Parishes of & Moone

Bulletin - 33rdSunday in Ordinary Time - November 17th/18th 2018

Mass Intentions Our November Masses for the bereaved, positive, safe and supporting learning Sunday where we gather, pray for and remember environment. Our dedicated teachers and our deceased family and friends and for staff genuinely care about your child’s Ballymount - those who have been bereaved are: Crookstown - Ken Waters (A), Jack St Ita’s Church : social and emotional wellbeing and will O’Connor – Blackhall, Ann (Nan) Doran th work in close partnership with you to st Monday November 19 at 7:30pm - (1 A), Mary & Tom personalise your child’s learning for Walsh & their son Tony (A), Declan SS Mary & Laurence Church success and to meet your child’s Wall (A), Matt & Mary Lawler (A) and Crookstown: educational and wellbeing needs. deceased members of their families, Ned th Cranny (A) Tuesday November 20 at 7:30pm Application for enrolment forms are Kilmead - St Michael’s Church : available from Mary in the school office. Moone - Esther Kelly, Michael & Wednesday November 21st at 7:30pm Phone No. 059-8626100 or Catherine O’Connor, John Brien – email: [email protected] Lipstown, Narraghmore (A), Michael, The Most Holy Trinity Church Fanny & Peter English – Back Moone Closing date for receipt of completed Moone: st (A), James Kelly – Sheriff Hill (A), th forms is Friday December 21 2018. Chris Farrell – Parkvale (A) Monday November 26 at 7:30pm ***************** Seán Scally – Sheriff Hill (A) , Joe ************************ Leigh (A) Diocesan Priesthood - Vocation Exploration Retreat: Weekday The National (Priestly) Vocations Office Crookstown: Wed & Fri 9.30am - is running an overnight “Come & See” Donor’s Intentions retreat for young men aged between 18 – 40 in Mount St. Anne’s in Killenard, ********************* near Portarlington. Starting at 6pm on Question: Going to Fri 23rd and concluding at 4pm on Confession or the Sacrament Saturday 24th November. If you might of Reconciliation is only be interested in exploring what is For Road Crash Victims. about my relationship with involved in becoming a priest and would To date in there have 24,250 God and and ‘cleansing’ my soul. True like to find out more, without fatalities on Irish Roads since records or False? commitment or obligation, please email began. Today we take a moment to ******************** Deacon Eric Cooney in the National remember and to pray for those who have (Priestly)Vocations Office died. We pray also for their families and on: [email protected] “Come away to a quiet place, those who have been affected. where we can be alone and get *************** Suaimhneás agus Siocháin Doibh some rest…” Mark 6:31. Scoil Íde Naofa Kilmead is currently ********************* Adoration of the Blessed Sacrament. accepting enrolment applications for our South Active Retirement - TODAY and every Sunday November in Junior Infant class 2019. We also have SKAR Moone Church from 5-6pm. A time of limited places available in Senior Trip to Yeats Country Hotel, Rosses quiet and reflection. Everyone is Infants, First, Second, Third and Sixth Point, Co. Sligo November 25th –30th . welcome. classes. Turkey & Tinsel Pre-Christmas themed ***************** In Scoil Íde Naofa, your child will be week. 5 nights BB plus dinner each part of a nurturing community minded night. Cost €209 pps single supplement November Masses for the Bereaved school, promoting resilience in a of €15. Entertainment each night, you

can avail of Bowls and Bingo on one Phone Meadhbh at 085-1237514. Fr Francis McCarthy CC - 087- night. 6978143 ************************ Travel Arrangements: Conor McCann - Parish Pastoral Sunday November 25th, leaving Athy Crookstown/Ballymount Monthly Worker - Narraghmore & Moone Station at 10.24am to Heuston, Parish Lotto - October Results: 086-7905654. Email: Luas to Connolly Station depart Numbers 8, 16, 38. [email protected] Connolly at 13.00 to arrive in Sligo at Natasha Geoghegan - Parish Pastoral €20 winners: 16:15pm. Worker - Athy & Barrowhouse Gemma Steed c/o M. Cullen To book or for more information 087-6730300. Email: Anette McMahon c/o M. Harney contact: Maureen Cullen on 085- Shane O’Toole c/o M. Cullen [email protected] 7231315. Geraldine Nolan c/o M. Harney Bowls every Tuesday from 3-5pm. Kim Gillespie c/o M. Harney Parish secretaries South Kildare Active Retirement meet Ber Murphy & Trish Holligan - . Next Month’s Jackpot - €2,000.00. on the last Thursday of each month in Mon, Tue, Wed & Fri 10am - 4pm. ****************** Moone Hall and new members are S.s. Mary & Laurence Church, always welcome. Radio Maria Ireland Crookstown, Tel: 059 8623154. Email: ********************** is a Catholic Radio station at the service [email protected] Fancy a cuppa? of the Good News of the Gospel of Don’t forget that the Piers Community Jesus Christ and the Church. Please Thought for the Days ahead... Café is open in the old Post note that they are at your service and “God is calling you to let yourself Office in Moone. The Café happy to facilitate news, events and new be loved by Him.” Pope Francis presenters to help build up the faith (at the closing mass on the Synod on opening hours are: Youth.) Monday to Friday 9am - community. For more information: 1pm. Friday: 2pm - 4pm and Sunday: contact Fr. Eamonn McCarthy, Priest Answer: Did you know that the 11am - 1pm. Director: Tel: 01 4123456 / www.radiomaria.ie Sacrament of Reconciliation is *********************** ******************* about reconciling our relationships “Care for our Common Home” with God but also with each other - Mass & Church Service Times: the Church. The evenings are drawing in, days are When we make wrong choices or colder and we need to stay warm. But Ballymount: bad decisions to behave in ways we should also try to balance this with Sunday 8.30am that are not in keeping with the plan as Pope Francis said in his encyclical that God has for us “I have come Crookstown: that you may have life, and have it Laudato Si; ‘care for our common Saturday 7pm (Vigil) home’. How can we do this? Well to the full”, then we do harm to Wednesday & Friday: 9.30am relationships; the relationship with maybe try to not to leave lights on that Tuesday & Thursday: 9.30am - Liturgy God and with one another. In much of the Word with Holy Communion. are not needed, try not to leave taps the same way as when we make bad running, only boil as much as much Tues. 7-8pm Exposition of the Blessed Sacrament decisions that impact on our family water in the kettle as we need, recycle The priest on behalf of God and on more, use less packaging, dispose of our Kilmead: behalf of the community (an official spokesperson so to speak) sets those waste properly. There are many small, Sunday 10.30am but effective ways that we can all make relationships back on an even keel. Thursday 9.30am - Liturgy of the Word a difference and care for this beautiful In Medieval times confessors had with Holy Communion. place that God has given to us that we books detailing the required Prayer Meeting - Wednesday 7.30pm penance depending on the gravity call home. Moone: of the sin. These books, or ******************** Sunday 12noon. Holy Day: 11am ‘Penitentials’ as they were called, were first introduced by Irish Arthritis Ireland Tuesday & Friday 10am - Liturgy of the monks as far back as the 6th century. Word with Holy Communion. Kildare Branch physiotherapist led The penances were always about ********************* introductory exercise programme takes making things right between the The Parish Team: penitent and the community. In fact place in Moone Parish Centre at Fr Liam Rigney PP - 087-2607377; it was Irish monks who introduced 10.30am until 12 noon every the practice of private or Auricular st Email: [email protected] Wednesday until Wed 21 Nov confession. Admission free. All welcome. Fr Tim Hannon CC - 059-8631698