NOTICES

LEGION OF MARY Meetings every Wednesday Evening in the

Parish Pastoral Centre, Robert St., New Ross at 7.30pm. Contact Des & Marie- 051-420523.

Rosary & Divine Mercy are recited every Friday @ 3.00pm on the Quay, next to the

Dunbrody Centre.

LECTIO DIVINA Every Wednesday morning at 10.45am for one hour, in the Parish Pastoral Centre, Robert St., New Ross

ST. VINCENT DE PAUL—NEW ROSS (085) 8313073

New Ross Parish Bethany Bereavement Support Group

Contact No: 087-3846577

HOME VISITATION TEAM

Tel 083 474 5789 to avail of this service

or to volunteer.

CONFESSIONS: Saturdays after 10AM Holy Mass & before

6PM Holy Mass. Mon—Fri on request after 10AM Holy Mass, Please notify the priest

before Mass in the Sacristy.

SUPPORTING THE PARISH Envelopes: If you would like to register as a friend of New Ross Parish Church St. Mary’s & St. Michaels

and support the weekly envelope collection please call to the parish office for details or

telephone (051) 421 348

PRIEST ON DUTY (051) 421214 Visitation of Sick / Housebound: We are anxious to visit those who cannot celebrate Holy Mass

with us due to illness, aged or infirm. Arrangements can be made to receive the

sacraments at home by calling the Parish Office.

EUCHARISTIC ADORATION

Every Tuesday from 10.00AM Holy Mass to

Solemn Benediction at 9.00PM.

SAFEGUARDING REPRESENTATIVE: Mairin Jackson—Contact No: 051-421348

Printing Courtesy — Prim Ed

MEALS ON WHEELS

St. Aidan Centre, Cross St. Tel: 051 445711

Scripture Readings for The Most Holy Trinity

1st Reading: Deut 4:32-34. 39-40. Psalm: 32:4-6,9, 18-20, R/ v 12. 2nd Reading: Rm 8:14-17. Gospel: Mt 28:16-20.

Diocese of Ferns Safeguarding Information Session

There will be a Safeguarding Information Session in the Brandon House Hotel, New Ross, Co. Wexford on Monday 28th of May from 7.00pm-9.00pm for the following parishes: New Ross, Cushinstown, Rathgarogue, Terrerath, Newbawn ,Raheen, Adamstown, Horeswood, Ballykelly, Ballycullane, Gusserane, St. Leonards, Clongeen, Little Cullenstown, Ramsgrange, Templetown, Poulfur, Duncannon. All Parish staff/volunteers are asked to attend. This session will focus on the practical ways in which we can ensure good Safeguarding so that the parish environment in which our children are involved is safe for them and for the adults that work with them. Safeguarding is everyone’s responsibility so please come along and get informed about safeguarding best practice.

Corpus Christi Procession Sunday 3rd June 2018

Beginning from the New Haughton Hospital at 2.30pm, the procession will make its way:

To the Community Hospital Along Hospital Road to the Three Bul-

let Gate Then to the Youth Centre And to Finish at the Mount Carmel Monastery The Parish Pastoral Council cordially invite households and businesses, where possible, to mark the route of the Procession of Our Lord Jesus Christ, present in the Blessed Sacra-ment, by decorating their homes and premis-es. Traditionally, this might include prepar-ing an altar of statues and/or sacred pictures, flags, bunting, flowers, etc. in windows or in front of the house. All are welcome to join in the procession, for the whole or for a part of the way. Will the stewards, canopy carriers and candle bearers please gather at the New Haughton Hospital at 2:15pm. Thank you

New Ross Parish. Church of

St. Mary & St. Michael

Newsletter Volume 31 No. 20 20th May 2018

Pentecost Sunday

Adoration of the Blessed Sacrament for the retention of the 8th Amendment on Friday 25th of May from 10AM to 9PM.

THE REFERENDUM

Two realities in the last 100 years have loomed large in the social history of the young Irish Nation, viz: THE MOTHER AND BABY HOMES in the early years and THE MOTHER AND CHILD SCHEME of the 1950’s. What is noticeable in both is that Mother and Baby are carefully linked in the offi-cial naming of the realities; accepted by all as perfectly natural and proper, given the unique emotional and physical relationship that exists between a child and his/her mother. What is unique and disturbing in the present Referendum debate is the deliberate severing of that natural connection - the separation of mother and child. Such a situation surely goes against all maternal inclinations. It is noticeable that people IN FAVOUR of the REPEAL of the 8th Amendment appear to EXCLUDE the unborn CHILD totally from their deliberations. It is accepted by both sides that HUMAN LIFE COMMENCES AT CONCEPTION. That human life of the Mother and the Child is sacred and must be protected and supported at all stages, in all and every circumstance.

THE RETENTION OF THE 8TH AMENDMENT ENSURES THIS. It preserves that natural relationship between mother and child, through which both can happily blossom together. Yours in Christ, Msgr. Joseph McGrath PP Rev. Roger O’Neill CC Rev. Tom Orr CC

HOLY MASS INTENTIONS FOR THE WEEK.

