BANTRY PARISH NEWSLETTER

The  Thirtieth Sunday in ordinary time  

Sunday 27^th October 2013 

                           Feast of All Saints  November 1^st

                                                                               Holy Day of Obligation

Thursday 31^st October           Vigil Mass 6.15pm       Bantry

Friday 1^st November:             Coomhola            10am

                                                Kealkil                 11am

                                                Bantry                 12noon

                                                Bantry                 7.30pm

                                                             

                                                 November 2^nd to 10^th inclusive                                             

Daily                                                   Saturdays

Bantry                 10am                       Bantry                 10am

Kealkil                 7.30pm                   Coomhola            10.15pm

Coomhola            8.15pm                    Kealkil                 11am

                                                                         Bantry                 6.15pm

Please note: No Mass in the Hospital Chapel on Saturdays during the Novena

At every Mass during the Novena for The Holy Souls a candle will be lighting to remember all  our loved ones who have gone before us marked with the sign of faith.

May they have eternal rest and peace

Those who have died since November 2012 will be remembered in the following Masses during November:

Kealkil,      Wednesday 6^th November      @ 7.30pm           

Coomhola,  Thursday 7^th November        @ 8.15pm

Bantry,        Friday 8^th November             @ 7.30pm                                

Relatives of those who have died are invited to attend.  Candles will be available at the porches for relatives to bring to the altar when their deceased family member’s name is called out.

Envelopes for November

Envelopes to commemorate your departed relatives & friends are at the doors this weekend. The Novena of Masses begins November 2^nd.

Cemetery Prayers: Sunday November 3^rd

Kilmacomogue @ 2pm.

Abbey Cemetery @ 3pm

Churchyard @ 3.45pm, followed by 

Benediction

Sunday November 10^th: Cillíneach @ 2pm

Died Recently

We extend our prayers & sympathy to the families, relatives & friends of 

Taidhg Burke Neff (Moulakieve, Bantry),

Kieran Casey (Cahernacrin, Bantry),

May they rest in peace

We ask parishioners to leave parking spaces around the Church for elderly & infirm people. A clear entrance & exit around the church must be kept at all time in case of emergencies.

Calendar: Mass Times and Intentions

Mon. 28^th October:  Ss. Simon & Jude, Apostles:.

                     Bantry:                    10am             Eugene O’Sullivan - Glencreagh

                    

Tues. 29^th October: 30^th Week in Ordinary Time:

                     Bantry:                    10.00am        Patrick Hourihan – Marian Terrace

                                                    

Wed. 30^th October: 30^th  Week in Ordinary Time:

Bantry                     10.00am        Dan & Kate O’Sullivan - Scart

Hospital                   5.30pm         Mrs. Mary Scully – New Street

Thurs 31^st October: 30^th  Week in Ordinary Time:.

Bantry:                    10.00am        Eddie Gilman, his wife Mona & son John –

                                                     Aughaville

Bantry:                   6.15pm         James O’Sullivan - Droumsullivan

                    

Friday 1^st November: First Friday – Feast of All Saints – Holy Day of Obligation

                     Coomhola:               10am             John O’Flynn - Coorloum

                     Kealkil:                    11am             People of the Parish

                     Bantry:                    12noon         People of the Parish

                     Bantry:                    7.30pm         Brigid O’Driscoll – Snave – 40^th Anniversary

                                                                           & Arthur Coakley – Orchard Hill

Sat. 2^nd November: The Commemoration of the Faithful Departed:

                     Bantry:                    10am

                     Coomhola: 10.15am                     Kealkil: 11am     Bantry:               6.15pm   

Sun. 3^rd November: Thirty First Sunday  Ordinary Time

                     Bantry:                         9am                             People of the Parish

                     Coomhola:                   10am                           People of the Parish

                     Kealkil:                        11am                            People of the Parish

                     Bantry:                        12noon                        People of the Parish     

Fr. Liam Lawton Concert

Bantry Parish Assembly are pleased to announce Fr. Liam Lawton in concert as part of his "A Celtic Christmas" tour in St Finbarrs Church Bantry on Sunday 15th December at 8pm. Tickets are €20 and will be on sale shortly from the Parish Office, De Barra's restaurant, Floury Hands and Quik Pick. Monies raised will go towards the church renovation fund.

First Friday Communion Calls 

Fr. Martin & Fr. Seán will make their calls during the  week of 7^th/8^th November.

First Friday: Please note there will not be Exposition of the Blessed Sacrament on the first Friday, 1^st November next due to the Holy Day.

