Parishes of Narraghmore & Moone Bulletin - 23rd Sunday of Ordinary Time - September 7th/8th 2019 Mass Intentions 1.Give praise and thanks to God for the and develop into their own people. I Saturday & Sunday gift of our planet. The next time you are will spend a lot of time getting to Ballymount - Matthew Doyle – outside thank God for the wind on your know your children’s personalities, Blackrath (A) face, for the streams and rivers, for the crops, for the animals, for the sun, the learning styles and interests. I will Crookstown - Patrick Chambers, clouds, the trees, for the rain that causes celebrate their successes, large and Eileen Hickey (30th A) everything to grow. If we make a habit of small. I will encourage them this we begin to see the planet in a new everyday and will let them know they Kilmead - Jimmy Behan (A), Molly light. are valued and have a special place in King (A), Pat King (A), John King (A), 2.Don’t fill the kettle if you don’t need our school community. My goal is to J.J. O’Neill Law (A). to, boil only the amount of water you ensure the children are happy, healthy need to make a cuppa. This serves two and safe so that they can achieve to Moone - Paddy Byrne (M.M.) purposes: it saves water and electricity their own individual fullest potential. and it cuts down the wait time for the I look forward to meeting and Weekday water to boil. ************ working with everyone as the year Crookstown: Wed & Fri 9.30am - goes on and I wish everyone a happy, Donor’s Intentions Welcome to Robert White - healthy and successful school year ***************** new School Principal in Kilmead ahead. Question: Whose birthday My name is Robert White and I am does the Church usually very happy and honoured to have th We welcome Mr. White to our celebrate on September 8 ? been selected as the new principal of community and we wish him every ************** Scoil Íde Naofa. blessing and many happy years. Pope’s Intention for September I am originally from Cashel in Co. The Protection of the Oceans Healthy Body - Healthy Mind Tipperary and have been teaching That politicians, scientists and economists Are you looking to take the first steps to a since 2003. I was, previous to this work together to protect the world's seas fitter, healthier you? Ever thought it would and oceans. appointment, the teaching principal of ************ Moycarkey N.S. just outside be great to have a personal trainer if only Care for our Common Home you could afford it? Well now you can. Thurles for 8 ½ years having taught th In his encyclical on the environment, there for 14 ½ years in total and most Beginning Wednesday September 11 Laudato Si (Praise be to You), Pope recently I was the teaching principal from 10:30 – 11:30 in the Moone Parish Francis refers to the earth as our of Scoil Naomh Gabriel in Hall for 6 weeks, there is a Physiotherapist Common Home, and exhorts us to care led exercise class for all ages and abilities. for our common home just as we would Kilconnell, Ballinasloe, Co. Galway. No need to book, simply come along and our house. Outside of work I am a keen With a view to making the teaching in sportsman having grown up playing take those first steps to a fitter healthier Laudato Si more tangible there will be a hurling, football, soccer and tennis in you. feature in our Parish Bulletin each week particular and I am still playing ************** with a practical tip/suggestion as to how hurling and football with my home Crookstown/Ballymount Monthly we might work to preserve our common club Cashel King Cormacs. Over the Parish Lotto - March Results: home for future, and current, generations. years I have taken part in amateur Numbers 18-28-40. If you have any tips or suggestions of dramatics and choirs also. things that you do and you would like to €20 winners: share with the parish, then please feel I consider my job to be one of the Pat Mackey c/o M. most important there is and the free to email them to Conor, the Parish Cullen example I set can have a lasting Pastoral Worker (contact details Marie Lawler c/o overleaf), for inclusion in this section. impact on your children as they grow This week we will begin with two tips. M. Cullen Maureen Cullen c/o M. Cullen those with special needs and especially 6978143 Nancy Dowling /o N Dowling those who will care for them. We pray Conor McCann - Parish Pastoral Martin Heydon c/o M. Doyle that it will a time of healing and renewal Worker - Narraghmore & Moone and that we all be blessed by their 086-7905654. Email: Next month’s Jackpot: €2,000 pilgrimage. [email protected] ************ ************ Natasha Geoghegan - Parish Pastoral World Suicide Prevention Day th Pre– C- - - - - - - S Party Break. Worker - Athy & Barrowhouse Tuesday September 10 is World Active Retired. 