9th April, 2023

Adamstown Parish Newsletter

Weekend of Sat 8th & Sun 9th April 2023

Volume 23      Number 13

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ADAMSTOWN LOTTO RESULTS

The winning numbers in the Adamstown Lotto draw on Monday 3rd April were: 9 – 16 – 22 – 26. There was no Jackpot winner. The following five players matched three numbers and each got €40. John Hanley, The Boola,

Breda Furlong, Templeshelin, Cáit Bradley, Barrack’s Rd, Mary Kelly C/O A & M Hardware & Joe Doyle, Ballagh.

The next draw is on Monday 17th April in the Community Centre for a Jackpot of €15,000. Do keep on buying the tickets – it will be won and it could be you!

SHAMROCK VINTAGE CLUB

Pat Byrne Memorial Road Run:

The Shamrock Vintage Club’s Pat Byrne Memorial Road Run, which took place on Sunday last in beautiful weather condition, was a huge success. The proceeds from the run they kindly donated to Adamstown Cemetery Committee for the continued upkeep of the cemetery.

We thank the Shamrock Club for their help and co-operation working jointly with the Cemetery Committee in ensuring the day was run in an efficient and safe way for all involved.

A sincere thanks to all those who so generously donated to the run whether taking part or giving their support. The final amount raised was €5,520 – a huge amount of money, which will help enormously towards the upkeep and maintenance of the cemetery. Many thanks to the ladies who helped from early Sunday morning to provide tea & scones/currant bread to the drivers before they departed & following their return they appreciated the lovely soup, sandwiches, teas & confectionery served up. It was so heartening to see the amount of food that was given voluntary by so many parishioners and many outside the Parish for the Run, which made the whole day a lovely community effort and which we have missed so much over the past couple of years.

Thanks also for the 22 Raffle prizes on offer, which were donated and gratefully received by the Cemetery Committee, congratulations to all the winners.

Finally, thanks to the Community Centre Committee for the use of the Centre, which is such a very important facility in our community and we are so grateful to have it on hand.

CEMETERY COMMITTEE MEETING

A meeting for all members of Adamstown Cemetery Committee takes place this Wednesday 12th April in the Parochial House at 8.30pm.

ANNUAL TIDY TOWNS CLEAN UP

Adamstown Tidy Towns are holding the Annual Community Spring Clean Up again this year. Bags and gloves available from Adamstown Post Office, name and contact must be provided. Bags are to be returned between Monday 10th April and Monday 17th April. Thank you for your support.

TRÓCAIRE BOXES

Please remember to bring back you Trócaire Box

– Thank You.

ADAMSTOWN ATHLETIC CLUB NOTICE

Adamstown AC are saddened to share the news of the passing of Jimmy O’Shea, a lifelong member of the athletic club. Jimmy was on the 1960 Adamstown AC Cross Country Team that won County Novice, County Junior, County Intermediate and County Youths U20 team all in the same year. He has been in our club as an athlete and a long serving committee member. He was the backbone of many a cross-country event held here in Adamstown, be it Adamstown open, County, Leinster or All Ireland Championships. He introduced his own family into athletics, with many successes over the years. Today he has a number of grandchildren active members in the athletic club.

Condolences to Betty and all the O’Shea family.

May his gentle soul rest in peace.

Athletic Club News:

Juvenile Athletes in action last weekend at the indoor nationals in Athlone – well done to James 2nd U16 shot putt, Ciara 2nd U19 1.5k walk, Sean 4th U14 walk. Senior athlete in action in world race walking tour in Slovakia – well done to Joe new pb in the 35k walk 2hr 48mins.

THE KINGDOM BREAKING THROUGH

The Kingdom of God breaks into our lives very often in quiet, apparently insignificant ways. More than fifty years ago, shortly after I was ordained, I was stopped by an elderly woman in a poor part of Dublin, just around the corner from where I had gone to school. She wasn’t well dressed but she didn’t ask me for anything. She simply wanted to tell me how lonely she was. She kept repeating that. I never met that woman again, but I have never forgotten her. I often pray for her soul and also pray that one day she will welcome me into the heavenly home that God wills for all of us.

That encounter at a street corner in Dublin has been an on-going grace for me, an experience of the Kingdom of God breaking through in what would seem to have been a totally insignificant event. “Blessed are the poor in spirit, for theirs is the kingdom of heaven”, Jesus tells us at the beginning of the Sermon on the Mount. Being ‘poor in spirit’ means knowing one’s need of God. The woman who stopped me in the street was expressing that because she saw that I was a priest and, in some way, a representative of the Lord. The only thing I could give that poor woman, who was old enough to be my grandmother, was a listening ear. But she gave me a glimpse into the Kingdom of God – a gift that has lasted all these years. “My Kingdom is not from this world”, Jesus declared as He stood before Pilate. But His Kingdom is constantly breaking through in this world, in very ordinary, unplanned encounters when God gives us the grace to see and to hear – and we accept that grace.

