18th August, 2024

Adamstown Parish Newsletter

Weekend of Sat 17th & Sun 18th August 2024

Volume 24.  Number 33

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COMMUNITY  EXERCISE & WELLNESS CLASSES IN ADAMSTOWN COMMUNITY CENTRE

As September approaches and classes in the Community Centre

will soon restart for the Autumn/Winter season, you’ll have an opportunity to come and try out some of the classes.

Chair Exercise will start back Monday mornings from the 9th September at Adamstown Community Centre and will run weekly until December. A great class for those who want to get active or

stay active during the coming seasons. A class that allows you to go

work at your own  pace, work with your own abilities, to grow 

each week, working on mobility, balance, strength, fitness,

 posture and body awareness. Another great morning class for 

our active ladies is Thursday where we can work together 

combining chair exercise and pilates to support and strengthen.

 All abilities are welcome and encouraged. 

Please contact Sarah for more details on 087 062 7563.

ADAMSTOWN GAA CLUB

Well done to our U14 girls who defeated a strong Ballygarrett

 team to make the Division 3 Shield Football Final.

Hard luck to our U21 footballers who narrowly went down to a

 strong St. James’s / Ramsgrange team.

ADAMSTOWN COMMUNITY CENTRE NEWS

Adamstown Community Centre Craft Fair  2024

Save the Date – Sunday 1st December 

With a Special Guest joining us this year.

THURSDAY NIGHT CARD GAME

The weekly Thursday night Card Game continues in the Community  centre each week at 8.30pm.

Winners on Thursday 15th Aug were:

Micksy & Breda Bolger, Matty Sullivan, Kay Whelan, Tom Wickham, Chris Byrne, Bridie Dillon.

SYMPATHY –

Valerie Dunne, 38 Cluain Dara, Gimont Ave, Enniscorthy

Valerie died suddenly at her home on Thurs 8th August, we extend our deepest sympathy to her sons Ian, Aaron, Stephen, her extended family, neighbours and friends.

Valerie and her family lived in  Adamstown some years ago and her children attended Adamstown N.S. She worked with Fás and in that time as part of her duties, she cleaned St. Abban’s Church. She was a kind and gentle lady.

May her gentle soul rest in peace.

CARING FOR THE EARTH – Pope Francis

“The entire material universe speaks of God’s love, his boundless affection for us. Soil, water, mountains: everything is, as it were, a caress of God.”

PARIS OLYMPICS

As we say goodbye to the Paris Olympics, full of pride for our Irish competitors. We look at some statistics from other Olympics with Irish people representing other countries. 

Paul O’Donovan isn’t the first Irish Olypmpian to win medals at three different games. He’s the first to do so representing Ireland.

The rower emulates two athletes who represented the USA. Limerick’s John Flanagan won gold in the hammer at the 1900, 1904 and 1908 games. Tipperary’s Matt McGrath, runner-up to Flanagan in 1908, won gold in 1912 and silver in 1924, at 48, he became and remains the oldest ever US track and field Olympian.

While four golds and seven medals in the current games are records for an Irish team, the best every Olympics for Irish born competitors was 1908 in London with nine gold, six silver and six bronze. The great Mayo athlete Martin Sheridan won gold in the discus and Greek discus and bronze in the standing long jump. Beatrice Hill-Lowe from Ardee became the first Irish woman medallist with bronze in archery.  Kerryman Edward Barrett won tug of war gold with the City of London Police team, adding a bronze medal in wrestling to an All-Ireland medal won with London in the 1903 hurling final. Limerick triple jumper Tim  Ahearne, representing Britain, set an Olympic record which lasted 16 years. His brother Dan held the world record for 13 years until both marks fell to Australia’s Nck Winter at the 1924 games.

(Eamonn Sweeney – Sunday Independent)

FERNS DIOCESAN PILGRIMAGE TO FATIMA 2024

Led by Spiritual Directors Fr. Denis Browne & Fr. Paddy Banville. 10th October for 7 nights. €899 per person sharing. Direct flights from Dublin to Lisbon. 20kg bags included.

Return airport transfers in Fatima.

7 nights: Hotel  Cinquentenário. Full Board; breakfast, lunch & dinner each day. Full Religious Programme.

