BANTRY PARISH NEWSLETTER
First Sunday of lent
sunday 22nd
February 2015
Calendar: Mass Times and Intentions :–
Mon. 23rd Feb: 1st
week of Lent:
Bantry: 10am – Padraig O’Grady – Doiregrenaugh East
Tues. 24th Feb: 1st week of Lent:
Bantry: 10am – Mary Sugrue – Market Street
Bantry: 7.30pm – Gerald
O’Sullivan – Marino Street
Wed.
25th Feb: 1st week of Lent:
Bantry: 10am Timothy & Mary O’Sullivan – Reenrour East
Hospital: 5.30pm Sheila
Cronin (Rock Villas – Months Mind and her brother Sonny Cronin – Seskin
Thurs.
26th Feb: 1st week of Lent:
Bantry: 10.00 am: Michael
Scully – New Street
Bantry: 7.30pm Paddy
O’Sullivan – Reenrour East (20th anniversary)
Friday 27th Feb: 1st week of Lent:
Bantry 10am Florence
Kealkil: 7.30pm: People of
the Parish
Sat. 28th Feb: 1st week of Lent:
Hospital:10am; Paddy McSweeney - Shannavalla
Bantry: 6.15pm Margaret O’Sullivan – Dromleigh Sth
Sun. 1st March: Second Sunday of Lent:
Bantry: 9am:
Connie O’Sullivan
Coomhola: 10am: Cornelius Healy & Michael Healy –
Corran
Kealkil: 11am
Danny
Joe O’Sullivan - Moularaha
Bantry:
12noon People
of the Parish
There will be evening
Mass at 7.30pm during Lent on Tuesdays & Thursdays
in Bantry
Church
Bantry
Parish Mission
St Patrick’s Community will give
our Parish Mission from the 9th to the 13th of March.
Each day has a different theme with talks from the group, prayer, music and a
lot more.
Monday night: God’s
Love 7:30pm
Tuesday night: God’s
Mercy 7:30pm
Wednesday night:
God’s healing 7:30pm
Thursday night: God’s
gift of Mary 7:30pm
Friday night: Mass of
the Holy Spirit 7:30pm
This Mission
all are invited!
There is something
for everyone!
Heavenly Father,
We pray that our
Parish Mission may be a time of grace and renewal for all.
We ask you to bless
all the families in our Parish especially those who are experiencing
difficulties.
Bless the old, the
young, the poor, the sick, the unemployed and those in sorrow or despair.
Help us dear Lord to
grow in faith and love of you.
Amen
Pastoral Teams for Funerals
The Parish
Funeral Team will begin its ministry this weekend with a Commissioning Ceremony
at the 6.15pm Vigil Mass in Bantry and at the 11.00am Mass in Kealkill. The
members of the team are: Theresa Collins, Sheila Hegarty, Anna Goggin, Mary
Connolly, Bernard O’Leary, Deirdre Kingston, John O’Sullivan and Maura O’Flynn.
We
pray for them as they begin their ministry.
Died Recently:
We extend our prayers & sympathy to the family, relatives and
friends of;
Kathleen Mary Brandon –
Blackrock Close, Bantry.
May she rest
in peace.
Station of the Cross during Lent
Each Sunday evening during Lent, members
of our community will lead us in praying the Stations of the Cross at 5pm. We
invite all to attend. If you wish to lead or be involved in any way, please contact
members of Parish Assembly.
Spring Station Masses 2015
It is hoped to have Station Masses for Spring 2015 starting on 17th
January, and continuing through February, March & April.
If you are thinking of hosting
the Spring Stations this year, we would ask you to please contact the parish
office (56398) to arrange a date.
Spring Stations 2015
Saturday 21st
March @ 11am –
Pat & Joan O’Mahony
- Carriganass,
Ahil, Geragh
Beginning Experience
is a worldwide specially designed support programme for
men and women who have suffered the loss of a spouse by death, separation or
divorce to work through the grief process, and to discover for themselves that
merely "existing" in life can be transformed into "living"
a new life, though a different one. The next weekend is being held at the
Ennismore Retreat Centre, Cork
CANCER SURVIVORS: The next meeting will be on Tuesday 24 Feb
in The Maritime Hotel, Bantry, from 11am to 12:30. Eadaoin Ni
Bhuachalla, UCC Research Dietitian and one of the authors of "Good
Nutrition for Cancer Recovery" will address nutrition issues at this
informal coffee morning. Attendance restricted to people diagnosed with
cancer.
Congregational Singing at 6.15pm Mass: To enhance the
celebration of Mass we raise our voices together in song. Hymn leaflets can be
found in the church porch.
Bantry Blues GAA Club
Registration will take place on Friday 27th February from
6pm to 8pm at the Clubhouse and also on Saturday 28th from 2pm to 4pm.
All members are asked to come along and register on these dates.
Only registered members can train and play for Bantry Blues
Cancer Research – Annual Fundraiser Appeal
in the ‘Timberland’ Shop Bantry
Sat. March 14th-Mon.March 23rd (9.30am-5.30pm)
Donated items will be collected at the shop on Wed. Thurs.
Fri. 1th, 12th, 13th March (10am-4pm)
Donations very much appreciated: unwanted gifts, bags, nursery
items, arts/crafts, jewellery, bags, ornaments, pictures, glassware, chine,
good toys & games, exercise equipment, radios and music centres, cds, dvds
etc (no clothes, books or shoes).
Please help support this great cause.
Together we can make a difference.
Mealagh
Valley Community Alert Group
will hold their Annual General
Meeting in The
Community Hall, Ards on Monday
February 23rd. at 8.00P.M.. Many
interesting speakers from An
Garda Siochana and other groups will
address this Meeting. It would be appreciated if
every household in the Valley
could be represented at this very
important meeting. By
working together we will keep
our Valley Crime Free.
Bingo
with A Jackpot will be held at Mealagh
Valley Community Hall on Thursday
February 26th at 8.00P.M.. The
Usual Bus Service will run.
Your Support would be greatly Appreciated.
Bantry and District Cardiac Support Group AGM on Tues Feb 24h
at 8pm at the Family Resource Centre, Room
No.2 Main St Bantry. The group welcomes people who
have had a cardiac event All are
welcome. Contact: Catherine Cahalane Cardiovascular RHN 086 7871552
Over 60s Talent Competition – West
Cork Heat
8pm, Thurs 19 March at Celtic Ross
Hotel
Are you over 60, and can sing,
dance, play an instrument or recite a poem? Then sign up for the West Cork Heat
of the Over 60s Talent Competition which is now in its 39th year. This
is a very enjoyable and sociable event and highlights the talents and skills of
those over sixty. The winner will be entered into the Cork Semi-Final taking
place in Cork City Hall
In Aid of the Irish Heart
Foundation.
Coomhola/Glengariff Parent and Toddler
Group, held on Thursday mornings 10am - 12noon in Glengarriff
Community Hall €4 per family.All new faces very welcome.Contact 0861713371
with any query.
The World Day of Prayer Service for 2015 will take place at 8pm on
Friday 6th March
at Bantry
Hospital
All women and men are
welcome to attend. The Women of the Bahamas who compiled the service
based on the theme of Jesus’ Words. ‘Do
you know what I have done to you’ (John13:1-17).
There will be three
preliminary Bible Studies (10.30am-12noon) on Wednesdays 18th &
25th February and 4thMarch at St. Brendan’s Church
Recent
Parish Baptisms:
Julia Elizabeth Kingston
(Milton,
Massachusettes , USA
We welcome her into
our Christian Community
Offertory Collection:
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