4Th September, 2016 Twenty-Third Sunday in Ordinary Time

Parish Notices Parish Page – Please check our parish page on the Kerry Diocesan Website. Bingo – last Tuesday was the last Bingo Newsletter, photos from the parish session for the time being. A big thank www.dioceseofkerry.ie and click on to our you to all who supported it during the parish Castlegregory. summer. A note of our fundraising ************************************ monies will be given in the next couple Dancing for Fun every Friday in the of weeks. Clubrooms @ 8pm. Proceeds to the *************************************** Church Renovation Fund. Tax Rebate: Just a reminder to those who received Tax Rebate letters recently (Annual Community Notices Cert or Enduring Certs) we would appreciate if Senior Citizen lunches resume this you could return them to the parish office Tuesday 6th September. Usual within the next two weeks. This charity tax transport arrangements. Please contact rebate is very beneficial to the parish. last year Michelle if you are not able to attend 087 we were able to claim back €8555. 7871845. New members always welcome *************************************** ************************************ Adult Religious Education - six sessions Disabled Drivers Association wish to starting on Tuesday 20th September with thank all who supported the recent Fr Sean Sheehy on the third section of the Irish Catechism – Christian Morality – The Faith collection. A total of €353 was Lived. If you are interested in attending, please collected. contact the parish office for further info. ************************************ *************************************** Grúpa Súgartha 15.09.2016, Halla Le Castlegregory/Cloghane Adoration group Chéile, gach Déardaoin ag 11r.n - 12.30 wish to invite you to an evening of i.n. PARENT & TODDLER session in Adoration, Reflection and Mass on Halla Le Chéile every Thursday 11am - Monday the 10th October in the Divine 12.30 pm. Will Oratory, Camp. Fr Jim Lenihan, ************************************ Spiritual Director, will lead this Seirbís Iarscoile. Tá an tseirbís celebration. iarscoile athoscailte i Halla le Chéile. 7pm – Adoration & Reflection The after-school service has reopened 8pm – Healing Service – at Halla le Chéile. 8.30pm – Holy Mass ************************************ 9.15pm – Refreshments & chat. Tinteán Ceoil gach Luan ag 7.30 i.n. This evening is open to everyone and we Fáilte roimh cách! Tinteán Ceoil every would also like to invite all those involved Monday at 7:30pm. Everybody welcome! in Eucharistic Adoration in other parishes ************************************ in the Deanery to come. A donation of €5 Seirbhís Béile Baile Meal delivery per person would be appreciated. RSVP service is provided five days per week. by 28th September to ensure that we will Please give your name at the Halla if you have sufficient seating. Either email are interested. 066 7138137 Castlegregory parish office at Béile Bia (Community Dinner), Halla Le [email protected] or Chéile, Dé Máirt, Fáilte roimh cách! contact Kathleen Spillane on 085 1321842 ************************************ Or Eileen Nicholl on 087 6869479. St. Vincent de Paul 087 1647788 Parish Life 4th September, 2016 – Twenty-Third Sunday in Ordinary Time

Parish Stamp 2016 ‘I say nothing to Him I Love Him’ (St. Therese of Lisieux)