Guided tours Sanctuary & Basilica of Our Lady of the Rosary

Visits to Aljustrel & Valnos. Visit to Santarém, site of the Eucharistic Miracle. Optional: travel insurance & single supplement €245. Optional Bus from stops in Co. Wexford to and from the Airport. (Ask JWT for details) For information, please contact Fr. Denis Browne 086 8926260 or frdenisbrowne@gmail.com. For Bookings, please contact Joe Walsh Tours at 01 2410800 & info@goewalshtours.ie 

CHURCH NOTICES

IN MEMORIAM

Sat 17th – Tom (Tiddler) Byrne, Kellystown (A)

Also     – John, Bridie, Nicholas & Sr. Eleanor Whelan, Kellystown (A)

Sun 18th – People of the Parish

Sat 24th – Padraigh & Susan O’Gorman, Kellystown (A)

Sun 25th – Pat Power, The Leap (A)

Pray for Anna Mai Furlong, Castleview (A)

May they rest in peace.

Thursday Adoration will return in September.

READERS OF THE LITURGY

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

Sat 24th – Eoghan Greene.  

Sun 25th – Amelia Swierczynska

Sat 31st – Liam Whelan.  Sun 1st – Callie Doyle

PATRON IN ST. ABBAN’S

Our  Annual Patron will take place on Sunday 1st September with Mass in St. Abban’s Church at 1.30pm.

OUR LADY’S ISLAND PILGRIMAGE 2024

Sun August 25th – ‘The Joy of learning to love myself’

With Celine Byrne, Soprano – Opera Singer & Speaker

Sun Sept 1st – Mass at 3pm on Island.

Followed by Rosary Procession.

Wed 4th Sept – Special Service: A Time to Heal 7.30pm

Sun 8th Sept – 3pm Mass in Church.

Official Closing of Pilgrimage at 7pm. (Note earlier time)

With Traditional Torchlight Procession.

Daily Mass during the season at 3pm & 7.30pm in Church.

ICON CLASSES IN NEW ROSS THIS SEPTEMBER

What do you know about religious Icons?

Well if you wish to find out more and have a chance to make (write) you own Icon, please contact Sr. Helen at the

Carmelite Monastery, New Ross. 087 2181687

Sr. Helen is starting new courses for both beginners and experienced artists alike, on 11th September.

The cost includes brushes, paints, boards and tuition.

Spaces are limited, so book early.

REMINDER – 

New Ross Pastoral Area Our Lady’s Island Mass

The New Ross Pastoral area, of which Adamstown is now a part, will have the celebration of  Mass at Our Lady’s Island at 7.30pm this Monday evening 19th August.

CONFESSIONS OF A GRANDFATHER

“I know I shouldn’t have done this, but I am an 83 year-old-grandfather and I was in McDonalds drive-through this  morning and the young woman behind me leaned on her horn and started mouthing something because I was taking too long to place  my order. So, when I got to the first window, I paid for her order along with my own. The cashier must have told her what I’d done, because as we moved up, she leaned out her window and waved to me and mouthed “Thank You”, obviously embarrassed that I had repaid her rudeness with kindness. When I got to the second window,  I showed them both receipts and took her food too. Now she must go back to the end of the queue and start all over again”

The moral of the story is…..Don’t blow your horn at old people, they have been around a long time.

(Fr. Martin Delaney – Irish Catholic)

REFLECTION – Peace

‘You can go through your life without thinking about it at all. Then you do discover places and people through whom you find peace. The question is important because it does throw us back on to ourselves – where do I find peace today. Did I do anything to bring peace to anybody? It is a very basic question but very important and one we can go through life and ignore. We all have a deep well of stillness and silence within us but we have to go there, just quieten down and go there. It is a wonderfully rewarding experience, finding that inner peace. People find peace with their family, in relationships in some form, with ourselves, with each other, with a higher power or with God. In helping others, that sense of offertory, of giving does have a huge reward. It does bring peace of a certain kind, that we realise, you know there is more to life than rushing around – spending time with people, helping them, has a huge reward for us. 

(Sr. Stanislaus)

PRAYER FOR THE WEEK

Live Jesus live, so live in me

That all I do, be done for Thee,

And grant that all I think and say,

May be Thy thoughts and words this day. Amen.

A THOUGHT FOR THE WEEK – Generosity

Today, I helped make food for the homeless,

The man I was giving the sandwich to said, he didn’t want it. I asked why? and he pointed  to his friend behind him and said,  “I want the birthday boy to have two sandwiches on his special day. It’s the only gift I have to give”

His friend was elated. 

People who have nothing still give.