Nineteenth Sunday in Ordinary Time

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1 7 th August 2016 Vol 26 No 36 Nineteenth Sunday in Ordinary Time THE GOSPEL Luke 12:32-48 or 12:35-40 Fr. Tom Little Fr Sean Hyland Sr. Joan Pierse Emergency Priest on Duty Askea Parish Community Centre Phone Collections last week: Development 1,753 Offertory 1,348 Mass Times: Askea 9.30am Mon-Fri; Sat 7pm; Sun 9am, 10.30am & 12 Noon. Bennekerry Sun 11.30am; Tinryland Tues 9.30am & Sunday 10am ************ Deadline for items for Newsletter is 5pm on Wednesday by phone to or to office@askeaparish.ie Website: Be like servants who await their master s return from a wedding, ready to open immediately when he comes and knocks. Lord, you tell us to wait for your return. Help us do this. Help us find you in the Eucharist, help us find you in those we love, in strangers we meet, in the poor and needy. Let us find you in our sleep, in our work and in our play, watch for you in our laughter and in our tears, in the deep souls of everyone we meet every day, in the dusk and in the dark of night. Please knock, or rather, come right in.

2 St Mary s Parish, Bennekerry Sunday 7 th August 2016 Nineteenth Sunday in Ordinary Time THE POWER OF ONE How powerful can One be? Check this out One song can spark a moment One flower can wake the dream One tree can start a forest One bird can herald spring One smile begins a friendship One handclasp lifts a soul One star can guide a ship at sea One word can frame the goal One vote can change a nation One sunbeam lights a room One candle wipes out darkness One laugh will conquer gloom One step must start each journey One word must start a prayer One hope will raise our spirits One touch can show you care One voice can speak with wisdom One heart can know what is true One Life can make a difference Bryce Courtenany

3 St Mary s Parish, Bennekerry Fr Tom Little PP Phone Fr Seán Hyland CC Newsletter Items Deadline for News items: - 9pm Wednesdays Emergency Number for the Priest on Duty Parish Office Website: office@askeaparish.ie Anniversaries Claire Fitzhenry, Johnstown Michael and Mary Rossiter, Johnstown Andy Morrissey, Bennekerry Edward Carter, Bennekerry Molly Reid, Bennekerry Collection last Sunday: Development 172. Offertory 210 Palatine GAA Lotto Result of Draw Tuesday 2 nd August Numbers drawn 6, 9, 14 & 26. No jackpot winner. 4 Lucky dips 50 each. Winner Promoter Ann McAuliffe Noel Rea Seán Kelly, New York Brian Kelly Holly c/o seller Ann Dunne Sheila Ramsbottom Frank McGarry Promoter s Prize: John Fitzpatrick Next Draw Monday 8 th August. Jackpot 17,400.

4 Kildare & Leighlin Weekly Lotto Results For Wed 3 rd August Numbers drawn were 4, 10, 13 & 32. No Jackpot winner. 16 Match 3s won 63 each. Askea/Bennekerry had 1 Match3. Next week s Jackpot 13,000. Winner Promoter Donal Mulhall Eveleen Lawlor 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. Vocations Views Nineteenth Sunday of Ordinary Time: Be alert to God s presence even in the least expected times, places and events. You will be ready to respond to God s call. (Luke 12:32-48) Askea Community Childcare Enrol your child now for the free preschool year September 2016 as there are limited places available. We are now taking enrolments for those children entitled to enter this scheme in January Due to refurbishments over July and August the office will only be open for enquiries from 9am to 2pm daily. Contact infoaskeachildcare@eircom.net Medjugorje Pilgrimage Carlow 14th Sept for 7 days. Spiritual Director Fr. Seán Hyland, Enquires Noeleen Cost 699. Palatine GAA & Holy Angels Day Care Centre 10k & 5k Road Race & family walk 11th September 2016 in Palatine GAA club, Bennekerry Carlow. Register online on National Grandparents Pilgrimage Sunday 11 th September Chief Celebrant: Archbishop Michael Neary Patron of the CGA. 2.30pm Sacrament of the Anointing of the Sick with Music and Song. 3pm Pilgrimage Mass followed by Rosary.

