Station Area Venue Date Highlands Central Con & Judith Thursday 28th April @ Kelleher 7pm Glounthaune Parish Christian Meditation each Friday from th Courtstown Newsletter – Sunday 24 April 10.30am to 11am in the prayer room, Ballytrasna Park Fifth Sunday of Easter ______Church Centre. Everyone welcome. Castlewood Church of St , Fr Ted Sheehan – 087 2033756 Contact 021 4354479 or 087 6697664. th Church Court Little Island @ Friday 29 April @ Fr John Heinhold – 087 1689292 The Greens 7.30pm 7.30pm Emergency – 086 8845055 Meadow Lawn St Vincent de Paul Helpline Parish Office – 021 4353366 Ballinderrig 021 4270444 or 087 1520360 Killeena, Maryville & Glenmore Parish Office Opening Hours Ballyvinny & Coolnacaha Congratulations to the young people Monday – 9am – 1pm & 6pm – 7pm Knockraha Village St Mary’s Church, from Scoil Mhuire, Knockraha and Scoil th Tuesday: 9am - 1pm. Chapel Field Knockraha @ First Friday 6 May Cill Ruadháin, Glounthaune who Thursday: 9am - 1pm & 5.30pm – Radharc na Tuaithe 7.30pm @ 7.30pm received the Sacrament of Ard Abhainn 7.30pm Confirmation on Friday. We pray that Friday: 9am - 1pm the Gifts of the Holy Spirit which they Erins Own Lotto Results – 13th April. Numbers drawn: 6,8,25,28. No winner. have received will help them in their €30: Mary Nolan, Clare Green, F Burns. Next week’s jackpot: €1,390. Adoration of the Blessed Sacrament transition from primary to secondary Lá nag Club on Sunday 08th May, a day for all the family, including our annual is held in our Parish on school. fun run which will take place at 2:30pm and the walk starts at 2pm. Plenty of Tuesday 7pm – 9pm in the Church activities for all the family after, including the unveiling of our 1916 garden of Centre Wednesday 10am – 6pm in Parking in Glounthaune Church remembrance. the Church Centre Grounds is only for those with mobility Erins Own Annual Golf Classic on Friday 03rd June in Cork Golf Club, if you wish Friday 10am to 3pm in Little Island issues & the elderly. Please leave these to enter a team of 3 including a meal in the Golf Club is €200 or to sponsor a First Friday: Knockraha - Rosary at spaces free for those who need them. tee is €50, please contact O Connor at 086-2601136 to book your time 7pm, Mass at 7.30pm and exposition slot. Thank you for your co-operation. of the Blessed Sacrament after Mass. Seanoiri (Seniors) meeting in Church Centre every 2nd Tuesday of the month Advertising – We respectively ask that 2pm to 4pm. Chiropodist will be present. Come along and enjoy 2 hours of Rosary every weekday morning our church railings be left free of friendship and fun. Cuppa supplied. Anyone looking for transport to and from before 10am Mass. Eucharistic advertising. However, we are more please phone Peg at 021-4353736. Looking forward to meeting you all. Service in Glounthaune Church, than happy to continue to advertise Saturdays at 10am. Family Carers Ireland are providing the QQI Level 5 Healthcare Support Full any upcoming events/fundraisers for your organization/club in our weekly Award Training in your area in May 2016. This training will be run one day a The Legion of Mary meet on newsletter. week for five weeks from 9.30am to 4.30 per module. This qualification will Thursday nights at 7.30pm in the qualify you to work in areas of the care sector. For more info or to express an church centre. New members Remember to switch on your mobile interest contact the training department on 0579370221. welcome. Contact 086 2524718 for phone after you leave the church! information. Glounthaune Tidy Towns - Volunteers needed for litter collection on Items for the newsletter should be Tuesday April 5th. We meet at 7pm at church carpark. submitted by Wednesday at 5pm. Email [email protected] or phone 021 4353366. The Holy Face of A New Commandment - Jesus gives the Masses for the week ahead Congratulations to Knockraha Foroige A replica of the can be disciples a new commandment – to love Monday 25th Glounthaune @ 10am: Denis Club whose won the Foroige Soccer Shield seen on a billboard at the left hand side one another. When we truly love one O’Mahony for the 2nd year in succession after winning of the road as you drive out of another, we are experiencing Tuesday 26th Glounthaune @ 10am: Joan a series of matches last weekend at Inch, Glounthaune towards Carrigtwohill. something of the divine as love comes O’Sullivan near Killeagh. th Devotion to the Holy Face was revealed from God, love is God and God is love. Wednesday 27 Glounthaune @ 10am: by Jesus to Sr. Marie of St. Peter (1816- Surely Jesus’s command to love one Private Intentions Meals on Wheels – Monday driver needed. th 1848) a Carmelite nun of in France. another was nothing new for the Thursday 28 Little Island @ 10am: Paddy Voluntary commitment of approx. 