NOTICES

EUCHARISTIC ADORATION

Every Tuesday from 10.00AM Holy Mass to

Solemn Benediction at 9.00PM.

New Ross Parish Bethany Bereavement Support Group

Contact No: 087-3846577 Drop in Centre

Legion of Mary Hall, 1st Thursday of every month, Between 11am and 12 noon.

SUPPORTING THE PARISH Envelopes: If you would like to register as a friend of New Ross Parish Church St. Mary & St. Michael and support the weekly envelope collection please call to

the parish office for details or tel: (051) 421 348

Scripture Readings for Second Sunday of Lent, St Patrick, Bishop, Principal Patron of Ireland

First Reading: Year C: Am 7:12-15. Psalm: Ps 138:1-3, 7-10, 13-14, R/ v 9-10. 2nd Reading: Thess 2:2-8. 3rd Reading: Lk 45:1-11

SAFEGUARDING REPRESENTATIVE: Mairin Jackson—Contact No: 051-421348

Any queries in relation to working with children or adolescence within our parish

please contact the above.

LEGION OF MARY Meetings every Wednesday Evening in the

Parish Pastoral Centre, Robert St., New Ross at 7.30pm. Contact Des & Marie- 051-420523. Rosary & Divine Mercy are recited every

Friday @ 3.00pm on the Quay, next to the Dunbrody Centre.

ST. VINCENT DE PAUL—NEW ROSS (085) 8313073

HOME VISITATION TEAM

Tel 083 474 5789 to avail of this service

or to volunteer.

CONFESSIONS: Saturdays after 10AM Holy Mass & before

6PM Holy Mass. Mon—Fri on request after 10AM Holy Mass, Please notify the priest

before Mass in the Sacristy.

MEALS ON WHEELS

Sr. Aidan Centre, Cross St. Tel: 051 445711

PRIEST ON DUTY (051) 421214 Visitation of Sick / Housebound: We are

anxious to visit those who cannot celebrate Holy Mass with us due to illness, aged or

infirm. Arrangements can be made to receive the sacraments at home by calling the Parish

Office.

Printing Courtesy — Prim Ed

Parish Office Opening Hours Monday—Friday 10.30 am to 2.00 pm. Closed Holy Days & Bank

Holidays. Wide range in stock of Holy Mass Cards, General Cards & Gift Ideas for all occa-

sions. Tel: 051 421348 or 087 1212 707 (Text Alters ONLY)

Email: newross-parish@hotmail.com ww.newrossparish.ie

Holy Mass Cards (Signed) are also available in Cooney’s & Ryan’s Funeral Homes. Lectio Divina: Every Wednesday morning at

10.45am for one hour, in the Legion of Mary Pastoral Centre, Robert St., New Ross.

Divine Mercy: Holy Hour in the Parish Church every Tuesday @ 3.00pm, followed by the Rosary.

Special Waterford/Wexford Group Christmas Pilgrim-age to the Holy Land Also Special Waterford/Wexford Pilgrimage to the Holy Land 31st October for Halloween 8 nights Taking in Bethlehem, Jerusalem Mount Tabor, Cana, Nazareth, Jericho, River Jordan, Dead Sea and Sea of Galilee. Also Special Water-ford/Wexford Fatima / Lisbon Pilgrimage for Feast Day of Saint Anthony 9th/14th June Full Day trip to Lisbon Prayers, Mass and Hungarian Stations of the Cross in Fati-ma. Contact James Treacy 0860572216

Conference: Citizens of Two Cities: Being Church in the World Today. Speaker Dr. Fainche Ryan. This day will take place on March 29th 2019 in Ballyvaloo Retreat & Conference Centre, Blackwater, Co. Wexford. Times: 10 a.m.- 4.30 p.m. Cost: €25 (includes lunch), pay on the door. Booking essential. To book your place, call Sara/Catherina at 056 7722870.

Christian Media Trust Radio Presenter After almost 30 years Cecil Riddal will present his last Sounds for Sunday programme on the 31st March, Moth-ers’ Day. All in the Christian Media Trust and in South East Radio are indebted to Cecil for his work and dedication over so many years. He was an important part of Sunday morning for many listeners to South East Radio and they will miss him very much. The Christian Media Trust now has the difficult task of building on Cecil’s good work.. It is looking for a new presenter for Sounds for Sunday, a fifty six minute programme from 9.04a.m. to 10.00a.m.each Sunday Morning. To express an interest and to get further information please contact : The Chairperson, Christian Media Trust on : 087 9984736 by Thurs. 21st March 2019.

New Ross Parish. Church of

St. Mary & St. Michael

Newsletter

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.

First Sunday of Lent

Volume 32. No.10 10th March 2019

Todays Readings ‘Jesus’ temptation reveals the way in which the Son of God is Messiah, contrary to the way Satan proposes to him and the way men wish to attribute to him. This is why Christ vanquished the Tempter for us’ (CCC, 540)

HOLY MASS INTENTIONS FOR THE WEEK.

