KNOCKLYOST. COLMCILLE'S PARISH N NEWMARCSH 2002 HOLY WEEK SERVICES ST. COLMCILLE'S CHURCH, KNOCKLYON MARCH 24th PASSION SUNDAY Celebration of the Passion and Distribution of Palms at all Masses MARCH 25th MONDAY 8.00 p.m. Celebration of Hope and Healing ••••• MARCH 28th HOLY THURSDAY 10.00 a.m. Morning Prayer 3.30 p.m. Children's Mass 7.30 p.m. Celebration of the Last Supper ••^HH MARCH 29th ••••• GOOD FRIDAY 10.00 a.m. Morning Prayer 11.00 a.m. Stations of the Cross for Children 12.00 noon Stations of the Cross for Adults 3.00 p.m. Celebration of the Lord's Passion 8.30 p.m. Musical Presentation of MARCH 9th/10th the Passion RECONCILIATION WEEKEND SATURDAY 9th MARCH 30th 7.00 p.m. Mass & Sacrament of Reconciliation HOLY SATURDAY SUNDAY 10th 10.00 a.m. Morning Prayer 11 a.m., 12 noon, 1 p.m. and 7 p.m. 10.30-11.30 a.m Confessions Mass and Sacrament of Reconciliation. 4.00-5.00 p.m. Confessions MARCH 9th 9.00 p.m. Celebration of the Resurrection LENTEN REFLECTION AND PRAYER 9.45 a.m. Morning Prayer MARCH 31st 10.00 a.m. Mass I EASTER SUNDAY NOTE Brief Talk by Fr. Micheal O Neill and Angela Ryan 9.00, 10.00 and Mass followed by quiet reflective prayer, concluding with Exposition of the Blessed Sacrament 11.00 a.m., times Tea/Coffee 12 noon, as usual You may join at any time between 9.45 a.m. (Morning Prayer) and Noon. 1 p.m. and 7 p.m. on Sunday ANOTHER LIFE - ANOTHER WORLD ished his theology training and another year teaching in Terenure College, he set off for Southern Rhodesia (now Zimbabwe), with many tears shed by his parents at his departure. His aunt thought he was too delicate for mission work. Life was exciting in Africa where he has spent more than half of his life, but it was tough going at times. It was not wild animals or snakes that were the greatest dangers but the heat and yes, the cold also, as well as the many insects and bugs that abound in the hot rainy season. Fr. Jerry survived bouts of malaria, bilharzia, amoeba and housemaid's knee (not from praying! but from camping at outschools during the cold dry season at 5,000 feet above sea level). Due to long exposure to the tropical sun, he has had surgery a number of times From Zimbabwe to Knocklyon - the journey on his face and forehead. So don't be surprised if you made by Fr. Jerry Galvin some months ago. see him always wearing a hat. Fr. Jerry has had a varied missionary experience, In a recent interview he spoke to us about beginning as a manager of a dozen schools, teaching his early life, and some of his experiences as at primary and secondary levels, and in the minor a Missionary Priest, in a country that could Seminary, and, since his return to Zimbabwe in 1986, be described as a world apart working with our young Zimbabwean Carmelites in their formation/training. For eight years he did religious Ask Fr. Jerry Galvin when he came to Knocklyon, his broadcasting on the national radio. Then, of course, reply will be "a week after September 11th last year. In there was the more pastoral work as in any parish: the past," he says, "there have been disasters through- preaching, teaching, Mass, and the other sacraments out the world, but never have they been relayed world- and so on. There was also much administration work to wide and seen by so many people as they were actu- be done, lots of development, such as getting church- ally happening." For him, like most of us, that date will es built, electricity and water installed and, especially be forever etched upon our minds. in times of drought, organising food relief schemes for By now, most of us will be familiar with the presence the poor. of Fr. Jerry at the Sunday Masses. Indeed, he may It was at the height of the Liberation War (from 1975 have already called to your house for a friendly chat. to 1979) that Fr. Jerry was wounded by one of the His hope is to visit a good number of households dur- guerrilla fighters and had to leave Zimbabwe. As the ing his stay. war was still on when he recovered and having com- Fr. Jerry was born in Kinsale, Co. Cork, the son of a pleted a study sabbatical year, he went to work in taxi man. One thinks of that lovely town, perched on South. Africa, ministering in a multi-racial parish near the edge of the sea, a place of olde worlde charm, of Cape Town. Six years ago he got another sabbatical quiet inlets, yachts and ships. Who could ask for a study year which he spent in Washington D.C. doing more idyllic childhood? However, those were the the Carmelite certificate course. depression years, World War II, with shortages, He calls Knocklyon his Refuge in Dublin and the year rationing and poverty, and life was tough for everyone. with us his Re-lnculturation Year, ministering to his own Educated by the Presentation Brothers and serving as people for a change, re-learning his Irish, learning to an altar boy in the Carmelite Church, it was not sur- do the hornpipe, to play the piano and to learn small prising that he entered the Novitiate after his boat sailing, as well as improving his horse-riding. Matriculation. Fr. Jerry is not due back in Zimbabwe until July this He graduated from U.C.D. and spent his H.Dip year year. He is delighted to be in our Carmelite Community teaching in Terenure College. Although he never and to meet so many of the people in the area. If you played rugby, he helped to train the Under 9's. (!) 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