Second Sunday of Lent

19th March 2011

Missalettes in Glengoole Church
Please pick up your missalette from the table at the end of the Church on your way into Mass and return it there on your way out.

Lenten Devotions
Devotions with Stations of the Cross and Benediction will be in Glengoole Church on Sunday at 7.00.

Morning Masses
Glengoole: each morning except Thursday at 9.30.
Gortnahoe: each morning except Thursday at 9.30.

Volunteering to be of help in the Churches
Gortnahoe-Glengoole Parish has been well served over the years by its parishioners. You are now being invited to volunteer to be a Minister of the Eucharist or a Collector at the Offertory, or a member of the group that organises the monthly Family Mass or a Reader at Masses or a member of the Altar Societies or an organiser of regular Eucharistic Adoration or any other work you would like to see being done in the parish. Take a Volunteer Form, and return it completed next weekend. The more that volunteer the less burden there will be on the others. Be a Volunteer.

Glengoole School
Glengoole National School is currently enrolling pupils for the 2011/2012 school year. If you wish to enrol your child, please call to the school or phone 052 9156644.

Thurles Vigil
A three hour Vigil, in honour of the Annunciation of Our Lord, will be held in the Pallottine College Chapel, Thurles on Friday 25th March. It will commence at 8.00 and will consist of Eucharistic Hour, Marian Hour and Holy Mass. All are welcome.

Thanks
Sincerest thanks to all who contributed to the recent Gortnahoe Church Gate Collection for the Epilepsy Association. € 401 was contributed.

Juvenile GAA Club
Juvenile GAA Club will hold its AGM on Friday 25th March in the Club Rooms at 8.30 pm. Everyone interested please come along.

Dinner Dance
The Annual Pioneer Association Dinner Dance will be held in Dundrum House Hotel on Saturday night 2nd April. Tickets are € 25.00 each.

A wonderful night of food and dancing is guaranteed. Please book your tickets from Fr. O'Rourke as soon as possible. Honour Mothers Day with the special 'night out'.

GAA Lotto Draw
There was no winner of the € 8,800 on 16th March at Buddys, Glengoole. The numbers drawn were 4, 5,7, & 16. Lucky Dip winners were Eileen Mulcahy, Clonora, Simon Cantwell, Gortnahoe, Katelyn Corbett, Coalbrook and Mike Cleary, Boulick.. . Next Draw 24th March at Hogans, Grange. Jackpot will be € 9,000. Sellers prize winner was Josephine Hogan.

Bingo
This week's Jackpot of € 875, together will the weekly prize money of €1,600 makes our Bingo very attractive. Please come and support

Pray for the following

• Catherine Malone, nee Laffan on Tullaroan formerly Kilcock, Gortnahoe who was buried during the week.

Glengoole

• Martin Slattery, Glengoole Nth.
  Anniversary Mass Saturday 19th at 6.30.
• Elizabeth & Edward Grant, Coalbrook.
  Anniversary Mass Sunday 20th at 10.00
• Paddy & Sarah Moloney, Ballysloe.
  Anniversary Mass Thursday at 9.30.
• John Egan, Coole.
  Anniversary Mass Saturday 26th at 6.30
• Peter & Josephine Walsh, Poynstown & Grangemockler
  Anniversary Mass Sunday 27th at 10.00.
• Sean Brennan, Lickfinn.
  Anniversary at this time. Mass later.

Gortnahoe

• Tommy Webster, Foilacamin.
  Anniversary Mass Saturday 19th at 7.45.
• Kitty & Jim Mulligan, Inchorourke.
  Anniversary Mass Sunday 20th at 11.15.
• Deceased members of the Kiely Family, Glengoole North.
  Anniversary Mass Saturday 26th at 7.45.
• John & Mary Delaney, Ballybeg. Tullaroan.
  Anniversary Mass Sunday 27th at 11.15

Transfiguration Prayer
Lord, we give thanks for this great mystery of your divinity, which brings to us on earth a share in the life to come, through Christ our Lord. Amen.

Parish Newsletter Publishing for each week

• All E Mails can now be directed to this address: newsletter@gortnahoe.com
• All notices to the E Mail or the priests by Friday at 6.00.
  

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