7th July, 2024

Adamstown Parish Newsletter

Weekend of Sat 6th & Sun 7th July 2024

Volume 24    Number 27

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ADAMSTOWN ICA NEWS

There are a few seats left on the bus for the ICA Summer outing. If anyone would like to join us on Wednesday 10th July.

We are going to the Chocolate Garden in Tullow, Rathwood Garden Centre and on to Carlow for some shopping.

Dinner is  in the Dolmen Hotel, Carlow. The cost is €67, which includes the hire of the bus, the workshop in the Chocolate Garden and dinner. Everyone is welcome. If you would like to come, please contact Eileen on 087 383 1186 or Helene on 087 277 3211 to let us know. The bus will leave Cullen’s at 9.30am.

The I.C.A. Special Occasions competitions were hosted by Adamstown Guild in Cólaiste Abbain on Thursday evening June 27th. This is an annual competition held for I.C.A. guilds throughout the county. Our guild did extremely well with Dympna Rochford and Annette Doran scoring very high points for their entries. Well done to Ann McDoanld, Mary J. Furlong, Annette Doran, Dympna  Rochford who represented our local guild. A huge thank you to all our  members who did trojan work to help make the evening a huge success. Thanks to Dan Catering for putting on a lovely meal which was enjoyed by the 100+ who attended. Thanks also to Tom Hendrick who looked after  the parking, to Joe Bradley for looking after the sound and providing us with some lovely music. Thanks to Wexford Home Preserves who sponsored the event, and last but not least to John Nolan, Principal, Coláiste Abbáin for the use of their facilities .

Our next meeting will be on Wednesday 11th September at 8pm in Colaiste Abbáin. New members are always welcome. Remember, you don’t have to be from the area to join us.

ADAMSTOWN GAA

Cul Camps: We had 152 children start our Cul Camps this week, we hope they had a great week of fun and games.

Congratulations to Lizzie & the Wexford Ladies who defeated Westmeath 5-15 to 4-12 in the TG4 All Ireland Intermediate Quarter-Final on Sunday last in McCauley Park, Enniscorthy. We wish them the very best as they face Leitrim on Sunday week.

THURSDAY NIGHT CARD GAME

The weekly Thursday night Card Game continues in the Community Centre every week at 8.30pm. Winners on Thursday 4th were:

Nick Doyle, Brendan Colfer, Sammy & Owen Elmes, Phil Jackman, Joe Kehoe, Jim & Trish Wickham.

SYMPATHY

The death occurred on Tuesday last of Mrs Maisie Kelly, Woodview Drive, Adamstown. We extend our sympathy to her son, daughter, sister, brothers, extended family and friends. Her funeral Mass took place in The Church of the Assumption, Bree on Thursday followed by burial in  Ballybrennan Graveyard. May she rest in peace.

We extend our deepest sympathy also to all the Connors families, Adamstown, on the unexpected death of Gerry Connors, Maganey Carlow  on 28th June.. His funeral Mass took place in the Church of the Immaculate Conception, Castledermot on Wednesday last followed by burial in Crosstown Cemetery. Wexford.

May he rest in peace

CEMETERY MEETING

There will be a meeting of the Cemetery Committee in The Parochial House this Tuesday 9th July at 8pm to finalise plans for the proposed works at the entrance to the cemetery on The Barrack’s Road.

ATHLETIC CLUB

Well done to Joe 2nd National Senior 10k race walk, Ciara 9th new personal best 26.44.

VISITING TIMES AT THE HOOK

Visiting hours for Hook Lighthouse are now extended until September 1st. Visitors are able to enjoy access and tours to the ancient lighthouse from 10.00am – 5.00pm. with the site remaining open until 6pm seven days per week. The award-winning tour sees visitors guided up the 115 well-worn spiral steps of the tower and explore the thick-walled chamber, with each ascending step they can trail the daily and nightly ritual of every light keeper who served there.

Eventually reaching the top of the tower to enjoy the vista of the steely blue seas and the graveyard of 1,000 ships including the great Cromwell flagship ‘Great Lewis’ in the 17th century.

FERNS JUBILARIANS

Thanks be to God for the ministry of Rev. Dick Hayes,  and JIm Curtis on their Golden Jubilee.

To Frs Bernard Cushen, Michael Byrne, Martin Casey, Joe Kavanagh, Willie Howell, Thady Doyle,  Fr. Robert Maguire,

 Fr. Don Kenny on their Silver Jubilee.

They have fought the good fight not only in their native heath but also in far foreign fields, in Brazil, Australia, U.S. and England

Ad Multos Annos.

