Your Weekly Offering Sunday 29th December 2019

1st Collection Development fund €2,044 2nd Collection Offertory €1,542

Thank you for your continued support

Bob’s Your Uncle Lotto

Numbers drawn 29th Dec 14 - 16 - 22 - 23

No Jackpot Winner 6 Match 3’s share €1000

Tickets available in the lotto office or in the Parish

Centre

Every Friday and Sunday night in the Youth Centre,

Green Lane at 8.30pm.

Carpenter Brothers Funeral Directors Est 1927

serving Carlow & the surrounding area for Three Generations

10 Barrack Street Carlow R93 R1X2

Tel: 059 - 9131237 / 087 - 2535999 E-mail carpentersbar@yahoo.co.uk

Dance Classes

Adult Country Jiving, Quickstep & Waltzing dance classes

commencing on Thursday 23rd January 2020. Course runs for

6 weeks 8.pm - 9pm every Thursday. No partner required.

Registration & Payment (€60) on the night.

Academy of Dance, Carlow Youth & Community Centre,

Green Lane, Carlow. Phone 0872727315.

€20,000

The prayer of St. Francis of Assisi invites us to

ask Jesus to make his home in us; that his

presence within our lives will help us to spread

love, joy and hope to all we meet...

Lord, make me an instrument of your peace

Where there is hatred, let me sow love

Where there is injury, pardon

Where there is doubt, faith

Where there is despair, hope

Where there is darkness, light

And where there is sadness, joy

O Divine Master, grant that I may

Not so much seek to be consoled as to console

To be understood, as to understand

To be loved, as to love

For it is in giving that we receive

And it's in pardoning that we are pardoned

And it's in dying that we are born to Eternal Life

Amen

Ministers of the Word

December 4th/5th

6.15pm Seán Mac Diarmade

8.30am Anne Archbold

11am Jacinta Lobo

12.30pm Rory Healy

7pm Sean O’Sullivan

A message from the Cathedral Parish Grandparents’

Association about climate change - What are we doing in

our home, in the Church and our Parish Centre?

Did you know that un-recycled glass can take up to a million

years to decompose? Always make sure to recycle your

glass. It can reduce related water pollution by up to fifty

percent and related air pollution by up to twenty percent.

Gamblers Anonymous

Meeting every Monday night at 8.30pm in the Parish Centre.

Happy New Year

The Cathedral Parish team would like to wish all the

parishioners of the Cathedral of the Assumption a very

happy and blessed New Year.

May the Lord fill our hearts and homes with love, peace and

hope in 2020.

St. Patrick’s College Carlow evening courses

A range of short evening courses start in Carlow College, St.

Patrick’s on Thursday January 23rd 2020. Classes run every

Thursday evening for the course duration from 7pm – 9pm

and the cost per course is €125. For more information and

registration please visit

www.CarlowCollege.ie/Courses/Evening/

Rosary and Divine Mercy Chaplet every Sunday at 3pm at

the Statue of Our Lady at Rossmore, Killeshin.

Accord Carlow Pre-Marriage courses

Feb 7th and 8th, March 6th and 7th, April 3rd and 4th

2020.

Book on line at www.accord.ie or phone Mary at 059

9138738 for further information.

Saints of the Week

Monday - Solemnity of the Epiphany (Nollaig na mBan)

What is the Feast of the Epiphany?

The Feast of the Epiphany celebrates the adoration of

Jesus by the three wise men (magi) from the East.

The evangelist (Gospel author) Matthew tells of this

event as it shows Jesus to be the Messiah of Israel,

Son of God and Saviour of the world. The magi

represented neighbouring pagan religions, and

therefore by their coming to worship Jesus - the

Gospel tells us that salvation is for the whole world

through the Incarnation - God becoming a person.

The magi have been named as Melchior, Gaspar and

Balthazar and brought gifts of gold, frankincense and

myrrh to Jesus.

The gift of gold represents kingship on earth, and

Jesus is the king of the Jews.

The gift of frankincense (an incense) is a symbol of

the divine, pointing to the fact that Jesus is God in the

flesh.

The gift of myrrh, which was used as an embalming

oil for the dead, is a gift of faith. The magi could not

have known the death Jesus would endure but the

Old Testament prophesied that the Messiah would

suffer in order to redeem his people.

