Established 1967 www.lucannewsletter.ie Sub. 80c Sunday 21st April 2019 Yes, it is true. The Lord has risen! “Now while he was with them at table, he took the bread and said the blessing; then he broke it and handed it to them. And their eyes were opened and they recognised him; but he had vanished from their sight. Then they said to each other, ‘Did not our hearts burn within us as he talked to us on the road and explained the scriptures to us?’ They set out that instant and returned to Jerusalem. There they found the Eleven assembled together with their companions, who said to them, ‘Yes, it is true. The Lord has risen and has appeared to Simon.’ Then they told their story of what had happened on the road and how they had recognised him at the breaking of bread.” Luke 24: 30-35 That beautiful Gospel story of the encounter between two of the followers of Jesus with the Risen Lord contains layers and depths of meaning. The followers were on their way home having witnessed the horror of Good Friday; their hopes and dreams were in tatters. The one in whom they had placed so much faith is gone, it all seems to have ended in tears. It’s only when they tell their story to the stranger and he listens respectfully that insight begins to break through. The stranger begins to fill in the missing pieces for them, going through the scriptures and identifying the hand of God in all that had happened even in the dark deeds of Good Friday. It's when they extend hospitality to this insightful stranger that the final piece of the jigsaw is dropped into place: “Now while he was with them at table, he took the bread and said the blessing; then he broke it and handed it to them. And their eyes were opened and they recognised him; but he had vanished from their sight.” Their immediate reaction is to take the arduous seven mile walk back to Jerusalem to inform the disciples, it didn’t matter that night had fallen and the journey a dangerous one, they had encountered the Risen Lord! Whenever we gather at the table of the Eucharist we too encounter the Risen Lord, we too have him reveal God’s plan in the scriptures to us; we too share a privileged encounter. The Lord is Risen, Alleluia! Fr. Philip Curran Citizens Information Centre Free Dietitian Led XPERT Course for Ballyowen Castle Community Centre, Lucan Type 2 Diabetes Ph. 0761 07 5090, Fax. 01 6217930 in Ballyfermot Library and Quarryvale Family Email [email protected] Resource Centre. www.citizensinformation.ie A free 6 week course to help you manage your Opening hours from April 2019: Type 2 Diabetes, delivered by the HSE Monday, Tuesday, Thursday and Friday 10am to Community Dietitian. 1pm and 2pm to 4pm. 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CHARITY Property Alert Service The Property Registration Authority has set up a THEATRE DINNER property alert service to let property owners NIGHT monitor their registered properties for fraudulent activity. Property fraud could involve someone pretending to be you, and trying to sell or IN AID OF mortgage your property without you knowing. ST. FRANCIS HOSPICE If you sign up to the property alert service, you will get an email or text if someone lodges an The Spa Hotel Charity Golf application relating to your property with the Classic PRA. If the activity is fraudulent you can take and members of Lucan Drama action if necessary. The property must be will present a registered with the Land Registry but you do not have to be the owner of the property. THEATRE DINNER NIGHT To find out more, visit prai.ie and to sign up for 4-Course Meal and the service, visit landdirect.ie 2 Hilarious Comedy Plays “Armchair Critics” & “Wedding Bells” Porterstown Parish Fundraising By Martin Donohoe Percy French Troubadours In the Honora D’ Restaurant In the Parish Centre th LUCAN SPA HOTEL, April 27 , at 8pm. th On Friday May 10 , 2019 at 7.30pm Dinner & Plays for €25.00 All the popular songs and poems Come along and sing along! Bookings Phone Spa Hotel 01 Pay at the door 6280494 Community Clean Up Day on Saturday 27th April. The local and European elections are fast approaching. Polling day will be May 24th. We in Lucan Tidy Towns are always a little apprehensive in the weeks coming up to the vote. Our concern is about election posters. At this stage we hope that the vast majority of Newsletter readers and election candidates are aware that: There is a long-standing agreement that election posters are not put up in our Village. In these days of social media, it's very questionable whether these posters serve any useful purpose. They are an expense for the candidates involved and more importantly are environmentally very unfriendly. Very often even when they are taken down after polling the cable We would ask that as many people as possible ties are left behind on the poles and look awful. come out and give a hand, even for a short time. We particularly invite businesses in the village Judging in the National Tidy Towns competition area to give even one hour's work on the day to will start just two weeks after the elections. It Lucan Tidy Towns. would be a shame if the visiting adjudicator noted down that there were posters or cable ties on You can sign up to this by contacting view. [email protected] or speaking to any one of our members (easily recognizable in So we are appealing to all candidates: yellow hi viz jackets). Please don't put up election posters anywhere in We hope to see you there. Lucan Village between the Welcome Stones. You will be helping us to maximise our score in Join us for Lucan Tidy Towns Clean-up Day the Tidy Towns on Saturday 27th April 2019. competition and Meeting in the Village Green. Time: 9am contributing to waste Pickers, gloves and bags can be provided if reduction. necessary. Queries: [email protected] Let's keep Lucan a POSTER FREE ZONE! There may be candidates in the field running for the first time who might Griffeen Valley Park Clean-Up be unaware of this convention so please take note. An Taisce are promoting National Spring Clean- If anyone needs clarification on the exact Up. Griffeen Valley Park [section with running boundaries of the Village we are referring to track and hockey all-weather pitch] badly needs a please contact us at [email protected]. clean-up. An Taisce are providing pickers, bags, bibs etc. South Dublin County Council will You may have seen some of us up on ladders collect the refuse within a week. earlier this week. No, we were not putting up posters! Instead, we were busy cleaning road Please come along and play signs around the village. We hope you noticed the your part on the day. One difference. hour should do it. We will assemble at the entrance Lucan Tidy Towns are holding our Annual to the hockey pitch at Spring Clean Day in conjunction with Dublin 10am on Saturday April 20th. Michael O’Grady from Finnstown Abbey is the local organiser. Parish Notes Thank You St Mary’s, Lucan We would like to thank the “Sarsfield Park www.lucanparish.com Residents Association” for the Mass they th arranged for the 40 Anniversary of the Glen of Christian Meditation: Imaal. There will be no meeting this Tuesday 23rd April. It was lovely to see all the old friends of the lads Wishing you all a Happy and Holy Easter. there and to talk to them. And most of all we Sr. Geraldine, 6217158 would like to thank their good friend Fr Joseph Poole, for saying the Mass and for the lovely Dublin Diocesan Pilgrimage to Knock words he had to say about them. Saturday 27th April “Thank you” Jimmy, Josephine, Susan and Aideen Kane. Those already booked, please pay €40 by th Wednesday 24 April in the Parish Office If you have decided not to go please let Deirdre know as there is now a waiting list. Coach will leave lay-by at 7.45am Stop for tea/coffee and scone en route Depart Knock approximately 5pm following Main Mass in the Basilica at 3pm Dinner in the Longford Arms on way home St Mary's Folk Group: Our next Mass takes place this Sunday 12.15pm. Please come along and join in the singing. We wish everyone a very Happy Easter Divine Mercy, Lucan South www.lucansouthparish.net Divine Mercy Sunday 28th April 2019 Church of Divine Mercy - Lucan South Parish 2:00pm – 3:00pm: Silent Adoration and reading Last Sunday 14th April was the 40th Anniversary from St.