5 EXTRACTS FROM BENNEKERRY National School NEWSLETTER SUMMER 16 Music Generation Recital / School Choir Our Music Generation Programme was a great success again this year. Children in 3rd 4th and 5th classes made great progress at learning the recorder and 5th Class pupils did wonderful work in the area of Choral Singing. Many thanks to Gavin Barr and Marion Gaynor for their work with us on this programme. Our School choir participated in the AIMS Choir Competition in New Ross and were highly praised by the adjudicators. A special word of thanks to Ann Brolly for her wonderful work with the choir. We are also very grateful to Ms. Reidy, Ms. Whitney, Mrs. O Toole and Ms. Jordan for their assistance with the choir throughout the year. We held a Music Recital for parents in the School Hall on the 16th of June. The performance was a most enjoyable occasion for pupils and audience alike. A Note from our Parents Association The Parents Association would like to thank all who supported the Easter Draw, the NCBI Clothes Collection and the School Table Quiz. Thanks to everyone who helped out with the refreshments for First Holy Communion, Confirmation, New Parents Induction Evening and Sixth Class Farewell ceremony. The PA is delighted to announce that Bennekerry N.S. will be hosting a "20k Drop" night on Friday, the 18th of November in the Woodford Dolmen Hotel, Carlow. This fun-filled evening will be based on the popular TV Gameshow- The "Million Pound Drop" and there will be a number of opportunities to win on the night! This event requires a lot of organisation but has huge potential as a fundraiser for our wonderful school. We are hopeful that all families will get involved and come along on the night as it promises to be a fantastic family night out. More details to follow in September. Please save the date! THOUGHT FOR THE WEEK - Blessings Blessings go the grateful hearts; they shun those who complain that they never get enough.

6 CALENDAR Monday 8 th :-St Dominic who founded the orders of Preachers (Dominicans) to counteract the Albigension heresy. Tuesday 9 th :- St Teresa Benedicta of the Cross (Edith Stein), born in 1881 at Breslaw (now Wroclaw, Poland), the younges of seven children of a Jewish family. A brilliant student, she gained her doctorate in philosophy at 25. She became a Catholic in 1922 and a Carmelite nun. Both Jewish and Catholic, she fled to Holland when the Nazis came to power but she was captured and sent to Auschwitz shere she died in its gas chamber on 9 th August Wednesday 10 th :-St Lawrence, died 258, is seen as the cheerful giver since he was one of the seven deacons of the Roman Church in charge of the material needs of the faithful. Gifted with a sense of humour, he met his death cheerfully on a gridiron. From earliest time seen not only as a patron saint of the poor, but also of cooks. Thursday 11 th :-St Clare born at Assisi in 1193, and died in She followed Saint Francis in his life of poverty and was founder of the Poor Clares. Patron of television. Friday 12 th :-St Jane Frances de Chantal At the age of twenty she married Baron de Chantal but after nine years she was left a widow with four children. Her friendship with St Francis de Sales led to the foundation of the Congregation of the Visitation. St Muiredeach was probably the founder of the Church of Killala. He may also have been the founder of Inishmurray off Sligo coast. St Attracta lived in the 6 th or 7 th century. Local tradition remembers her great healing powers. Her convents were famous for hospitality and charity to the poor. St Lelia (Liadain) had a church at Kileely, near Thomand Bridge. She is said to have been baptised by St. Patrick. Saturday 13 th :-St Fachtna (also called Fachanan) Founder of the monastery of Ross Carbery (Ross Ailisthir). He died around 600. His monastery became the principal monastery of West Cork and later had a famous scripture school. St Pontian became pope in 231. He was exiled to Sardinia and resigned the papacy so that there might be an active person, Callistus, elected. Hippolytus a writer and teacher had been set up as a rival in opposition to Pope Callistus was also exiled at the same time to Sardinia. He was reconciled with Pontian and both died from ill-treatment.

7 PEACE And sometimes I am sorry when the grass Is growing over the stones in quiet hollows And the cocksfoot leans across the rutted cart-pass That I am not the voice of country fellows Who now are standing by some headland talking Of turnips and potatoes or young corn Of turf banks stripped for victory. Here Peace is still hawking His coloured combs and scarves and beads of horn. Upon a headland by a whinny hedge A hare sits looking down a leaf-lapped furrow There's an old plough upside-down on a weedy ridge And someone is shouldering home a saddle-harrow. Out of that childhood country what fools climb To fight with tyrants Love and Life and Time? Patrick Kavanagh The Common Tasks The common tasks are beautiful if we Have eyes to see their shining ministry. The ploughman with his share deep in the loam; The carpenter whose skilled hands build a home; The gardener working with reluctant sod, Faithful to his partnership with God These are the artisans of life. And, oh, A woman with her eyes and cheeks aglore, Watching a kettle, tending a scarlet flame, Guarding a little child there is no name For this great ministry. But eyes are dull That do not see that it is beautiful; That do not see within the common tasks The simple answer to the thing God asks Of any child, a pride within His breast: That at our given work we do our best. Grace Noll Crowell

8 Circles of Life The pampas grass is blowing in the wind, it is swaying to and fro, letting go of its children to the wind. Hoping they can take root in some safe place. We watch our children from infants to adulthood. We shed a few tears when they leave to start new lives of their own. Every one of us has to spread our wings at some given time. Our leaving maybe tearful, but our parent s blessings always follow us. And so the circle of life goes on and on, without end. Our children grow and leave, and then they watch their own do the same as them. David Harris