Cost of Renovation to Parish Churches

                                                27/10/2013

Bantry                                     1,143,000

Coomhola                                   359,000

Kealkill                                         71,000

Total Cost of Renovations:     1,573,000

Parish Deposit Account

(inclusive of substantial

Donation from Estate of

Parishioner)                             1,117,840

Balance outstanding

(before Fundraising)                   455,160

Donations from

Parishioners during appeal         398,033  

Shortfall to be raised                   57,127

Renovation Fund Collections for 2014

As there is still a small shortfall, we propose to have four renovation fund collections in 2014 in order to clear the outstanding debt.

The dates for these collections will be: Feb. 15^th/16^th, May 24^th/25^th, Aug. 9^th/10^th, Nov.22^nd/23^rd.

We appreciate your generosity and support.

Offertory Collection: 

Bantry Church weekend of 19^th/20th October: €1981

Special Collection for Mission Sunday: Bantry Parish: €2650.

Church Renovation Fund collection will take place this weekend -  October 26^th/27^th. Thank you for your continuing support.

Recent Parish Baptisms:

Mikey Anthony Burke

(Newtown East, Bantry)

We welcome him into our Christian Community

A    Quiz  Night  will be  held  at Mealagh  Valley  Community  Centre  on Friday  November  1st.  at  8.30 P.M.    Sharp.   Table of  4  costs  £25. Enquiries  or to  book  a Table please  call   086-0729076. 

 Bingo takes place  Thurs. Oct. 31^st at 8.30pm. Usual Buses 

The Coomhola Borlin Development Association proudly present their cookbook "Hidden Food" with a launch night on November 1st, in the Ouvane Falls Inn, Ballylickey, Bantry at 8pm. A wonderful collection of recipes by the locals in a well crafted book, come and enjoy a fun-filled evening.

Bantry Cardiac Support Group October monthly meeting will be held on Tues October 29th at The Family Resource Centre Main Street at 8pm. For details contact: Catherine Cahalane (cardiovascular RHN)0867871552.

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The  twenty eight Sunday in ordinary time  

                                 Sunday 13^th October 2013      

The Deep End – The Other Nine

Some of us will be familiar with the prayer to St. Joseph of Cupertino for success in examinations. Many of us regularly turn to St. Anthony for help in finding a lost item, while others enlist the help of St. Jude for particularly ‘hopeless cases’, or Padre Pio when a loved one is sick or in hospital. We are very good at prayer when we need something, and have no problem turning to God in times of strife. But what about after the storm has passed?

The leper in today’s Gospel offers us a lesson in gratitude and faith. It is easy to ask for help, to call out ‘Jesus! Master! Take pity on us!’ It is not so easy to appreciate the implications of what God is doing in our lives.

Of course we would all like to think that we would be the one leper who came back to give thanks to Jesus when he saw he was healed. But in reality, are we more like the nine who forgot to give thanks? What Jesus wants to know is, ‘The other nine, where are they?’ I’d imagine they were so overjoyed to be healed, they simply got on with their lives! Perhaps over time the memory of this great thing God had done for them simply faded.

Jesus told the leper who returned that his faith had saved him. All ten were healed, yet this man had a fuller experience of the healing hand of Jesus. And his life was surely changed because of it.                   Triona Doherty

Calendar: Mass Times and Intentions 

Mon. 14^th October:  28^th Week in Ordinary Time:.St. Callistus I, after a life of slavery and imprisonment for criminal

offences, was freed and became a deacon in charge of catacombs that bear his name. He became Pope in 217, opposed by

Hippolytus, Died at the hands of a mob in 222.

                     Bantry:                    10am             Brigid Hurley – Market Street

                    

Tues. 15^th October: 28^th Week in Ordinary Time: St. Teresa of Avila, 1515-82, established Carmelite convents under a

reformed rule, and wrote much on prayer and the spiritual life. Patron of lace-makers and headache sufferers.

                     Bantry:                    10.00am        Nealie Lynch – Gorteen – 1^st Anniversary

                                                    

Wed. 16^th October: 28^th  Week in Ordinary Time: St. Gall was a monk of Bangor and set out with Columbanus for the Continent. When Columbanus was exiled from France, Gall accompanied hi to Bregenz on Lake Constance. When Columbanus crossed into Italy, Gall remained in Switzerland. He lived in a hermitage which later became the monastery of St. Gallen. He died around 630.

