Adamstown Parish Newsletter Saturday 22nd & Sunday 23rd March 2025 Volume 25. Number 11 __________________________________________________________________________________…
26th January, 2025
Adamstown Parish Newsletter
Saturday 25th & Sunday 26th January 2025
Volume 25. Number 4
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ADAMSTOWN GAA NEWS
Wexford Ladies Football Presentation Night
Congratulations to Katie, Niamh & Isabelle in receiving their Leinster medals and Babs Kent on receiving the club volunteer award. We wish Lizzie and the girls the best of luck in the coming season.
Adamstown GAA, Ladies football and camogie club would like to extend our deepest sympathy to Aileen Gilroy and her family on the passing of her Mam Mary Gilroy, Killala, Co. Mayo.
Ar dheis Dé go raibh a hanam.
COLÁISTE ABBÁIN NEWS
Fantastic Wins for Our 1st & 2nd Year Girls Basketball Teams!
A huge congratulations to our 1st and 2nd Year girls’ basketball teams on their impressive victories over St. Paul’s Community College. Both teams showcased incredible teamwork, skill, and determination on the court. Well done to all the players and their coaches for their hard work and dedication.
Important Announcement: – Variety Concert
With a heavy heart we have to announce the postponement of our Variety Concert due to take place on Friday 24th. The safety of our students is always a top priority. We are working hard to secure another date and will notify everyone as soon as possible. Please note that all current tickets will remain valid for the rescheduled performance. Thank you for your understanding and support.
RAHEEN COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT GROUP AREA
The Annual General Meeting of Raheen Community Development Group Company Limited by Guarantee will be held in the ARC Family Resource Centre, Adamstown Y21 C8K1 at 8pm on Thursday 30th January. We are now seeking nominations from the local community to join our voluntary board of directors. If you would like to be considered for election to the Board, nomination forms are available at Raheen Family Resource Centre, Raheen Parish House, Y21Y974
A Place to Grow Childcare and Senior Services are already taking place in Adamstown under the Family Resource Centre Programme. The overall aim is to collaborate with local communities and relevant agencies to support families and the community. For further information you can phone 051 442888. We would like to take this opportunity to thank all voluntary directors for their contribution to the organisation.
A THOUGHT FOR THE WEEK
Two things define you. Your patience when you have nothing, and your attitude when you have everything.
FREEDOM’S PRICE
“Do you want a man for president,
who’s seasoned through and through
But not so doggone seasoned that he
won’t try something new
A man who’s old enough to know and old
enough to do, well
It’s up to you, it’s up to you, it’s simply up to you”
So went John F. Kennedy’s jaunty ad campaign in 1960 that helped him to become the 35th President of the United States as well as at 43, the youngest. After spending just 177 days in office Kennedy’s dramatic assassination at 12:30pm on the 11th November, 1963 shocked the world. Most people can remember where they were when they heard the tragic news. Just prior to the despicable deed fellow passengers in the presidential limousine were Governor Connally and his wife. Mrs. Connally, commenting on the happy crowds lining the route of the motorcade remarked, ‘Mr. President, you can’t say Dallas doesn’t love you’ Kennedy replied, ‘No, you certainly can’t. These words were Kennedy’s last words.
Later coincidences between the Kennedy and Lincoln assassination were bound to surface. Lincoln’s secretary named Kennedy told him not to go to Ford’s Theatre. Kennedy’s secretary Evelyn Lincoln warned him not to go to Dallas. The names Lincoln and Kennedy each have seven letters. Both assassins, John Wilkes Booth and Lee Harvey Oswald, were known by triplicate numbers, comprising fifteen letters. Booth ran from a theatre and was caught in a warehouse – Oswald ran from a warehouse and was caught in a theatre. Both of the presidents’ successors were named Johnson, one born in 1808 the other in 1908. One mind-numbing factor puts the Dallas outrage into context. Kennedy was the first President to carry on his person at all times the so-called nuclear biscuit. A credit-card sized piece of plastic a president needs to order the launch of nuclear weapons. (Tom McParland – Ireland’s Own)
ADAMSTOWN LOTTO
The winning numbers in the Adamstown Lotto draw on Thursday 23rd January were: 1 – 4 – 16 – 20. There was no Jackpot winner and four match three players who received €50 each.
Barry Power, Sarah Cullen online, Aidan O’Brien online & Aidan O’Brien online. The next draw is on Thursday 6th February for a Jackpot of €3,300. Thanks for your continued support.
THURSDAY NIGHT CARD GAME
The weekly Thursday night Card Game continues in the Community Centre each week at 8.30pm. Winners on Thursday 23rd January were: Jim & Trish Wickham, Pat Murphy, Matty Sullivan, Chris Byrne & Bridie Dillon. Note: Card Game will take place on Wednesday night next week 29th January at 8pm.
