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Volunteers to Form Baptismal and Funeral teams
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Ashford/Glenealy |
Pope’s Pastoral Letter
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Luisne Centre Courses
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Fall/Winter 2011/12
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Kilcoole
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Planned Giving Envelopes
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January 2012
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Ashford /Glenealy
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February 11/12
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Ashford /Glenealy
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School Enrolment -GLENEALY |
Februray 13/14
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Glenealy School
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Clothing
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Both
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Feb
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Both
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Ashford
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While there was a very strong show of support for
one initiative, such has not been the case for these two teams.
We are looking for volunteers who would form
baptismal teams to help prepare couples who wish to have their children
baptised in the parish, and funeral teams to help parishioners prepare the
funeral liturgy.
Training will be provided for both ministries. Please leave your name with Fr. Kevin if you
think you might be interested.
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Please follow this link for the full text of the Pope’s Pastoral Letter to the Catholics
of Ireland
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From this weekend plan giving envelopes will be
available in the Church for those who wish to use them. The Planned Giving envelope
and the Maintenance envelope are the only money that remains 100% in the parish
and are used to cover the costs for our running
Churches. To those that already contribute we say a big thank you to the
majority who do not we ask you to Please take either a weekly or monthly set of
envelopes and make your donation however big or small to your parish. Your
support to the parish is very much appreciated!!
The money given at the various collections are used as
follows:
1st Collection: This goes towards the salary of the
priest of the parish and also supports the sick and retired priests of our
diocese.
Share: This money in its entirety goes to the Diocese
and is used to pay the running costs of the diocese, this accounts for about
70% of the money and the rest is to support poorer parishes of the diocese.
Planned Giving/Maintenance Envelopes: This money
remains totally in the parish and is used to pay the day to day running costs
of the parish.
Christmas/Easter Dues: This money forms the greatest
part of the priests salary for the year and also contributes to the upkeep of
the sick and retired priests of our diocese.
The Annual collection of ACCORD, the Diocesan agency
for marriage and the family, will be made at all Masses on the weekend of the
11th and 12th of February.
Accord Dublin throughout the Diocese offers:
· Marriage preparation courses
· Counselling
· A Relationship and Sexuality programme in
schools.
ACCORD needs your support. Please give generously next
weekend.
Enrolment for Junior Infants starting in St Joseph's
NS Glenealy in September 2012 takes place in the school on Monday 13th &
Tuesday 14th February between 9.30am -2pm.
Please bring a copy of your child's birth certificate.
Dochas Nasamu, which is an Irish run and Irish built orphanage, in
Nairobi, Kenya, are holding a used clothing appeal of ladies, gents
and children's clothes, shoes, household linens i.e. towels, sheets,
blankets, curtains, soft toys, handbags etc. This appeal will take
place on Thursday 9th February, before 12 noon, at Ashford and
Glenealy Church Grounds. For further
information, please contact
Marie on 087 6890995
The
IWA will be holding a church gate collection at both our churches over next weekend February 11/12.
Please
assist them as generously as you can. Should you wish to assist as a volunteer
please contact Olive at 086 85 36 818.
Many
thanks!!
In preparation for the 50th International
Eucharistic Congress 2012, a
workshop will be offered for the Dublin Diocese.
The Workshop for Eucharistic Adoration with Lectio Divina and Catechesis will present the Leader's Guide for
Eucharistic Adoration with Lectio Divina
and Catechesis and will include booklets and guides for Parishes and schools to assist adult and children's
Eucharistic Adoration. One of these
workshops on Saturday 25 February 2012 at St. Mary & St. Peter's
Parish, Arus Lorcain,
Castle Park, Arklow, Co. Wicklow, in the Parish
Pastoral Centre from 11am to 2pm. Anyone who is interested in Eucharistic
Adoration is welcome. Coffee/tea will be available at both locations. Please
bring a packed lunch. There is no charge for the workshop, however a voluntary
collection will be made on the day. Contact: Fr. Kevin Bartley Phone Nos.:
Home: 2697754. Mobile: 0872755413 Email: kevingbartley@eircom.net
Tidy Towns Ashford are keen to continue the work they have been
doing over the last number of years and all your support and assistance (in what ever manner and fashion you can offer will be much
appreciated!
The next two Monthly Litter Picks are as follows:- Saturday 18th of
February 10am-12 noon.
Saturday 24th of March 10 am –12 noon
They meet at the school at 10 am and finish with coffee at 12 noon! Please pass
the information along to family friends and neighbours to seek their
assistance in this community endeavour!
Forty-five years ago, he was 19 years old and
walking a patrol in the jungles of Vietnam. The nightmares continue to this
day: buddies dying suddenly and instantly at his side, innocent children burned
and mutilated. He has tried everything - drugs, alcohol, and therapy - but he
can't escape the memories and the images etched in his mind. The demons of war...
She is in her mid-forties. She spends her days
stocking shelves and ringing up sales. She makes a few cents more than minimum
wage. And each night she returns to her small, empty apartment. Just a year ago
she was happily married - or so she thought. But her life and marriage came
crashing down in betrayal and acrimony. Now she is alone and terrified at the
prospect ol meeting anyone and engaging in any kind
of relationship. Her greatest fear is being hurt again. The demons of cynicism
and brokenness...
He flunked out - big time. He did not know how to
handle the new responsibilities of being on his own; he couldn't manage the demands
of his studies and work schedule. He had worked hard to get into this
university -but the immensity of the school swallowed him up. He's home now,
working dead-end part-time jobs that he thought he had left behind forever when
he left secondary school. His mom and dad are understanding and supportive -but
he is knows they are disappointed and realizes the major outlay of tuition that
was lost in his failed his first year. He has no idea what to do next. The demons
of failure...
Demons exist in all our lives. Traumatic
experiences, emotional disasters and shattered dreams trap us, enslave us, and
cripple us; these "demons" so drain us of hope that we surrender to
them rather than confront them. In today's
Gospel, Jesus drives out the demons that have destroyed the lives of those possessed.
Healing was a central part of Jesus' ministry - Jesus sought to restore the
sick, the suffering, the desperate, and the lost to communion with God and to
community with family and friends. Jesus' healings are central to his revealing
the reign of God: God's dream that no one should go hungry, no one be
imprisoned or enslaved by the tragedies of life, no one is left to stumble and
fall alone in the darkness. Christ calls us to the work of driving out "demons"
that divide our families, sever friendships, and rend our spirits in hopelessness
and despair by the power of our own compassion, forgiveness and understanding.
As disciples of Jesus in our own time and in our
own place, we are called to that same work: to proclaim God's presence in our
midst, to be agents ol healing and restoration for
the fallen, to enable God's reconciliation and forgiveness to heal and restore.