27 th March 2016 Vol 26 No 17 Easter Sunday Fr. Tom Little - 91-31559 Fr Sean Hyland - 91-31212 Sr. Joan Pierse 91-42565 Emergency Priest on Duty 087 2588118 Askea Parish Community Centre Phone 91-42565 087 1269709 Collections last week: Development 1,518 Offertory 1,624 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 9142565 or email to office@askeaparish.ie Website: www.askeaparish.ie Light out of Darkness Today, we celebrate the ultimate victory over suffering and death. We have journeyed this week through the darkness of loneliness, betrayal and abandonment into the light of forgiveness, healing and new life. In her poem Dawn, the poet Emily Dickinson wrote: Not knowing when the dawn will come, I open every door. Dawn will always emerge from darkness. If we want to be Easter people, we need to be open to throwing ourselves into the ups and downs, the sufferings and the joys of life, always open to experiencing resurrection and hope in all their forms. Christ is risen alleluia! Tríona Doherty Intercom Magazine
St Mary s Parish, Bennekerry Sunday 27 th March 2016 Easter Sunday An Easter Prayer Of all of God's gifts Easter shows us our fate Forgiven we will rise And pass through Heaven's gate This Easter remember The sacrifice of a Son And through His resurrection Eternal life we have won This Easter I pray That the love of God Is resurrected Reborn, renewed Inside your heart God Bless You! ~anonymous~
St Mary s Parish, Bennekerry Fr Tom Little PP Phone 059 9131559. Fr Seán Hyland CC 0599131212. Newsletter Items 059 9143881. Deadline for News items: - 9pm Wednesdays Emergency Number for the Priest on Duty 087 2588118. Parish Office 059 9142565 087 1269709. Website: www.askeaparish.ie; email: office@askeaparish.ie Sunday 20 th March 2016 at 11.30am Anniversaries Jimmy Nolan, Kernanstown Patrick Bermingham, Kernanstown Niall and John Woods, Ballinakillbeg Kim Nolan and James Nolan, Kernanstown Month s Mind Bridget Archbold, Ballycrogue, Monica Little, Brittas Co Dublin Sunday 3 rd April 2016 at 11.30am Anniversaries Jim Cranny, Link Road, Chaplestown
In Memoriam We ask the Lord to grant eternal rest to: Anne Hutton (née Geoghegan), 47 John Sweeney Park William (Willie) Barron, 79 Burrin Manor, Tullow Road Anne Nolan, Palatine and we offer our sympathy and the support of our prayers to all who have suffered the loss of a loved one at this time. Vocations Views Easter Sunday: What stones are being moved away so you can be a minister of the Gospel? Consider inviting someone to be a sister, brother, priest, or deacon. Spread the good news: Jesus is risen! (John 20:1-9) Pre-Marriage Courses ACCORD Carlow have places available on the May 6th &7th Course and June 10th & 11th Course. All couples getting married in Church are obliged to attend a Pre-marriage Course. There are no Courses in June or July so any couple getting married this summer or early autumn should book a place now. Booking can be made on www.accord.ie or phone Mary at 059 9138738 for further information Marie Keating Mobile Advice Bus 1 in 3 people in Ireland are affected by cancer but 4/10 cancers can be prevented. There will be a nurse on board answering any and all questions on cancer and promoting the "your health your choice" health campaign message. We are encouraging men and women to call into her with a question or just to get an information pack and find out how to reduce their chances of getting cancer. The unit will be outside Mill Street Pharmacy from 11am-3pm on Thursday 31st March. Information packs and refreshments will also be available in the pharmacy. So please come by, all are very welcome!
