Mindfulness Workshop The Art of “Letting Go”. Presenter: Mary O’Callaghan

Psychotherapist & Mindfulness Trainer. Date: 24th September 2016.

Time: 10.00am—4.30pm. Cost: €40 (including lunch, teas/coffees) Venue: Ballyvaloo Centre, Blackwater ,

Co Wexford. Telephone: 053 9137160.

Email: office@ballyvaloo.ie This workshop will help us move beyond

rigidity and ‘stuckness’ which can feel heavy and burdensome. Mary will offer a balance of theory

& practices that will enable us to ‘let go and to be receptive to life-both within and around us.

Scripture Readings for next Sunday 18th September.

1st Reading: Am 8:4-7. Psalm: Ps 112:1-2, 4-8,R/ cf.vv1 , 7. 2nd Reading: 1 Tm 2:1-8. Gospel: Luke 16:1-13 _______________________________

Parish Contact Details Telephone: (051) 421348.

Fax: (051) 420122. E-Mail :

newross-parish@hotmail.com. www.newrossparish.ie.

________________________________ St Vincent De Paul - New Ross

Telephone: (085) 8313073. ____________________________

Priest on Duty - 051 421214. _________________________

Weekly Collection - Sunday 4th September 2016

Envelopes: 238 Amount: €1,796.10 ________________________________

Sanctuary Lamp €10 per week

PARISH RADIO 104.7FM 10.00AM MASS DAILY

New Ross Parish Bethany Bereavement Support Group:

Contact No: 087-3846577 ________________________________

Legion Of Mary - Meetings every Wednesday evening in the Parish

Pastoral Centre, Robert St, New Ross. Time: 7.30pm.

Contact Des & Marie - 051-420523 _______________________________

Lectio Divina resumes in the Parish Pastoral Centre at 10.45am each

Wednesday morning.

_________________________ Taizé Prayer

Taizé Prayer will resume on Friday 16th September @ 8pm in the Good Counsel

College Chapel, in New Ross, Co.Wexford and every 1st and 3rd Friday of the month thereafter. All very welcome. For

more information visit: Taizé Wexford on Facebook.There will be an Opening Year Eucharistic Celebration guided by Taizé

Wexford and celebrated by Fr.Sean Mac-Gearailt(OSA) in Good Counsel College

chapel on Friday 7th October at 8pm, followed by refreshments.

__________________________________ Free Workshop

September is World Alzheimer’s month and a free Dementia Workshop for people and

families will be held in the Wexford Enterprise Centre on 14th, 21st & 28th

Sept. All workshops are at 8.00pm. If you would like to attend please contact

053 9184042 to book a seat. Home Senior Care/Community Rep.

The Parish Office & Shop Opening Hours;- Monday - Friday

10.30am - 4.00pm.

Important Dates In Our

Parish for Year 2017.

The Sacrament of Confirmation will be celebrated on;

13th May 2017.

The Sacrament of First Holy

Communion will be celebrated on;

27th May 2017.

The Lost Parables

The three parables of things lost and found emphasise the unending forgiveness of God and God’s rejoicing for those who return. In each of the situations there is a frantic search for that which is lost and a huge celebration when the lost is found. In the third parable of the Prodigal Son there is

much to reflect on. We hear that the younger brother eventually ‘came to his senses’. We might pray today that God shows us the aspects of our lives in which we also need to ‘come to our senses’. As with all parables, we are left thinking and wondering, disturbed even. A sheep and a coin we can rejoice over, but when it is a person who has done us harm, hurt us in some way, it is a much deeper and more painful process. The elder brother in the third parable feels hard done by, is deeply hurt, full of anger and resentment. Luke being the excellent storyteller that he is, does not tell us the outcome of the story; it is for us to finish for ourselves. The elder brother has two options: he can walk away full of resentment or he can try to let go of the anger he feels towards his brother. The latter is a more difficult path but it is the only one that leads to life, no matter how painful the journey may be. The father stands there pleading for the elder brother to come in.

‘ Forgiveness isn't about releasing someone from accountability for his

actions. It is about us letting go of our anger and resentment.’

(Intercom)

New Ross Parish. Church of

St. Mary & St. Michael

Newsletter Volume 29 No 36 11th September 2016

Twenty –Fourth Sunday in Ordinary Time

New Ross Parish Community strives to be a welcoming, life-giving PEOPLE, nourished by FAITH, WORSHIP of God and

SERVICE of all in the example of Jesus Christ.

