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The Evangelist incorporatingng g | | || St John’s s | | | Dunmore | | | Johnswell | | churcheshurches
10th September, 2017 Twenty-Third Sunday in Ordinary Time Vol. 1 No. 28
Parish Contacts Mailing Address: St John’s Presbytery, Dublin Road, Kilkenny Email: [email protected] Website: stjohnskilkenny.com Presbytery: 056-772 1072 Fr Frank Purcell: 086-601 0001 Fr Seán O’Connor: 086 389 5911 Fr Brian Griffin: 087-064 4158 Fr Lorcan Moran: 086-855 0521 Parish Secretary Áine Butler Sacristan St John’s Jane Dineen Sacristan Dunmore Marian Eardly Sacristan Johnswell Linda Nolan SVP Help Line 086-895 1239
Pastoral Council Mary Brennan; Alan Burke; Margaret Cleere; Fr Brian Griffin; Jimmy Kelly; Fr Lorcan Moran; Sheila O’Callaghan; Fr Seán O’Connor; Aidan Phelan; Fr Frank Purcell; Pat Ryan.
Mass Times St John’s – Sundays & Holy Days Vigils: 6.30 p.m. Sundays: 8.00 a.m., 10.30 a.m., 12 noon & 7.30 p.m. Polish Mass: 2nd Sun. monthly at 2.00 p.m. Weekdays: 8.00 a.m. & 10.30 a.m. (Saturday 10.30 a.m. only)
Johnswell – Sunday 10.00 a.m.
Dunmore – Sunday 11.00 a.m.
Office Hours Mon. to Fri. 9.30 a.m. to 2.00 p.m.
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There was once a very rich man who struck up a friendship with a builder. They went into business together and proved very successful. One day the rich man called his builder friend and told him he was going to be away for a year and while he was away he wanted him to build a most luxurious house. He said, “Here are the plans. I have deposited in the bank un-der your signature the amount needed to build the house.” The builder took the plans and started to think. “This could be my opportunity. I know the building business. I can trim some corners, pocket the money and no one will be any the wiser.” This is what he did. From founda�on to roof, he used the cheapest labour and materials. When the house was com-pleted, he had cut the cost by a third. The rich man came back a�er a year when the house was completed. Together they went to view it and the rich man said to the builder, “I didn’t tell you this before I le�. I wanted it to be a surprise. You have served me long and well, and I wanted to show my apprecia�on. This is your house. Here’s the keys. You live in it.” In the months ahead the poorly constructed house mocked, jeered and laughed at him and said, “You cheated your-self.” We too are in the building business, building honourable and respecta-ble lives. If we build our life on cheap and shabby materials, one day an empty shell of a life will look at us, mock us and say, “You cheat-ed yourself.”
Christian Meditation will resume in Patricks Parish
Centre, Loughboy on Wednesday 20th September at 4pm. All are welcome.
B e r e av e m e n t s
Recently Deceased: Pat Woods, Hebron Park. Eddie Ryan, Cellarstown Bonnie Malone, Kilmogar, Johnswell. Anniversaries: Mary Marnell (6.30pm); Catherine & Fr Bill Bennett (10.00am); Fran Phelan (10.30am); Carmel Hickey (11.00am); Martin Shelly (12.00noon); Catherine Kenna (7.30pm); Michelle Reynolds; Luke O’Dwyer; Seán Hanaphy; Michelle Reynolds; Joey Downey; John Curran; Jane, Richard & Seamus Shortall; Tony Malone; Bridget Bateman; Michael Coffey; Kay & John Buggy; Susan & John Joe O’Shea; Mary Cotter.
Readers for Next Weekend – Page 128 6.30pm Killian Foley
8.00am Ann Marie Hogan
10.30am Mary Hanafin & Seamus Mahoney
12.00noon Anne Maria Walsh
7.30pm Ann Fitzpatrick
Johnswell 10.00am Josie Manning & Fiona Manning
Dunmore 11.00am Bernard O’Gorman & John McGourty
Eucharistic Ministers for Next Weekend – Panel 2
Last week’s envelope collec�on: €1,795 Thanks to all who contribute weekly, monthly
and annually, as well as those who pay by Standing Order.
Standing Order forms are available in Parish Office.
Monday: Michelle Reynolds (10.30am). Wednesday: Luke O’Dwyer (10.30am). Thursday: Mary Cotter (10.30am). Saturday: Seán Hanaphy (10.30am). Bob Murphy (6.30pm). Sunday: Margaret Butler (10.00am). John Byrne (10.30am). Jim, Michael, Mary & Sharon Brennan (11.00am). Joan & Eamon Byrne (12.00noon). Eoin O’Donovan (7.30pm).
‘BORN INTO ETERNAL LIFE’
Kilkenny Active
Retirement
September meeting will take place this Monday 11th in the Club
House Hotel at 2.30pm. All are welcome.
SOS Kilkenny Ltd.
A lifetime service to people with an intellectual disability.
SOS would like to say thank you to everyone who contributed to our recent Church Gate Collection. The amount collected in St John’s was €925.57,
thank you for your support.
Legion of Mary
Pilgrimage to Knock
Sunday 24th September Bus leaves Parade at 8am.
Bookings: Pat 056 7764783 Kay 087 9428305
Fare: €20. All are welcome.
St Vincent de Paul The September collec-
�ons for the Society of St V. de Paul will take place next weekend. Thank
you for you generous support of the Society.
Kilkenny Flower Club
Kilkenny Flower Club resumes
meetings on Thurs. 14th Sept. in Butler House at 8pm.
Demonstration by Lorraine O'Brien. Non-members always welcome too.
A Table Quiz in aid of Grow will take place next Thursday 14th
September at 8.30pm in Billy Byrnes Pub,
John Street. Grant aid does not
cover the total needs of running the organisa-tion GROW needs to
raise funds to cover the shortfall to keep our services available to the
public. Your Support would be greatly appreciated.
Prayers & Thoughts for the Week
Monday 11th September - It’s the anniversary of the day now known simply as 9/11 when hundreds of lives were lost and hundreds more ruined. We pray that ‘Time’, the great healer, has begun to ease the grief of those s�ll struggling to come to terms with the loss of a loved one who simply disappeared beneath the Twin Towers, leaving no trace. We pray for the hundreds of children now growing up with only one parent, may they know you as their Father; and we pray for the Unit-ed States of America that they will accept their responsibili�es as a major power in our increasingly dangerous world, bringing jus�ce and wisdom to all their spheres of ac�vity.
Tuesday 12th September - We pray for all school children as they se�le into their new schools and classrooms. We especially pray for those who are a li�le nervous of what to expect from their teachers as evidenced in the prayer from young James: “Dear God, some teachers are nice and they don’t
shout. Please help the shouty ones to be quiet and all of them to be nice. Help us to be nice too.”
Wednesday 13th September - Let us be mindful of the way we speak to one another. St James wrote: “the tongue is a fire; with it we bless the Lord and with it we curse men who are made in the likeness of God.” Help us, Lord, to choose our words wisely. Put kind words into our mouths and guard us against hur�ul and malicious gossip.
Thursday 14th September - The Feast of the Triumph of the Cross. Lord, today we celebrate the fact that your beloved Son made an instrument of humili-a�on and death the instrument of our salva�on and conquered the world, not by the sword but by the cross.
Saturday 16th September - Its Interna�onal Day for the preserva�on of the Ozone Layer. Loving Lord, help us to treat your crea�on with respect. When our world is in despair and the way ahead is hard to follow, renew in us a sense of hope.
Pope Francis Quote - “God always has pa�ence.”
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