Askea Senior Citizens News Summer Holidays 2016 Monday 9 th May to Inishowen Gateway Hotel in Buncrana, Donegal. 5 days / 5 nights B/B/D and tours. Bookings have already started so there are only a certain number of places left. If you are interested contact Marian on 059 9143010. Rooms have to be booked and deposits paid by the end of March. 2016 Membership Fee to be paid by the end of March.. Graiguecullen Swimming Pool Children s Swim Camp Week 2. Mon 28 th Mar to Fri 1 st Apr 6pm to 7pm. 35 per child per week. Booking essential 059 9140330. Solemn Novena to Our Lady of Perpetual Help in St Clare s Church, Graiguecullen. 9 Monday Nights. 4 th April to 30 th May at 7.30pm. Rosary at 7.10pm. Singing will be led by Fr Liam Lawton accompanied by the Poor Clare Community and Parish Choirs. Monday 4 th April Guest Speaker: George Hook. Broadcaster, Journalist and rugby pundit. Family Carers Ireland will hold a launch in our outreach centre at Barrowvale Community Centre, Graiguecullen Carlow on Friday 8 th April at 11am -1pm. Our guest speaker will be Rachel Doyle, Arboretum Leighlinbridge. Light refreshments will be served. Contact 086 0081464 for more details. Bennekerry Senior Citizens Easter Party on Sunday 3 rd April in Palatine Clubhouse, Bennekerry. Meal at 7.30pm sharp. Music: Danny Webster. Contact Monica Mullins 087 9151650; Ann Dunne 087 9018753. Carlow Bingo at the Youth Centre, Green Lane, Carlow on Sunday 3 rd April at 3pm. 10,000 in prize money. Enquiries to 059 9143181 or 087 2615064. Friends of Nano and Associates of Presentation present Seeing Anew in Mount St Anne s Retreat and Conference Centre, Killenard, Co Laois on Saturday 16 th April from 9.45am to 4.15pm. For registration form contact Anne 087 6636499 or email Miriam@presprone.com
Easter Dues The collection for the Easter Dues for the Bishop and priests of the parish will be taken up at all Masses this weekend. Your support is greatly appreciated. Trócaire Trócaire boxes may be brought to the Church during Holy Week. Please support the work of Trócaire this Lent. DAWN MASS ON EASTER SUNDAY has been cancelled. Easter Break Askea Parish Community Centre will re-open after the Easter Break on Monday 4 th April, 2016. Details of anniversaries may be left into the Sacristy during the week or telephoned to 087 1269709. The regular Lotto Draw will take place next Wednesday 30 th March. Tickets can be left into the Church over the weekend or into Askea Parish Centre on Tuesday morning. Invitation to Opening of Jubilee Door Parishioners across the diocese are warmly invited to join Bishop Denis for the opening of the Jubilee Door in St Fintan s Church, Mountrath on Sunday, April 3, Divine Mercy Sunday. The day begins with Reflections and Prayer at 9:30a.m. in St Fintan s, Clonenagh followed by a Solemn Procession at 10 a.m. to arrive for 11:30 Mass. Buses will be provided from St Fintan s Church, Mountrath, to Clonenagh at 9 a.m.
Divine Mercy Sunday Celebration Holy Family Church, Askea, Carlow Sunday 3 rd April 2016 from 2pm to 4pm Concluding with Mass. All welcome.
Easter is Joining in a birdsong, Eying an early sunrise, Smelling yellow daffodils, Unbolting windows and doors, Skipping through meadows, Cuddling newborns, Hoping, believing, Reviving spent life, Inhaling fresh air, Sprinkling seeds along furrows, Tracking in the mud. Easter is the soul s first taste of spring. Richelle E. Goodrich, I See His Blood Upon The Rose I see his blood upon the rose And in the stars the glory of his eyes, His body gleams amid eternal snows, His tears fall from the skies. I see his face in every flower; The thunder and the singing of the birds Are but his voice-and carven by his power Rocks are his written words. All pathways by his feet are worn, His strong heart stirs the ever-beating sea, His crown of thorns is twined with every thorn, His cross is every tree. Joseph Mary Plunkett
Easter 1916 I have met them at close of day coming with vivid faces From counter or desk among grey eighteenth-century houses. I have passed with a nod of the head or polite meaningless words, Or have lingered awhile and said Polite meaningless words, and thought before I had done Of a mocking tale or a gibe to please a companion Around the fire at the club, being certain that they and I But lived where motley is worn: All changed, changed utterly: A terrible beauty is born. That woman s days were spent in ignorant good-will, Her nights in argument until her voice grew shrill. What voice more sweet than hers when, young and beautiful, She rode to harriers? This man had kept a school and rode our wingèd horse; This other his helper and friend was coming into his force; He might have won fame in the end, so sensitive his nature seemed, So daring and sweet his thought. This other man I had dreamed a drunken, vainglorious lout. He had done most bitter wrong to some who are near my heart, Yet I number him in the song; He, too, has resigned his part in the casual comedy; He, too, has been changed in his turn, Transformed utterly: A terrible beauty is born.
Hearts with one purpose alone through summer and winter seem Enchanted to a stone to trouble the living stream. The horse that comes from the road, The rider, the birds that range from cloud to tumbling cloud, Minute by minute they change; A shadow of cloud on the stream changes minute by minute; A horse-hoof slides on the brim, and a horse plashes within it; The long-legged moor-hens dive, and hens to moor-cocks call; Minute by minute they live; the stone s in the midst of all. Too long a sacrifice can make a stone of the heart. O when may it suffice? That is Heaven s part, our part to murmur name upon name, As a mother names her child when sleep at last has come On limbs that had run wild. What is it but nightfall? No, no, not night but death; Was it needless death after all? For England may keep faith For all that is done and said. We know their dream; enough To know they dreamed and are dead; And what if excess of love Bewildered them till they died? I write it out in a verse MacDonagh and MacBride And Connolly and Pearse Now and in time to be, Wherever green is worn, Are changed, changed utterly: A terrible beauty is born. by W. B. Yeats