1 to 1½ Kenefick hours every 5 weeks. Please contact The primary purpose of the devotion is disciples and those of their time; the th to make reparation for sins against the commandment is well known in the Old Friday 29 Little Island @ 10am: Joe & Kathleen on 086 4028165. Bridie Landrey first three commandments: Testament. But the love Jesus asks of st th Denial of God, and the the disciples here (and of us) is to love Mass Intentions 30th/1 May St Vincent de Paul Clothes Collection 14 th profanation of Sundays and Holy Days. as he has loved, and that is a Saturday, Glounthaune @ 6pm: Lil & 15 May at Glounthaune Church and O’Mahony First Anniversary th The devotion to the Holy Face of Jesus, controversial love for some. It is 15 May at Little Island church. Clothes Sunday, Glounthaune @ 9.30am: Jim based on the life and writings of Sr. controversial because Jesus’s love is bags will be distributed to parishioners on Sheehan & Jimmy Fennell 7th & 8th May. The last seven years of , was eventually without restrictions and without Sunday, Knockraha @ 10am: recession has brought with it a hugely approved by Leo XIII in 1885 who exclusion. It is a love of those we may Byrne increased level of need throughout the established the devotion as an Arch- not like, a love of those it is hard to love. Sunday, Little Island @ 11am: Mass for the area and particularly from the new poor – confraternity for the whole world. This love was too radical for some of the people of the parish those who have as a result hit very hard In January 1849 Pope Pius IX had the relic religious leaders of Jesus’s time and Sunday, Glounthaune @ 12 noon: Johanna times and have had to turn to us very of Veronica’s veil placed for public ultimately led to his death. This radically Kelleher First Anniversary. Teresa Hayes reluctantly for support. This resulted in the veneration in Rome. During this time, inclusive love is sometimes too much Months Mind, Maura Seacy, Liam Twohig, Society stretching our resources to the the Divine Face appeared distinctly, as if for Christians today also, to love the Bob & Justyne Forrest limit and beyond. Our reserves have been living, and was illuminated by a soft light. sinner, to love those on the extreme completely wiped out and we now have to Reproductions of the veil were later margins of our society, to love those Affordable Live-in Homecare provide embark on a huge campaign to seek funds printed, touched to the original and sent who have hurt us, to welcome back live in carers for the elderly in your area. to carry out the work that we do for the abroad for veneration. those who have done wrong, to include If you are looking for a live-in carer for families and individuals who come to us for This devotion to the Holy Face of Jesus so all at the table. Let us hear those words your relative, please call Mary or Tom assistance. With this in mind, we would like inspired St. Therese that she took the full of the more clearly today: ‘love today on 087 9916791. Our website is to recommence the collection of clothes title: ‘Sr. Therese of the Child Jesus and one another, just as I have loved you, www.alhomecare.ie after Masses. This enables us to sell the of the Holy Face’. you must also love one another.’ We clothes in our “Vincents” shops, which generates funds back into the Society and can dream and work towards a world Anam Cara is holding its monthly Parent also gives an opportunity to the people we Holy Land Pilgrimage: June 8-18 where this is a reality. Evening on Wednesday 4th of May from support to buy clothes at a reasonable Follow in the footsteps of Jesus on this Let the Church always be a place of 19:30 to 21:00 in the Clayton Hotel, trip of a lifetime. Spiritual Director, Fr. mercy and hope, where everyone is price. We thank you for your co-operation. Silver Springs, Tivoli, Cork. All Anam Cara Anne McKernan, Fundraising Officer. John Newman, is a Bible Scholar. Contact welcome, loved and forgiven. Services are available free of charge to Group Leader Mícheál de Barra at Pope Francis bereaved parents. 0868337681 now. Gaeilge Bheo. Luan 9 agus 16 Bealtaine 8 - 9.30in, Ionad an Phobail, An Gleanntán. Fáilte roímh chách! Eolas; Sean 4353344.