CHURCH NOTICES                                                                                       

IN MEMORIAM                                                                                                    

Sat 6th – Willie Whitty, Ballagh (A)       Also – Robert &  Bob Barron, The Leap (A)  

Also – Liam Booth, Woodview Drive, (Month’s MInd)

Sun 7th – Betty McGrath, Adamstown (A)       Also –      Dick Fortune, Doononey, (A)

Sat 13th – Eamonn & Martin Furlong, Knockreigh (A)    Also –   Joe Bradley, Glenour (A)

Sun 14th – Tom Walsh,  Coonogue (A)

Pray for Michael Comerford, Waterford (A)

Pray for Jay Roche, Ballyshannon (A)

May they rest in peace.

Morning Mass each week day at 9.30am.    Adoration of the Blessed Sacrament every Thursday from 10.00am – 1.00pm.

POPE’S INTENTION FOR JULY

For the Pastoral care of the Sick: We pray that the Sacrament of the Anointing of the Sick confer on those who receive it and their

loved ones the power of the Lord and become ever more a visible sign of compassion and hope for all.

READERS OF THE LITURGY

Sat 6th – Cáit Bradley.  Sun 7th Amelia Swierczynska      Sat 13th – T. J. McDonald.   Sun 14th Kathleen O’Connor

Sat 20th – Liam Whelan.   Sun 21st – Betty O’Shea           Sat 27th – Eoghan Greene.  Sun 28th – Ann Ryan.

THE WEXFORD MARTYRS

The Wexford Martyrs were six Irish Catholic rebels who were hanged, drawn and quartered in Wexford town on July 5th, 1581 executed for treason against Queen Elizabeth 1 of England, refusing to take the Oath of Supremacy which declared Elizabeth to be head of the Church. They were Patrick Cavanagh, Edward Cheevers, Robert Myler,  Matthew Lambert, while the identity of the sixth martyr has been lost to history.  In 1992, Pope John Paul  11 beatified 17 Irish Catholic Martyrs including the Wexford six.

FLEADH CHEOIL

Calling on volunteers who enjoy the ‘craic agus ceol’  Why not register to help out at the upcoming Fleadh Cheoil na hEireann 2024 which will be held 4th – 11th August in Wexford Town. Various roles to fill, search website

www.fleadhcheoil.ie/volunteer. Any queries please

email; volunteers@fleadhcheoil.ie or phone 053-9196000

THE THIRD COMMANDMENT

(Fr. Donal Orr – St. Patrick’s Missionary Society) Africa Mag.

The Third Commandment as we learned it in school long ago was quite short: ‘You Shall Keep Holy the Sabbath Day’

Unfortunately, over the past few hundred years the sense that we are all part of one integrated system was lost in the Western world. Humans became so convinced of their own power and their differences from everything else that they came to see the animals, the plants, the oceans and the Earth itself as there just to be exploited for our benefit.  The Third Commandment calls us not only to rest from work on the Sabbath, but also to give a special place on that sacred day to the worship of God. Nowadays, very many people in the Western world go shopping instead of taking part in Sunday worship. This means that shops remain open and  Sunday has become a busy working day for lots of employees. For many people – especially the young – the alternative to Sunday worship is sport; this is the day when they devote much of their time to either playing or being active watchers and supporters of their favourite team. Sport provides a welcome change from the burden of the tasks that manual workers have to carry out. And is probably even more important for office workers since it gives them plenty of the physical exercise which is essential for a healthy human life .At this time when less and less people are going to Sunday worship there is an increasing number of people who feel the need for spiritual refreshment. Many people are engaging in various forms of spiritual activity ranging from  mindfulness exercises to personal pilgrimages. However, in many cases there is still something missing. I think this is caused by the fact  that we in the West have become far more individualistic than our people in the past – and than people in non-Western cultures. Many of those who engage in a personal spiritual search fail to appreciate the importance of the communal dimension.  Traditional Sunday worship was always a very  public event where whole communities came together to praise and thank God and to pray together for their needs.

WEEKLY ENVELOPE COLLECTION 2024-2025

Envelopes for the coming year are currently being distributed.  Every time I pay a bill I open the purse of your generosity.

When I was young, an elderly kind relation gave me the gift of a very ornate mug, with a quotation from scripture.

‘The Lord Loves a Cheerful Giver’  I would like to thank all the cheerful givers in this community.

Our Divine Lord has promised that even a mug of water given in His Name will have its reward. 

Thank you,

Fr. Robert