11th September, 2022

Adamstown Parish Newsletter

Weekend of Sat 10th & Sun 11th September 2022

Volume 22.  Number 36

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ADAMSTOWN LOTTO RESULTS 

The winning numbers in the Adamstown Lotto Draw on

Monday 5th Sept were: 6 – 19 – 22 – 26. There was no Jackpot winner and just one match three player –

Mark Mullen, Willow Cottage who received €200.

The next draw is on Monday 19th September in the Community Centre for a Jackpot of €15,000.

 Well worth a €2 ticket. Keep on playing it could be you!

ADAMSTOWN PATRON

We were blessed with lovely sunshine on Sunday last 4th September for our Annual Patron Day. There was a huge attendance for Mass at 1.30pm. Those who choose celebrated in St. Abban’s Church, while many others stayed at the graves of their loved ones. Thanks to the Cemetery Committee who arranged for the provision of loudspeakers to relay the Mass throughout the Cemetery and to T.J. who ensured that those who were unable to attend in person could join us online, so everyone could be part of this very special occasion in our Parish.

Parish Priest Fr. Nolan was joined by Fr. Odhran Furlong and Fr. Jim Furlong for the celebration of Mass.

A sincere thanks to the choir and Folk group and Padraig Cullen, for the beautiful hymns and music. Thanks to each and everyone who helped in any way to ensure that the Patron day was a special day for all.  Thanks to the Cemetery Committee for looking after the car parking. A word of thanks also to John Kehoe, Chapel for the use of the trailer in the cemetery over the previous week.

Finally a word of thanks to all for the wonderful care and love with which they looked after the graves of their loved ones.

The Cemetery looked splendid and was remarked on by many people in attendance.

Cemetery Committee note:

A huge thank you to all who contributed so generously to our Patron Day collection for the continued upkeep of our cemetery in Adamstown. The collection amounted to

€4,985.00. The generosity of those who attended our Patron expressed in no small way their appreciation for the wonderful care of this holy ground, by the Cemetery Committee and Fás workers. Thank you all.

SHAMROCK VINTAGE CLUB

It was agreed at a recent meeting of the Shamrock Vintage Club that the proceeds of the Pat Byrne Memorial Tractor Run next year would go to Adamstown Parish and Cemetery Committees. Sincere thanks for the club’s generous gesture.

BIRTHDAY CONGRATULATIONS

Congratulations and very best wishes to Jimmy Roche, Woodview Drive, who celebrated his 94th birthday recently with family and friends. Wishing Jimmy many more years of good health and happiness

EVENTS IN NEW ROSS LIBRARY IN SEPTEMBER

War of Independence & Civil War Walking Tour of New Ross on Tuesday 13th September at 7.00pm with historian Barry Leacy. Tour leaves from New Ross Library Car Park.

Booking is essential. Phone 051 421877 to book.

Please check in at library desk before the event commences.

Flower Arranging Workshop with Rose Walsh

Join professional florist Rose Walsh for a creative Flower Arranging Workshop on Saturday 17th September at 2.30pm

Booking is essential. Phone 051 421877

The Forgotten Kennedy – History talk with Seamus Kiely

The favourite child of Joe Kennedy and favourite sister of Jack, Kick Kennedy was spirited, vivacious and legendary for her charm. Join Seamus on Tuesday 20the September at 7.00pm Booking essential.

ADAMSTOWN GAA NEWS

U-12 Girls Football Co. Champions 2022

Huge congratulations to our U-12 Girls who battled relentlessly through tough weather conditions to defeat a strong Starlights team by 4-07 to 3.06 on Saturday last.

Well done to all involved.

WEXFORD YOUTHS U-17 GIRLS

Well done to local girl Karolina Jaglarz who helped Wexford Youths to a sensational win against Sligo Rovers recently.

Continued success girls.

COLAISTE ABBAIN

As our first years start their full week in school, the entire school community would like to thank our incredible six Meitheal Leaders who have helped them settle in. They have a busy year ahead guiding and offering support to our new first year cohort. Well done Alex, Josh, Donny, Nel, Tim and Cora. What a fantastic bunch of school leaders.

A final thank you to Mr. O’Connor for coordinating this fantastic support.

THOUGHT FOR THE WEEK

It was a wet day and the artist could not get out into the fields to paint as he usually did. He looked around him and his eyes fell upon a vase of flowers, well it would be better than nothing….. Thus Vincent Van Gough painted “The Sunflowers”, one of the world’s most famous pictures. He was to execute many more projects that were much more ambitious, but this study of yellow blooms in a vase has captured hearts worldwide. It will still be loved for its simplicity long after the works of pretentious “fashionable” artists are forgotten.