Bantry                     10.00am        Cornelius O’Brien     

Hospital                   5.30pm         Hannie O’Sullivan - Slip

Thurs 17^th October: 28^th  Week in Ordinary Time:. St. Ignatius bishop of Antioch, died a martyr at Rome c.107. He rged

Christians to unify in and through the Eucharist and around their local Bishop.

Bantry:                    10.00am        Vera O’Shea - Droumaloughlin

                    

Friday 18^th October: St. Luke, Evangelist. A physician from a gentile Christian milieu. He was with St. Paul on his 2^nd

missionary journey and during his imprisonment in Rome. After Paul’s death he is reputed to have worked in Greece.

Patron of butchers, book-binders, doctors and surgeons, artists and glassworkers

                     Bantry:                    10am             Paddy Cronin – Georges Row

                     Kealkil:                    7.30pm         John, Ted, and Julia O’Leary – Maughnaclea, Kealkil

Sat. 19^th October: 28^th Week in Ordinary Time:

                     Hospital                   10am             Special Intention

                     Bantry:                    6.15pm         James & Ellen Hegarty - Letterlickey

Sun. 20^th October: Twenty Ninth Sunday in Ordinary Time

                     Bantry:                         9am           Gary O’Donovan - Caher

                     Coomhola:                   10am         Thomas & Bridie Triggs - Borlin

                     Kealkil:                        11am         Sean O’Shea and his wife Kathleen – Ahil, Kealkil

                     Bantry:                        12noon     People of the Parish          

Bantry Parish Pilgrimage to Lourdes 

Seminar for the Year of Faith

Saturday 19^th October  (1.30-5.30pm)

Rochestown Park Hotel. Cost-€20/person

Speaker: Fr. Conall O’ Cuinn SJ.

Topic: “Keeping alive the Flame of Faith

in the parish.”

To Book contact the Parish Office on 56398.

Child Safeguarding Training
Training for Church leaders who, work with children under 18 years of age or vulnerable adults, will take place on 16th October in the Parish Room over St. Finbarr's Church, Bantry at 7.30pm. It is recommended that all group leaders, such as Choir, Altar server, Children’s faith group etc…… Sacristans, Representatives from the Parish Pastoral Assembly should attend.

Died Recently

We extend our prayers & sympathy to the families, relatives & friends of

Mary O’Driscoll (O’Donoghue) (nee Dennis) (Gilhooley Terrace, Bantry), 

Sheila Desmond

(Coomhola)

May they rest in peace

What does it mean to learn from Jesus how to pray?

Learning from Jesus how to pray means entering into his boundless trust, joining in his prayer, and being led by him, step by step, to the Father.

The disciples, who lived in community with Jesus, learned to pray by listening to and imitating Jesus, whose whole life was prayer. Like him, they had to be watchful and strive for purity of heart, to give up everything for the coming of God's kingdom, to forgive their enemies, to trust boldly in God, and to love him above all things. By this example of devotion, Jesus invited his disciples to say to God Almighty, "Abba, dear Father". If we pray in the Spirit of Jesus, especially the Lord's Prayer, we walk in Jesus' shoes and can be sure that we will arrive unfailingly in the heart of the Father.

                     Recent Parish Baptisms

Suzanna Mae Kingston Fitzgerald

(Pairc na Carraige, Newtown, Bantry)

We welcome her into

our Christian Community

"The Bantry Bay Lions will be having their annual bucket collection in the town on Friday October 18. Proceeds will support local charities. Please give what you can."

Cappabue N.S. will be commencing a Parent and Toddler Group on Tuesday October 8th. The group is affiliated to the 'Early Childhood Ireland' organisation, and will run from 10am until 12 noon at the school every Tuesday. All parents and their pre-school children would be most welcome to attend. Further details may be obtained by contacting the school on (027) 66256.

Lovers of good food should make a note in their diaries of Monday 16th December.  On that night Mealagh Valley Community Centre are presenting 'Seasons Eatings', a celebration of Christmas Day cooking with Author, Broadcaster and Chef Instructor Frank Moynihan at the Community Centre at 8pm.  Tickets are only €10 and will be on sale early November.  So, write
that date in today.  Proceeds go to Mealagh Valley Community Centre & Dromclough National School.

