Men considering Priesthood In the Diocese of Ferns

Are invited to a Vocations weekend For a time of prayer, reflection, discussion and exploration.

Venue: Ballyvaloo Retreat Centre

Date: Friday 4th November– Saturday 5th Time: Friday 6.30pm/Saturday (Midday)

For more information contact: 0872119151

Find out more: Come to Ballyvallo to discover more

Register with Diocese of Ferns Vocation Director Fr Jim Fin PP. Email: frjimfinn@eircom.net Web www.fernsvocations.ie

Scripture Readings for next Sunday 6th November.

1st Reading: 2 Mac 7:1-2, 9-14. Psalm: Ps 16:1, 5-6,8,15,R/ v 15.2 2nd Reading: 2 Th 2:16-3:5. Gospel: Luke 20:27-38 _______________________________

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 23rd October 2016 Envelopes: 228 Amount: €1483.70

________________________________ Sanctuary Lamp €10 per week

PARISH RADIO 104.7FM 10.00AM MASS DAILY

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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 _______________________________

New Ross Visitation Group Many older people can find themselves

socially isolated due to illness, bereavement, living alone or caring for a

partner as they age. If you would like a visit from a member of the

Visitation Group please contact 083 4745789.

____________________________________ Taize—Prayer Around The Cross.

Friday 4th November, Good Counsel College Chapel, 8.00pm, for Souls in Purgatory. Taize Prayer Service 1st & 3rd Friday,

8.00pm.in Good Counsel College Chapel.

The Parish Office & Shop will be closed on Monday & Tuesday

next due to Bank Holiday & Holy Day.

Normal hours will resume on Wednesday 2nd November.

KITTY BUTLER RIP.

The Parish mourns the loss of one of its oldest and most faithful members this week with the death of Kitty Butler. Up to very recently Kitty

continued her life-long involvement in the community visiting and keeping in contact with neighbours. A person of deep faith, she could

be described as a CORE member of our worshipping community. She also made a very

practical contribution to life in the parish by devoting time to folding the weekly Newsletters

and delivering them to house-bound neighbours. She guarded this task jealously and a suggestion recently that she might lighten her load was received with clear disapproval. She maintained she had sufficient help

in her great-grand son Dylan.

Her last Newsletter has been folded. We pray that she is now herself enfolded in the wings of the Angels, who must surely have turned out in great numbers to welcome and escort one of God’s special friends into His eternal presence. We extend our sympathy to her daughter Ann

and the family and pray that they will find consolation in the knowledge that she is now at rest with God, to whom she will continue to entrust

them. May her gentle soul rest in peace.

New Ross Parish. Church of

St. Mary & St. Michael

Newsletter Volume 29 No 43 30th October 2016

Thirsty-First –Sunday in Ordinary Time

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.

MASS INTENTIONS FOR THE WEEK.

Sanctuary Lamp: Patr ick O’ Brien (Naas)

Sat 29th 6.00 Thomas & Catherine McGee, Skullabogue Anniversary

Sun 30th 8.00 Matthew & Catherine Foley & Deceased Family Members, Neville St. Anniv

9.00 Anna Mannion, Mount Elliot Anniversary

10.00 Maria Connolly, Barrack Lane Anniversary

12.00 Tony Murphy, Assumption Terrance, Rosbercon Month’s Mind.

6.00 Annie Rossiter , 44 Mount Carmel Anniversary

Mon 31st 8.00 Breda Sinnott, Oulart (formerly Cushinstown) Recently Deceased.

10.00 Ger Waters, Great Island Birthday Remembrance

6.00 Kitty Butler, Ard Na Greine, Recently Deceased.

Tues 1st 8.00 Tomas Galvin Anniversary.

