Scripture Readings for Third Sunday of Lent.

1st Reading: Ex 17:3-7. Psalm: 94:1-2, 6-9, R/ V 8. Romans 5:1-2, 5-8. John 4:5-42. _______________________________

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 5th March 2017 Envelopes: 271 Amount: €2, 047.06 _______________________________

Sanctuary Lamp €10 per week

PARISH RADIO 104.7FM 10.00AM MASS DAILY

_______________________________ New Ross Parish Bethany Bereavement

Support Group: Contact No: 087-3846577

________________________________ Lectio Divina takes place in the Parish

Pastoral Centre at 10.45am each Wednesday morning.

_______________________________________ Legion Of Mary - Meetings every Wednesday evening in the Parish

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

Contact Des & Marie - 051-420523. Rosary & Divine Mercy are recited every Friday at 3.00pm on the Quay, next to

the Dunbrody Centre. _______________________________

Our Lady of Fatima - Statue.

The Centennial Pilgrim Statue of Our Lady of Fatima was blessed by Pope Francis on January 11th. It will be crowned by Archbishop Eamon Martin on 3rd March in Armagh and from there travel around Ireland. It will be in the Diocese of Ferns for one day, 14th March, beginning with Mass in St Senans at 10.00am followed by a

procession to St Aidan’s Cathedral for public veneration until Evening Mass at 6.10pm

celebrated by Bishop Denis Brennan. Confessions will be available during the

veneration.

Parish Office & Shop Opening Hours

Monday - Friday 10.30am - 4.00pm.

Closed Holy Days & Bank Holidays.

Trocaire Boxes are available in the Church. This Lent Trocaire is responding to Pope

Francis call by working with communities that are most at risk from climate change.

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Wexford Mental Health Association.

Mind Your Mental Health Workshop, Tuesday 21st March 2017. Time: 10.00am - 4.00pm.

Principals of Child Rearing. Saturday 25th March 2017.

11.00am - 4.00pm. Places on all these Courses are limited.

Contact for booking;- Theresa on 053 9140610, 9.30am - 1.30pm.

wexfordmha@gmail.com

CONCERT. A 30 piece Concert Band from a small

town in the Southern Black Forest, Germany will hold a concert in

St Mary’s Church of Ireland, New Ross on Saturday 18th March 2017 at 8.00pm.

Admission is free with a retiring collection in aid of the upkeep of the Church.

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Taize Lenten Services. Taize Prayer Friday, every Friday during

Lent. Time: 8.15pm - 9.00pm. Prayer Around The Cross

Friday 14th April. Venue: Good Counsel College Chapel,

New Ross.

New Ross Parish. Church of

St. Mary & St. Michael

Newsletter Volume 30 No 11 12th M arch 2017

Second Sunday of Lent.

A light in the Darkness

‘Stand up. Do not be afraid’. The disciples will need to remember this advice from Jesus. There are much darker days to come for them, and they will need every bit of courage they can muster. As Jesus moves ever closer to death, they will be scared and will desert Jesus, Peter even denying him. We will

make this journey alongside the disciples on Good Friday. But they will remember the brightness of this day. When Jesus is transfigured before them on the mountain, his face shines ’like the sun’ and his clothes are ’ as white as the light’. White is the colour of heavenly garments – it is a sign that it is God who is speaking. It is this light that will carry them onwards, during their time with Jesus and through the dark hours leading up to his death. The Transfiguration is recalled later in Matthew’s Gospel, after Jesus rises from the dead. When the women go to the tomb, they are greeted by an angel whose appearance is ’like lightening’ and his clothing ’ white as snow’. The disciples are once again directed to a mountain location, where Jesus appears to them to pass on their mission and assure them of his presence with them always. So we have two mountain tops, and two reassuring messages from Jesus. ‘Do not be afraid.’ I am with you always, to the end of the age.’ (Intercom)

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.

St Patrick’s Day - 17th March 2017. Masses: Thursday 6.00pm Vigil Mass. (Parish Church)

Friday 17th March: Mount Carmel - 8.00am, Parish Church: 9.00am, 10.00am, 12.00pm.

There will be no evening Mass on the Feast Day.

Eucharistic Adoration takes place in our Parish every Tuesday beginning after 10.00am Mass and concluding with Solemn Benediction at 9.00p

HOLY MASS INTENTIONS FOR THE WEEK.

N.B. All 8.00 a.m. Holy Masses are in Mount Carmel Monastery Chapel

Sat 11th 6.00pm Pat & Cathy Dillon, Barretts Park Anniversary.

Sun 12th 8.00am Sr Maureen Bailey, Tower Grove, Remembrance

9.00am Joan Cashin, 2 William Street Anniversary.

10.00am Nancy & Martin Mernagh, Harvey Place 1st Anniversary.

12.00pm Theckla Ryan, Butlersland Month’s Mind.

6.00pm Elizabeth & Maurice Flynn, Lr. Mt Carmel Anniversary.

