28th July, 2024

Adamstown Parish Newsletter

Saturday 27th & Sunday 28th July 2024

Volume 24.  Number 30

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ADAMSTOWN COMMUNITY CENTRE NOTICE

Adamstown Community Centre Annual General Meeting will take place on Monday August 5th in the Centre at 8.30pm.

If you are interested in getting involved in the continued development of the Community Centre please feel free to come along.

ADAMSTOWN ATHLETIC CLUB NEWS

Well done to our athletes at the National Championships in Tullamore last Sunday – U-17 boys discus 3rd James Prendergast. U-15 boys 2k walk 4th Sean Walsh.

And U-14 boys discus 6th Will Fortune.

WEXFORD COUNTY COUNCIL

Is your child starting “big school” in September?

Be sure to bring them along to your local library where they can pick up their own “My Little Library Bag”. This initiative aims to help children prepare for this important milestone.

Each My Little Library Book  Bag contains

A book on starting school, or making friends or being comfortable to be yourself.

Their very own library card and special ‘My Little Library’

Cardholder.

We hope that once they visit the library to pick up their book bag, our new library members and their families will come back regularly to keep their bag filled up with borrowed books and to take part in story-times, classes and all  the other events we have to offer at the library.

ADAMSTOWN SHOW COMMITTEE – THANKS

The Adamstown Show Committee would like to take this opportunity to thank all our sponsors, competitors, land owners, our show members and especially all the volunteers who kindly gave of their time in helping to make our 75th Show such a success. Also to Coláiste Abbáin for the use of their facilities. We would also like to thank you, the public, for attending in such large numbers and making the Show such an enjoyable day. Just remember – First Saturday in July 2025 for the 76th Show.  See you there.

SYMPATHY

We extend our deepest sympathy to Cáit and Joe Bradley, Barrack’s Rd, Adamstown and family on the death of Cáit’s  niece Nell Barry, Ballyrobin, Dunhill, Waterford, who died on Friday 26th July.  Our sympathy also to her daughter Jessica, parents Kevin & Theresa, fiancé Philip, sister Mena, brothers James and Kevin, extended family, neighbours and friends. Nell’s funeral Mass will take place in the Church of Sacred Heart, Dunhill on Monday 29th July.

May her gentle soul rest in peace.

WHAT THE IRISH GAVE TO THE CULINARY WORLD

Ireland produces the best food in the world. This includes

Milk, barley, beef, wheat, potatoes, pork, oats, poultry, mushrooms and mutton. It is not surprising that many food and drink products were invented by Irish people.

This is just some of them:

The Bacon Rasher:

The son of a shoemaker, Henry Denny was born in Waterford in 1790. He became a food  merchant. Instead of soaking bacon in brine to preserve it, Henry invented a process called ‘mild curing’ in which only a small quantity of dry salt is used. Instead of cutting it into large chunks, Henry used long flat pieces of bacon. These pieces were cut into what we call rashers of bacon. No full Irish breakfast is complete without a fried rasher or two.

Waterford Blaas:

In Waterford city, in 1702, Huguenots from France had set up a bakery producing bread. Locals began to use leftover pieces of their bread dough to make what they called blaas.

The Waterford blaa is protected legally by the Protected Geographical Indication, i.e. they can be produced only in Waterford City. People eat these beautiful small white floury rolls with butter for breakfast or often fill them with egg, bacon, or sausage to enjoy at any time.

Boxty:

The traditional Irish potato pancake called Boxty, or bacstaí originated in Ireland in the 1700’s. Grated potatoes are covered with mashed potatoes. Then flour, salt, pepper, and butter are added. This dough is shaped into small cakes before they are baked in the oven. Boxty is associated with St. Bridget’s day, February 1st, and many Irish daughters may recall their mothers reciting this little poem:

Boxty on the griddle,

Boxty on the pan,

If you can’t make boxty,

You’ll never get a  man.

Flavoured Potato Crisps:

Until the 1950’s, potato crisps, or chips as they are called in the US, came in one flavour only: plain. Joe Murphy from Thomas Street, Dublin, started his own potato company in O’Rahilly’s Parade, off Moore Street, Dublin in 1954.  Called Tayto, this company produced Cheese and Onion flavour initially, and then Salt and Vinegar. Often nicknamed Spud Murphy, Joe’s firm was extremely successful and today they export potato crisps of many flavours to 37 countries.

(Martin Gleeson -(Ireland’s Own)

THURSDAY NIGHT CARD GAME

The Thursday night Card Game continues in the Community Centre every week at 8.30pm. Winners on Thursday 25th July were: Phil Jackman, Joe Kehoe, Owen & Sammy Elmes, Tom Rochford, Paddy Furlong, Matty Sullivan, Pat Murphy.