10.00 Deceased Members of The Byrne Family, The Hollow, Camblin, Anniversary

1.05 Pat & Rita Reidy, Limerick Anniversary

Wed 2nd 8.00 Pious Lists

10.00 Pious Lists.

7.00 All the Deceased of the Parish

Thurs 3rd 8.00 Patrick Mears, 10 Upper William St Anniversary

10.00 Sadie O’ Gorman, Charleton Hill, Anniversary

Fri 4th 8.00 Sisters Intentions

10.00 Pious Lists

Sat 5th 8.00 Nicholas Drohan, 30 Pondfields Anniversary

10.00 Parish Mass Association

6.00 James Doyle, Nunnery Lane Anniversary

Sun 6th 8.00 Mary Lou Fahy, Evelyn & Denis Hennessy “ Mount Alto” Anniversary

9.00 Maisie Monahan, Southknock Anniversary

10.00 Francesca O’ Brien, Ard Mhicil Anniversary

12.00 Peggy Brown, 55 J.K.L Place Months Mind

6.00 Jim & Mary Kehoe, Longstone Anniversary

Eucharistic Adoration takes place in our Parish every Tuesday beginning after 10.00am Mass and

concluding with Solemn Benediction at 9.00pm

Recently Deceased: Kitty Butler (nee Furlong), Ard-na-Gréine. Bobby Rochford, Clonroche. Anniversary Prayers: Carol Walsh, (nee Bradley) - Anniversary Mass in Rosbercon Church on Saturday 5th November at 6.30pm. Baptisms: We welcome into our Christian Community Michaela Doyle, Shanbough who was recently baptised.

These verses from Wisdom are part of a wider meditation upon the power and mercy of God. The God who made and

sustains all things is beholden to nothing and no one. Because he is powerful, he can punish and, at the same time, he can show

mercy. God challenges and corrects in order that his creatures might grow and flourish as he desires. Ultimately, God is

merciful towards us because he loves us.

In this very early Pauline text,

encouragement and warning is offered to a persecuted and fragile Christian community. Intercession is promised, that

the Thessalonians would be sustained and that God’s purposes for them would be fulfilled. Evidently, there is unease within

the church, being generated by some kind of apocalyptic excitement about the Lord’s coming. The text attempts to dampen such

excitement, so that believers can settle themselves and unite around the more vital task of developing solid Christian,

community life.

Echoing very much the theme of earlier parables-the last sheep and the prodigal son– Zacchaeus is another episode

distinctive to Luke but reiterating a, by now, well-established theme: ‘the Son of Man has come to seek out and save what

was lost.’ A tax collector, yet again, illustrates the point. Jesus has already been derided as a ‘friend of tax collectors

and sinners’ and the encounter with Zacchaeus drives home this truth, just before he finally enters Jerusalem. His

meeting with Jesus is profoundly transformative for this probably dishonest and very affluent official. Repentance

appears to follow, with immediacy, and so salvation comes ‘today’ to Zacchaeus’s house.

November, Month of The Holy

Souls

First Reading Wisdom 11:22-12:2

Second Reading 2 Thessalonians 1:11-2:2

Gospel Reading Luke 19:1-10

Baptisms, Recently Deceased, Anniversaries, Weddings.

1st November– Feast of All Saints

Masses:6.00pm Vigil Mass Monday Tuesday: 8.00am, 10.00am,

1.05pm ___________________________

2nd November - Feast of All Souls

Blessing of Graves. Priests Cemetery: After 10.00am

Mass St Stephen’s Cemetery: 11.00am.

St Mary’s Cemetery: 11.15am. ____________________________

MASS FOR ALL DECEASED OF

THE PARISH. On Wednesday 2nd November, the Feast of All Souls, Mass will be offered for all

deceased of the Parish with a special ritual of remembrance for all who have

died in the last twelve months. Time: 7.00pm.

We invite all our parishioners to attend. Refreshments will be served afterwards

in the Pastoral Centre. ________________________________

During the month of November all Deceased of the Parish will be

remembered in the Shrine in our Parish Church. We invite all our parishioners to attend during the month to remember

all your loved ones