Adamstown Parish Newsletter Saturday 1st & Sunday 2nd March 2025 Volume 25. Number 8 _________________________________________________________…
9th March, 2025
Adamstown Parish Newsletter
Saturday 8th & Sunday 9th March 2025
Volume 25. Number 9
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ADAMSTOWN LOTTO
The winning numbers in the Adamstown Lotto draw on Thursday 5th March were: 9 – 14 – 24 – 29. There were no Jackpot winners including online players. There were two match winners who received €100 each. Jamie Murray & Mary Kirwan. The next draw is on 20th March for a Jackpot of €4,000.
SHAMROCK VINTAGE CLUB NOTICE
The Shamrock Vintage Club will hold the Pat Byrne Memorial Road Run on Sunday 6th April in Adamstown.
Starting time 1.00 o’clock. Registration from 11.30am.
The route is as follows: Adamstown, The Leap, Chapel, Tomfarney, Coolnacun, Ballagh, Templenacrow, Robinstown, Kehoe’s Cross, Lacken, Old Ross, Moorefields, Courthoyle, and Raheen for food and Raffle in the hall. All vehicles welcome and must be insured. Donations of food and prizes for the Raffle most welcome, also people to work on the day. Proceeds going to the Raheen Community Centre.
THURSDAY NIGHT CARD GAME
The weekly Thursday night Card Game continues in the Community Centre each week at 8.00pm. Winners on Thursday 6th March were: Pat Finn, Tom Rochford, Pat Quinn, Matty Sullivan, Pat Murphy, John Hanley, Martin Cahill.
ADAMSTOWN TIDY TOWNS NOTICE
Adamstown Tidy Towns are organising a Spring Clean.
Bags, gloves etc, are available now in Cullen’s Gala.
ADAMSTOWN COMMUNITY CENTRE MARKET PLACE
Lots of table bookings in so far, we will have everything from crafts, handmade jewellery, young bakers’ gluten free goodies and delicious cakes, young crafters, jams & preserves, knitted toys, wood craft, picture frames, dream catchers, handmade handbags, preloved books, and we even have a sweet stall this year. We’re delighted to have some familiar faces back again with us from last year’s Christmas Fair Experience. Yes, if you haven’t heard it already, we are excited & delighted to announce that we will be hosting an Adamstown Community Easter themed Market Place happening on Sunday April 13th. A few tables left, if you have something to add to the list of tables above, get in touch before they are all gone.
IMPORTANT NOTICE RE: DEFIBRILLATOR
The Defibrillator outside Cullen’s Shop is currently not in working order, replacement pads have been ordered, and we hope it will be in working again soon. In the meantime, if a Defibrillator is needed, there is one available at the Community Centre
ADAMSTOWN NATIONAL SCHOOL NOTICE
Adamstown N.S. are seeking individuals to be added to our SUBSTITUTE bus escort list. This role involves but it not limited to: Supervision of children with special needs travelling on school transport, to and from school. Including safe transfer into and out of the school/classroom. Responsible for the safety of children when opening and closing doors prior to “stop” and “move off”.
Assist children to board and alight safely from the school transport. Ensure that all children are seated with appropriate straps and harnesses where provided. Ensure that each pupil is received by a responsible person at the set down point.
Payment: €15.50 per hour. Must be available to do morning and afternoon run.
If you are interested and would like more information or to apply to be placed on the SUBSTITUTE bus escort list, please email the school at scoilabbain@gmail.com
A LOOK AT NATURE – The Elusive Hare
There is something very special about a hare. For centuries we humans have been fascinated by these beautiful animals and many fables, myths and stories have been told and retold about their magical qualities. So, what is their attraction? With their long ears, long legs and even longer stride, hares are known for their speed and agility; they can reach speeds of 72.5kms, making them one of the fastest animals in the world. Hares are solitary and they shelter and sleep in what is known as a ‘form’. This shallow depression of flattened grass or a hollow in the soil. While they can be very active at night, they are often seen during the daylight hours, especially during the month of March when the mating season commences. Many of us are aware of their strange behaviour during this time when the hares appear to frantically box one another. This is not a boxing competition between the males. What is really happening is that females are fighting off amorous males that are pestering them. This behaviour has earned them the name ‘Mad March Hares’
Baby hares, known as leverets are born fully furred, with their eyes open and are active as soon as they are born. The mother will visit her leverets in the form to feed them, once or maybe twice a day, usually in the early morning or at dusk. They grow rapidly and are weaned about 21 days. Spring is arriving and with it all the wonderful gifts which it brings. Birdsong, longer light-filled days and spring flowers are a few of its treasures. Don’t forget to keep an eye out for the elusive hare. It could be right under your nose, so you have to be very, very watchful just as God is watchful and cares for all of His creation every single day. (Elizabeth McArdle – Far East Magazine)
CHURCH NOTICES
IN MEMORIAM
Sat 8th – Nicholas & Bridie Wickham, Tomgarrow (A)
Sun 9th – John O’Brien, Ballyvergin (A)
Sat 15th – Peggy Grafton (née Thorpe) Newtown (A)
Sun 16th – People of the Parish
May they rest in peace.
