Adamstown Parish Newsletter Saturday 28th & Sunday 29th December 2024 Volume 24. Number 52 ____________________________________________________________________…
4th January, 2025
Adamstown Parish Newsletter
Saturday 4th & Sunday 5th January 2025
Volume 25. Number 1
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THURSDAY NIGHT CARD GAME
The weekly Thursday night Card Game continues in the Community Centre each week at 8.30pm. Card winners on Thurs 2nd Jan were: Micksy & Breda Bolger, Phil Jackman,
Joe Kehoe, Matty Sullivan, Pat Murphy.
ADAMSTOWN COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT
ASSOCIATON (ACDA) COMMUNITY ALERT MEETING
ACDA are hosting a community alert meeting to reactivate the Community Alert in the Adamstown Area on Monday 13th January at 8pm in Adamstown Community Centre.
Come meet Garda Kevin Burke, Crime Prevention Officer Eddie Wildes and a representative from Muntir na Tire.
Keep our area safe!
TFI – LOCAL LINK WEXFORD
Do you want a full local link service in the Adamstown area?
Plus the possibility of a late night service on Friday and Saturday Nights
Come have your say! Adamstown Community Development Association are hosting a public meeting on Monday 3rd February 2025 at 8pm in Adamstown Community Centre.
When the wheels on the bus go around, don’t be left behind.
COMMUNITY CENTRE NEWS
Adamstown Community Centre would like to wish everyone a Joyful and Prosperous New Year. May 2025 bring happiness, health, and success to our entire community.
Thank you all again for your continued support, and we look forward to serving you all in the coming year.
The Saturday Chess Club is returning Saturday 11th in the Community Centre from3.30pm – 5.30pm.
Contact Sarah on 087 062 7563
Active Classes in the mornings with Sarah, Chair Exercises and Pilates and also evening Pilates and Exercise, start back from next week, your contact for more information on 087 0627563
OUR WEEKLY NEWSLETTER
Thanks to all who helped in producing our Weekly Newsletter, over the past year,which was first published on 18/19th December 1999. If you have any items for inclusion, please email elliewalsh1949@gmail.com or phone 087 2480964. Please remember, not all our older parishioners use online platforms and love to be told of ongoing events in the Parish
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ADAMSTOWN LOTTO
The next draw in the Adamstown Lotto takes place this Thursday 9th Jan in Cullen’s Pub for a Jackpot of €2,900. Please leave books back in Cullen’s Gala by 8pm on draw night.
AS WE REACH THE END OF ANOTHER YEAR
As we come to the end of another year, a sincere word of thanks to the many people who quietly, behind the scenes work tirelessly to make our community a better place for all.
Thank you to the members of the various clubs/organisations/voluntary groups/committees,
who give of their time for the benefit of the young people in our Parish. To our Fás workers who keep our village, church & cemetery grounds neat and tidy. The ladies from the different townlands, who look after the church flowers throughout the year, the ladies who clean the brasses, the readers of the Liturgy, Eucharistic Ministers, Choirs, Servers, T.J. McDonald, Cemetery Committee, those who look after Car parking on the occasion of funerals, Patron Day or at other times,
A word of thanks also to all the businesses, schools, and Health Centre for your help and support over the year. We are so lucky in Adamstown to have such a great range of services on our doorstep. Wishing everyone a Happy, Peaceful 2025.
WE THREE KINGS OF ORIENT ARE:
Caspar, Melchior, and Balthasar are traditionally known as the Three Wise Men who came to worship the newborn King in Bethlehem. They brought gifts of Gold, Frankincense and Myrrh.
These gifts remind us of the gifts of time, talent and treasure which so many give so generously to our Parish and to the King of Kings. Thank you for sharing your gifts and enriching our Parish in so many different ways. God Bless you all.
JIMMY CARTER WAS THE FIRST PRESIDENT TO HOST A POPE
Former President Jimmy Carter died Dec 29th at the age of 100.
He served from 1977-1981 as the 39th U.S. President, was a devout Baptist, and faith played a large role in his life. He even taught Sunday school in his retirement. Carter was also the first President to host a Pope at the White House. In 2002 Carter was awarded the Nobel Peace Prize, for “his decades of untiring effort to find peaceful solutions to international conflicts, to advance democracy and human rights, and to promote economic and social development” Carter also had notable exchanges with Catholic leaders in his presidency. In a congratulatory telegram to Carter upon his election in Nov 1976, Pope Paul V1 offered him “cordial felicitations” adding he would pray Carter would lead the American people “in a way of authentic progress, true peace and fraternal concern, with liberty and justice for all.
