Support for Fr. John Kilcoyne now stands at €3,102. Thanks for your financial support. Together with what we realise from the Golf Classic on May 5th our support for Fr. John will allow him to make a

positive contribution to his Mission in Tanzania.

VOICES AT WILTON CHARITY CONCERT

Featuring: Ryan Morgan,

Alison Long,

“Scrubs” (C.U.H. Workplace

Choir),

Cork Garda Male Voice Choir

Sunday 24th April

SMA Church Wilton Cork at 8 pm

Tickets cost €15 and will be available at the

Church door.

St. Joseph’s Church Wilton

Telephone: 021- 4341362 smapcc@eircom.net

COME HOLY SPIRIT. The Church will celebrate the coming of the Holy Spirit at Pentecost on the 15th May. In anticipation of this the parish has invited Fr. Mossie Kelleher to give two talks which might help us to understand better the meaning and significance of this event for our lives. Fr. Mossie will seek to address such issues as: What does it mean to talk of the Spirit today? How do I know it’s the HOLY SPIRIT I am listening to and not my own spirit?

The talks will take place on Tuesdays the 3rd and 10th May after the 10.30 Mass

We are in this life to choose who we wish to be.

Nobody else lives your life for you – you must do that yourself.

Nobody is going to save you, you do not need saving.

Nobody has your dreams but you.

Trust your intuition to find what you really want;

Nobody will be as sorry as you if you don’t.

Hold on to your dreams – go out and make them happen.

My Mission in Tanzania – a few more thoughts from Fr. John Kilcoyne

As missionaries we serve the spiritual needs of our people, we also do our best to help them with their material needs. This means assisting those who do not have enough food, the means to get the medical care they require or such things as school-fees and other educational needs. We have government run schools in our area – there are Church schools in many of the missions, but this is beyond our means at present – but these government run schools have few if any books. We would love to be in a position to provide such educational material. Any assistance we get goes

towards the material and spiritual care of our people.

And this year the needs of our people because of the poor harvests of the last two years are particularly great. We assist people in need regardless of denomination. The only criteria are the level of need of the person or family seeking assistance.

In New York City, Catholics and other faith communities delivered an Interfaith Climate Change Statement to the President of the UN General Assembly, Mogens Lykketoft in preparation for the signing of the Paris Agreement on Earth Day, last Friday, 22

nd April.

The statement, signed by over 270 high-level religious leaders (including prominent Catholics such as Cardinal Tagle, President of Caritas Internationalis, and Bishop Sorondo, Chancellor of the Pon-tifical Academies of Sciences; plus other faith leaders such as the Dalai Lama and Desmond Tutu) urges our governments to rati-fy and implement the Paris Agreement just days ahead of the Signing Ceremony at the UN Headquarters on Friday. “Humanity is at a crucial turning point. We as faith communities recognize that we must begin a transition away from polluting fossil fuels and towards clean renewable energy sources”, reads our state-ment. “Climate change presents our global family with the opportunity to embark on a path of spiritual renewal defined by deeper awareness and greater ecological action." Let’s pray that when the Paris agreement is signed that each country,

including Ireland will honour their commitment to reversing the damage

done by carbon emissions and reduce emissions so that we can return

planet earth to full health for the benefit of all its peoples.

The Wilton Justice Group.

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Exposition of the Blessed Sacrament takes place every

Monday, Wednesday and Friday between 10.30 am - 2 pm.

National S.M.A. Pilgrimage to Knock takes place on Saturday, May 28th. Cost €25.(Bus only)

Bookings and itinerary available at Parish Office, (office hours).