31st July, 2022

Adamstown Parish Newsletter

Saturday 30th & Sunday 31st July 2022  

Volume 22.  Number 30

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ADAMSTOWN LOTTO RESULTS

The winning numbers in the Adamstown Lotto draw on

Monday 25th July were: 9 – 16 – 22 – 29. There was no Jackpot winner and just one match three ticket, including online players. Match 3 winners were: Mark Curtis & John Hanley.

The next draw is on Monday 8th August in the Community Centre for a Jackpot of €14,600.

COMMUNITY GAMES ART & HANDWRITING RESULTS

Well done to everyone who took part in the art & handwriting this year. Great representation for the club on its first year back. Special congratulations to:

U-8 Art – 2nd Bridin Cunningham.

              3rd – Lily Shannon.

U-12 Art – 1st Aoibhinn McDonald

U-10 Boys Handwriting – 3rd Corey Colfer

U-10 Girls Handwriting – 2nd Bridin Cunningham

COMMUNITY GAMES – ROUNDERS

Well done to the Adamstown/Newbawn/Raheen U-13 boys Rounders team took home gold in the Leinster Finals with a 10-6 victory over Clonbroney from Longford. The team was:

Dec Brown, Peadar Brown, Will Fortune, John Elmes, Seán Furlong, Seán Galway, Aaron Kirwan, Seán Moran, Bobby O’Shea, Aidan O’Callaghan, Liam Prendergast & Aidan Whitty.  Well done lads.

ADAMSTOWN GAA CLUB

Adamstown GAA Club sends best wishes to Wexford Ladies Football team and especially all our local ladies involved –

Katie, Ellen, Cathy and Leah. Good luck to joint managers Lizzie Kent & John Nolan.  Well done to all involved and we send our team members and management with the full support of the entire local area. So very proud of you all. The match takes place in Croke Park this Sunday at 1.45pm.

Don’t forget our ‘One Cabaret Night in Foley’s, Newbawn on this Saturday night. 30th July.

Entry Fee €5 – a great night guaranteed.

RICHARD (RICH) FURLONG, COONOGUE R.I.P.

The death occurred of Rich Furlong, on Tuesday 26th July, peacefully at his home in Coonogue. We offer our deepest sympathy to his wife Nóra, daughters Averil, Florence, sons Aidan and Jarlath, grandchildren, sisters Kathleen, Bena and Olive, extended family, neighbours and friends. Rich was predeceased by his brothers Jack, Michael and Mosey.

His funeral Mass was celebrated in St. Abban’s Church on Friday last followed by burial in the adjoining cemetery.

May his gentle soul rest in peace.

THANK YOU – Family of the late Tom Walsh, Coonogue

On behalf of our family, I would like to offer our sincerest thanks to all who are here today as we say our final goodbyes to Grandad. A special thank you to Fr. Nolan who visited and prayed with us, and to the many friends and neighbours who have supported us with great kindness and generosity. We would like also to acknowledge the fantastic medical professionals who have taken such great care of Grandad in the recent months and years.

Thanks also to Cáit and Joe for today.

(Read by Tom’s granddaughter during his funeral Mass)

COMMUNITY SWARM TO THE DEFENCE OF BEES AFTER A COLONY IS POISONED.

(Cian Ó Broin – Limerick Leader)

Outrage sparked after a swarm of native Irish bees were ‘senselessly murdered’ in Limerick city. “A person who lived on the street had noticed the bees on a pillar” said Steve Gallagher, owner of Swarms.ie, a network of 800 beekeepers that deal with similar incidents nationwide.

Acting fast, Steve contacted a local beekeeper who set out to safely and effectively capture the bees, allowing them to get a new hive and habitat to develop in. He rang ahead only to be informed that all the bees were dead, adding that they were killed by white powder, most likely wasp insecticide, frying their brains. The solution was only 20 minutes away.

Normal procedure involves the beekeeper capturing the bees within a small box, known as a nuke. This takes all of 15 minutes. Swarming is how bees reproduce, whereby the colony splits in half, with one group staying in the hive while the other swarms, looking for a new spot. In the process of swarming, they rest for a while, like on the pillar, before moving on to make a hive. Although bees are endangered, there is no legal standing on their protection.  It is important to keep your distance and contact a local beekeeper, who will happily resolve the situation safely if you come across a swarm of bees near you.

CARING FOR THE EARTH

Never have we hurt and mistreated our common home as we have in the last two hundred years; yet we are to be instruments of God our Father, so that our planet might be what he desired when he created it and correspond with His plan for peace, beauty and fullness.

(Wexford Parish Care For the Earth Group)

SHAMROCK VINTAGE CLUB

There are a few seats available on the bus for The Shamrock Vintage Club’s trip to Monalty, Co. Meath on Sunday 14th August. To book a seat contact 087 6884035 or 087 2229038 in the coming days.

