Rev. Fr. John Dunphy: Phone: 059 / 9141833 / 9182882 Priest on Call for Carlow Area: (Emergency Only)Phone: - 087/2588118

Novena to Our Lady

of Perpetual Help Continuing this Monday night 25

th April

at 7.30pm in St Clare’s Church. The theme for this year’s novena is “Exploring God’s Mercy”

GUEST SPEAKER this week is:

Christy Kenneally Writer & Broadcaster

***************************** SOLEMN NOVENA continues for nine consecutive Monday nights.

The rosary is recited at 7.10pm and Mass begins at 7.30pm. Each

night a special guest speaker will speak for about 15-20 minutes. Our

Novena draws inspiration from these speakers and it is also an

opportunity for the whole community to come together and pray for

one another.

We invite you to come and join us in prayer.

Graiguecullen

Bingo This Tuesday 26

th April @ 8.30pm.

Jackpot €2,650.00 in 50 No’s

Check on a Double Number win or

share €1,790. Great Prizes to be won.

Diocesan Pilgrimage to

Knock Shrine Takes place on Sunday 5

th June 2016

Led by Bishop Denis Nulty

With the Diocesan Choir

under the direction of

Fr. Liam Lawton

Contact Parish Office 059 9141833

HOLY CROSS SODALITY - Our Annual

May Sunday celebrations take place this year

on May 8th. First held in 1884 the Procession

attracted large crowds of people, most of

whom would have walked into Graiguecullen

to join in. This year we are asking people to

walk in memory of a loved one and join us

for 12 noon Mass in Holy Cross Church. If

you are not up to the full journey please join in

along the way. We leave from St. Clare's

Church at 10.30am.

Love Is Catching Does it ever seem to you that Jesus can be a little unrealistic?

Today Jesus tells us “I give you a new commandment, that

you love one another. Just as I have loved you, you also

should love one another.” But how can we go round loving everyone

we meet? Isn’t love reserved to those closest to us … our parents,

children, and partners? Harder still, how can we love as Jesus loved?

Jesus loved us to the point of death. Surely following this kind of

example is a very tall order!

The main thing to remember in following Jesus’ teaching is that he

wouldn’t ask anything of us that we couldn’t do. Secondly, we might

not be ready to love each other to the point of death, but Jesus gives us

plenty of other lessons in how to love. We’re not talking some

impossible ideal or some form of idealistic behaviour. We simply need

to recognise, as Jesus recognised that love is a basic human need. Jesus

had a talent for seeing everyone as an individual. We too need to see

people as individuals rather than lump them together into categories.

We too need to recognise need and respond accordingly. Loving

someone is a decision we make rather than the harbouring of fluffy

romantic sentiments found in greeting cards. Loving someone is about

serving the need to be liked, appreciated, forgiven or helped. We follow

Jesus’ lessons in love every time we seek to alleviate someone else’s

suffering … every time we reject violence and retaliation ….. every

time we make a stand against neglect or greed or apathy.

There are plenty of people who are already living their lives by Jesus’

example. These people are shining examples of discipleship, not be

what they say but by how they behave. Have you ever been filled with

so much respect for someone that you wanted to imitate them? If you

start to behave in the same way it won’t be long before others are

looking up to you as a role model. Watch out …. love is catching.

St Clare’s Altar Society:-are

seeking volunteers to help clean the

church. Contact parish centre

0599141833 if you can help.

Graiguecullen Monster Bingo

Tuesday 3rd

May 2016 @ 8.30pm

1916 Centenary Event Tomorrow (Sunday

24th Apr) at 12.00 noon there will be a

reading of the Proclamation on the front

lawns of Carlow College, St Patrick’s.

Carlow Pipe Band will be present and there

are also two exhibitions on display and open

to the public – a photographic exhibition

from the Galicia Jewish Museum in Krakow

‘Traces of Memory: A contemporary look at

the Jewish past in Poland’ and also the

Easter Rising, 1916 Commemorative

Exhibition. All are welcome.

Adoration takes place every

Wednesday in St Fiacc’s House

from 10.30am to 2.30pm.

All Welcome

Parish Shop: Visit the Parish Shop where we now stock a great range of items for

Communion and Confirmation. We also stock a range of gift ideas and cards for most occasions.

Weekly Collection

Red Bag € 803.00

Blue Bag €1,518.00

We thank you for your support

Anniversaries Sat 23

rd 6.30pm (First Anniversary) Richard (Dick) Walsh, 12 St Fiacc’s Tce

Martin Timmons, Henry St, also his son Ger

Mary Jo Barcoe, Hanover & Collins Family, Bestfield

(Joe Hutton, Maher Road) – (Doris Brennan, Leighlin Street)

(Michael Ramsbottom, 5 The Numbers)-( Patrick Barcoe, Coolnamarah, Borris)

Kitty Lowry, Hanover, also her husband John (Birthday Rem)

(Jim & Denis Moran, Whitney Place)-(Sean Lynch, Whitehall, Dublin)