Blessing for children who were baptised in 2019

There will be a blessing for all children who were baptised

during the past year in the Cathedral on the Feast of the

Baptism of our Lord (December 12th) at 3pm in the

Cathedral.

There will be an individual blessing of each child and a

concluding prayer around the crib.

If you would like to join one of the choirs in the Cathedral

please contact:

Cathedral Choir (11am Mass) : Marian 087 668 9943

Ama Deus (12.30pm Mass): Michael 085 158 5085

Còr an Aifreann (6.15pm 1st two Saturdays of Month): Bríde

087 285 7048

The Parish Team

Fr. Ruairí Ó Domhnaill Adm. Fr. Brian Maguire The Presbytery,

Old Dublin Road, Carlow.

Tel: 059 913 1227 Emergency: 087 258 8118

Sr. Dolores Fitzgerald

Parish Sister Tel: 059 914 0408

Deacon David O’Flaherty

Tel: 059 9164087

Philip Lawlor Pastoral Worker

Newsletter Editor Tel: 059 913 1227

Parish Centre Tel: 059 9164087

info@carlowcathedral.ie

Mass in the Cathedral for the week of the 6th January - 12th January. Monday 6th - Feast of the Epiphany: 7pm Vigil, 7.30am, 11am and 7pm

Tuesday 7th - Friday 10th : 7.30am and 10am Saturday 11th: 10am Novena Mass and 6.15pm Vigil Mass ‘as Gaeilge’

Sunday 12th: 8.30am, 11am, 12.30pm and 7pm Sacrament of Reconciliation: Saturday after 10am Mass. Capuchin Friary: Mon to Sat 12pm - 1pm and 4.30pm - 5.30pm.

Adoration: Monday to Friday 6pm - 8pm and after Novena Mass on Saturday until 12 noon.

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Drug and Alcohol addiction know no boundaries

You Are Not Alone, help is always available.

Please contact You Are Not Alone support group

at 085 7872730 for a confidential and non-

judgemental service.

Sunday, 5th January, 2020. Second Sunday of Christmas www.carlowcathedral.ie

Student Alpha

The Alpha Course for people aged 18-30 returns on Tuesday

December 7th from 7pm in the Parish Centre.

All are welcome for food, conversation and friendship.

Walking Towards Unity

You are warmly invited to this walk which will start at Carlow

Methodist Church, proceeding to St. Mary’s Church of Ireland and

finally to the Cathedral of the Assumption. Starts at 2.30pm in Carlow Methodist Church, Athy

Road, Carlow on Sunday 19 January 2020.

A new year is often a time where we make a resolution; we resolve to make a fresh

start in some area of our life - or indeed our whole life. There is something

revitalising and freeing in beginning anew.

During this season of Christmas, we celebrate Jesus, the Word of God, becoming a

divine person. God has shared in our humanity so that we may share in his divinity. It

is in the nature of God to constantly create anew, to constantly love and be loved.

We as followers of Christ have been given the most wonderful gift through Jesus -

the ability to be created anew through God.

The Lord, through the prophet Isaiah proclaims “Behold, I am doing a new thing,

now it springs forth” and Jesus tells us in the Gospel of John “I have come that you

may have life, and have it to the full”. Throughout history, our God has continuously

brought his people to freedom and flourishing though relationship with him.

Perhaps part of our New Year’s resolution this year could be to invite the living,

Creator God into our lives and ask him to create something new in us: Give us fresh

eyes to see the world with gentleness, fresh ears to listen with compassion, fresh

mouths to speak with kindness and fresh hands to embrace with love.

May 2020 be a year where we are all created anew in God and come to know him

and his love for us ever more deeply.

Medjugorje Pilgrimages 10th - 17th June 2020

Price: €665 if booked before 1st February 2020. Spiritual Director: Fr. Ruairi O’ Domhnaill

23rd - 30th September 2020

Spiritual Director: Fr. Michael Duffy OFM Further Details please contact Noeleen Dunne 059 914 2670

Children’s Sunday Worship returns December 12th during the 12.30pm Mass in the Parish Centre

All children who have yet to make their First Holy Communion are welcome. There will be singing, dancing, prayer,

questions and answers around the Gospel, arts and crafts activities and lots of fun making new friends!