Parishes of Narraghmore &

Bulletin - 1st Sunday in Lent - March 9th/10th 2019

Mass Intentions Trocaire Box, Look out for the lonely and activity challenge which shoud you Sunday (people whom others - including you - choose to accept the challenge you have to Ballymount - think are a bit strange) at work, college or try to complete during the week. So here school and befriend them, Take action on goes, your mission should you choose to Crookstown - Nina Harney (1st A), caring for the environment. accept is to spend between 5 & 10 minutes Patrick |Brennan(1st A), Michael Mooney Pray: each day reading the Gospel of the day (A), James Leigh - Kingsland (A), Margaret each day, these can be found on Catholic nd Pray for someone by name everyday, (Madge) Delaney - Simonstown (2 A), Light a candle, Pray the Rosary, Meditate, Ireland.net/Mass Readings. The activity Edward (Ned) Behan – (A), Read scripture, Go on a pilgrimage, Give challenge is to visit a sick person, either in John Wright – Ballytore. Recently Deceased thanks to God for 5 different things their home or in hospital, and just spend a - Tommy O’Mara everyday. few minutes with them one day during the week. ************** ************ - Thomas, Anne & Mary Byrne Daffodil Day Collection (A), Fr. Jim Tormey Parish Volunteers & GDPR Please Support Daffodil Day Many parish volunteers have already Moone - John Clynch – Bolton Hill (A), Collection at Crookstown returned the GDPR forms, thank you to Margaret (Madge) Delaney – Simonstown those who have. To all those who have we nd nd Service Station on Friday (2 A), Elizabeth (Babs) Byrne (2 A), March 22nd Details from have now posted a letter and form in Seán Bolger (A) Patricia Doyle Phone 086- relation to Garda Vetting. The enclosed Weekday 8175992 letter explains all that is required re: Garda Crookstown: Wed & Fri 9.30am - Vetting but if you have any queries please Donor’s Intentions Come on a journey to Easter do not hesitate to contact Fr Liam in the ***************** through Lent. first instance or Conor the Parish Pastoral Worker. Question: What are the Join us as we take time out to three pillars of Lent? If you have not received a GDPR form pray, reflect and prepare to please contact either Conor. Many thanks ******************** celebrate the Passion, Death and for your cooperation. Lá Fhéile Pádraig. Resurrection of Jesus this Easter. ************ To celebrate our culture, there will be 10 Public Announcement for all minutes of traditional Irish music before Beginning on Wednesday March Members of the Narraghmore Group Mass on St. Patrick’s Day th 10 in Church of the Most Holy Water Scheme. in St Ita’s church in Trinity in Moone at 7:30pm and Kilmead. If you know of Dear Members, people who play fiddle/ moving around the churches in flute/ concertina etc contact the parishes including & Please be advised work will commence Joan on 087-6976810. Also the choir , concluding in from the 11th of March 2019 to the 31st of would love to see new members Crookstown on April 10th. March 2019 in order to carry out especially for Lá Fhéile Pádraig. Each session will last approx35 – important upgrade works to the entire *************** 40 mins. Everyone is welcome Water Network. Ideas for Lent Give Up: Be it in the Home, Farm, Restaurant, Pub Sweets, Caffeine, Fast Food, The Snooze or any other vested interest it is important Button, Make Up, Social Media, that you prepare in advance in order to Complaining, Gossiping, Cursing, Lenten Challenge: have a reserve of water for the Take Up: Are you up for a bit of a Lenten essentials. Water will be shut off on a Challenge? The challenge works very Volunteering, Visiting People, Give to daily basis and restored every evening. Charity, Give Compliments, Give to the simply. Each there will be a prayer and