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

Date Time Intention

Sat 9th 6.00pm Mary Knight, Charleton Hill 1st Anniversary

Sun 10th 8.00am John Ronan, Irishtown Anniversary

9.00am Joan Cashin, William St., 6th Anniversary

10.00am John Ronan, Millfield, The Maudlins 1st Anniversary

12.00pm May Lannigan, Bewley St. Month’s Mind

Mon 11th 8.00am Larry Kehoe, Ryleen Anniversary

10.00am Deceased Members of The Carroll Family, Mount Garrett

Anniversaries

Tues 12th 8.00am Grazyna Malinowska, Poland Get Well

10.00am Peg Cleary Anniversary

Wed 13th 8.00am Intentions for the People Mount Carmel

10.00am Paddy Snr, Sarah & Paddy Power Jnr., JKL Place Anniversaries

Thurs 14th 8.00am Special Intentions Intentions

10.00am Walter, John & Bridie Browne Anniversaries

Fri 15th 8.00am Billy & Annie Kehoe, Charleton Hill Anniversaries

10.00am Bridget Devereux Anniversary

Sat 16th 8.00am Anastatia Drohan, Pondfields Anniversary

10.00am

Parish Mass Association

6.00pm

Kevin Manley, MacMurrough, New Ross 1st Anniversary

Sun 17th 8.00am John & Bridie Kearney Anniversaries

9.00am Thomas & Anastasia Murphy & Babies Anniversaries

10.00am Marcella Meehan 15th Anniversary

12.00pm

BAPTISMS We welcome into our Christian Community Baby Sophie O’ Neill, Willow Park & Cobhaí Roche Ronan, Cluain Fada who were baptised recently. For Baptism Bookings on Saturdays @ 4.30PM & Sundays @ 1.00pm, please contact the Parish Office. Copy of Birth Certificates are required for the individual. Photo ID also required for the person making / requesting the enquiry. Certificate fees at €5 each. Thank you.

ANNIVERSARY PRAYERS

We remember in our prayers, , Mary Meaney, Nun-

nery Lane, (8th Anniversary) & Mollie Shannon,

Charleton Hill whose anniversaries occurs around

this time. Should you wish to have a loved one

included in this section, please contact the Parish

Office with the details by the previous Wednesday

before 2.00pm. Thank you.

Pastoral Centre’s: Legion of Mary & St. Michael’s are available for bookings. Please contact the Parish Office.

Mass Bookings: We are now currently taking mass bookings up to August 2019.

Intentions for the living can ONLY be accommodated as “SPECIAL INTENTIONS” (GDPR Regulations) - Please advise at time of booking

RADIO HOLY MASS 104.7FM SATURDAY

VIGIL @6.00PM & 10.00AM DAILY INCLUDING FUNERAL MASSES.

SANCTUARY LAMP: “Special Intentions”

Sanctuary Lamp available @ €10.00 per week.

WEEKLY COLLECTION Sunday 3rd March 2019

Envelopes 247 Amount: €1,915.85

THANK YOU.

Gospel Reading

Parish Visitation: Fr. Tom is available dur-ing the coming week to visit any household or family in Belleville, Willow Park & Creywell area for house blessing or just a chat. Please contact the Parish Office to make an appointment.

DATES FOR YOUR DIARY……... 17th March St. Patrick’s Day: Masses at usual times however 10.00am Mass in Irish. Stations of the Cross: Every Friday during Lent @ 7.30pm Lenten Reflections 2019: Will be held in the Legion of Mary Hall @ 7.30pm, March 14th, Fr. Gerry O’ Leary PP, March 21st Fr. Martin Pender CC & March 28th Fr. Brian Broaders PP & VF 2019. Sat March 30th: Confirmation @ 12.00 noon

Reflection for weekend 9th & 10th March

12. For the next few weeks, we will examine the Creed. We recite the Creed during every mass, after the gospel and

homily. This Creed, also called the ‘Apostles’ Creed’ may have

originated in the 5th century in Gaul. The early Christians’ inten-

tion was to sum up the most important facts of their faith in 12

key points. Fact 1: I believe in God, the Father almighty, Crea-

tor of heaven and earth. God is God: He is everywhere,

above and below, today and tomorrow, without beginning or

end. God was here when not even a grain of dust existed. And

He will still be here when the world no longer exists. God is the

one that all good in the world comes from; God is love. (1Jn

4:8). God has power over everything. All creation exists

because God wanted it and he sustains all things: time and

space, heaven and earth, the universe and the stars, angels,

man and animals. God has wonderfully ordered everything so

that man can live on earth. A famous Jewish philosopher Martin

Buber (1878-1965) reflects on the word “God”: “Yes, it is the

most heavy-laden of all human words. None has become so

soiled, so mutilated. Just for this reason I may not abandon it.

The generations have laid the burden of their anxious lives

upon this word and weighed it to the ground... Where might I

find a word like it to describe the Most High! We cannot cleanse

the word ‘God’ and we cannot make it whole; but, defiled and

mutilated as it is, we can raise it from the ground, and set it up

over an hour of great sorrow.” Lord teach us how to revere Your

Holy Name in true holiness.

This is brought to you by the Diocesan Pastoral Council

St.Michael’s Theatre

Sat. 16th March 3pm Mary Poppins

Returns

THE NEW ROSS ACTIVE RETIREMENT WILL HOLD THEIR INTRIM MEETING ON THE 15th MARCH at 10.30 am in the YOUTH CENTRE NUNNERY LANE .

CTEC Wexford FREE Digital Skills Cour se-funded by Dept. Communication Climate Action and Environment. For more information please contact CTEC 053-9121036 or email: info@ctecwexford.ie

New Ross Drama Festival 2019 Wednesday 20th March-Friday 29th March 2019. Performances commence nightly @ 8.00pm. Booking in St. Michael’s Theatre 051-421255

Trocaire boxes are available in the Church. Each year the Trocaire Lenten Campaign helps people in the developing world. Your support makes a real difference.