Rev. Fr. John Dunphy: Phone: 059 / 9141833 / 9182882 Priest on Call for Carlow Area: (Emergency Only)Phone: - 087/2588118

Novena to Our Lady of Perpetual Help continues this Monday night 12th June @ 7.30pm in St Clare’s Church

This year’s Theme is “A Time to Pray, A Time to Heal”

GUEST SPEAKER

this week is: Maria Steen,

(Iona Institute-Architect & Barrister)

***************** SOLEMN NOVENA continues for nine consecutive Monday nights.

The rosary is recited at 7.10pm and Mass begins at 7.30pm.

We invite you to come and join us in prayer.

Weekly Collection Red Bag € 861.00 Blue Bag: €1,347.00

We thank you for your support

Graveyard Masses:-

Leaugh-Wed 21st June @ 7.30pm

St Mary’s-Mon 10th July @ 7.30pm

Safeguarding:- If you are concerned about the welfare and safety of children or a

vulnerable adult contact Diocesan Designated Liaison Person (DLP) –

Ms Joan Treacy: Ph:085/8021633 E-mail-dlp@kandle.ie

Priest’s Summer Collection:-

this quarterly collection takes

place at all Masses this weekend.

Envelopes available in boxes or

alternatively special envelopes at

church doors. Your support,

financial or otherwise

is greatly appreciated.

World Meeting of Families 22-26th August 2018:- this Sunday 11th June

we celebrate the Feast of the Holy Trinity-a community of love who reveal

to us that God is love. Our families are places where God lives. As a

church we are looking forward to the world meeting of families next year.

This is an event, but it is also an opportunity to take this coming year as a

parish and, together, to help make all our families as strong and as filled

with love as they can be. As a starting point this Sunday we formally

welcome and acknowledge the icon of the Holy Family and light our

WMOF candle. We will light our candle beside the Icon every

Sunday in the months ahead as we journey as a parish to this special

event in August 2018.

Sharing God’s Light

We only have to switch the TV on to know there is plenty of evil in the world, but in

today’s Gospel John reminds us that if we know and believe in God we can stand up to

that evil. But how do we even begin to know God? Do we think of a God who created the

world billions of years ago but has been pretty quiet since? Do we think of God who sent

his Son to save us, but only know it because the story sits in a bible up on the book shelf?

Or do we think of a God who made us, a God who sent his Son to teach us, and a God

who sent his Spirit to guide us through each day of our lives and through each generation

that walks the earth?

The Trinity might be a bit of a theological mystery to us, but that doesn’t mean to say that

we are not able to understand anything of God. We understand God in three ways; as

Father and creator, as Son and redeemer, and as God’s Spirit left to guide and strengthen

us.

God the Father is all around us. God’s miracles are in front of our eyes when we wake up

in the morning and in the night skies before we go to sleep.

God the Son came to teach us with stories and signs. He came to reveal God’s plan for us.

God the Son came to show us the way to God the Father. Gods’ Son came to us in a great

manifestation of God’s love.

The Spirit of God is the part of God left to guide us and lead us. The Holy Spirit is

something we can completely forget about … or something we can call on every day, in

every choice and in every decision we make.

Walk with Willibrord:-Sat June

24th from St. Laserian’s Cathedral,

Old Leighlin to the Cathedral of the

Assumption, Carlow via the Barrow

Way:- Join Bishops Burrows and

Nulty as they walk the Relic of St.

Willibrord, Patron Saint of

Luxembourg which has been specially

presented to Co. Carlow by the people

of Echternach, Luxembourg. In AD

690 Willibrord led a mission from Co.

Carlow to the continent.

Start 9.45am: Holy Well and St.

Laserian’s Cathedral, Old Leighlin.

They will make a number of stops

along the way and will arrive in St

Clare’s Church at 5pm.

EVERGREENS TRIP: The buses

for the evergreens tour will leave

the swimming pool car park after

the 9am Mass this Sunday 11th

June and will return on Friday 16th

June. We wish them all a safe,

enjoyable and relaxing holiday.

Family Masses:- our family

Masses take place next Sunday

18th June @ 10.15am in Holy

Cross & @ 11.30am in St Clare’s.

All children who recently made

their First Holy Communion are

expected to attend.

Graiguecullen Bingo

This Tuesday 13th June

@ 8.30pm

Jackpot €700 in 40 Nos

Double No. €1,650

Great Prizes to be won

Graiguecullen Swimming Pool

PH: 059-9140330

EMAIL: cgswimmingpool@gmail.com

Summer Swim Camps

EVENING CAMPS

6 – 6:45pm

CAMP 1: 3rd – 7th July

CAMP 2: 10th – 14th July

CAMP 5: 7th – 11th August

MORNING CAMPS

10 – 10:45am

CAMP 3: 17th – 21st July

CAMP 4: 24th – 28th July

CAMP 6: 14th – 18th August

Camps run Monday – Friday

@ €35 per child-Bookings are being

taken in the pool office.

Deposit of €20 to secure a place.

Relay For Life is taking place in

Ducketts Grove on 17th & 18th

June. This year there will be a

Super Kids Zone, music,

entertainment and live

demonstrations over the 24

hours as well as the Candle of

Hope Ceremony. If you would

like to purchase a Candle Bag

tel. 085-7796359.in aid of The

Irish Cancer Society.

