Twenty-First Sunday of the Year
25th August 2013

V. Rev. Nicholas J. Irwin, P.P. – V. Rev John J. O'Rourke A.P.
056 8834855 & 086 3298060 – 056 88 34128 & 087 2370899

All Masses from Gortnahoe & Glengoole Churches
are broadcast on 106.6 F.M.

Defribulator contact numbers are 086 7749521 or 086 7749713

Morning Masses
Gortnahoe: Monday, Wednesday and Thursday at 9.30.
Glengoole: each morning at 9.30.

Pilgrimage Day
Fatima Pilgrimage Day is in Holycross Abbey this Sunday 25th August, including Stations, Anointing of the Sick and Mass. You are invited.

Family Mass
Sunday next, 1st September is Family Mass Sunday in Glengoole at 10.00 and in Gortnahoe at 11.15. At the Mass we are invited to make our Year of Faith a time to bring us closer to God. There will be a meeting of the Family Mass Committee on Monday at 7.30 in Gortnahoe Hall

Committee Meeting
Parish Committee Meeting will be in Gortnahoe Hall on Monday night at 8.30 to discuss the plans drawn up for the ground beside Gortnahoe church.

Glengoole Hall Committee
Meeting of Glengoole Hall Committee on Thursday night at 8.00. Full attendance essential.

Support Information Evening
Bereavement Support Information Evening will take place at Milford Care Centre on Tuesday 27th August from7.00 to 8.30.

Thank You from Sr. Catherine (Kathleen McCormack)
Thank you to all for making my Jubilee Celebration in Glengoole on 17th August a joyful, prayerfilled thanksgiving for all. This is my prayer for you as we travel on. May the God of love be with you, with a lively faith in you and hope in your hearts. Reassuring you of my prayers and please remember me in yours.

Parish Annual
All organisations please submit articles for this years Parish Annual as soon as possible to parishannual@gortnahoe.com or to Gortnahoe Post Office, also photographs of special occasions, weddings, baptisms and special birthdays, etc. Thank you.

Assembling photographs for our historical Parish Book of Photographs is very well underway, with a huge amount of parish photographs, going back for very many years already collected. Have you a photograph of any of the priests who worked in the parish? They would be most welcome and would be returned to you immediately after scanning. Please bring them to the Post Office at Gortnahoe or to Ryans Shop. All other photos most welcome also.

Lotto
There was no winner of the €5,600 Jackpot. The numbers drawn were 1, 12, 15 & 20. Lucky Dip winners were Katie Loughnane, Clonamicklon, Joan O’Meara, The Green, Fethard, Mary Slattery, Glengoole, Thomas & Michael O’Mahony, Grange. €25 Sellers Prize winner was Hogans, Ballysloe. Next Draw 29th August at Mary Willies. Jackpot €5,800.

Resource Centre Fun Day
Millennium Family Resource Centre Fun Day will be on Friday 30th August from 3.00 to 7.00. Everyone is welcome and is invited.

Calor Community Champion
We are invited to enter for the Calor Sponsorship of local parish volunteers, sports coaches, etc who give so much to their communities. Total overall prize fund is €10,000. Further information from Robert Marshall at 01 6690215 or 087 6478542.

Tipperary Women’s Mini Marathon
Register now on www.tippminimarathon.ie for the 2013 Mini Marathon in Clonmel on Sunday 29th Sept. at 11.00.

Pray for the following

Gortnahoe

• Ellie O’Meara, Gortnahoe.
  Anniversary Mass Saturday 24th at 7.45.
  
• Christopher Cashin, Grange.
  Anniversary Mass Sunday 25th at 11.15.
  
• Molly Lahert, Crossogues.
  Month’s Mind Mass Friday at 8.00
  
• Bridie, Jack & Bridie Fitzpatrick, Kilcooley.
  Anniversary Mass Saturday 31st at 7.45.
  
• Leesha Swafield & deceased members of the O’Keeffe Family, Ballysloe.
  Anniversary Mass Sunday 1st Sept. at 11.15.

Glengoole

• The Deceased members of the O’Brien Family, Ballynonty and Josephine Bishop, Rosslare.
  Anniversary Mass Saturday 24th at 6.30.
  
• Maureen Kearney, Lanespark.
  Anniversary Mass Sunday 25th at 10.00.
  
• Martin Cooney, Boulick.
  Anniversary Mass Saturday 31st at 6.30.
  
• Michael Norton, Graiguewood.
  Anniversary Mass Sunday 1st at 10.00

Start of Year School Prayer
We ask God’s blessing on all beginning this new school year. For some it is their first year in their school, for others it is the return after their summer holidays. May this blessing be a source of all they and their teachers need this year. Amen.

Parish Newsletter Publishing for each week

• All emails can now be directed to this address: newsletter@gortnahoe.com
• All notices to the E Mail or the priests by Friday at 6pm.
  
  

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