Mon 13th 8.00am Mass for the People of the Parish

10.00am Peg Cleary, Priory St. Anniversary

1.05pm Laurence & Mary Burns Anniversary

Tues 14th 8.00am Martin O’ Connor, 41 JKL Place, Anniversary.

10.00am Michael & Delia Woods, Manchester Anniversary.

1.05pm Special Intention

Wed 15th 8.00am Thomas & Annie Dignam & Grandson Patrick, Anniversary.

10.00am Bridget Ryan & Edward Ryan, 10 Abbey View Anniversary.

1.05pm Deceased Members of The Sinnott Family, Wexford St., Anniv.

Thurs 16th 8.00am Vocations Mount Carmel Sisters

10.00am John, Alice & Eamon Kehoe, Ard-na-Greine Sally Morrissey, Nunnery Lane, Anniversary

1.05pm Noel Kehoe, Ballyanne, Recently Deceased.

6.00pm Lizzie & Paddy St Ledger Anniversary

Fri 17th 8.00am Anastasia Drohan, Pondfields Anniversary.

9.00am Mollie & Jim Reeves, Mt. Carmel Anniversary.

10.00pm Martin Byrne, Camblin Anniversary.

12.00pm Jack Mernagh, Windmill Lane Anniversary

Sat 18th 8.00am Deceased Members of the Foley & O’ Gorman Families, Anniv.

10.00am Parish Mass Association

6.00pm Aggie Quigley, Lr. Southknock Anniversary.

Sun 19th 8.00am Bríní Dolan Anniversary

9.00am Malachy Tully, Mountgarrett Anniversary.

10.00am Peter & Marian Maher, Knockmullen Anniversary.

12.00pm Month’s Mind.

6.00pm Paddy Shortall, South St., Anniversary.

Sanctuary Lamp: Special Intention.

Through his Cross, Christ entered his glory. We are already at this point in Lent at the heart of the Paschal Mystery. The disciples on the mountaintop, seeing Jesus transfigured, are encouraged for the days when they meet the Cross. We are all called to holiness.

Here Abraham receives his call from God. Every one of us receives that call, that vocation. It may be to a single life, marriage, consecrated life or priesthood. What is important is not the nature of that vocation but rather what we make of it. And as we live out that vocation God guarantees that he will sustain and reward the cheerful giver.

Here Saint Paul is urging Timothy to be ready to undertake hardship for the Gospel. From the outset Christianity faced opposition, challenges, persecution. We are reminded of this when throughout the year we celebrate the feasts of saints who were martyrs. At present Christians are persecuted in different parts of the world, especially in the Middle East. In our own country one can find determined opposition to and scape-goating of Christianity. The environment of political correctness and so-called social progress, created by elements in the media, even challenge the right of people with religious beliefs to be heard in the public square. This is not a challenge to which we can or should succumb.

Baptisms: We welcome into our Chr istian community Martin Joseph McDonagh, Waterford, who was baptised recently. Recently Deceased: Anniversaries: John Byrne, Liverpool and London. Bridget & Thomas O’Neill, William St. Molly Tomkins, The Maudlins.

Lenten Reflections. There will be no Lenten Reflection on

Thursday next 16th March 2017 as there will be a Vigil Mass on that day at 6.00pm for

St Patrick’s Day. Reflections will resume on Thursday 23rd,

30th March & 6th April.

On Thursday 23rd March our Parish will welcome David

Quinn, well-known contributor to the Irish Catholic, who will

lead our Lenten Reflection on that evening. ____________________________________

Oiche Cheoil New Ross Community Hospital

Fund-Raiser New Ross Singers, with guests, are

performing a Special Concert of well known Irish Songs on 14th March at 8.00pm in the

Dunbrody Centre, which will help the on-going fund-raising for the Community Hospital. Limited seating. Tickets, €20.00 are available from Choir Members and at;-

051 421644 / 051 421766. _________________________________

Lenten Talks. St Aidan’s Pastoral Council &

Ferns Liturgy Group.

Tuesday 14th March 2017: Bridges Not Walls, Enniscorthy & Sierra Leone Connection with Dominik Morycki

and Luke Harrington. Wednesday 22nd March 2017:

The Stations of The Cross—Hope on the Journey Through Grief with Brid Carroll,

Bereavement Counsellor. Tuesday 28th March 2017: The Joy of Spiritual Longing

Lent in the Rule of St Benedict with Fr Senan Furlong OSB, Glenstall Abbey.

Tuesday 4th April 2017. Three Sacred Days. Participating Fully in the Easter Triduum with Cyril Murphy, Director

of Liturgy at Clongowes Wood College. Venue: Riverside Park Hotel,

Enniscorthy. Time: 7.30pm. Retiring Collection.

First Reading Genesis 12:1-4

Today’s Readings.

Second Reading 2 Timothy 1:8-10.

NOTICES

Baptisms, Recently Deceased, Anniversaries, Weddings.