087-6730300. Email: Suicide Prevention Day. South Kildare Active Retired are [email protected] organising a Pre-(that word beginning Parish secretaries A mass for world suicide prevention day with ‘C’ that we cannot possibly mention Ber Murphy & Trish Holligan - . is taking place on Tuesday 10th in September) 5 night Tinsel & Turkey Mon, Tue, Wed & Fri 10am - 4pm. September at 7.30pm in St Michael’s Break in The Sligo Southern Hotel from S.s. Mary & Laurence Church, church in Athy. 24th to 29th of November. It will include Crookstown, Tel: 059 8623154. Email: If you know someone who is struggling Dinner Bed and Breakfast, Nightly [email protected] with life, reach out, call, send a text or Entertainment, all for €239 per person **************** phone them. Let them know that you are sharing or €10 per night extra for a single. Thought for the Day thinking of them and that they are not As it is for Active Retired you can use The chipmunk and the cat. alone, perhaps invite them and accompany your free travel pass, if you are not going them to the mass. by car. The train goes from Maynooth A priest recounts how he observed a cat Some helpful phone numbers: and Kathleen is arranging a Special Coach seeing a chipmunk dart into a hole in a Samaritans Kildare: 116-123 (Free from Moone to Maynooth Station on tree. He watched as the cat eyed that hole from any phone 24 hours a day) Sunday 24th and back on the Thursday for for a long time, with its eyes rarely Aware Helpline: 1800 80 48 48 (Free a small additional charge, it depends on leaving it. He was amazed how its phone number 10am—10pm). how many avail of this service. You attention was engaged by the hole in the Alternatively talk to a relative, neighbour, would need to ring Kathleen ASAP if you hope that it would be given a free lunch. friend or any member of the parish team. would like to join the pre-C - - - - - - - S But, alas, he saw the chipmunk emerge ************ Party. Find Kathleen at 087-4122079. from another hole and scamper off, with Parish Office - Opening Hours South Kildare Active Retired serves the the cat eventually tiring of the vigil and Due to staff holidays the Parish residents of Villages and areas, between wandering off. Office in Crookstown will open on a Castledermot and Kilcullen Almost all living things have to learn to be reduced schedule for the next two *************** attentive in order to seize the moment, the weeks. The office will be open on Function to mark the Retirement of day or even a chipmunk! We humans, Monday & Friday only from Ed Kirwan however, tend to be somewhat lax when it 9.30am - 1.30pm. We apologise for Parents Assoc of St Ita’s Kilmead are comes to paying close attention, and we any inconvenience caused. organising a function in Athy Golf Club are easily distracted. Christian life invites on Saturday 14th September to mark the us to see our surroundings and our ********** retirement of Mr. Ed Kirwan. Tickets at neighbours both deeply and clearly. We New Choir in Castledermot €15 can be purchased from any member of are invited to see life as God sees it. It is hoped to establish a choir to sing the Parents Association, from the School The Lord has indeed come, and our efforts Gregorian Chant and or are available after mass in Kilmead. at seeing will find Him in the most Latin hymns in ********* unlikely people and events, and maybe, Mass & Church Service Times: even, in how a chipmunk outsmarted a Castledermot cat! Church at 7.00pm Ballymount: Mass on the 2nd Sunday 8.30am Answer: Did you know that the Saturday of every Crookstown: Church usually celebrates the birthday Saturday 7pm (Vigil) of Mary the Mother of God on month. If you would th like to help in forming this choir please Wednesday & Friday: 9.30am September 8 . The Feast day is called contact Fr. Aidan Kieran 087-6397744 Tuesday & Thursday: 9.30am - Liturgy of the Nativity of the Blessed Virgin the Word with Holy Communion. Mary. It is a feast day that is celebrated by phone, text or WhatsApp Tues. 7-8pm Exposition of the Blessed ********* with joy. There is an antiphon from the Sacrament Morning Prayer of the Church which Healing Mass - Alliance of Mercy Kilmead: Friday September 13th @ 7:30pm catches this theme very well: “Your Sunday 10.30am birth, O Virgin Mother of God, followed by Adoration.