CHURCH NOTICES

IN MEMORIAM

Sat 30th – People of the Parish

Sun 31st – People of the Parish

Sat 6th Aug – Bob Barron, The Leap (A)

Also – Richard (Dick) Fortune, Doononey (Month’s Mind)

Sun 7th – James Dalton, Raheenduff (A)

May they rest in peace.

Mass every week morning at 9.30am.

Adoration of the Blessed Sacrament every Thursday for the month of August from 10.00am – 11.00am.

Visitation of the sick on Friday 5th & Saturday 6th August.

READERS OF THE LITURGY

Sat 30th – Family Mass   Sun 31st – Callie Doyle

Sat 6th – Ellie Walsh        Sun 7th –  Ann Ryan

Sat 13th – Liam Whelan    Sun 14th – Betty O’Shea

Sat 20th – T. J. McDonald    Sun 21st – Sheelagh Delaney

Sat 27th – Anthony McGee.  Sun 28th – Neasa Cloney

CHURCH ALTARS & DECORATION

Thanks to the ladies from Tomgarrow for looking after the Church & Altars for the month of July, it is now the turn of parishioners from Raheenduff for the month of August.

OUR LADY’S ISLAND PILGRIMAGE

After two years of Covid restrictions it is with pleasure that we resume our usual pilgrimage season in Our Lady’s Island. The opening ceremony with Mass and Procession will be at 3pm on Monday 15th August the pilgrimage will conclude on Thursday 8th September with Candlelight Procession.

Each weekday we have Mass at 3pm & 8pm with several speakers and musicians invited to take part.

It is customary for many parishes and organizations to come for their own special pilgrimage, be that afternoon or evening. To do so provides a wonderful opportunity for people to bond and reclaim a sense of being community, especially after the isolation and declining Church practice of the past few years. The feed back from such gatherings has always been positive and that it provided a welcome injection of faith and new life.

We warmly welcome such gatherings to resume again this year.  (Fr. Jim Cogley P.P. Director of Pilgrimage)

ANNUAL PATRON IN ST. ABBAN’S

Our Annual Patron in St. Abban’s, Adamstown will take place on Sunday 4th September with Mass followed by blessing of graves.

A THOUGHT FOR THE WEEK  – GOOD SAMARITANS

“On the one hand, we are called to play the Good Samaritan on life’s roadside, but that will be only an initial act.

One day we must come to see that the whole Jericho road must be transformed so that men and women will not be constantly beaten and robbed as they make their journey on life’s highway. (Martin Luther King)

COVID 19 – IS IT OVER?

Covid 19 when it came first to Ireland, people did not take much notice of it. Lots of us said, “it’s only a cold or flu”

But as time went on people thought differently. It started in China, everyone said it’s too far away; it will never come to Ireland or to our Parish. But how wrong they were, it wasn’t long coming to Europe. The health authorities got very worried, this was something they had no answer for, the top laboratories in the world were working day and night to find out where it was coming from, and what is the cure. It was so bad that the state closed the whole country down, pubs, churches, hotels, airports, schools etc., They soon found out it was passed from one person to the other when in close contact. Everybody was in danger, young and old, no one was safe. The life was frightened out of people. . The World Health Organisation when they got this information, they banned socialising, no hand-shaking, or hugging, keeping your distance, not travelling very far from home, anything that might pass the virus from one to another. . Face masks had to be worn, covering nose and mouth always. It took a good seven months to get a vaccine

 Food stores could deliver to the homes by phone order. The doctors and nurses were much at risk with high-risk patients. The priests were also in the front line, giving the last rites to the people who were dying. If you had a friend or family member dying in hospital, you would not be let in to say goodbye. When W.H.O.  got the vaccine, the older and vulnerable people were first to get the vaccine, as they were high risk, it went down along the line until everyone who wanted to get the vaccine were vaccinated. It has been said that a virus will hit the world every 100 years. In The Black Flu in 1920, people died on the roads, in their beds, we heard this from our parents. You would get up in the morning and check to see who had died in the parish last night. What caused the ‘Black Flu’ is still not known.

 We hope and pray that our generation will never see the likes of it again. It will take a few years for the country to get back on its feet again, like the old saying “Don’t give up till it’s over”   (Danny Doyle, Glenour)

PEER SUPPORT – NEW MENTAL HEALTH GROUP

New Grow mental health peer support group starting in New Ross on Tuesday, August 2nd and every Tuesday thereafter from 2.00pm – 4.00pm in Room 3, St. Michael’s Pastoral Centre, New Ross Y34 N799.

If you would like to talk to others who have experienced mental health challenges, come along and see if Grow is for you. The group is free, confidential and open to all.

Contact Felicia at 086 1034332.

PRAYER FOR THE WEEK – Evening Prayer

Take into your love O Lord

My thanks for this day

And my prayers for all I have met today.

Thanks especially for the love of elderly people, as the Pope prays for this month.

With the prayers of Mary, mother of your Son,

and with all your people,

I pray for peace in our world.  Amen.

(Pope’s Worldwide Prayer Network)