CHURCH NOTICES

IN MEMORIAM

Sat 10th – Josie & Mick Whelan, Tomgarrow and

                 Phyllis Bernie, Dublin (A)

Also          M.J. Booth, Adamstown (Month’s Mind)

Sun 11th – Joe Bradley, The Hill (A)

Sat 17th – Aoife Kelly, Doononey (A)

Sun 18th – James, Ellen, Tommy, Ned O’Shea,

                 Eileen Hayes and Mary Wilmore, Adamstown (A)

May they rest in peace.

READERS OF THE LITURGY

Sat 10th – Family Mass.       Sun 11th – Callie Doyle

Sat 17th – Cáit Bradley.          Sun 18th – Ann Ryan

Sat 24th – Eoghan Greene.  Sun 25th – Betty O’Shea

Feast Days this week:

Mon 12th – Holy Name of Blessed Virgin Mary

Wed 14th – Triumph of the Cross

Thurs 15th – Our Lady of Sorrows

Mass Monday – Friday at 9.30am

Adoration of the Blessed Sacrament every Thursday from 10.00am – 3.00pm.

PRAYER GROUP

The Prayer Group returns this Sunday Sept 11th at 7pm in Adamstown Church. All are welcome.

MARCH FOR LIFE – PRO-LIFE MARCH IN DUBLIN

March for Life on Saturday 17th September 2022 at 2pm.

Marching from Newman University Church side of

St. Stephen’s Green to Leinster House.

GOD HAD THE LAST WORD (Irish Catholic)

Mikhail Gorbachev’s funeral took place in the grand Pillar Hall of the old Soviet House of Unions where many of his predecessors were also honoured in death including Leonid Brezhnev. As Vice President, George Bush Senior represented the US at the funeral of Brezhnev in 1982. Bush was deeply moved by a silent protest carried out by Brezhnev’s widow. She stood motionless by the coffin until seconds before it was closed. Then, just as the soldiers touched the lid, Brezhnev’s wife performed an act of great courage and hope, a gesture that must surely rank as one of the most profound acts of civil disobedience ever committed: She reached down and made the sign of the cross on her husband’s chest. There in the citadel of secular, atheistic power, the wife of the man who had run it all hoped that her husband was wrong. She hoped that there was another life, and that that life was best represented by Jesus who died on the cross, and that same Jesus might yet have mercy on her husband.

QUOTE OF THE WEEK

All of us could take a lesson from the weather.

It pays no attention to criticism.

THE IRISH MUSEUM OF TIME

The old Irish proverb ‘Is maith an scéalaí an aimsir /

Time is a good storyteller’ is illustrated by one of the latest cultural additions to Waterford’s vibrant Viking Triangle in the form of the Irish Museum of Time. Housed in the refurbished gothic-styled Greyfriars Methodist Church, it is Ireland’s only museum dedicated to horology (the study of measurement of time) The fledgling museum was established due to a generous donation from former solicitor Colman Curran and his wife Elizabeth Clooney of a fine collection of Irish timepieces dating from 1690 to 1890. This consisted of 30 grandfather or long-case clocks, 30 bracket or wall clocks and 30 pocket watches all of them Irish pieces. The collection demonstrated the evolution of timepieces and allowed one to explore matters of science, social, political and artistic spheres in Irish history. This was followed by a donation of an equally impressive collection from pharmacist David Bowles who gifted timepieces which he had been collecting since he was aged 15 years old, Director of Waterford Treasures,  Éamonn McEneaney stated that this collection showed that Waterford ‘was a centre for the manufacture and design of what was in its day considered the height of technological expertise. Clocks and watches with their meticulously crafted workings were in fact the earliest computers’ The team at Waterford Treasures have utilised the most up-to-date interactive technology to bring the past to life and encourage the next generation to explore what has fascinated us for centuries’.

Across two floors are over 600 items ranging from table clocks to watches and including the oldest Irish-made grandfather clock still in existence. One can see the tallest grandfather clock in the world (dating to 1720, the Dublin-made grandfather clock stands at 9ft in height) There are clocks from America, Austria, Britain, France, Holland, Italy and Switzerland, such as the smallest grandfather clock in the world, to a fob watch larger than a cricket ball. Not only are these artefacts a feast for the eyes, with their beautiful design and intricate engineering, but the stories of the clockmakers behind them is just as alluring.

(Cian Manning – Ireland’s Own)

PRAYER FOR THE WEEK – (Author unknown)

I leave aside my shoes – my ambitions,

undo my watch – my timetable,

take off my glasses – my views,

unclip my pen – my work,

put down my keys – my security,

to be alone with You – the only true God.

After being with You,

I take up my shoes to walk in Your ways,

Strap on my watch to live in Your time,

Put on my glasses to look at Your world,

Clip on my pen to write up Your thoughts,

Pick up my keys to open Your doors.  Amen.

WORDS OF WISDOM – (Living Moments of Awareness)

People are born with two eyes, but with one tongue in order that they should see twice as much as they say.