Weekend St. Mary’s Mass Times St. Mary’s Castlegregory Sunday – 10.30am Confessions after Vigil Mass and after First Friday Mass Exposition of Blessed Sacrament in St. Parish Office – St. Mary’s Presbytery, Castlegregory Mary’s every Monday - Closed Wednesday 10am to Tuesday 10.30am to 4.00pm 10pm Wednesday 10.30am – 4.00pm Thursday 10.30am to 3.00pm Friday 10.30am to 4.00pm (Check out newsletter for any changes in times of opening hours due to holidays etc) Tel: 066 7139145 – Mobile 087 1438060 – Email: [email protected] Kerry Diocesan Website – www.dioceseofkerry.ie Notices for Newsletter to reach office by 11.30am on Fridays Priest: Fr. Michael Hussey 087 1438060 - Secretary: Bernie Dowling Weekend Mass Times Clochán Bréanainn Séipéal Naomh Bréanainn St. Brendan’sExposition of the Blessed Sacrament takes place An Satharn – 6.45 i.n. in St. Brendan’s on Tuesdays 10am to 7pm Confession before and after Mass on Tuesdays ******************************************************************************* Parish Pastoral Council: Chairperson: James Kildea, Julia Dowling, Vincent Filgate, Bernie Dowling, Patricia Hennessy , Audrey Stephens , Joan Herbst, , Sheila Kelliher, Eileen Nicholl, Siobhan Hennessy, Síle Mulcahy , Anne Dennehy, Angela O’Sullivan, Eileen O’Grady, Kathleen Dowd Liturgy Group Contacts Chairperson – Anne Dennehy Secretary – Maunie Kelliher - Maire Begley (organist/adult choir) Pat Finn & Trish Browne (Folk Group) Síle Mulcahy (St. Brendan’s Choir) Area Pastoral Council Representatives ; James Kildea and Bernie Dowling, Eileen Nicholl Finance Committee : Joan Ferriter, Gerard O’Donnell, Kathleen O’Rourke, Bernie Dowling, Fr. Michael Hussey. Building and Maintenance : Sean Lyons, Denis Dowling, Pat Joe Flynn, Micheál O’Leary, Trish Browne, Sheila Kelliher, Pat Finn, Tommy Fitzgerald, James Kildea, Parish Reps for Safeguarding Children: Kathleen Spillane, Susan Browne and Kathleen Brosnan - Safeguarding Tel no 087 3800220 Youth Council : Cathy Browne, Darragh Rohan, Jena Cronin, Shannon O’Grady, Amy Byrne, Eva O’Connell, Kate Shannon, Sinead Sheehan ,Timmy Walsh, Ellen Goodwin, Shannen Cronin- Maunsell, Cody Stafford, Michael Scanlon, Claire Dennehy, Carrie Dowling, Niamh Shannon, Caitlyn Browne, Grace O’Sullivan. Week beginning 4th September 2016 with a radiant smile and warm Twenty third Sunday in Ordinary Time C voice, who was totally fulfilled in all *********************************** aspects of her life. Listening to her * talk, it was difficult to imagine her giving in to despair or doubting the power of God in her life, even though pain was the background music of her life for so long. Her faith was clearly a consolation and it animated her every waking moment. Sometimes her faith “Joy comes from total surrender, appeared almost childlike. It was a loving trust and cheerfulness” rock-solid, devout faith. Her (Mother Teresa) certainty could only be envied. I *********************************** have to confess, I did feel a strong * Pope Francis will declare Mother pang of jealousy when I met Mother Teresa of Calcutta a Saint this Sunday Teresa. Her God was different to 4th September in Rome. The mine. She had stumbled on a God following is an excerpt from a book who dances and astonishes. Her written by Irish author, John Scally, a love of God had transported her, native of Roscommon who shattered her and consumed her interviewed her in 1993. like a fire. Hers was a passionate, *********************************** heart-battering God, a God who * swept her up to the heights in a “In 1992 I wrote to Mother Teresa, blaze of flame, whose face was full more in hope than in confidence, of beauty of all creatures, a God of seeking an interview with her. To incredible power and glory. Such my astonishment, she wrote to me was the beauty of this God that we and invited me to meet her when can only partially taste its essence. she came to Dublin to receive the Mother Teresa was like a shaft of Freedom of the City. On 31st May light illuminating the monstrous 1993, she travelled to Dublin and on barbarism of poverty and injustice 1st June she addressed a crowd of around her – a noble nature approximately five thousand people standing up for the people she at the Marian shrine in Knock…..The served and loved. Preserving that enduring memory of meeting cherished legacy remains important Mother Teresa for the first time is of for those who saw it first-hand…… an incredibly energetic woman, Pope John II personally fast-tracked her beatification because ‘She made *********************************** those who had been defeated by life * feel the tenderness of God’. (taken Weekday Masses – St. Mary’s from Mother Teresa on Advent and *********************************** * Christmas – John Scally) Monday 5th September – 7.00pm *********************************** Intention: Thomas Goggin, Pray for our Departed Kellysheight & UK who died recently James (Jimmy) Dowd, Brandon *********************************** Jimmy Horgan, Aughacasla * Batty Finn, Main Street First Anniv Tuesday 6th September – 10.00am – Tadgh & Mary Flynn, Stradbally Special Intention Thomas Goggin, Kellysheight & UK *********************************** who died recently * John Hennessy, Kilshannig Wednesday 7th September – No parish Mass Batt Boyle, Fahamore & Chicago *********************************** *********************************** * Pray for the Sick of the Parish Thursday 8th September – 7.00pm – Remember the sick of the parish in John Hennessy, Kilshannig your prayers, those in hospital, *********************************** nursing homes, those undergoing * treatments and waiting test results. Friday 9th September – 7.00pm – Lord, may Your healing hand touch Intention: Batt Boyle, Fahamore, them. Chicago *********************************** *********************************** * * Priest on Deanery Duty Saturday 10th September – 11.00am – *********************************** Intention: Batty Finn, Main Street – First * Anniversary Priest on duty in the deanery this *********************************** Sunday 4th September is Fr Eoghan * Ó Cadhla. In the event of an Weekday Masses - St. Brendan’s emergency, please call 066 9156131. ********************************** *********************************** Tuesday 6th September – 7.00pm: Special Intention Intentions for this Weekend *********************************** *********************************** * Intentions for Next Weekend *********************************** St. Mary’s * 10.30am – Intention: Tadgh & Mary St. Mary’s Flynn, Stradbally Sunday 11th September– 10.30am – *********************************** Intention: Martin Bynane, Cappananaee * (50th Anniversary) St. Brendan’s *********************************** 6.45pm – Vigil Mass – Intention: Mass * for the people St. Brendan’s Saturday 10th September – 6.45pm Vigil: Intention : Tony Logue McCavert, Cloghane *********************************** * Rota for next weekend *********************************** * Reader: Sunday 11th September – Marilyn Spillane *********************************** * Eucharistic Ministers Months of September: Mary Browne, Maureen O’Callaghan and Kathleen Spillane *********************************** * Altar Servers next Sunday 11th September: Natalie Heasman, Meabh Rohan, Emma Lynch & Regina Flaherty *********************************** * Alter Society – Month of September: Patricia Hennessy and Anne Dennehy *********************************** Church Flowers - Next weekend – Lourda & Bernie *********************************** * Parish Notices *********************************** * Second Diocesan Collection for Diocesan needs will be taken up this weekend, 3rd/4th September. *********************************** * St. Vincent de Paul 087 1647788