27th Sunday in Ordinary Time

 Gerry Boyle PP  046 9054138

Day for Life 2022. This is celebrated this weekend with a focus on older people and how they have been deeply affected during the pandemic. They carried a heavy burden of isolation, the distress of families being unable to visit, delayed medical interventions and tragic, isolated deaths followed by shortened, minimal funeral rites. Many families and friends continue to bear the wounds of deep grief that are still in need of healing. We are invited to think again of the value and worth of older people in families and society and to make practical choices to build bridges between the generations. We are encouraged to learn from a closer accompaniment with older people that there is a real richness in the journey through old age that offers a deeper meaning and a new rhythm to the whole of life.

October- Month of the Rosary. During the month of October we will recite a decade of the Rosary after communion at our weekday masses beginning this week with the Joyful mysteries.

Masses this weekend and in the coming week:

Saturday     6.30pm    Rushwee            Mary Crahan
Sunday      10.00am    Grangegeeth      John and Bridget Jones, Creewood.        
                  11.30am    Rathkenny         Jimmy Carry and his deceased parents                                                                                                                                                                         
Monday       9.00am   Rathkenny         Special Intention
Tuesday       7.30pm   Grangegeeth
Wednesday  9.00am   Rathkenny                    
Thursday     7.30pm   Rushwee            Patrick O Reilly
Friday          7.30pm   Rathkenny         List of the Dead and Benediction

Saturday      6.30pm   Rushwee            Julia and Patrick Fox and Dilly Woods
Sunday      10.00am    Grangegeeth           
                  11.30am    Rathkenny         The Gore Family, Dreminstown

Online Donations
Online donations can now be made to parish and diocesan collections
via the Diocesan website  HERE

Thanks to all who have returned envelopes for parish funds, Christmas and Easter offerings, Trocaire, cemeteries and other collections over the past year and the recent collection for Fr Barry. 

Synod 2023
Thanks to all who participated in the Synodal process during Lent 2022. The pathway involves Communion, Participation and Mission.More on the Diocesan Website HERE  or at www.synod.ie

Pope Francis tweeted last week  ‘ The Eucharist invites us to conversion: from indifference to compassion, from waste to sharing, from individualism to community, because there is no true Eucharistic worship without compassion for the many “ Lazaruses” who walk beside us even today. '