During his administration Carter hosted Pope John Paul 11 at the White House on Oct 6, 1979, while the Pope was on his first papal trip to the U.S. making the pontiff the first pope to ever visit the White House. Carter later visited Pope John Paul 11 at the Vatican in June 1980. May he rest in peace.
CHURCH NOTICES
IN MEMORIAM
Sat 4th Jan – Michael & Josie Whelan, Tomgarrow
Also – Phyllis Bernie & Fred O’Brien, Dublin (A)
Sun 5th – James & Lila Kent, Adamstown (A)
Sat 11th – Pat & & Kathleen Furlong, Raheenduff (A)
Also – Terry McDonald, The Leap (A)
Sun 12th – Nicholas & Mary Byrne, Kellystown (A)
Also – Josie Galway and Catherine & Patrick Doyle,
Breezemount (A)
Also – Mai Whitty, Ballagh (A)
Pray for Tom Galway, Tomgarrow (A)
Pray for Statia & Syl Barron, Coonogue (A)
May they rest in peace.
Monday 6th January – Feast of Epiphany of the Lord
Mass at 11.00am & 7.30pm.
Mass Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday & Friday at 9.30am
Adoration of the Blessed Sacrament every Thursday from 10.00am – 1.00pm.
READERS OF THE LITURY
Sat 4th Jan – Anthony McGee. Sun 5th – Neasa Cloney
Sat 11th – Eoghan Greene. Sun 12th – Betty O’Shea
Sat 18th – Cáit Bradley Sun 19th – Callie Doyle
POPE FRANCIS’ MESSAGE FOR WORLD DAY OF PEACE
‘May 2025 be a year in which peace flourishes! A true and lasting peace that grows beyond quibbling over the details of agreements and human compromises. May we seek the true peace that is granted by God to hearts disarmed: hearts not set on calculating what is mine and what is yours; hearts that turn selfishness into readiness to reach out to others; hearts that see themselves as indebted to God and thus prepared to forgive the debts that oppress others; hearts that replace anxiety about the future with the hope that every individual can be a resource for the building of a better world’.
ON THE FAMILY
‘Consideration needs to be given to the growing danger represented by an extreme individualism which weakens family bonds and ends up considering each member of the family as an isolated unit, leading in some cases to the idea that one’s personality is shaped by his or her desires, which are considered absolute’. Pope Francis, The Joy of Love, 33.
A THOUGHT FOR THE NEW YEAR
Our life is a book of chapters three,
The past, the present and the yet to be.
The past is gone, it is stowed away,
The present we live with every day.
The future is not for us to see,
It is locked away and God holds the key.
ANNOUNCEMNT OF EASTER
The season of Christmas ends with the celebration of the Baptism of the Lord. As the season draws to an end, the solemnity of the Epiphany offers an opportunity to proclaim the centrality of Christ’s paschal mystery: dying he destroyed our death and rising he restored our life. The Easter Triduum of the Passion, death and Resurrection of Christ is the culmination of the entire liturgical year. The proclamation of the date of Easter 1may be announced on the solemnity of the Epiphany.
Know, dear brothers and sisters that, as we have rejoiced at the Nativity of our Lord Jesus Christ, so by leave of God’s mercy we announce to you also the joy of his Resurrection, who is our Saviour.
On the fifth day of March will fall Ash Wednesday, and the beginning of the fast of the sacred Lenten season.
On the twentieth day of April you will celebrate with joy
Easter Day, the Paschal feast of our Lord Jesus Christ.
On the first day of June will be the Ascension of our Lord Jesus Christ.
On the eight day of June, the feast of Pentecost.
On the twenty-second day of June, the feast of the
Most Holy Body and Blood of Christ.
On the thirtieth day of November, the First Sunday of the Advent of Our Lord Jesus Christ.
to whom is honour and glory for ever and ever.
Amen.
A PRAYER FOR THE NEW YEAR
Lord, in this New Year which we are about to begin
May we have enough happiness to keep us agreeable.
Enough trials to keep us strong,
Enough sorrow to keep us human,
Enough freedom to keep us happy,
Enough failure to keep us humble,
Enough success to keep us eager,
Enough wealth to meet our needs,
Enough faith to banish depression,
Enough hope to look forward,
Enough love to give us comfort,
And enough determination to keep going. Amen.
WEXFORD PARISH CARE FOR THE EARTH GROUP
We were created with a vocation to work. Work is part of the meaning of life on this earth, a path to growth, human development and personal fulfilment. Helping the poor financially must always be a provisional solution; the broader objective should always be to allow them a dignified life through work.
(Pope Francis)