CHURCH NOTICES
IN MEMORIAM
Sat 25th – People of the Parish
Sun 26th – Mogue & Mary Kealy, Ellen, Johnny, Jim & Sonny Kehoe, Tom & Liz Murphy, Rathurtin & The Leap (A)
Sat 1st Feb – John & Elizabeth French & deceased members of the French family, Oldcourt also Marian O’Gorman (A)
Also – Margaret Comerford, Oldcourt (A)
Sun 2nd Willie Stafford, Oldcourt (A)
Pray for Willie Walsh, Woodview Drive and Maisie Aldred, Brocurra who died during the past week.
We also remember in our prayers Wojciech Swierczynsai who died recently in Poland and we offer our condolences to his son Tomas and family who live in Adamstown Village.
May they rest in peace.
Sat 1st February – Feast Day of St. Brigid.
Sunday Feb 2nd – Presentation of the Lord, Candles for Church & Home use will be blessed.
Mass each week day morning at 9.30am.
Adoration of the Blessed Sacrament every Thursday from 10.00am – 1.00pm.
READERS OF THE LITURY
Sat 25th – T.J. McDonald Sun 26th – Sheelagh Delaney
Sat 1st – Anthony McGee Sun 2nd – Ann Ryan
Sat 8th – Annette English Sun 9th – Kathleen O’Connor
Sat 15th – Eoghan Greene Sun 16th – Neasa Cloney
CHURCH ALTARS & DECORATION
Thanks to the parishioners from Newtown/The Leap for looking after the Church and Altars for the month of January, it is now the turn of parishioners from Adamstown for the month of February.
ECUMENICAL QUIET DAY
In St. John of God Retreat, Ballyvaloo, on Thursday 20th February, 11.15am – 4.00pm. The day will be led by Fr. Billy Swan who will talk to us about the Nicean Creed. This year is the 1700th anniversary of the Council of Nicaea. Contribution: €30 including lunch and coffee on arrival. Please text or ring Fr. James Murphy on 087 8152637 if you wish to attend.
PRAYER FOR THE WEEK – St. Brigid
May Brigid bless this house wherein you dwell.
Bless every fireside, every wall and door.
Bless every heart that beats beneath its roof.
Bless every hand that toils to bring it joy.
Bless every foot that walks its portals through.
May Brigid bless the house that shelters you.
SYMPATHY:
The death occurred on Saturday 18th January of Willie Walsh, 20 Woodview Drive, Adamstown, late of Kereight, Ballyhogue.
We extend our deepest sympathy to his partner Teresa, sons David, Shane & Alan, daughter Suzanne, brothers, sisters, extended family, neighbours and friends. Willie’s funeral Mass was celebrated in St. Abban’s Church on Wednesday last followed by burial in Galbally Cemetery.
May his gentle soul rest in peace.
Maisie Aldred (née Buckley) R.I.P.
The death occurred on Saturday 18th January of Maisie Aldred, (née Buckley) Brocurra, Adamstown. We send our condolences to her daughters Eileen, Catherine, Marie, Olivia and son Oliver, her brothers, sisters, extended family, neighbours and friends.
Maisie was predeceased by her husband Ian. Her funeral Mass was celebrated in St. Abban’s Church on Thursday last followed by cremation in Mount Jerome Crematorium, Dublin.
May her gentle soul rest in peace.
THE COURAGE TO BE HONEST (Sr. Melannie S.N.D.)
I was having lunch at a restaurant with my 84-year-old mother one warm summer day, two young attractive girls walked by wearing rather skimpy outfits. After they passed, my mother leaned forward and said: “Did you see the way those two girls were dressed?” I nodded. She shook her head disapprovingly.
Then, a few moments later, she started to grin. She leaned forward again and said, “You know, maybe I’m just a little jealous!” And we both chuckled out loud. When we think of courage, we often think of battlefields, hospital rooms and courthouses. But my mother displayed a different kind of courage that day; the courage to be honest with herself. She traced her disapproval to its roots of our tendency to judge others. What might be lurking there, jealousy, fear, hurt, anger, loneliness, fatigue?
Loving God, give me the courage to be honest with you, with others and with myself.
THERE IS NO GOD HERE IN HOLLYWOOD
‘Our revels now are ended’
Our revels now are ended. These our actors,
As I foretold you, were all spirits and
Are melted into air, into thin air:
And, like the baseless fabric of this vision,
The cloud-capp’d towers, the gorgeous palaces,
The solemn temples, the great globe itself,
Yea, all which it inherit, shall dissolve
And, like this insubstantial pageant faded,
Leave not a rack behind. We are such stuff
As dreams are made on, and our little life
Is rounded with a sleep.
(William Shakespeare. From The Tempest, Act 4, Scene1)
Two things define you. Your patience when you have nothing, and your attitude when you have everything.
