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18th February, 2018 First Sunday of Lent Vol. 2 No. 12

Parish Churches St John’s: Church of St John The Evangelist Dunmore: Church of The Most Holy Trinity Johnswell: Church of St John The Baptist

Parish Contacts Mailing Address: St John’s Presbytery, Dublin Road, Kilkenny Email: stjohns@ossory.ie Website: stjohnskilkenny.com Presbytery: 056-772 1072 Fr Frank Purcell: 086-601 0001 Fr Brian Griffin: 087-064 4158 Fr Lorcan Moran: 086-855 0521 Parish Secretary Áine Butler Sacristan St John’s Jane Dineen Sacristan Dunmore Marian Eardly Sacristan Johnswell Linda Nolan SVP Help Line 086-895 1239

Pastoral Council Mary Brennan; Alan Burke; Margaret Cleere; Fr Brian Griffin; Fr Lorcan Moran; Aidan Phelan; Fr Frank Purcell; Pat Ryan.

Mass Times St John’s – Sundays & Holy Days Vigils: 6.30 p.m. Sundays: 8.00 a.m., 10.30 a.m., 12 noon & 7.30 p.m. Polish Mass: 2nd Sun. monthly at 2.00 p.m. Weekdays: 8.00 a.m. & 10.30 a.m. (Saturday 10.30 a.m. only)

Johnswell – Sunday 10.00 a.m.

Dunmore – Sunday 11.00 a.m.

Office Hours Mon. to Fri. 9.30 a.m. to 2.00 p.m.

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Prayer For Our Bishop-Elect

Eternal God, Shepherd and Guide, may Dermot who will serve our Church be a shepherd a�er your own heart, who will walk in your ways and with loving care, watch over your people. May he be a leader of vision and a teacher of your truth. So may your name be glorified and your Church built up through Christ our Lord. Amen.

Choir Practice for Episcopal Ordination

A minimum of five singers are needed from our parish choir who will be part of the choir: soprano, Alto, Bass or Tenor sec�ons. As we have at least five choirs in the parish we hope this will be no problem. As the majority of the material is new it is essen�al that singers a�end all of the prac-�ces. Prac�ces con�nue on Sunday in St John’s Church, 5.00 p.m. un�l 6.30 approx.

LENTEN PROGRAM - STEP 1 - WEDNESDAY 7.30 p.m. SAINT JOHN’S CHURCH

As our Parish Lenten Program - ‘The 5 Steps To Easter’ - kicks off this week, we invite parishioners, friends and neighbouring parishes to avail of this wonderful oppor-tunity of spiritual renewal and preparation for the celebration of Easter.

In our response to the Ash Wednesday exhortation, ‘Turn away from sin and be faith-ful to the Gospel’ all Christians make various efforts towards ‘mortification’ and ‘penance’ by ‘Giving up’ or ‘Taking up’ things to be better prepared for the celebration of the saving mysteries of the Passion, Death and Resurrection of our Saviour.

All indications so far point towards great crowds being interested in our new initiative. So please come early to be assured a suitable seat location, and purchase your can-dle (€1) for the Sacred Space.

Once again, please accept that we only have a maximum of 55 parking spaces.

B e r e av e m e n t s

Recently Deceased: Paddy O’Brien, Upper White Bridge. Geoff Doyle, Gortlug, Ballyfoyle. Month’s Mind: Gemma Clancy (11.00am). Josie Purcell. Anniversaries: Francie Murphy (6.30pm);Mary Butler (10.00am);Joseph Lawlor (10.30am);The Leahy Family (11.00am); Dolly, Liam & Billy Phelan (12.00 noon); Joe Maher (7.30pm); Andy O’Driscoll; May & John Bourke; Liam Reidy; James McGrath; Martin Coogan; Maura Butler; Breda Rafter; Kathleen & Charles Bartholomew; James Dooley; Catherine Beckett; Jack Talbot; Tina O’Driscoll; Ellen Lanigan; Sadie & Therese McGrath; Seamus Culleton; Margaret & Abraham Anderson; John & Peter O’Rourke.