READERS – ST CLARE’S Sat 17th June

6.30pm: Martin Lynch, Pat

Kinsella

Sun 18th June 9.00am: Orla Edwards, Ciara

O’Regan, Hazel O’Connor

11.30am: Chloe Nolan, Jade

McCartney, Giulia Hutton

READERS – HOLY CROSS Sun 18th June

10.15am: Alicia Gordan, Jack

Brennan & Ellen Dempsey EUCHARISTIC MINISTERS

ST. CLARE’S Sat 17th June

6.30pm: Aoife Graham, Mary,

Carla & Ciara (C)Hennessy

Sun 18h June

9.00am: Leo Connolly, Cem

Crowe, Liz Culleton

11.30am: Joe Bolger, Amy Byrne,

Cathal Byrne, Margaret Costello,

Fergal Doyle (C), Laura Eccles

HOLY CROSS Sun 18th June

10.15am: Liz Hosey, Leah

Dowling, Elaine Doogue

Anniversaries Sat 10th 6.30pm (First Anniversary) Teresa Nolan, 30 Brigid’s Rd, Clondalkin

Christy Kelly, Coolane, Killeshin

(Margaret Coffey, Chapel St)-( Nell Kinsella, Crossneen)

Sun 11th 9 am Elizabeth Byrne, Lower Rossmore

10.15am (Mikie Dunne, Monure, Killeshin Rd)-( Ger Dooley, St Mary’s Park)

(Stephen Arnold, Coolane)-(Matthew Nelson, Killeshin)

Eileen O’Regan, Killeshin Rd

11.30am (Margaret Redmond, St Fiacc’s Tce her husband Joe & deceased

Family members)-(Tina Hayden, 52 Askea Lawns)

Mon 12th 10am Declan Horahan, 22 Rossmore View

Tues 13th 10am Nancy McDonald, 22 Pacelli Ave

Thurs 15th 10am Michael (Mike) Bolger, Kellistown & Church St

Sat 17th 10am Roisín Jowett

6.30pm (Ellen Nolan, Henry St her husband James & sons Ted, Paddy

& Maurice)-(Denis (Dinty) Byrne, 19 Pacelli Ave)

(Tommy Dowling, 76 Pearse Rd also his parents Edward &

Mary, Tinryland)-(John & Jane O’Shea, 29 St Fiacc’s Tce)

Nicky & Edward Condron, Ballyhide & Rossmore View

Sun 18th 10.15am Bridget O’Toole, Staplestown Rd

James O’Regan, Keelogue also his brother Martin

11.30am (First Anniversary) Joseph (Joe) Grant, 10 Radharc Oisín

(First Anniversary) Peggy Brennan, Hillview, Crossneen

(Bridie Murphy, Mount Clare Court)-(Elizabeth, John & Nellie Pluck, Sleaty Rd)

Mystery tour:- on Sunday 18th June,

bus leaving Killeshin at 10am approx..

returning @ 8pm approx.. All in fare

including dinner on way home €50.

Names must be in by Thursday 15th

June. Contact: 086 8173843.

KILLESHIN FUN DAY on Father’s Day

Sun June 18th 2 till 6 in the GAA Grounds

Supported by SCATS BOUNCY CASTLES.

Great Fun Day for All The Family

Fundraiser in aid of Carlow Kilkenny

Homecare Team:-Two Day Rummage Sale

of interest to all ages Thurs June 15th & Fri

June 16th 10am-5pm. Designer Clothes -

New & Nearly New: Clothes/

Handbags/Jewellery/Shoes, Bric-a-Brac, Etc.

at Unit beside Paul White’s Pharmacy,

Tullow St. Donations can be left into

premises on Wed June 14th from 2-5pm

Graiguecullen/Killeshin

Active Retirement:- safety

alarm system available for over 65’s. Contact Geraldine

086/0551025, Annette

087/9905205 or Catriona 085/1792236 for details.

EMERALD COAST MEET EMERALD ISLE: For the 4th year in a row University

of West Florida students have brought their talents to Carlow through the UWF Irish

Experience Programme “The Emerald Coast meets the Emerald Isle” Centred in Carlow

College, a total of 13 music, art and theatre students will experience the arts and culture

of Ireland in this innovative study abroad programme. The West Florida University

music students will present MINI CONCERT (1 hour duration) on Sun. 11th June at

2.00 p.m. in CARLOW CATHEDRAL. The concert will also feature Liam Lawton,

Carlow Cathedral Choir and Anam Cairde. DONATION ON DOOR.

Secular Franciscan Order Pilgrimage to

Knock will be on Sunday 25th June. Bus

from Car Park @ 8am and Frasers Petrol

Station, Graiguecullen @ 8.15am. Tickets

€20 The Friary Office, Dublin St and

Lamberts, Dublin St. All welcome.

Registration for CRYS summer camps and activities in various locations throughout

Carlow can be done at our office in Montgomery House, Athy Rd. We are also

taking names for volunteers. Tel 9130476.

Mens Health Week - June

12th - 16th - Eist Cancer

Support Centre will be holding

a drop in service on Friday

16th June from 10.00 am to 1

pm with a brief talk from Roy

Elmes. All are welcome for

more information on services

and supports available contact

Eist Centre on 059 9139684

Rally for Life, Parnell Square Dublin

Sat July 1st . Defend the 8th amendment

which ensures both mother and baby

receive specialized care in our country and

an equal right to live. Please join us and

stand up for our mothers and babies. Bus

travelling from Askea Parish Centre

Carlow 11.30am. Cost €10. Contact

Martina 087 2987934 or Ann 087

2254206 to book your seat.