Mass each week day morning at 9.30am.
Adoration of the Blessed Sacrament every Thursday from 10am – 1.00pm.
READERS OF THE LITURY
Sat 8th – Annette English. Sun 9th – Cáit Bradley
Sat 15th – Eoghan Greene Sun 16th – Sheelagh Delaney
Sat 22nd – Liam Whelan. Sun 23rd – Callie Doyle
Sat 29th – Cáit Bradley Sun 30th – Brendan O’Shea
Trócaire Boxes are available in the Church Porch, please take one home with you.
TRÓCAIRE LENTEN APPEAL
Helping people who are pushed further into poverty by the devastating effects of climate change.
Climate Change in Guatemala: Challenges for communities Guatemala is among the top ten most vulnerable countries in the world when it comes to disasters and climate emergencies. With poor access to healthcare, food and clean water, 55% of the population live in extreme poverty and life can be a constant struggle. Guatemala has the highest rate of malnutrition in Latin America, and is ranked 6th in the world, with 1 in every 2 children suffering chronic malnutrition. Please help us support the most at-risk communities in Guatemala to become more resilient to the devastating impacts of climate change.
PRAYER GROUP
The Prayer Group meets this Sunday night (March 9th) at 7pm in St. Abban’s Church. Our guest speaker is Fr. Tom Orr.
All are welcome. Perhaps this is something you could do for Lent.
SYMPATHY – Kathleen Crean, (née Jordan, Kilmistin)
The death occurred on Friday 28th February of Kathleen Crean,
Clonard, Wexford and formerly Glenour, Adamstown.
We extend our deepest sympathy to her children, Anne, Pauline, Carmel and Margaret, her brother, Michael, extended family, neighbours and friends. Kathleen was predeceased by her husband John Crean. Her funeral Mass was celebrated in St. Abban’s Church, on Monday last, followed by burial in the adjoining Cemetery. May her gentle soul rest in peace.
ASHES TO DUST (Romano Guardini – Intercom)
On the edge of the woods grows a larkspur. Its glorious blue blossom rising on its bended stalk from among the dark green curiously-shaped leaves fills the air with colour. A passerby picks the flower, loses interest in it and throws it into the fire, and in a short moment all that is left of the splendid show is a thin streak of grey ash. What fire does in an instant, time is always doing to everything that lives. The delicate fern, the stout mullein, the rooted oak, butterflies, darting swallows, nimble squirrels, heavy oxen, all of them, equally sooner or later, by accident, disease, hunger, cold, all these clear-cut forms, all this flourishing life, turns to a little ash, a handful of dry dust, which every breeze scatters this way and that. All this brilliant colour, all this sensitive, breathing life, falls into pale, feeble, dead earth, and less than earth, into ashes. It is the same with ourselves. We look into an opened grave and shiver; a few bones, a handful of ash-grey dust.
Remember man, that dust thou art,
and unto dust shalt thou return.
Ashes signify man’s overthrow by time. Our own swift passage ours and not someone else’s, ours, mine. When at the beginning of Lent the priest takes the burnt residue of the green branches of the last Palm Sunday and inscribes with it on my forehead and the sign of the cross, it is to remind me of my death.
Memento homo quia pulvis est
et in pulverem reverteris.
Everything turns to ashes, everything whatever. This house I live in, the clothes I am wearing, my household stuff, my money, my fields, meadows, woods, the dog that follows me, the clock in the hall, this hand I am writing with, these eyes that read what I write, all the rest of my body, people I have loved, people I have hated, or been afraid of, whatever was great in my eyes upon earth, whatever small and contemptible, all without exception will fall back into dust.
LENT – Forms of Friday Penance
The following are suggested as ways of fulfilling Friday penance
Abstaining from meat or some other food.
Abstaining from alcoholic drink or smoking.
Making a special effort at involvement in family prayer.
Making a special effort to participate in Mass on Fridays;
Visiting the Blessed Sacrament;
Making the Stations of the Cross;
Fasting from all food for a longer period of time than usual and perhaps giving what is saved to the needy;
Helping the poor, sick, old or lonely.
(Irish Catholic Bishop’s Conference)
A THOUGHT FOR THE WEEK
Kindness doesn’t cost a thing, yet it’s the richest gift you can give.
