TWELFTH SUNDAY OF THE YEAR

First Saturday:
Devotions of Reparation and Mass at 9.30

Collection:
The July Collection for the Archbishop and priests of the diocese will be next weekend. Please give what you are requested. Envelopes were given out at the beginning of the year. We ask the usual collectors to kindly attend.

Thanks:
Sincerest thanks from the Pallottine Fathers for the generous contribution to the Collection of Gortnahoe € 305 and Glengoole €370.

Dance:
Gortnahoe Community Association will hold their next dance this Thursday 29th June from 9.30 to 12.30. Black Lace will provide the music. Admission €5.00. Refreshment will be served. We need the support of the parish in order to continue the success of the dance.

Bingo:
Congratulations to Biddy Slattery from Kilkenny city who won €1,000 at our recent Bingo in Gortnahoe Hall. Biddy won the Jackpot on a €200 game and was presented with her €1,200 prize. This weekend the jackpot is €325, plus the weekly money of €1,500. We would appreciate much more support from the parish. Any profit from the Bingo is used for the upkeep of our Hall.

The Millenium Family Resource Centre:
Glengoole proposes to hold a Fas funded Fetac Level 3 (Foundation)course beginning September 2006, subject to numbers.  Course will include modules on childcare, computers and cookery and others.  For further information please contact
Alice or Josephine at 052-57992.

Gortnahoe Church Restoration Progress:
This is being written as we celebrate the Feast of the Sacred Heart, to whom our church is dedicated. We are glad to report on the great progress since this time last year. A wonderful sum of money has been collected. We are just ready to start the first phase of the work on the church, namely the repair of the roof, the gutters and down-pipes and the bell-cote, the removal of all water from around the church and the installation of an invalid accessible toilet. The contractors, who will start work in a couple of weeks are Meagher Construction Ltd., Drangan.

The first of two years of fund raising has just one month to run. If you have not made your full contribution for the first year, make sure you organise it immediately. Our Churches, their use and upkeep, continue in the hands of every parishioner.

Pray for
Mary Moriarty, Urard, who was buried during the week.
Nicholas Kealy, Cornwall, England formely Kilcooley who died during the week.

Glengoole Church
Anastasia Purcell, Ballinastick. Anniversary Mass Saturday  8.00.
Bridget Stapleton, Ballysloe. Anniversary Mass Sunday 11.30.          
Denis, Josie & Paddy Kiely, Glengoole Nth, Anniv. Mass Sat. 1st 7.00
Eileen Morris, Ballynonty. Anniversary Mass Sunday 2nd 10.30

Gortnahoe Church

Dolly Maher, Fennor. Anniversary Mass Saturday 8.00
Jimmy Stapleton, Knockboy. Anniversary Mass  Sunday 11.30.               
Michael Maher, London & Mary Maher, Gortnahoe & Glengoole Sth. Anniversary Mass Saturday 9.30
James Lyons, Gortnahoe. Anniversary  Mass Sat.1st at 8.00
Patrick Campion, Graigue. Anniversary Mass Sun.  2nd  July  11.30

FAMINE 1848 WALK

There will be a public walk in Ballingarry parish to commemorate all those who died during the Great Famine and the 1848 Rising which took place in the middle of the Famine.
The Walk takes place on Saturday, 29 July at 3pm and all are welcome. The Walk covers a distance of one-and-a-half miles of gently ascending ground on the public road.

         It commences from the 1848 national flag monument in the village of The Commons. The Walk will proceed to the Famine Warhouse, an OPW national heritage site, which was the scene of the 1848 Rising.
In the two-storey house walkers and visitors will have an opportunity to see a wide-ranging exhibition on the Great Famine, mass emigration and the 1848 Rising set in its European context.

         Famine Warhouse 1848 is situated on the Cashel-Kilkenny scenic route through the Slieveardagh hills. The house is located at Warhouse Hill, a high point of 1,000 feet. Visitors will be able to enjoy views from the fields around the house as far as the Wicklow mountains.
In the Great Famine, one million people died. In the exhibition in the house one can read how the Ballingarry priest, Fr Philip Fitzgerald wrote during the Famine that ‘if there were another week of the same kind there would be heaps of unburied dead in the parish’.

The 1848 Rising led by William Smith O’Brien, Thomas Francis Meagher and John Blake Dillon was a response to the events of the Great Famine. The events at the house led to a State trial for High Treason. Death sentences were commuted to penal exile in Australia from where several leaders escaped to the United States of America.
The event is organised by the Ballingarry 1848 Committee who intend that the Walk will become an annual event on the last Saturday in July.        

Newsletter Publishers for July
Peg McGarry, Fennor   
Ph. 056 8834333. E Mail  peg000@gofree.indigo.ie

Louise Cleere, Rathbeg
Ph.056 8834204. E Mail louisecleere@eircom.net

All notices to the publishers or the priests by Friday at 6.00.

 

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