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21st January, 2018 Third Sunday in Ordinary Time Vol. 2 No. 8

Parish Churches St John’s: Church of St John The Evangelist Dunmore: Church of The Most Holy Trinity Johnswell: Church of St John The Baptist

Parish Contacts Mailing Address: St John’s Presbytery, Dublin Road, Kilkenny Email: stjohns@ossory.ie Website: stjohnskilkenny.com Presbytery: 056-772 1072 Fr Frank Purcell: 086-601 0001 Fr Brian Griffin: 087-064 4158 Fr Lorcan Moran: 086-855 0521 Parish Secretary Áine Butler Sacristan St John’s Jane Dineen Sacristan Dunmore Marian Eardly Sacristan Johnswell Linda Nolan SVP Help Line 086-895 1239

Pastoral Council Mary Brennan; Alan Burke; Margaret Cleere; Fr Brian Griffin; Fr Lorcan Moran; Aidan Phelan; Fr Frank Purcell; Pat Ryan.

Mass Times St John’s – Sundays & Holy Days Vigils: 6.30 p.m. Sundays: 8.00 a.m., 10.30 a.m., 12 noon & 7.30 p.m. Polish Mass: 2nd Sun. monthly at 2.00 p.m. Weekdays: 8.00 a.m. & 10.30 a.m. (Saturday 10.30 a.m. only)

Johnswell – Sunday 10.00 a.m.

Dunmore – Sunday 11.00 a.m.

Office Hours Mon. to Fri. 9.30 a.m. to 2.00 p.m.

Please Note All items for publication in

The Evangelist to be submitted to:

stjohns@ossory.ie

or to the Office by Wed. 1.00 p.m.

Episcopal Ordination of Monsignor Dermot Farrell In seven weeks �me, March 11th, the Episcopal Ordi-na�on of Msgr Dermot Farrell as Bishop of Ossory will take place at 3.00 p.m. in St Mary’s Cathedral. Msgr Dermot had his first mee�ng with the priests of the diocese last Wednesday in St Kieran’s College. He eagerly looks forward to working with the people, religious and priests of the diocese, thanked them for their warm welcome and good wishes so far. He requests that we pray for him and assures us of his prayers. Keep this prayer convenient so you can pray it daily.

Celebra�ng the recent announcement at St Mary’s Cathedral of a new bishop for Ossory are: Bishop-elect, Dermot Farrell, Bishop-emeritus Laurence Forristal and Bishop-emeritus Seamus Freeman SAC

Prayer For Our New Bishop-Elect Eternal God, Shepherd and Guide, may Dermot who will serve our Church be a shepherd a�er your own heart, who will walk in your ways and with loving care, watch over your people. May he be a leader of vision and a teacher of your truth. So may your name be glorified and your Church built up through Christ our Lord. Amen.

‘ F IVE STEPS TO EASTER ’ With the Cribs and Christmas trees only barely consigned to storage for another year, we rapidly become conscious that there’s now only four weeks to go until Ash Wednesday and the start of Lent. Our focus now, therefore, becomes firmly set on the Five Steps To Easter program -this year’s replacement for the Solemn Novena. The Five Steps program will run on the five Wednesdays between Ash Wednesday and Holy Week. It will consist of the celebration of evening mass at 7.30 p.m. on each of these Wednesdays with a guest speaker addressing the congregation on a special theme befitting appropriate preparation for the celebration of our Salvation - the Passion, Death and Resurrection of Our Saviour, Jesus Christ. There will also be a special reference point at the 10.30 morning masses, such as: children’s mass; reconciliation mass and confessions; mass with the sacrament of anointing of the sick. The evening presentations by the following well-known and generous speakers:

Fr Peter McVerry -S.J. Priest. Renowned advocate ba�ling poverty and homelessness in Dublin & na�onally.

Senator Joan Free-man - founder of Pieta House: Helping people in suicidal distress and self-harm leanings.

Sister Stanislaus Kennedy. No intro-duc�on needed in Kilkenny: Mindful & Mindfulness - Medi-ta�ons for Every Day.

Elber Twomey - Forgiveness. Loss of family: husband, son and unborn daughter when a suicidal driv-er hit their car, 2012.

Bishop Dermot Farrell - ten days a�er his Epis-copal Ordina�on - His journey of Faith and its many challenges as we journey towards Easter.

B e r e av e m e n t s

Recently Deceased: Brendan O’Leary, Lintown & Late of Dublin. Gemma Clancy, Dunmore.Kevin Fanning, Manchester & Late of Leggetsrath. John Wemyss England & Late of Sion Road. Peggy Farrell, Cardiff & Late of St John’s Terrace. Anniversaries: Lil Redmond (6.30pm); Billy Malone (8.00am); Rita Col-lings (10.00am); Michael O’Dwyer (10.30am); Jarlath Walsh (11.00am); Richie Grace (12.00 noon); Patrick Meany (7.30pm); Maureen Fitzger-ald; Michael & Mary Cahill; William Burke; Seamus Holohan; Alice Kin-chella; Margaret & Patrick Smyth; Tom & Mary Gaffney; Mary Fanning;

Readers for Next Weekend – Page 132

8.00am Martin Blake

10.30am Kathleen Ferguson

12.00noon Bobbie Lahart

7.30pm Marie Fogarty

Johnswell 10.00am Josie Manning & Fiona Manning

Dunmore 11.00am Martina Brennan & Tom Keating

Eucharistic Ministers for Next Weekend – Panel 1

Tuesday: Maureen Fitzgerald (10.30am). Saturday: Michael & Mary Cahill (10.30am). Dick Brennan (6.30pm) Sunday: Frank Walsh (8.00am). Nancy Comerford (10.00am). Michael Dowling (10.30am). John Irwin (11.00am). Larry Manning (12.00 noon). Tom Byrne (7.30pm).

