Scripture Readings for Fourth Sunday of Lent.

1st Reading: 1 Sm 16:1, 6-7, 10-13. Psalm: 22, R/ v1. Eph: 5:8-14. John 9:1-41 _______________________________

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 12th March 2017 Envelopes: 254 Amount: €1,858.40

_______________________________ 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. _______________________________

Annual Wexford Lions Club Presidential

Lecture with Fr. Peter McVerry S.L

‘How can we resolve Ireland’s Homelessness Crisis’

Monday, 27th March at 7.45pm.

Clonard Church, Wexford. Entry Free of charge. A retiring collection will take place in aid of the Peter McVerry

Trust.

Parish Office & Shop Opening Hours

Monday - Friday 10.30am - 4.00pm.

Closed Holy Days & Bank Holidays.

New Ross Drama Festival This year’s Festival kicks off next Wednesday

22nd March 2017 with eight nights of great drama guaranteed. Groups from around the

country will perform on stage in St Michael’s Theatre with ‘The Loves of Cass McGuire’ and

‘The Cripple of Inishmaan’ included in the line-up.

The box office is now open in St Michael’s, 051 421255 with Patrons Tickets costing €50 per

eight nights or €10 nightly. ________________________________________

St Michaels Theatre, New Ross

SING (Movie) Saturday 25th March 2017

Time: 3pm

Icon Classes in New Ross

Sr. Helen Therese in Mount Carmel Monastery is starting her Icon Classes

again. Phone 087-2181687. Beginners very welcome.

If you can paint or not. __________________________________

Taize Lenten Services.

In acknowledgement of the Carmelite Community Bicentenary in New Ross this year, there will be a Taize Lenten Service in the Mount Carmel Church on Friday

24th March from 8.15pm - 9.00pm. All very Welcome.

New Ross Parish. Church of

St. Mary & St. Michael

Newsletter Volume 30 No 12 19th M arch 2017

Third Sunday of Lent.

Cracked

‘Ring the bells that still can ring. Forget your perfect offering. There is a

crack in everything...that’s how the light gets in.’

Leonard Cohen

No one is perfect. This might seem like the most obvious statement in the world, but it’s important to remember. We live in a time when people’s thoughts and actions are more widely recorded and open to scrutiny that ever before. A small mistake can cost someone their reputation or livelihood. An opinion expressed, particularly online, can invite a world of insults. It appears to be easier than ever to take the moral high ground, and to dismiss a person entirely based on one thing we know about them. This is not the way Jesus treated people, and it is not how he sees us. The Samaritan woman Jesus meets is all too aware of what the Jews think of her. She is nervous when approached by Jesus at the well. But he sees beyond the label to the person, the woman with a life story and a context of her own. He engages her in intellectual conversation, listens to her, and wins her over. Jesus could tell the woman everything about her life, and he knows each one of us just as intimately. He knows our past and our faults, our ‘cracks’. That is why he is able to speak to us, if we resolve to try and listen. It is also an important lesson in how we should treat others. (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.

Eucharistic Adoration takes place in our Parish every Tuesday beginning after

10.00am Mass and concluding with Solemn Benediction at 9.00pm

HOLY MASS INTENTIONS FOR THE WEEK.

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

Sat 18th 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.

Mon 20th 8.00am Friends & Benefactors Mount Carmel Sisters

10.00am Ellen Kelly, Bewley St Anniversary

1.05pm Deceased Members of The Cullen Family, Newbawn, Anniversary.

Tues 21st 8.00am Special intention.

10.00am Oliver Caulfield, Fruithill, Campile Anniversary.

1.05pm Michael, Margaret & Nora Sutton, Michael St Anniversary

Wed 22nd 8.00am Mass for the People of the Parish

10.00am Bridget Devereux, Begerin Loftus Anniversary.

1.05pm Colin Barrett, Athlone Anniversary

Thurs 23rd 8.00am Molly McLoughlin, Haughton Place Anniversary

10.00am Tommy Jeffford , Town Wall Anniversary

1.05pm Renata Pinczura, Poland Birthday Remembrance

Fri 24th 8.00am Kathleen Kehoe, Newbawn Anniversary.

9.00am Mary Power, Church St Anniversary.

1.05pm John Byrne, Liverpool & London Anniversary.

Sat 25th 8.00am Sisters Intentions

10.00am Parish Mass Association

6.00pm Pat O’Brien, Lr Southknock, 1st Anniversary.

Sun 26th 8.00am James & Catherine Kennedy Anniversary

9.00am Thomas Merrigan, Knockmullen Anniversary.

10.00am Rita & Kevin Harris, Dublin & The Irishtown Anniversary.

12.00pm William Bennett, 9 Ard Mhicil Month’s Mind.

6.00pm John Condon, Haughton Place 1st Anniversary

Sanctuary Lamp: Special Intention.

The tone of Christ’s discussion with the Samaritan woman reminds us of the aphorism attributed to St Augustine: ‘In essentials unity, in non-essentials

liberty, in all things charity’. What a difference the introduction of

that guideline into our lives and public life would make?

Moses had no easy task leading the Israelites through the desert. When there was no water to drink, they

demanded that he do something about it. They resorted to the ‘blame game’ , from which even God was not excluded. Moses even feared for his life before he struck the rock and water flowed from

it. How self– reliant are we, how convinced are we of God’s Providence when we meet difficult challenges? Is our first re-action to blame others?

The Epistle to the Romans has influenced later Christian theology more

than any other book in the New Testament. Scarcely an area of

theological development has not been affected by its teaching. Famous

commentaries on it were published by the great Reformers: Luther, Melanchthon and Calvin, and

‘Justification by Faith’ became the basic doctrine of Protestantism. Faith is

important but ’good works’ are also important.

Baptisms: We welcome into our Chr istian community Edward Borecki, Chambersland, Close and Bobby Ronan, Belleville, who were baptised recently. Recently Deceased: We commend to the fullness of eternal life the soul of Elizabeth Walsh, Ballyhogue. May she rest in peace.

Anniversaries: We remember in our prayers this weekend, Eddie & Nellie Larkin, formerly of Mary St., Bridget & Thomas O’ Neill, William St., Molly Tomkins, The Maudlins, Bridget Dineen, 3rd Anniv. Jim Roche, Charleton Hill. Nicholas Flaherty, William St. ____________________________________

Lenten Reflection. On Thursday next 23rd March

our Lenten Reflection will be led by David Quinn, correspondent

with the Irish Catholic. The theme of the Reflection will be FAMILY LIFE.

Venue: Michael St School Assembly Hall, Michael St., New Ross.

Time: 7.30pm. ____________________________________

Care For The Environment. A group will meet on Wednesday 22nd

March 2017 in the Pastoral Centre at 11.45am to continue reflecting on Pope Francis’ Encyclical Letter, Laudato Si’.

Anyone interested in The Care of Our Planet is most welcome to attend.

___________________________________ Lenten Talks.

St Aidan’s Pastoral Council & Ferns Liturgy Group.

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.

____________________________________ Trocaire Boxes are available in the

Church. Please take one and support Trocaire’s work in the Third World.

First Reading Exodus 17:3-7

Today’s Readings.

Second Reading Romans 5:1-2, 5-8

NOTICES

Baptisms, Recently Deceased, Anniversaries, Weddings.