Parish News March/April 2018

Clonbullogue Carbury Edenderry Rathangan

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Mon 26th 8pm Rathangan Tues 27th 8pm Edenderry, Children’s Service Wed 28th 8pm Clonbullogue Thur 29th 8pm Carbury Fri 30th 8pm Good Friday in Edenderry Sat 31st 6.30pm Easter Treat hunt for children & Lighting of the Easter fire & 8.00pm Easter Vigil in Carbury

Easter Sunday— Sun 1st April 10 .00am Clonbullogue 11.30am Edenderry 11.30am Rathangan

Rector The Rev Canon Lynda Peilow 046 9731585 Facebook Page—Edenderry Union

Welcome to our new format parish news, printed by Li- turgical Publications Ireland (LPI). There is no cost in- volved for the parishes to have this high quality product. The Easter General Vestry will take place This is thanks to the support of the businesses who have on Sunday 8th April at 11am, at Castro Petre, bought advertising space at the back of the newsletter Church Walk, Edenderry. The outgoing ves- that allows us to have such an attractive publication that try will provide a light lunch. It would be ap- we could not otherwise aﬀord. Please take a look at the advertisements, many will be familiar to you and do men- preciated if a member from each family tion the newsletter if you are using any of the businesses would attend this important parish meeting. so that they know their investment is working. Please let Arrangements will be made for children and Canon Lynda know if you would like extra copies or if you young people when the meeting is in pro- would like to advertise in the newsletter. gress. Please support our parish and people.

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The girls continue to meet on alternate Wednesday evenings, Pathfinders—Last Octo- as Church walk is a hub of ber the hardy Pathfinders to chatter, crafts, fun and dug out their sleeping bags laughter. All competition crafts and oldest clothes for the have now been completed and annual camp. Straight to the together with the bible study nearest piece of sodden bog and two teams have been sent to central office to be assessed. We competed in several challenges. These in- look forward to our diocesan service and fun day cluded scrambling across the difficult ter- on Sunday 22nd April in St Patrick’s Cathedral, Trim. We are now focussing on badge work and rain while hauling a 'patient' on a homemade looking forward to an Easter Egg hunt!! stretcher,and a very competitive bog-ditch relay. It was great to see the team work and good humour throughout. Many thanks As usual Badminton started off again to the rugby club for the use of their sho- wer facilities afterwards. Back at the hall with a big bang. It is great to see so there was a fantastic bonfire,thanks many young people interested in Luke,and barbecued burgers and ribs. learning the sport. All the boys and There were pallet and straw-bale huts girls have been training really hard for constructed by some budding engineers, the tournament and at the end of January we and a torchlit hike up the hill. Pancakes and kicked off with our first match. It is wonderful to hot chocolate followed to warm us up. By see the dedication of all the young people partici- the time the bonfire had died down most pating. The skill level of the group has improved were asleep. The Pathfinder and Team Hope tremendously over the last couple of meetings and shoebox service was celebrated next mor- we would like to thank all parents who have assist- ning with all pathfinders taking part. Well ed us so during practise. We are all looking forward done to all! to our Prize giving night in April and details of this will be send out to all participants. Happy Easter from all at Badminton!!

Boys Brigade started back last September and we are happy to report that we have 22 boys enrolled with Edenderry 1st Company this session. From the word go the BB meetings have been actioned packed and great fun. In October the Junior/Company section attended their annual Roll and Bowl event in Portlaoise. Strategies were made amongst the boys to ensure that Edenderry got the highest score in the Laser Quest game and the boys competed against each other to see who is the Bowling King. This year the Anchor section had their own fun to look forward to as we organised a trip to Tons of Fun for them. They all enjoyed the afternoon tremendously. For Christmas we joined forces with GFS again and we decided to arrange a visit to Tons of Fun for the boys and girls. They all really enjoyed their time there and they were all very lucky to receive a little gift that Santa had left for them with the leaders. Ten of the 1st Edenderry Junior/Company members represented us at the 5-a-side Football blitz in Tullamore. A big thank you goes out to 1st Geashill/Killeigh for hosting this event. Congratulations to the Company team; Ben Mon- tayne, Ultan Gill, Jake Bell, Peter Gardiner and Lukas Gerber for making it to the semi-finals. Well done to the Junior team for showing great sportsmanship in all their matches. Some of the Anchor boys attended the An- nual Anchor Craft event. Again a big thank you to 1st Geashill/Killeigh for hosting this event. Well done to all the boys participating and a very big congratulations to Jake Montanye for taking 3rd place in the Senior In- fants/1st Class group. Boys Brigade Ireland is hosting the annual Juniors weekend away for boys from 3rd class up. This year the event will take place at Wilson’s Hospital School in Multyfarnham on 24/25 March 2018. Thank you to Lyn who will be accompanying the boys on this overnight trip. Boys Brigade is nearly at the end for this session and we are very sad to report that we only have 3 more meetings left. The dates for the meetings are: 22 March and 12/26 April 2018. We look forward to seeing all the boys and to see what fun activities the leaders will come up with. I would like to thank the dedicated leaders Lynn Montayne, Sandra Burke, Mandy Finnegan and Clive Gardiner for all the hard work that they put in at each meeting. Without them BB will not be possible. A big thank to all the boys that attend as well as all the parents that makes sure the boys arrive on time for meetings!! We wish you all a very Happy Easter. BB Greetings, Michelle Gerber

Monasteroris National School Lots of exciting activities are keeping us busy at Monasteroris National School and Easter is just around the corner! The Credit Union School Savers Scheme is still very popular with the children as they bring in their money each week and are delighted to see their savings grow. We continue our Music Generation Programme with Ms Catherine Finerty— 5th & 6th classes are learning to play the guitar, 2nd, 3rd and 4th classes are learning the recorder and the Junior Room are learning their percussion skills. Great music can be heard coming from the rooms. Lenrec recycling will call to the school after the Easter holidays to collect old unwanted clothes, shoes, bags and household textiles. Bags may be left into the school outside the old prefab at any time. All monies raised will go towards school funds. We congratulate Ms Denise Talbot and John on the safe arrival of baby Jacob a beautiful baby brother for Ely. We hope they do not have too many sleepless nights!!! We welcome Ms Caitilin Carty as the Junior room teacher while Ms Talbot is on her maternity leave. Health Promoting Schools Flag: Our Healthy Lunches are going really well and we are well on the way towards getting our Health Promoting Schools Flag. Well done everyone! The senior room continue their Tag Rugby with a coach from Leinster Rugby. The weather has not always been on our side but great fun is had by all the boys and girls. The Copper Mile is hopefully gaining mileage so keep collecting those 5c coins. Bags or jars of 5c coins can be dropped into school at any time so hopefully we can reach our 1 mile target by Sport’s Day.

The confirmation date is set for Sunday 20th May at 11.30am in 8th April 11am Edenderry, Easter Vestry

Castro Petre Church, Edenderry. Confirmation candidates have 15th April 10am Carbury begun their preparations. We are 11.30am Rathangan looking forward to the diocesan confirmation fun day for all candidates across the 22nd April 10am Clonbullogue & Carbury diocese on Saturday 14th April in Mullingar. Our 11.30am Edenderry & Rathangan young people preparing for confirmation are assured of our prayers Rebecca Alexander, Emma 29th April 11am Rathangan Carter, Peter Gardiner, Ella Gerber, Brian Moody, Aidan Moody, Ben Montayne and Avril Whittle. 5th May 10am Clonbullogue & Carbury 11.30am Edenderry & Rathangan

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