 29 th April St Andrew s Church, Bagenalstown each Tuesday for nine weeks commencing at 7.30pm includes Mass and Benediction. Rosary will be recited at 7.10pm. 4 th March Fr Gerard Moloney Editor of Reality Magazine 11 th March Celine Byrne Opera Singer Personal Testimony 18 th March Trisha Gallagher National Youth Committee Pioneers 25 th March Nicky Brennan All Ireland Medal Winner & Former GAA President 1 st April Emmet Dooley Pure in Heart Ireland 8 th April Bishop Denis Nulty Bishop of Kildare and Leighlin 15 th April Maire Printer Catholic Grandparents Association 22 nd April Michael Hopkins Friends of Calcutta 29 th April Breda O Brien Journalist & TV Commentator Bennekerry and District Active Retirement Association New members invited to play Bowls and join our Craft Section of Bennekerry and District Active Retirement Association. The Association is based in Palatine Clubhouse in Bennekerry and meets on Wednesday from 2.30pm to 4.30pm in the function room. Bowlers meet every Monday and Wednesday afternoon from 2.30pm to 4.30pm upstairs over the dressing rooms. For further details please contact Ann at or Monica at The Éist Cancer Support Centre invites all cancer survivors to join their 'Strides for Life' walking programme which takes place each Thursday morning at 11am at the St. Laurence O'Toole Track Carlow. Please contact the Centre for further details. Area 11 Community Games Results Carlow Coummunity Games with Bennekerry/Tinryland taking part in the following Art, Badminton and Table Quz last week-end Bennekerry/Tinryland where well represented in the U/15 Table Quiz The Bronze medal winners where; Donann Burke, Cillian Duff, Luke Hickey and Paul Dermondy The other team that represented the Area where Maurice Lawlor, Conor O'Mahony, Luke Brennan and Mark Behan Katie Hickey, Sinead Hayden, Conor O'Brien, sub Sam Byrne and Patrick Regan The results of the Art and Model making in Carlow Community Games Finals Results where: U/8 Boys, Bronze Joe Birmingham, U/8 Girls Gold Katie Walsh and, U/10 Boys Gold James Mahon, U/12 Girls 4th Katie Moore and U/14 Girls Bronze Lia McCanny Model Making U/12 Boys Sliver Medal Killian Nolan from Tinryland The U/15 Badminton team where narrowly defeated by Myshall. The team where Aidan Slyne, Conor Hickenson, Conal O'Mahony, Nikita Fennelly and Keryl Fennelly Well done to all who took part in the events.

6 CALENDAR Monday 17 th :-Servite Founders. In the early thirteenth century 7 young merchants of Florence decided to help one another live more perfect Christian lives. As the result of a vision they became known as the 'Servants of Mary' and followed the Rule of St Augustine. St Fintan was born in Leinster. He received his religious formation in Terryglass, Co. Tipperary under Abbot Colum and was deeply influenced by his penitential practices and the severity of the Rule. Fintan made his own foundation in Clonenagh, Co. Laois. He died in 603 Friday 21 st :St Damian, , gave up teaching to become a hermit. Later he was Cardinal Bishop of Ostia. He was an outstanding reformer of Church life and discipline. THOUGHT FOR THE WEEK -Helping Others The purpose of life is not to be happy. It is to be useful, to be honourable, to be compassionate, to have it make some difference that you have lived and lived well. Ralph Waldo Emerson The Lion and the Mouse Once when a Lion was asleep a little Mouse began running up and down upon him; this soon wakened the Lion, who placed his huge paw upon him, and opened his big jaws to swallow him. "Pardon, O King," cried the little Mouse: "forgive me this time, I shall never forget it: who knows but what I may be able to do you a turn some of these days?" The Lion was so tickled at the idea of the Mouse being able to help him, that he lifted up his paw and let him go. Some time after the Lion was caught in a trap, and the hunters who desired to carry him alive to the King, tied him to a tree while they went in search of a wagon to carry him on. Just then the little Mouse happened to pass by, and seeing the sad plight in which the Lion was, went up to him and soon gnawed away the ropes that bound the King of the Beasts. "Was I not right?" said the little Mouse. The Good Shepherd The Good Shepherd always walks in front Gently leading the way, Never behind driving or pushing, But lovingly guiding each day; And when a sheep wanders away From the security of this place, The Shepherd corrects the wayward one In love, mercy, and grace. He protects from harm and fear All that follow His lead, His rod and staff guard and comfort, And His hand meets every need; He provides beautiful green pastures - Rest for the weary and weak, Revival, strength and vigor... Peace and joy to reap. He sets a table in the wilderness With manna from on high, And leads beside the still waters That refresh and satisfy. Oh, what love and tender care, Such blessings God bestows Upon the sheep that closely follow The way The Shepherd goes Moral of Aesops Fable: Little friends may prove great friends