Readers for Next Weekend – Page 151

8.00am Martin Blake

10.30am Peggy Wall

12.00noon Tony Dalton

7.30pm Marie Fogarty

Johnswell 10.00am Robert Butler

Dunmore 11.00am Eddie Holohan & Liz Holohan

Eucharistic Ministers for Next Weekend – Panel 1

Monday: James McGrath (10.30am). Tuesday: John & Peter O’Rourke (8.00am). Friday: Martin Coogan (10.30am). Saturday: Josie Purcell (10.30am). Christina O’Connor & Dolores Dowling (6.30pm). Sunday: Catherine Dowling (10.00am). Jimmy Leahy (10.30am). Paddy Brennan (11.00am). Fintan Brennan (12.00 noon). Michael Brennan (7.30pm).

‘BORN INTO ETERNAL LIFE’

Last week’s envelope collec�on: €2,910 Thanks to all who contribute weekly, monthly

and annually, as well as those who pay by Standing Order.

Standing Order forms are available in Parish Office.

The School of the Holy Spirit The annual Church gate collection for The School of the Holy Spirit, Callan Road will take place next weekend

St Vincent de Paul The February collec�on

for the Society of St V. de Paul will take place this weekend. Thank you for

your generous support of the Society.

Kilkenny Bereavement Support is a voluntary organisation offering Bereavement Support to people of all ages who have been bereaved.

We are now recruiting Volunteers who will take a 30-hour training course in Bereavement Skills commencing April 6th. The course will run from April 6th to May 12th in Villa Maria, Talbot’s Inch. Application forms and further information from

Tel: 7756538. Closing date: March 1st.

Lenten Text Message Receive a short daily message sent to your phone: a line of scripture, or a thought for the day, at no cost to you.

Write your number on the sheets provided or text your mobile number to 085 831 3100 or email afd@ossory.ie.

The next meeting of the Parish Pastoral Council will take place next Thursday in the Presbytery at

7.30pm. All members are requested to attend.

Quiz Night Quiz night takes place on Friday 23rd at 8pm in

The Village Inn. Table of 4 €20. All proceeds in Aid of Irish Pilgrimage Trust, bringing young

people with special needs to Lourdes. Great Fun & Great Prizes

WWEDNESDAYS OF LENT ������� ASH WEDNESDAY & HOLY WEEK

Wed. 21 Feb Fr Peter McVerry

Wed 28 Feb Senator

Joan Freeman

Wed 7 Mar Sr Stanislaus

Kennedy

Wed 14 Mar Elber Twomey

Wed 21 Mar Bishop Dermot Farrell

South Kilkenny Historical Society Lecture on ‘Working Towards Peace in Northern Ireland’ takes

place on Thursday 22nd February in Mullinavat Parish Hall (opposite church) at 8pm. Guest Speaker is Mr Walter Kirwan (formerly Dept. of the Taoiseach). Admission: €5 (members and students free). All

welcome.

Thought For The

Day A Lenten ‘Thought For The Day’ booklet (€2) are available in the Church Sacristy. Or you can call

056 775 3624 or email afd@ossory.ie to order one.

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E U C H A R I S T I C M I N I S T E R S

M inisters of the Eucharist are invited to a morn-ing reflection at which Rev Dr Michael Shortall will lead a discussion on “To give and receive: Communion as an expression of our care.”

Fr Kieran O’Shea will lead one on “Food for the Journey – A reflection on the Road to Emmaus (Luke 24) and the Celebration of the Eucharist”.

Venue St Kieran’s College; Time 10.30am - 12.30pm on this coming Saturday, 17th Febru-ary.

Lent is the time to start new patterns of prayer. Perhaps I haven't been praying at all. This is a great time to choose to begin. It is important to begin realistically. I can start by simply pausing when I get up and taking a slow, deep breath, and recalling that I want to do this day, more away that I am a child of God. I may want to go to bed a half an hour earlier, and get up a half an hour earlier and give myself some time alone to READ and to PRAY as I begin a new day.

I may choose to go to Mass each day during Lent. I may choose to get to church on Sunday, just 15 minutes earlier, so I can reflect a bit. Lent may be a time I would want to choose to start to journal the day to day reflections that are coming, the desires I'm naming and asking for, the graces I am being given.

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