A SPECIAL ENRICHING WEEKEND 

Celebrate your years of Marriage in the Lake Hotel, Killarney, Co. Kerry on the 15th - 17th November, 2013 ....a weekend of discovery.......a lifetime of love......real quality time ….fulfilment…..joy….For booking or more information: Ring 064 6644319/087 6670418, or visit www.marriageencounter.ie

Autumn Stations

Sat. 19^th October @ 11am – Jerry O’Shea – Coomleigh, Ardra, Gortnacowley

Sat. 26^th October @ 11am – The Thornton Family – Derrinkealig, Drombroe, Cahernacrin

We ask those parishioners who are thinking of hosting the Autumn Stations this year to please contact the parish office (56398) 

Offertory Collection: 

Bantry Church weekend of 5^th/6^th October: €2785

Special Collection for Mission Sunday takes place on October 19^th/20^th next.

Church Renovation Fund collection will take place on October 26^th/27^th. Thank you for your generous support.

Parish Assembly Meeting this Monday night, 14^th October, 7.30pm, at the Accord meeting room.

Gratitude: 

It is good to give thanks to the Lord, to make music to your name, O Most High,

To proclaim your love each morning, and your help throughout the day.

                                                 

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The  twenty seventh Sunday in ordinary time  

   Sunday 6^th October 2013    

DAY FOR LIFE – Sunday October 6^th.

Each year during the month of October the Church celebrates a Day for Life. The theme of this year’s celebration is ‘Care for Life: It’s worth it – Professing Our Faith in a Culture of Life’. Pope Francis said ‘Jesus teaches us to care for life because it is the image of God, who is absolute life. We cannot announce anything else but life, and from the beginning to the end …’ The Church strives to protect the lives of unborn children and their mothers and to support them – practically, emotionally and spiritually. The Church wishes to show its care for and closeness to those who for whatever reason, believe their own lives are no longer worthwhile and are tempted to give up on life itself. Catholic teaching holds up the vision that no person should ever be marginalised or set aside. All have an inherent value & worth that comes not from governments or states but from the very heart of God. We all have a role to play - a call to work together for the culture of life.

Calendar: Mass Times and Intentions

Mon. 7^th October:  27^th Week in Ordinary Time:.Our Lady of the Rosary

                     Bantry:                    10am             William Danforth – Vermont, USA

                    

Tues. 8^th October: 27^th Week in Ordinary Time:

                     Bantry:                    10.00am        Mary Casey - Seafield

                                                    

Wed. 9^th October: 27^th  Week in Ordinary Time:Bl. John Henry Newman, Priest, was beatified by Pope Benedict XVI on 19.09.13. His reflection on education was written in part in Dublin and has remained a vital contribution to an understanding of Christian education. He became Rector of the Catholic University of Ireland in 1854.

Bantry                     10.00am        Denis & Mary O’Donovan & their son Patrick O’Donovan. Baby Michael Denis O’Brien. Deceased members of the O’Donovan & Sweeney famililies.

Hospital                   5.30pm         Kevin Smith – Reenrour East – 4^th Anniversary

Thurs 10^th October: 27^th  Week in Ordinary Time:.

Bantry:                    10.00am        Patrick Harrington - Drimoleague

                    

Friday 11^th October: 27^th Week in Ordinary Time. St. Canice was born in Co. Derry in 527. Though his family was poor

he studied at Clonard under Finnian & at Glasnevin under Mobhi A deep friendship developed between himself and

Columba, with whom he worked for a time in Scotland.

                     Bantry:                    10am             John J. McCarthy & his daughter Bernadette McCarthy – Scartbawn

                     Kealkil:                    7.30pm         Jack & Brigid Harrington – Lackareagh

Sat. 12^th October: 27^th Week in Ordinary Time:

                     Hospital                   10am             Betty Riordan – Church Road

                     Bantry:                    6.15pm         Noel Kearns – Church Road

Sun. 13^th October: Twenty Eight Sunday in Ordinary Time

                     Bantry:                         9am           Eileen Minihane – Blackrock Raod

                     Coomhola:                   10am         Patrick & Elizabeth Holland - Kealanine

                     Kealkil:                        11am         Willie Hourihan – Carriganass – 1^st Anniversary

                     Bantry:                        12noon     People of the Parish     

                               

First Holy Communion Dates – 2014

Saturday May 3^rd  @ 10.30am – Kealkil & Cappabue

Saturday  May 10^th @ 10.30am – Coomhola & Derrycreha

Saturday May 17^th @ 10.30am – Dromclough, Our Lady of Mercy Convent N.S., St. Finbarr’s B.N.S, St. Brendan’s

 Saturday May 24^th @ 10.30am - Gaelscoil 

Dates for Confirmation – 2014

St. Finbarr’s Church, Bantry  Friday, 21^st March @ 10.30am – Bantry Town Schools

Wednesday 26^th March @ 10.30am – Bantry Country Schools       

Prayer for an Increase of Faith

Heavenly Father, we are all your children,

Sons and daughters of the same loving Father

and for this we praise You.

