20th February, 2022

Adamstown Parish Newsletter

Saturday 19th & Sunday 20th February 2022  

Volume 22.  Number 8.

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ADAMSTOWN LOTTO

The next draw in the Adamstown Lotto takes place this Monday 21st February in the Community Centre for a Jackpot of €12,200.  Please leave your books into Cullen’s Gala by 8pm on draw night. Keep on buying the tickets, it could be you next time.

BINGO IN CULLEN’S LOUNGE

Bingo will take place in Cullen’s Lounge this Wednesday 23rd February at 8pm.  All welcome.

ADAMSTOWN TIDY TOWNS

Spring is upon us and where better to start, than to support Daffodil Day. Adamstown Tidy Towns have pots of miniature daffodils on sale at Cullen’s Gala @ €5 each. All profits will go to The Irish Cancer Society.  Get yours and add a smile to your window on those dark, gloomy days or give as a gift for a friend or loved one.

ST. ABBAN’S ADAMSTOWN GAA, LADIES GAELIC FOOTBALL & CAMOGIE:

Foireann Open:

This year’s registration & payment of membership will take place online using the new Croke Park Foireann system.

Google Foireann.ie if you registered for Return to Play in 2021 fill in your username & password. All new members follow the online instructions. To set up a new account register as a new user & follow instructions. All players (male/female/underage) must have paid their membership before they return to play/train. Anyone who may have difficulties, please contact a committee member. Thank you.

We are absolutely delighted with being awarded a grant of €140.000 in the Sports Capital Programme towards the installation of a state of the art floodlighting system for the new pitch. This grant will allow us to complete the next phase of our ambitious development in the coming months – when the lights are installed we will have invested circa €750,000 in just 6 years and will have facilities to rival any club in the country.

GOOD WISHES TO KAROLINA

Wishing the very best to Karolina Jaglarz as she returns to Wexford Youths Women’s U-17 Football team for a third season. Karolina, an exciting winger scored four goals last year as well as providing a number of key assists.

Karolina attended Adamstown N.S & Coláiste Abbáin.

CHURCH & ALTARS DECORATION

Thanks to the ladies from Misterin for looking after the Church & Altars for the month of February, it is now the turn of parishioners from Oldcourt for the month of March.

PLEASE NOTE: THERE WILL BE NO MORNING MASS IN ST. ABBAN’S CHURCH THIS COMING WEEK

BETHANY BEREAVEMENT SUPPORT GROUP

Due to the lifting of Covid-19 restrictions Bethany Bereavement Support Group have now recommenced services to all who are bereaved. The Drop-In-Service will be held on the first Thursday of every month, commencing on Thursday 3rd March, in St. Michael’s Pastoral Centre, Michael St. New Ross from 11.00am to 12.00pm. If you are suffering loss of any kind at this time, please call the group’s confidential number on 087 3846577.

BIKES FOR AFRICA – Wexford Rotary Club

Do you have a strong, sturdy bike/mountain bike with at least 24″ wheel lying about in your garage or shed that you no longer use or need?  Why not donate it to children in Africa.

‘Bikes for Africa’ collection is back again. From now until April you may leave bikes at any of the four Wexford County Council recycling centres. These bikes will be used by students in Africa from 7 – 17 years of age.

If you can please make a difference to a child’s life and education in Africa.

THE PEOPLE’S SAINT – MOTHER TERESA

The Emerald Isle:

(John Scally – Beautiful Thoughts for Beautiful Minds)

Many elements of Mother Teresa’s story are familiar, such as winning the Nobel Prize for Peace in 1979, but what is often forgotten is her deep affinity with Ireland. The order she chose to join was an Irish one, the Loreto Sisters, and she began her time as a nun by serving two months as a novice in Rathfarnham in 1928. Her ties with Ireland remained strong. She returned many times, was awarded the Freedom of the City of Dublin in 1993, and at the height of the Troubles in 1971 sent a group of her sisters to Belfast armed with just bedrolls and violin to help “in whatever little way” they could. Even after her death, her Irish connections remain as her sisters continue to work in each of the four provinces: Dublin, Blarney, Sligo and Armagh. When she initially applied to the Loreto order in Bengal she was told that she must first go to the Loreto Abbey in Rathfarnham, Dublin, where she needed to learn English, before she could journey to India. On 26th September 1928 she left Dublin by train. It was the last time she ever saw her mother.

My final question to Mother Teresa was if Ireland held a unique place in her affections. With a shy smile and almost a whisper she answered: “By blood and origin I am all Albanian. My citizenship is Indian. I am a Catholic nun.

As to my calling, I belong to the whole world – and to Jesus. The people of the world are my people, but I will always have a special place in my heart for Ireland.

THOUGHT FOR THE WEEK – (Ireland’s Eye)

Happy are those who take life day by day,

Complain very little and are thankful for the little things.

CHURCH NOTICES

IN MEMORIAM

Sat 19th – Paddy O’Connor, Newtown (A)

Sun 20th – People of the Parish

Sat 26th – John & Elizabeth French & deceased members of                             

                the French family, Oldcourt (A)

Sun 27th – Gillian Bradley, Ballyvergin & Julian Rothwell (A)

also           Aidan Hickey, Kellystown (A)

May they rest in peace.

