The Ascension of the Lord Parish of 16 May 2021

ST ’S CHURCH, ARDFERT & SACRED HEART CHURCH, ❖ Ardfert Parish Office is closed to the public during Level 5 restrictions. Please contact the office by phone (leave a message), by letter or by email at [email protected]. Tel: 7134131. Parish Priest: Fr Pat Crean-Lynch: 087 6709491 ❖ BAPTISMS. Baptisms can again take place but with limited numbers attending. Parish office: 066 7134131; parish e-mail: [email protected] Please contact the parish office for details in the first instance. Tel: 7134131. Safeguarding Children in the Diocese of Kerry: contact 087 6362780 ❖ Our prayers are asked for those who are sick – may they experience the saving Priest on duty this Sunday: Fr Michael Hussey: 087 2386084 and healing power of Christ.

❖ Parish Offering Envelopes can be posted securely through the letterbox of the RECENT DEATHS: William (Willie) O'Leary, Ballinprior, Ardfert and The Butcher parish office. The Parish Finance Council thanks you for your continuing support Shop, Main Street, and late of Snipefield, Kilmoyley whose Funeral of our parish and our priest at this difficult time. Mass was held on Tuesday. ❖ Diocesan Collection for the Education of Clergy takes place this weekend. Aoibheann Duffy, Tubridbeg, and formerly of , Kilkee, Co Please put your donation in the box/basket provided or put in an envelope Clare whose Funeral Mass was held on Friday. marked ‘Education of Clergy’ and drop into the box in Ardfert church porch or ANNIVERSARIES: John O’Mahony, Abbeylands through the letterbox in the parish office in Ardfert. Thank you. Masses for week commencing Sunday 16 May – St Brendan’s Church, Ardfert ❖ "The Cara Credit Union Lauri Healy Community Sponsorship Awards Sun 11.00 am Mike McCarthy, Sackville (1st anniv) Applications are now open. Charities, clubs, groups and societies operating in Mon 10.00 am Brendan Kirby, Liscahane (11th anniv) our local community and who have an overall budget of at least €10,000 can Tues 10.00 am Special Intention apply online at www.caracreditunion.ie. Closing date is Friday 28th May 2021". Weds 10.00 am Brother Oliver Deane, Goulane, (rec dec’d)

Thurs 10.00 am Michael & Ellen Stack and Mike Joe Stack, Casement’s View th Fri 10.00 am John & Mary O’Riordan, Tubrid Saint Brendan (486-578) – Feast Day: 16 May Sat 10.00 am Joan O’Sullivan, Barrow Saint Brendan The Navigator is believed to have been born in Island in 486. He Sun 11.00 am Tom McCrohan, Banna & Ardert village (9th anniv); Marie & was baptized at Wether’s Well in this Parish of Ardfert by the local bishop Saint Erc. John Dowling, The Square, Ardfert He was educated in his youth by Saint Ita in Killeedy in County Limerick. He Masses for week commencing Sunday 16 May– Sacred Heart Church, Kilmoyley received further education from Saint Jarlath of Tuam and Saint Finnian of Clonard. Sat 7.00 pm Margaret Fenton, Waterford & Kilmoyley; Sean Lovett, He is associated with many places in Kerry such as Fenit and Ardfert and the area Kilmoyley; Mossie Walsh, Ardrahan around and Mount Brandon. He is famous for his seafaring. He visited Fri 7.00 pm Mass for all the People of the Parish Scotland and reached the Hebrides and possibly areas beyond. His most famous Sat 7.00 pm Bill Brick, Kilmoyley; Denis Treacy Jnr, Listrim (Month’s Mind) voyage lasted seven years. Many people believe that he was the first European to & his mother Mary (4th anniv); Harry & Ellen Cooke, set foot on American soil, nearly 1,000 years before Christoper Columbus! Towards Kilcooley and Nicholas & Margaret Deenihan the end of his life he went to Clonfert in County Galway, where he founded a READERS next weekend: Kilmoyley 7 pm Ardfert 11 am monastery in 568. That is where he died and was buried in 578. Lisa Sheehan Mary Carroll The Prayer to Saint Joseph which Pope Francis has said for more than 40 years: Blessing of Rogation Water: Fr Pat will bless Rogation Water this weekend Glorious Patriarch Saint Joseph, whose power makes the impossible possible, come 15th/16th May 2021, when we will celebrate the Solemnity or Feast of the Ascension. to my aid in these times of anguish and difficulty. Take under your protection the People traditionally sprinkle this water on their fields, gardens, crops and machinery. serious and troubling situations that I commend to you, that they may have a happy Rogation Prayer. As we sprinkle this holy water on our fields, crops, gardens and outcome. My beloved father, all my trust is in you. Let it not be said that I invoked our animals, our tractors, machines and cars, may they be protected by Your grace you in vain, and since you can do everything with Jesus and Mary, show me that and power. We ask this through Christ Our Lord. Amen your goodness is as great as your power. Amen