8th May 2016

The Ascension of the Lord

Parish Team Clergy Fr. Enda Cunningham PP St Mary’s Parochial House Saggart. Tel: 4589209 Mob: 087-1380695 Fr. Aidan Kieran CC 1 The Glebe Peamount Road Newcastle. Tel: 4589230 Mob: 087-6397744 Fr. Aloysius Zuribo C.C. 2 Carrigmore Place Saggart, Co. Dublin Tel. 01-4589209 Fr. Michael Shortall PC 87 Beechwood Lawns Rathcoole Tel: 4587187 Mob: 087 -2861765

We pray for those who have died recently: David Wall (Newcastle) We extend our deepest sympathies To his family and friends. Eternal rest grant unto him O Lord And may perpetual light shine upon him. First Holy Communion Congratulations! Holy Family NS Rathcoole & St. Finian’s NS Newcastle 14th May 2016 Congratulations to the boys and girls of Holy Family NS Rathcoole and St. Finian’s NS Newcastle who will receive their First Holy Communion on Saturday 14th May. May you remain close to the Lord Jesus, whom you receive at this time, each and every day. St. Joseph’s Young Priests Society Rathcoole

Ms. Breda Carroll c/o 01-4589209 Parish Secretary Martina Hopkins The Parish Office St. Mary’s Parochial House Opening Hours: 9.30-1.30 Monday to Thursday Tel: 4589209 www.saggartparish.com [email protected]

Items for Newsletter Items for Junction 4 should be sent to the Parish Office or emailed to the addresses given below. Many thanks. [email protected] or [email protected]

Rathcoole: Saturday Vigil: 6.30 p.m. Sunday: 10 am & 12.00 pm Weekday: 9.30 am Saturday: 10.00 am Brittas: Sunday: 10.30 am Newcastle: Saturday Vigil: 7.00 p.m. Sunday: 10.30 am Weekday: 10.00am Mon, Tues, Thurs, Fri.

Saggart/Rathcoole/Brittas & Newcastle Acommodation at the Hotel Padoue.

Parish Pastoral Worker

Saggart: Sunday: 9 am & 11.30 am Weekday: 9.30 am

We hope you have a lovely day with family and friends.

Our next meeting will be held in the pastoral room in Rathcoole Church on Friday 13th May 2016 at 6.30pm. All are welcome. Fr. Michael McGowan PC Thank you to our members for your support. 7 St. Patrick’s Crescent, Lourdes Pilgrimage 16 - 21 June 2016 Rathcoole Tel: 4589210

Mass Schedule

Cost €729 pps (Single Supplement €175). 5 nights accommodation and all meals for the duration of your stay included. Deposit €200 per person. Booking forms are available in the church sacristies. Travel Agents: Pilgrimages Abroad 01-6359300 Have you ever visited the parish website? Have you ever visited the parish website? This is a short notice to let you know that there exists a website for your benefit, you not-so-young and young, and that it is kept going thanks to the good work of one or two not-so-young volunteers still learning on the job. People who do any kind of voluntary work for the parish are entitled to some kind of recognition, aren't they?The choir, for instance, work hard, and we applaud that good work every Sunday. And the more 'low key' contributions to the smooth running of the parish also deserve recognition too, even if it's the most basic form that comes of people knowing that you are there at all. Which is the message this notice is getting out today! Thank you. Take a look at the latest post with some nice photo/slides: The Easter 1916 Commemorations in Our Parishes All Welcome

Confession Saggart: Friday after 9.30am Mass Rathcoole: Saturday after 10.00am Mass Newcastle: Saturday after 7.00pm Mass Baptism Saggart 2.00pm Sunday Rathcoole 4.00 pm Saturday Newcastle 2nd Saturday 4pm Last Sunday 2pm Please contact the Parish Office Marriage Please contact the Parish Office

Life to the Full Book Club

A Terrible Beauty – Áille na hÁille

Join other young adults (20's & 30's) every Thursday from 7.00-8:30pm in St Paul's Church Arran Quay, Smithfield each week we will meditate, share and discuss life, faith, purpose & how to live life to the full. We read a chosen spiritual book over a few weeks and come to reflect and discuss our thoughts. We begin with the inspiring page turner ‘Saint John Paul the Great’. Refreshments provided. For more information: [email protected] www.facebook.com/lifetothefullbookc lub

Pro-Cathedral, 12th May 2016, 8.00pm The first performance in Dublin of Charlie Lennon’s Suite - Áille na hÁille commissioned by Gael Linn for the Centenary Commemoration of 1916 will take place in the Saint Mary’s Pro-Cathedral, Marlborough Street on Thursday 12 May 2016 at 8.00 p.m. This unique event will not only feature this newly composed work but will be accompanied by moving extracts from the accounts of priests who ministered in the streets of Dublin to the injured and the dying and to those who were executed in 1916. The musicians will be led by Charlie Lennon the composer and will feature his daughter Éilís on fiddle, Michael O’Brien – Uilleann Pipes, Jim Higgins - Percussion, the Bohemian String Quartet, Ruth McGinley - Piano and Elizabeth Cooney – Violin. The singers are Patricia Bourke d’Souza and Albert Llussa I Torra. No tickets are required but a retiring collection will be taken up to defray the expenses of the event.

Public Meeting Rathcoole Community Centre

Legion of Mary Discussion Group

Policing/ Home Security

Rathcoole Church, Monday 9th May, 7.30pm

Traffic Management in Rathcoole

All welcome. Subject for Discussion:

Wednesday

11th

May, 8.00pm

"Do the commandments belong to the past?"

Tusla - Child and Family Agency: Foster Carers Urgently Needed There is an urgent need for foster carers willing to provide a home to children and adolescents in this area. Foster families are needed for children of all ages, from birth to eighteen years and beyond. Tusla Child and Family Agency is currently running a campaign to find families who are willing to provide safe, loving and secure homes for children and adolescents. For more information contact 076 6955550 and/ or www.fostering.ie

Feast of Our Lady of Fatima: Friday 13th May 2016 Adoration of the Blessed Sacrament, Rathcoole Church, 3 - 6pm Pope Francis approves the beatification of Venerable John Sullivan SJ Pope Francis has approved the beatification of Venerable John Sullivan (1861-1933). The Holy Father approved the decree that authenticated a miracle attributed to Father Sullivan at an audience with Cardinal Angelo Amato, the prefect of the Congregation for the Causes of Saints. Many miracles have been attributed to the Jesuit priest who was baptised into the Church of Ireland (his father’s tradition) and who became a Roman Catholic (his mother’s tradition) in the second half of his life. His early education was at Portora Royal Enniskillen and Trinity College Dublin. Much of his priestly life was spent in Clongowes Wood College, Co. Kildare, where he had a reputation for sanctity among the schoolboys and the many local often poor people whom he visited. Word of his holy and healing ways spread around Ireland and to this day thousands visit his tomb in Gardiner St Church with deep devotion, praying for his help and intercession for healing. Archbishop Diarmuid Martin, Archbishop of Dublin, has welcomed the news. He said: “John Sullivan was marked in a special way by a great care for the sick. Reading his biographies is like reading a directory of the hospitals and the homes for the sick in the Dublin of his days. There was nothing that would hold him back from visiting someone who was sick and who had asked for his prayers. In his years in Clongowes College he would travel by bicycle or on foot when he heard the news of someone who was ill. He was not a medical expert or a faith healer, but a man who through his own prayer and personal holiness was able to transmit to those he encountered something of the healing power and the Good News of Jesus Christ. John Sullivan’s seeking for God led him towards the Catholic Church and then towards priestly ordination.”