The Areas involved on the 4” Line are K Leisure - Athy Baptism Ballindrum, Burtown, Glassealy, Aqua aerobics for those with Archbishop Martin has asked that all Ballinabarna, Lynams Gardens, Old arthritis. parishes in Dublin Diocese focus on Grange, Hill Farm, Rathsallagh, Kilrush, A six week class for people with arthritis Baptism during Lent, so over the next th few weeks we will take a look at what starts in K Leisure Athy on Friday 15 Greatrath, Nagussaun, Battlemount, Pin Baptism means. February at 12 noon. Cost €5 per Hill, Crandoon and Mullamast. So to start off, ask yourself this The Areas involved on the 6” Line are session. No booking necessary. question: ‘What does being baptised Long Avenue, Killeen Road, Wood Road, ************** mean to me?’ Road, Castle Farm, Hill Farm, Crookstown/Ballymount Monthly When we think of or talk about our Narraghmore, Crookstown Lower, Parish Lotto - February Results: baptism it is usually in the past tense: ‘I Boleybeg and Lipstown. Numbers 12-23-25. was baptised on…’. Rarely, if ever do The Board extend their sincere apologies we talk of Baptism n the present tense; €20 winners: ‘I am baptised’. Like all the sacraments, for any inconvenience the work may John Maher c/o M. Doyle Baptism is dynamic, although the cause, but would like to reassure you, their Majella Sweeney c/o M. Doyle physical act of being baptised happened commitment to providing a Quality Water Martin Heydon c/o M. Doyle and can happen only once for our Supply. John Dowling c/o Nancy Dowling baptism to meaningful it has to impact Yours Sincerely P.J. Finnegan c/o Nancy Dowling our daily lives. So when we think about the question ’What does being baptised The Board Narraghmore Group Water ***************** Supply mean to me?’ What we are really asking Mass & Church Service Times: Enquires to the Manager Narraghmore is: ’Does being baptised impact the way Ballymount: I live my life everyday?’ Baptism is Group Water Supply 083-8790009 Sunday 8.30am about giving life, not just for eternity but *********** Crookstown: as Jesus said ‘I have come that you may Saturday 7pm (Vigil) Lenten Joy Challenge have life, and have it to the full..’ Wednesday & Friday: 9.30am 40 activites to do as a family during Lent. Over the next few days try to spend Tuesday & Thursday: 9.30am - Liturgy of sometime reflecting and praying about There is a good mix of things to do as a the Word with Holy Communion. your baptism and thanking God for the family and individual activities. Take one Tues. 7-8pm Exposition of the Blessed great gift that it is to you and to the faith home and tick them off as you complete Sacrament community. each challenge. Available at the back of Kilmead: Sunday 10.30am Something to Think About... the Church. *********** Thursday 9.30am - Liturgy of the Word Nobody warns, ‘So may shopping with Holy Communion. days to Easter!’ Dates for Your Diary Prayer Meeting - Wednesday 7.30pm No costly gifts, no money loss. Classic Vintage Car Run will take place Moone: Easter seems too easy. th on Sunday April 14 - Palm Sunday - Sunday 12noon. Holy Day: 11am It is...... if you forget the cross. starting at 1pm in Moone, and finishing Tuesday & Friday 10am - Liturgy of the with an auction in Shakelton Restaurant Word with Holy Communion. Answer: Did you know that Prayer, (Crookstown Inn) in aid of Parish ********************* Fasting and Almsgiving are referred Activities. The Parish Team: to as the Three Pillars of Lent? They The Dublin Diocesan Pilgrimage to Fr Liam Rigney PP - 087-2607377; are the three pillars on which stand a Knock, to celebrate 140years since the Email: [email protected] successful and ‘happy’ Lent. apparition will take place on Saturday Fr Tim Hannon CC - 059-8631698 Although Lent does have a penitential April 27th. The pilgrimage will be led by Fr Francis McCarthy CC - 087- or sacrificial character to it, it is Archbishop Diarmuid Martin. 6978143 perhaps better understood as an opportunity to redress the balance in ************ Conor McCann - Parish Pastoral Worker - Narraghmore & Moone favour of God. Healthy Body - Healthy Mind 086-7905654. Email: The Church offers to us this Are you looking to take the first steps to a [email protected] fitter, healthier you? Ever thought it would wonderful season each year, which Natasha Geoghegan - Parish Pastoral coincides with the season of Spring, be great to have a personal trainer if only Worker - Athy & Barrowhouse as an opportunity to renew, refocus you could afford it? Well now you can. 087-6730300. Email: and rejuvenate our relationship with Every Wednesday morning from 10:30 – [email protected] God as lived out in relation to those 11:30 in the Moone Parish Hall there is a Parish secretaries around us. This we do through Physiotherapist led exercise class for all Ber Murphy & Trish Holligan - . Prayer, Fasting - denying our self ages and abilities. No need to book, Mon, Tue, Wed & Fri 10am - 4pm. something to unite it with the simply come along and take those first S.s. Mary & Laurence Church, sufferings of Jesus - and almsgiving, steps to a fitter healthier you. Crookstown, Tel: 059 8623154. Email: being considerate of those who don’t ************** [email protected] have enough. Happy Lent.