MASS INTENTIONS FOR THE WEEK.

Sanctuary Lamp: Special Intention.

Sat 10th 6.00 Anne Nowlan, The Curragh, formerly Michael Street Anniversary

Sun 11th 8.00 Special Intention

9.00 Lil O’ Brien, The Maudlins 2nd Anniversary

10.00 Peadar Maher, Knockmullen Anniversary

12.00 Nancy Martin, 21 Ard na Greine Months Mind

6.00 Mary Mullett, Charleton Hill Anniversary

Mon 12th 8.00 Sisters Intention.

10.00 Deceased Members of The Lyng Family, Ballyanne Anniversary

Tues 13th 8.00 Special Intention.

10.00 William & Mary Donovan, Mary St Anniversary

Wed 14th 8.00 Mattie Mackey , Tinneranny Anniversary

10.00 William & Margaret Knight & Family, Charleton Hill Anniversary

Thurs 15th 8.00 Mass for the People of the Parish

10.00 Fr. Philip Sinnott, OSA Anniversary

Fri 16th 8.00 Special Intention.

10.00 Catherine Teresa O’ Connor, 41 JKL Place Anniversary

Sat 17th 8.00 Donal O’ Kennedy, late of South St. who died in Florida Recently Deceased

10.00 New Ross Parish Mass Association

6.00 Jim Doyle, Ardross Anniversary

Sun 18th 8.00 Helena Brennan, Butlersland Anniversary

9.00 Honor Kavanagh Martin, Parkfield Anniversary

10.00 Nellie Connick, Mount Carmel & Deceased Family Members Anniversary

12.00 Month’s Mind

6.00 Frank Dalton, 31 Barrett’s Park 15th Anniversary

Eucharistic Adoration takes place in our Parish every Tuesday

beginning after 10.00am Mass and concluding with Solemn Benediction at 9.00pm

Recently Deceased: We commend to the fullness of eternal life the souls of Peg Mc Namara, Dublin, Late of Ard –Na– Greine. Tony Murphy, Assumption Terrace, Rosbercon and late of Ard-Mhicil. Eileen Nutterfield, Co Cork. Eddie Prendergast, The Quay. May they rest in peace. Anniversary Prayers: We remember in our prayers this week Anastatia Flynn(nee Pyne) London, and the deceased members of the Pyne Family from High Hill. Weddings: Congratulations and best wishes to Kayleigh Allen and Philip Long who were married recently.

In our first reading today from the Book of Exodus, we hear how Moses begs pardon from the Lord for the Israelites who have strayed away from the following God’s path. God listens to the prayer of Moses for leniency and is merciful to his people.

In this extract from his first letter to Timothy, a very humble Paul recognises that his own conversion story is living proof of the mercy of God– from being someone who fought passionately against the early Church to becoming one of its most zealous followers, even to the point of death. ‘Christ Jesus came into the world to save sinners. I myself am the greatest of them’.

We listen to three very familiar parables in our Gospel today– the parables of the Lost Sheep, the Lost Coin, and the most familiar one of the Prodigal Son. Each tell us of the wonderful and boundless kindness of God. They demonstrate how our merciful and generous God stretches out his hand in forgiveness to us sinners in spite of our consistent unfaithfulness to Him. These parables are so familiar to us that we often hear them but not listen closely to them, that we become immune to their meaning. Today, let us open our hearts and minds anew to what this Gospel is telling us at this particular time.

Ferns Diocesan Pastoral Council presents

First Reading Exodus 32:7-11, 13-14

Second Reading 1 Timothy 1:12-17

Gospel Reading Luke 15: 1-32

Baptisms, Recently Deceased, Anniversaries, Weddings.

Dr Tony Hanna, Director of The Armagh Diocesan Office of the Pastoral Renewal

& Family Ministry, he will discuss THE JOY OF LOVE—POPE FRANCIS

This gathering affords us an opportunity to reflect on what Pope Francis tells us about Modern Family

Life. Venue: Riverside Park Hotel,

Enniscorthy. Date: Monday 19th September

2016. Time: 7.30pm - 9.00pm.

Admission €10.00 _______________________________

Annual Padre Pio Healing Mass. Date: Friday 23rd September 2016. Venue: St Aidan’s Church, Ferns. Time: 7.30pm. Confessions will take place during the blessings. Religious items will be blessed on the night. Celebrants: Rev Sean Kelly OFM & Rev Paddy Cushen PP