N.B. All 8.00 a.m. Holy Masses are in Mount Carmel Monastery Chapel

SANCTUARY

LAMP: Special In-tentions

Sanctuary Lamp available @ €10.00

per week.

Date Time Intention

Sat 19th 6.00pm

The Deceased Members of The Whitty Family, Camblin

Anniversary

Sun 20th 8.00am Cynthia Gannon, Nunnery Lane Anniversary

9.00am Liam Bruen Anniversary

10.00am Bill & May Coleman, Old Post Office Lane Anniversary

12.00pm Tony O’ Flynn Month’s Mind

Mon 21st 8.00am Special Intentions

10.00am The Neville Family, Tanhouse Anniversary

Tues 22nd 8.00am Annie Mears, 10 Upper William St. Anniversary

10.00am Maureen & Dicksie Dwyer, Kylemore, The Rower

Anniversary

Wed 23rd 8.00am Pro Populo

10.00am Kathleen, Jimmy & Mary Evans, Mullingar Anniversary

Thurs 24th 8.00am Sr. Margaret Therese Clothing Anniversary

10.00am Sheila Roche, Bewley St. Anniversary

Fri 25th 8.00am Kathleen Pyne Anniversary

10.00am Martin Guy & Philomena Kehoe, Ard na Greine

Anniversary

Sat 26th 8.00am Catherine & Joan Walshe, Arnestown, New Ross

Anniversary

10.00am

Parish Mass Association

6.00pm

Lena & Jim Connolly, Church Lane Anniversary

Sun 27th 8.00am Mary & John Butler Maggie & Joe O’ Leary, Rathnure

Anniversary

9.00am Thomas & Margaret Howlett, Camblin Anniversary

10.00am Martin Monaghan, 6 Lower William St. Anniversary

12.00pm Margaret Dunphy, Irishtown Months Mind

Mass Bookings: We are now taking bookings up to and including October 2018.

WEEKLY COLLECTION

Sunday 13th May Envelopes: 265

Amount: €2,257.80 THANK YOU.

BAPTISMS We welcome into our Christian Community Bexton Peter Davis & Novelle Jean Davis, Knockmullen who were recently baptised. For Baptism Bookings on Saturdays @ 4.30PM & Sundays @ 1.00PM.Please contact the Parish Office.

TODAYS READINGS The Church was made manifest to the world on

the day of Pentecost by the outpouring of the

Holy Spirit. The gift of the Spirit ushers in a

new era in the dispensation of the mystery-the

age of the Church, during which Christ mani-

fests, makes present and communicates his

work of salvation through the liturgy of his

Church “until he comes”.

RADIO HOLY MASS 104.7FM SAT. VIGIL @6.00PM & 10.00AM DAILY INCLUDING FUNERAL MASSES

RECENTLY DECEASED

We pray for Dick Lyng,Newtown, May Keith(née

Griffin), La Verna, Ballykelly, Nancy Byrne (née

Bennett), Cross St. who passed away recently. May They Rest In Peace.

ANNIVERSARY PRAYERS

We remember in our prayers Paula Leahy,

Ard Mhicil whose anniversary occurs around

this time.

May Rosary The Rosary will be recited for the month of May each evening in The Irishtown at the Grotto at 7pm starting Tuesday 1st May. All are Welcome.

Novena To the Sacred Heart Thursday 31st May—Friday 8th June 2018 St. Mary’s & St. Michael’s Parish Church after 10.00am Mass Daily. We are all invited to make this Novena in our own homes, with friends and family or in the Parish. This Novena is available in leaflet form or is published in the June issue of The Sacred Heart Messenger. Novena will take place after 10AM Holy Mass Daily

Pope Frances, Audience with Italian Movement for Life, April 11, 2017

It is necessary to reaffirm our solid op-position to any direct offense against life, especially when innocent and de-fenseless, and the unborn child in its mother’s womb is the quintessence of innocence. Let us remember the words of Vatican Council II. ‘Therefore from the moment of its conception life must be guarded with the greatest care while abor-tion and infanticide are unspeakable crimes.”

Anniversary/Birthday Remembrance Prayers intentions means the individual is remembered during the weekend masses starting 6.00pm Saturday evening onwards through to Sunday @ 12.00 noon. Their Remembrance will also be noted in the Parish Newsletter . Please note the mass is not specifically offered for the individual.

FERNS DIOCESE We Cannot Change Moral Truth

None of us should ever have the power to decide on the death of another. To concede to any per-son the right to intentionally take the life of an-other – in this case the life of a voiceless unborn child – is not only to redefine human life as less than sacred, it is also to make a hierarchy of hu-man life – where some lives are deemed to be of no value at all. In matters of life and death, none of us is a supreme judge who can decide the fate of another, least of all the vulnerable and the voiceless, the unborn child. I ask you today to remember that no referendum can change moral truth. The direct and intentional killing, of an unborn human being, would be just as immoral the day after it was ‘legalised’, as it had been, the day before.