READERS OF THE LITURGY

Sat 19th – Liam Whelan.   Sun 20th – Callie Doyle

Sat 26th – Anthony McGee.  Sun 27th – Cáit Bradley.

Sat 5th Mar – T.J. McDonald.  Sun 6th – Kathleen O’Connor

Sat 12th – Annette English.  Sun 13th – Kay Whelan

CONFIRMATION – 16th MARCH 2022 

As the day of the Sacrament of Confirmation approaches the following children from Adamstown N.S. who will be receiving the Sacrament will read the Prayers of the Faithful during Sunday Mass as follows:

Sun 20th Feb –

Rory Kelly, Kelly Anne Mahon, Kayla Moran, Sean Moran, Jamie O’Reilly, Harry Whelan.

Sun 27th Feb: –

Megan Cawthorne, Abigale Hurley, Ava Kelly, Louise Mahon, Leon Martin, Cian Murphy.

Sun 6th March –

Orlaith Nic Gabhann, Alanna O’Shea, Katie Rochford,

Brody Whelan, Emma Whelan, Kerina Whitty.

FR. PETER SINNOTT P.P. ADAMSTOWN 1818 – 1835

Fr. Sinnott was a native of Sheepwalk in the Parish of Piercestown. He was ordained to the Priesthood on May 24th 1806. He was appointed P.P. in 1818, and was responsible for the building of our present parish church.
He retired in 1835 and went to live in his native place.
His mortal remains rest in Rathmacnee. The following inscription is on the memorial.
‘Erected in memory of Rev John Synnott who departed this life 11th June in the year of Our Lord 1821 and in the 34 year of his age, also in memory of Rev. Peter Sinnott, Parish Priest for many years of Adamstown who departed this life on 20th February 1845, the 66th year of his age.
May he rest in peace.

PRAYER FOR THE WEEK – Morning Prayer

God of my life, I welcome this new day.
It is your gift to me,
the first day of the rest of my life.
I thank you for the gift of being alive this morning.
I thank you for the sleep, which has refreshed me.
I thank you for the chance to begin life all over again.
Lord, this day is full of promise and of opportunity
Help me to waste none of it.
This day is full of mystery and of the unknown,
Help me to face it without anxiety
During this day, may I become a more thoughtful person,
a more prayerful person, a more generous person.
Lord, bless this day for me and for all.
Fill it with your Holy Spirit. Amen.

MARRIAGE PREPARATION COURSES 2022

All courses are being delivered online.
Update regarding Local Courses will be provided by Accord.
Book online at www.accord.ie

FIRST IRISH REDEMPTORIST REACHES 100

Born in the same year as the Irish Free State came into existence, Fr. Tony Mulvey CSsR is the first Irish Redemptorist to reach 100 years of age. But achieving this milestone doesn’t mean he has retired, he insists. “There’s no retirement for Redemptorists. The only place you retire is into the box when you’re carried down to the cemetery!

He says of the milestone.

Fr. Tony’s journey with the Redemptorists started in 1937 when, as a teenager, he was so impressed by a mission they gave in his home parish of Ballinaglera, Co. Leitrim that he entered the Redemptorist junior seminary in Limerick.

After completing his secondary education, Tony entered the Redemptorist novitiate in Dundalk in 1942 and travelled to Belgium as part of his studies. It was shortly after the Second World War, and conditions were harsh. “It was good for me because I learned how different Europe is and I visited many places around Europe”. After his ordination he returned to teach French in their College in Limerick. “I was also very keen on Irish and used to go to places where Irish was spoken. I went down to Kerry, near Dunquin, and to the Aran Islands and Spiddal. Two of us took charge of a parish in Carraroe, all in Irish. I’m still very keen on the Irish language and love to get a chance to speak it” After Ireland entered the EEC in 1973, Fr. Tony was assigned to Luxembourg to minister to the growing number of English-speakers who had moved to the city to work in the European institutions. He spent 12 years there. “I had 25 nationalities in my section of the parish, a lot of people came to the English Mass to learn English”. He got to know many politicians during his time there. “(Future president) Cearbhall Ó Dálaigh was my parishioner, and in fact the night before he left for Ireland for his inauguration as president, we prepared his presidential speech together.

Tony went to Rome in 1987 to work as a translator and remained there for 24 years. He returned home and later moved to Esker in Co. Galway in 2016 where he currently resides. But he misses Rome,  “I have always loved mixing with other nationalities and getting the history of their country. What’s written on paper is hardly ever the truth, but when you get speaking to somebody from the country, they’ll give you the real story”.

(The Irish Catholic)

COMPASSION – Saint Martin de Porres

One day an aged beggar, covered with ulcers and almost naked, stretched out his hand and St. Martin, seeing the Divine Mendicant in him, took him to his own bed, paying no heed to the fact that he was not perfectly neat and clean.

One of his brethren considering he had gone too far in his charity, reproved him. St Martin replied.

“Compassion, my dear Brother is preferable to cleanliness. Reflect that with a little soap, I can easily clean my bed covers, but even with a torrent of tears I would never wash from my soul, the stain that my harshness towards the unfortunate would create”