(Fr. Seán Coyle – Pioneer Magazine)

CHURCH NOTICES

IN MEMORIAM

Sat 8th – Mary & Lisa Furlong, Tomgarrow (A)

Also        Mary McCabe, Rathsilla (A)

Sun 9th – People of the Parish

Sat 15th – Michael Booth, Nicholas &  Catherine

O’Neill, Misterin (A)

Also – Shane O’Neill, Carrigbyrne & Christopher Eustace and deceased members of the Eustace family,

Eustace’s Corner (A)     Also –

Michael & Maura Hanley, Ballylanders, Co. Limerick (A)

Sun 16th – Cait Fortune, Doononey (Month’s Mind)

Tuesday 9.30am – Charlie, Laurence & Ellen Bradley,

The Hill. Also – Kitty Furlong, Taghmon (A)

May they rest in peace.

READERS OF THE LITURGY

Sat 15th April – Cáit Bradley.   Sun 16th – Ann Ryan

Sat 22nd – Eoghan Greene.  Sun 23rd – Neasa Cloney

Sat 29th – Liam Whelan         Sun 30th – Sheelagh Delaney

LOUGH DERG 2023 PILGRIMAGE SEASON

Three Day Pilgrimage:

Thursday 1st June until Monday 15th August

(last day to begin Sunday 13th) Admission €80

Booking Advised / Concessions available for students, seniors & groups.

One Day Retreat:

May: – Mon 1st / Sun 7th / Tue 9th / Mon 29th

August: – Sat 19th / Tue 22nd / Sun 27th /

September: – Sat 2nd / Wed 6th / Sat 9th / Tue 12th

Sat 16th / Sun 17th / Sat 23rd / Sun 24th

Admission €45. Booking essential

Residential Retreat:

Sun 11th – Thur 15th June & Sun 6th – Thur 10th August

€400 per person, single room €325 per person sharing.

Full Board / Booking essential.

Quiet Day – Friday 12th May & Friday 15th September

Admission €35

Lakeshore Pilgrimage along the Pilgrim Path

Sunday 21st May & Saturday 30th September

Admission €25

Sanctuary of Saint Patrick, Pettigo, Co. Donegal

www.loughderg.org / info@loughderg.org

+353 (0)71 98 61518

SYMPATHY

We extend our deepest sympathy to the family of the late Joseph Gilbert Deacon, Camross, Foulksmills who died on Monday 3rd April. Joe was a regular and popular attendee at the Friday night Card game in Adamstown Community Centre for many years before Covid came.

 His funeral service took place on Thursday last in St. James Church, Horetown followed by burial in the adjoining churchyard. 

Wishing everyone a Happy Easter

ADAMSTOWN COMMUNITY CENTRE NOTICE

The Community Centre building is currently getting an overdue coat of paint. Please be mindful of the painters while using the car park for the next few days.

Thank you.

REFLECTION – The Footprints of Allah

A French scientist was travelling in the desert and sat outside his tent in the cool of sunset, talking with his young Bedouin guide about religion. ‘Nobody knows’, said the Frenchman, ‘nobody can know for certain that there is a God’ The lad pointed to a smooth stretch of sand across which went a track of footprints. ‘When I see those footprints in the sand’, he said, ‘I know for certain that some man has passed this way. Only a man could have made them.

He pointed to the fading colours of a glorious sunset in the west, and then overhead to the dark blue sky in which the great stars were coming out one by one. ‘And when I see the sun, and the moon, and the starry heavens in their beauty, I know for certain that the Creator has passed this way. They are the footprints of Allah’. The Bedouin was right. From the works of God which are seen we can know, even without revelation, that God exists.  ‘The heavens tell forth the glory of God’

SHEEP AND LAMBS  – By – Katharine Tynan Hinkson

All in the April evening,

April airs were abroad;

The sheep with their little lambs

Pass’d me by on the road.

The lambs were weary, and crying

With a weak human cry,

I thought on the Lamb of God

Going meekly to die.

Up in the blue, blue mountains

Dewy pastures are sweet;

Rest for the little bodies,

Rest for the little feet.

But for the Lamb of God,

Up on the hill-top green,

Only a cross of shame

Two stark crosses between.

Note: Catherine Tynan, was born at Whitehall dairy farm, Clondalkin, Co. Dublin, on 23rd January 1859 one of twelve children. Her father was a cattle farmer.

She had regular chats with W.B. Yeats, and she wrote 100 novels, 12 collections of short stories, three plays, and anthologies.

PRAYER FOR THE WEEK – EASTER BLESSING

Lord, bless us this Easter time;

Bless us with faith, guard us in doubt;

Bless us with hope, uplift us in despair;

Bless us with love, keep us from harm;

Bless us with peace, calm us in trouble;

Bless us with mercy, help us to forgive;

Bless us with joy, comfort us in sorrow

So our hearts may rejoice in You,

the Risen Lord. Amen.