Sun 24th

10.15am Lil & Jim Fitzpatrick, Clonmore, Killeshin

Maureen & Paddy O’Rourke, Hillview, Killeshin

(Andy & Mary Dowling, Ardenteggle)-(Christina Dempsey, Lr Rossmore)

11.30am (Months Mind) Mary Clare Fennell (née Haughney), Dunshaughlin

Colm McNelis, Pacelli Ave (25th

Anniversary)

(Michael Lyons, Sleaty)-(Margaret & John McEvoy, Hollymount)

Wed 27th

10am (Agnes Kelly, Anneville)-(Peg & Charles Rettmieir, New York)

Stephen & Hilda Power, London

Fri 29th

10am (Kathleen Power, 34 Pacelli Ave)-(William & Ellen Davis & deceased family)

John & Elizabeth Nolan , Duggan Ave & deceased family

Sat 30th

6.30pm (Maureen Dunne, Ballyharmon)- (Liam Dooley, Rosconnell, Attanagh)

William Culleton, St. Fiacc’s Tce also his sons Liam & Michael

Harry & Kathleen Mallon and deceased family

James Byrne, 8 Henry St also remembering his wife Kathleen

George Wynne, Staunton Ave also his wife Bridget (Birthday Rem)

(Michael Keating & deceased family, Castle Hill)-(Charlie Byrne, Ballyharmon)

Sun 1st 9.00am John Carroll, Centaur St & Laois

James Hade, Fr Byrne Pk also his son Baby James

10.15am Annie Dempsey, Coolhenry also her grandson Jonathan Dempsey, Ashgrove

William & Annie Brennan, Coolnariska

11.30am (Months Mind) Maura Doyle, Crossneen

(Ellen Doran, Mortarstown)-(Kathleen Power, Pacelli Ave)

Mary Hosey (née Flynn), 26 Riverside, Carlow

Liam Tierney, Oak Park, Carlow/Cloughjordan, Tipperary

Kayleigh Delaney, Ballinacarrig Road, Quinagh, Carlow

READERS

ST CLARE’S

Sat 30th

April 6.30pm: Brid Brett,

Marian Doyle, Aine Harte

Sun 1st May

9am: Zoe Hayden,

Jennifer Murnane

O’Connor, Josh McGuill

11.30am: Carla & Ciara

Hennessy

READERS – HOLY

CROSS

Sun 1st May

10.15am: Hannah Keogh,

Kate Thompson, Aideen

Dollard

EUCHARISTIC

MINISTERS

St. Clare’s Sat 30 th

April 6.30pm: Nicola Byrne (C),

Veronica Byrne, Margaret

Connolly, Margaret

Costello

Sun 1st May

9am: Caroline & Margaret

Brennan, Padraig Brett

11.30am: Phil Brady (C),

Corina & Mary Brennan,

Anne Marie, Bernie &

Kathleen Byrne

HOLY CROSS

Sun 1st May

10.15am: Geraldine &

Shauna Brennan, Cormac

Dollard

Killeshin Pipe Band Annual May

Sunday field day will take place on

Sunday 8th May straight after 12

o’clock mass. Great day

guaranteed. All support welcome.

UGA IRISH BARROW WALK:

You are invited to our annual

walk along the Barrow Track on

Monday 2nd

May (bank holiday).

We will be leaving from the

Carlow Town Hall at 11am and

walk to Bagenalstown where there

will be transport back to Carlow.

There will be refreshments served

along the way. Family and friends

are welcome to join us for a fun

day out and at the same time

support the UGA IRISH Project.

Hope to see you then. Phone

0868141797 for more info.

Carlow Lions Club are holding

a book sale in Elaine Curtis Unit

Potato Market, donations of books

very welcome. All books are €1.

Contact Des 086-2327218,

Tony 087-2673748.

Darkness Into Light Carlow 2016 takes

place on May 7th at 4.15am from St.

Laurence O’Toole Athletic Club and it’s set

to be a wonderful occasion once again.

Registrations can be done online at

www.dil.pieta.ie and at locations around

Carlow Town. Updated details can be found

on our Facebook page. Festival of Foke Lore in Oisin

House May 6th from 7pm-10pm.

Details on Facebook page

Destination Graiguecullen Killeshin

Are you eligible for a CE scheme?

Graiguecullen Killeshin Parish

Company Limited is seeking to

recruit a Care Assistant for

RehabCare. For further information

please contact 059 9134887

Eist Cancer Support Centre is looking for

ladies to walk or Run the VHI Mini

Marathon on Monday 6th June and raise

sponsorship for the Eist Centre. T-shirts &

sponsorship cards are available and a bus

will also be arranged for the day. Please

contact the Eist Centre if you support Eist

with this fundraiser.

If you or someone close to you has been

effected by cancer please contact Eist

Carlow Cancer Support Centre – 059

9139684. We can arrange an appointment

for you to call in and find out what services

we provide and how we can support you.

Killeshin Active Retirement

hold their 1916

Commemoration

Celebration on Tuesday

next at 7.30 in the Den Prefab.

Visitors welcome.