‘BORN INTO ETERNAL LIFE’

Last week’s envelope collec�on: €3,539 Thanks to all who contribute weekly, monthly

and annually, as well as those who pay by Standing Order.

Standing Order forms are available in Parish Office.

St Vincent de Paul The January collec�on

for the Society of St V. de Paul will take place this weekend. Thank you for

your generous support of the Society.

Dancing with the Stars

Our local parishioner John Edward Nolan from Nore Terrace, Maudlin Street will take to the dance floor this Sunday evening on Dancing with the Stars. He is partnered by Celebrity Female Dancer Deirdre O’Kane. It all takes off on RTE 1 this Sunday at 6.30pm. Lets support our John Edward and Deirdre.

St Benedict's Priory

Day of Recollection at St. Benedict's Priory, Cobh, Co Cork. The theme is "Seeking God in Family/Community Life with the Servant of God, Marie Adele Garnier, through her writ-ings" Saturday 27th January. 9am- 3.30pm. Lunch provided. Cost: Donation. Con-tact: 021 811354 cobhtyburnconvent@gmail.com

… in the words of Oscar Wilde

“Always forgive your enemies; nothing annoys them so much.” “I am so clever that some�mes I don't understand a single word of what I am saying.” “I think God, in crea�ng man, somewhat overes�mated his ability.” “I am not young enough to know everything.” “You will always be fond of me. I represent to you all the sins you never had the courage to commit.” “Anyone who lives within their means suffers from a lack of imagina�on.” “A good friend will always stab you in the front.”

C o n f i r m a t i o n s 2 018 - T wo W e e k s Away

REMAINDER OF PREPARATION TIMETABLE:

Mon 22nd Jan. 7.30 p.m. Week 3 - “You Shall Be My Witnesses” in Senior School.

Thurs 25th Jan. 10 - 2.00pm Retreat: St Mary’s Cathedral Chapter House.

Mon 29th Jan. 7.30 p.m. Ceremony of Light for Parents & Candidates in St John’s.

Sat 3rd Feb. 11.00 a.m. Confirmation Ceremony in St John’s.

CONFIRMATION ALBS:

The wearing of Confirmation Albs by all Confirma-tion Candidates is our Parish Policy. These Albs are cream in colour. The Girls will be provided with a Gold Cincture (or ‘rope’ as they call it) to tie around the waist, while the boys will use a Red Cincture.

CONTRIBUTION:

To offset approximately 50% of Confirmation ex-penses (purchase, adjustment and cleaning of the Albs, books, printing, speakers, retreat @ €10 per pupil, etc.) we request a contribution of €25 per pupil – to be paid beforehand. If this causes undue hardship for any family, please contact the priest privately at any time.

THE EVANGELIST PARISH NEWSLETTER

The current Newsle�er format was first launched on the 5th March last year. We were very excited to be able to offer all mass-goers a fine, well produced colour edi�on on a week-ly basis since then. However, the uptake was nothing like we en-visaged. There was a significant drop in copies taken from the churches each weekend. Twice during the year we had to advise the company who produce them for us (LPI) to cut our order by 100 each �me. There was really very li�le posi�ve reac�on to its format, whilst there was much more nega-�ve reac�on: ’oh, we preferred the old one - it was easier to read’; ’it’s too big’; or ‘there’s too much in it’; etc. A lot of work goes into sourcing adver�sing

and pu�ng it together each week. We sincerely thank all the adver�sers who support our parish publica�on, and those who work hard to make it a reality each week.

Because the publishers (LPI) needed to know in advance (adver�sing etc. for the next 12 months) if we were going to renew our contract for the current format of the Newsle�er, the Parish Pastoral Council discussed the ma�er on a few occasions. The upshot of these discussions was sadly that, because of lack of interest, we would re-vert to the old A4 format from the beginning of March this year.

We would welcome any alterna�ve sugges�ons regarding the format and publica�on of parish news into the future.

‘Do The Ordinary Things Extraordinarily Well’

Christ entrusts to each one of us — wheth-er we are a fisherman or woman — the work of discipleship: to extend, in whatev-er our circumstances, the love of God to all; to proclaim, in our own homes and communi�es, the compassion, the for-

giveness, the jus�ce of the Gospel. As God is present to us in the person of Jesus, we are called to be present to one another in our love and care. To be the “fishers” that Christ calls us to become is to “cast the net” of God’s love that we have experi-enced upon the waters of our �me and place, to reach out and grasp the hand of those who struggle and stumble, to “love” away the hurt and pain and fear of those we love.

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