Your Gift of Faith, handed down through the years by family and friends, is cherished by us.

We pray for all our brothers and sisters,

especially for those who have given up the practice of their Faith.

You love them no less in their absence. You have said that you will look for the lost one, bring back the stray, bandage the wounded and make the weak strong.

May Your love for them be visible in us.

Give them light and the strength to turn to you with all their hearts and take their place at the table that You have prepared for them.

Father, give us all an increase of Faith and may we try to love one another as much as you love us.

We make our prayer through Christ, Our Lord.

+John Buckley, Bishop of Cork & Ross    

Bantry Parish Pilgrimage to Gougane Barra.

The first pilgrimage to Gougane Barra from Bantry Parish took place last Sunday. The Community/Hospitality Group of the newly formed Parish Assembly organised this event with great support from the primary schools of the parish. The primary schools, through the Youth & Family Group, provided an array of art work relating to St Finbarr and his monastery at Gougane Barra. Parishioners were delighted to see the three churches of the parish decorated with this wonderful work of the children of the parish. The organisers express their sincere gratitude to all who took part in the pilgrimage and everyone who helped make this event a success. A bus full of pilgrims travelled from Bantry and revived the old tradition of walking from the Calvary scene to the Oratory reciting the Rosary. Mass was concelebrated at the Oratory and the homily, which was most inspiring and relevant to the Year of Faith, was preached by Archbishop Dermot Clifford. Fr. Sean Crowley accompanied us on our pilgrimage. Refreshments were appreciated in the local cafe before returning home.         

Offertory Collection: Bantry Church weekend of 28^th/29^th  September: €2061

Month of September: Coomhola - €1452. Kealkil-€1443

Special Collection for Mission Sunday takes place on October 19^th/20^th next.

Church Renovation Fund collection will take place on October 26^th/27^th. Thank you for your generous support.

                         Recent Parish Baptisms

Liam Christopher O’Sullivan

(Laharanshermeen, Bantry)

We welcome him into our Christian Community

Bantry Parish Pilgrimage to Lourdes.

 

 

Autumn Stations

Weds.9^th October @ 11am – Noel & Ann Walsh – Donemark, Lahaden, Carribui, Dromafinchin, Dromachapaill, Dromaduneen.

Sat. 19^th October @ 11am – Jerry O’Shea – Coomleigh, Ardra, Gortnacowley

We ask those parishioners who are thinking of hosting the Autumn Stations this year to please contact the parish office (56398)

Died Recently

We extend our prayers & sympathy to the families, relatives & friends of

Charles O’Sullivan (Comba)

(Goureenmore, Bantry), 

Ann O’Keeffe

(Donemark)

May they rest in peace

Seminar for the Year of Faith

Saturday 19^th October  (1.30-5.30pm)

Rochestown Park Hotel. Cost-€20/person

Speaker: Fr. Conall O’ Cuinn SJ.

Topic: “Keeping alive the Flame of Faith

in the parish.”

To Book contact the Parish Office on 56398

Conradh Na Gaeilge

Teacht le Céile sa leabharlann gach Ceadaoin ar a 12oc mean lae ag tosnú 9th Oct. Beatha Teanga ĺabhairt.

Bantry Defibrillator Group will be holding their monthly practice this Monday evening at 8pm in the Boys Club.  Do come along and watch and learn how to do CPR  and how to use a defibrillator.  

You could save a life.

Cappabue N.S. will be commencing a Parent and Toddler Group on Tuesday October 8th. The group is affiliated to the 'Early Childhood Ireland' organisation, and will run from 10am until 12 noon at the school every Tuesday. All parents and their pre-school children would be most welcome to attend. Further details may be obtained by contacting the school on (027) 66256.

Martello Towers: Ever wondered why these buildings were constructed?  Who built them?  Why are they located where they are.  What events in our history gave rise to these structures? If you’d like answers to these and other questions, come along to a talk which will be delivered by the famous Mr Ted O Sullivan Historian at Christian Fellowship Church on Monday night 7^th October at 8.00pm.  This event is hosted by Bantry Historical Society. All very welcome.

Change of date: St. Colum's Camogie Club

Annual Pub Quiz on Friday 11thOctober at The Bridge Bar Pearson's Bridge at 8:00pm sharp. Table of 4 - €40 As always great night assured! Spot prizes, music and food.