CHURCH NOTICES

IN MEMORIAM

Sat 27th – Jim  & Nora McGee, The Leap (A)

Also –     Margaret & William Flynn, Kilbraney Ave, Gusserane also       Kathleen Bagge, Kilmeaden, Co. Waterford (A)

Sun 28th – People of the Parish

Sat 3rd August – People of the Parish

Sun 4th  – People of the Parish

Friday 2nd – 7.30pm: Andy Crowley, Kill, Co. Waterford

Visitation of the sick on Friday 2nd & Saturday 3rd August.

Mass each week day morning at 9,30am

PLEASE NOTE – The Thursday Adoration will take a break for the month of August

READERS OF THE LITURGY

Sat 27th – Eoghan Greene.       Sun 28th – Ann Ryan

Sat 3rd Aug – T.J. McDonald.   Sun 4th –  Betty O’Shea

Sat 10th – Anthony McGee.     Sun 11th – Sheelagh Delaney

Sat 17th – Cáit Bradley,          Sun 18th – Neasa Cloney

Sat 24th – Eoghan Greene      Sun 25th – Amelia Swieczynska

Sat 31st – Liam Whelan          Sun 1st Sept -Callie Doyle

SUNDAY 28th JULY – Celebrating

World Day of Grandparents and the Elderly.

The Logo for  World Day for Grandparents and the Elderly 2024  features the theme for the July 28th celebration. “Do not cast me off in my old age,” a passage from Psalm 71.

“By cherishing the charisms of grandparents and the elderly, and the contribution they make to the life of the Church, the World Day seeks to support the efforts of every ecclesial community to forge bonds between the generations to  combat loneliness”

CHURCH ALTARS & DECORATION

Thanks to the ladies from Doononey/Rathkyle for looking after the Church and Altars for the month of July. It is now the turn of parishioners from Raheenduff for the month of August.

SYMPATHY – LILY BYRNES, TOMBRICK R.I.P.

We extend  our deepest sympathy to David Byrnes, Tombrick, Ballycarney on the death of his wife Lily (née O’Neill), also her siblings Peter, Celia, Kathleen, Simon, Joseph & Francis, extended family, neighbours and many friends, also her relatives in the Parish. Lily grew up in The Hollow, Tomgarrow with her aunt Maria & uncle Denny Delaney and went to Adamstown N.S. Lily was General Manager of Wexford Hospital for several years. Her funeral Mass was celebrated in All Saint’s Church, Castledockrell on Tuesday last.

May her gentle soul rest in peace.

POPE FRANCIS SENDS HIS BLESSING TO PARIS OLYMPICS

Pope Francis said: “I ask the Lord to bestow his gifts upon all those who will participate in any way – whether athletes for spectators – and also to support and bless those who will host them, especially the faithful of Paris and elsewhere”

Mass for Peace was celebrated on July 19th in the Madeleine Church in Paris.

STAR ATHLETE AN ‘EVANGELISER’ AND ROLE MODEL FOR YOUTH’

Celebrated runner Ciara Mageean who is set to represent Ireland in the Paris Olympics has been described as a “natural evangeliser” who is not ashamed to speak of her Catholic Faith.  Fr.Fergal McGrady P.P. of Ms.Mageean’s home parish of Portaferry, Co. Down said locally they are “very, very proud of Ciara”.  Speaking of the middle-distance runner’s influence on young people, Fr. McGrady said: ! I do know that she has made a big impact on the young people when she speaks to them – and to everybody. “When she gets home to her family, she has so little time on her hands before she is called back to training but she always, always, gives time to the local schools and the young people, to have a word with them,” he said. “I believe in her own way Ciara is a natural evangeliser and she is not ashamed at all to talk about her Catholic, Christian Faith – she has courage in that way. And besides all of that she is just a lovely person” Adding to an already trophy studded career, Ms. Mageean clinched gold in the 1,500m final in Stadio Olimpico in Rome last month at the European Championships, but it is not her favourite medal according to Fr. McGrady who said: “When she was in one of our primary schools, one of the children asked her, what is your favourite medal?. And she immediately took out the  miraculous  medal from around her neck and said ‘this is my most important and favourite medal

(Chai Brady – Irish Catholic July 25th)

ALL IRELAND FOOTBALL FINAL

Wishing Galway and Armagh all the best in the All Ireland Football Final this Sunday – and may it be an enjoyable game.

THE FOOTBALLER’S PRAYER

Dear God, we thank you for the opportunity to play this game.

We ask that you bless us with strength, courage

and wisdom to play to the best of our abilities.

Help us to be good sportsmen, to respect our opponents,

and to play with integrity.

We pray that we will be safe from injury and we will honour you in all that we do.  Amen.

PRAYER FOR THE WEEK – FAMILY PRAYER

God made us a family,

We need one another,

We love one another,

We forgive one another,

We work together,

We play together,

We worship together,

Together we use God’s word.

We grow in Christ,

Together we love all men,

Together we serve God.

Together we hope for heaven,

These are our hopes and ideals, help us to attain them.

O God, through Jesus Christ our Lord.  Amen.

A THOUGHT FOR THE WEEK

Lord, help me to admit when I am wrong, and make me easier to live with when I am right.