Relay for Life Clonard Vintage and Heritage Club The Candle of Hope ceremony is a very special make an appeal to local people to lend items of PARISH NEWSLETTER event and takes place 20th/21st August starting at interest and memorabilia from 1916 for display at st st 21 August, 2016 – 21 Sunday in ordinary time - Psalter Week 1 9.00 p.m. on 20th August at the Relay for Life 24 the show on 28th August, 2016. Contact 086 Fr. Tom Gilroy P.P hr event. Candle bags can be dedicated to 3432215. All items would be greatly appreciated Parish Office Kinnegad (Open Friday 10.00 a.m. – 4.00 p.m.), Phone 044 9375117/ 044 9391030 Email: [email protected] someone you have lost to cancer or to honour and will be returned unmarked. Masses and Intention: 20th/21st August 2016 Masses and Intention: 27th/28th August 2016 someone who is currently battling cancer. Vintage vehicles and machinery, 1916 themed Sat. 20th Aug. Kinnegad 7.00 p.m: Willie Kelleghan Sat. 27th Aug. Kinnegad 7.00 p.m: Colleen Caulfield (months display, threshing, children’s entertainment, dog st Sun.21 Aug Clonard 9.00 am: Moll & Brian Coloe & mind) show, live music, dancing and lots more. A deceased family members Richard Trimble Alcoholics Anonymous – th th family fun day. Sunday 28 August 2016 at 2.00 10.30 am.: Anne & Matthew Maguire Sun.28 Aug Clonard 9.00 am: People of the Parish The support Group is moving to a new Coralstown 10.30 am.: People of the Parish p.m. For details contact Carmel 087 2794859 Kinnegad 12.00 Noon: Elizabeth McAuley (months mind) nd Kinnegad 12.00 Noon: Patrick & Kathleen Casserly & Mary and location at Columb Army Barracks from 22 Brian Casserly August, 2016. Their new base will be at Vintage Club Sunday 21st August, th Mass in the Parish this Week Block B in the Barracks. Details are 7 Annual Vintage Road Run with BBQ at 5.00 p.m. Clonard Kinnegad. Coralstown All vintage vehicles 20 yrs and older displayed in our Parish Church. Lady Drives welcome.

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Receiving Holy Communion Killucan. All monies raised goes locally to: North Westmeath Hospice Palliative Care Service. Holy Communion is available to all communicants under both kinds at our Sunday Masses. St. Camillus Patients Comfort Fund. The Killucan/ Golden Years Club. Jesus becomes alive in the Eucharist. He becomes Monday to Friday 9.00 a.m. Contact Carol 087 9220505 for further information. No morning Mass in Clonard No morning Mass in Saturday at 10.00 a.m. the living body and the living blood. When we this week Coralstown this week Ita & Fintan Carberry & deceased receive it, he becomes alive in us. Cemetery Day: Griffinstown Cemetery members of the Carberry Family Mass will be celebrated in Griffinstown Cemetery Cemetery Sundays in the Parish Pilgrimage to Knock at 3.00 p.m. on Saturday 17th September, 2016. th A word of thanks and appreciation to everyone who worked so hard to prepare and on Sunday 11 September leaving Kinnegad at Mass will be celebrated on the site of the celebrate Cemetery Sundays. Thanks to everyone who participated in the liturgies; to 8.30 a.m. Coralstown, 8.45 a.m., The Downs medieval Parish Church dedicated to the Blessed 9.00 a.m. For booking contact Bernadette at Virgin Mary. Everyone is welcome. everyone who helped with preparing the Cemeteries, stewarding and for all who 044 9374505. attended the Ceremonies. They were really lovely and inspiring Parish occasions, Please pray for: thanks to everyone who made them so. New Parish website Sister Cecilia Flynn (Convent of Mercy), “Children of 1916” Project We have a new Parish website. The site at Tullamore and Rossan, Kinnegad) The next meeting of the team will take place in the Parochial House, Kinnegad at 8.00 www.kinnegadparish.org is now fully built. You Bernadette Lines (Orchard Close, Kinnegad and th might visit the site and provide us with some p.m. on Wednesday 24 August. We have some material on almost everyone born in feedback. ) who died this week. 1916. Can you check the list in the Parish Church or at the Parish Office to see if you May they rest in the peace of Christ recognise anyone? Call 9375117 for information. Clonard: 21st August Kinnegad: 20th/21st August Coralstown: 21st August Reader Eucharistic Collector Reader Eucharistic Minister Collector Reader Eucharistic Collector Minister Minister th C. Teehan Michelle John Treacy Vigil Vigil Vigil Ruth Judge Marie Jim Cole John Keogh (died 25 May 1916) Kavanagh Billy Treacy Brendan Caroline Glynn Eamonn Gorman Haddigan Frank Hoey Dardis Nora Dunning Brian Dardis Peter Kelly Researching “The Children of 1916” has thrown up lots of interesting 1916 connections Anne Kenny Cyril Treacy Anne O’Riordan Patsy Dardis Pat Coffey with Kinnegad. One of these connections is John Keogh, a native of Kinnegad, he died Tony Maher 12 Noon Noon 12 Noon Paul Kavanagh The McAuley Patsy Dardis Paddy Flynn Deirdre fighting on the Hulluch Front in May 1916 (near Laos). He is interred in St. Patrick’s family Myra Corr J. J. Farrell Cotter Military Cemetery, Laos. He served with the Royal Irish Fusiliers. We would like to Breda Nugent Clonard: 28th August Kinnegad: 27th/28th August Coralstown: 28th August include an entry on John Keogh in our planned publication. Is there any local Reader Eucharistic Collector Reader Eucharistic Minister Collector Reader Eucharistic Collector Minister Minister knowledge about him? Is he by any chance a member of your family? Let us know by D. Johns Michelle John Treacy Vigil Vigil Vigil Christy Marie Jim Cole call 9375117. Email;[email protected]. Web:kinnegadparish.org. facebook: Kavanagh Billy Treacy Michael & Caroline Glynn Eamonn Gorman Brennan Haddigan Frank Hoey Kenny Okeke Nora Dunning Brian Dardis Peter Kelly www.facebook.com/kinegadparish/ www.facebook.com/thechildrenof1916/ Anne Kenny Cyril Treacy Anne O’Riordan Patsy Dardis Pat Coffey th Tony Maher 12 Noon Noon 12 Noon August Offering Day – Sunday 14 August Paul Kavanagh Shane Kelly Patsy Dardis Paddy Flynn Deirdre Myra Corr J. J. Farrell Cotter Many thanks to all who supported the offering day last Sunday, Breda Nugent which is greatly appreciated.