22nd January 2017
Christian Unity
Parish Team
We pray for those who have died recently:
Clergy Fr. John Gilligan Moderator St Mary’s Parochial House Saggart. Tel: 4589209 Mobile: 087-4103239 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
Wayne Keogh (Brittas) Angela Burke (Newcastle) Brian O’Brien (Saggart) We extend our deepest sympathies To his family and friends. Eternal rest grant unto them O Lord And may perpetual light shine upon them. New Finance Committee Members We are in the process of forming a new committee to help manage parish finances and also to look at ideas to generate income to support parish running expenses including heating, lighting, repairs and maintenance. The time commitment for members is likely to be one evening a month. If you are involved in the parish and you have some financial experience and an interest in getting involved we would be very glad if you could make contact with Fr John or a member of the Parish Pastoral Council. Enrolment Applications Holy Family NS
The deadline for receipt of applications to enrol into Junior Infants Fr. Michael McGowan PC 2017 and all supporting documentation is 3pm on Tuesday 31st January 2017. ‘Application to Enrol’ Forms are available on the 7 St. Patrick’s Crescent, school website (www.holyfamilyns.ie) or directly from the school Rathcoole Tel: 4589210 office. Please consult the school’s ‘Enrolment Policy’ and ‘Code of Behaviour’ which are available online or a copy may be Parish Pastoral Worker requested through the secretary’s office (01 4580570) Ms. Breda Carroll c/o 01-4589209
Applications received after that date will not be considered. Incomplete Applications will not be considered. Applications should be accompanied by;
Parish Secretary Martina Hopkins The Parish Office St. Mary’s Parochial House Opening Hours: 9.30-1.30 Monday to Thursday Tel: 4589209
Birth Certificate, Baptismal Certificate (where applicable) and Proof of Address (proof by National Utility Bill or Government Correspondence) Applicants may also be asked to provide official postcode identification in your name. Applicants are reminded that the burden of proof rests with the applicant to satisfy the Board of Management that they are primarily resident at the address stated on this application.
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Friends of Newcastle Burial Ground Inaugural General Meeting Monday 6th February @ 8pm Old Schoolhouse, Newcastle Church Grounds All Welcome
Items for Newsletter Items for Junction 4 should be sent to the Parish Office or emailed to the addresses given below. Many thanks.
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Pilgrimage to Medjugorje Monday
8th
May - Wednesday 17th May, 9 Nights
Spiritual Director Fr. Aloysius Zuribo, Price €649 pps Contact: Pat Colgan 086-0677392
Mass Schedule Saggart: Sunday: 9 am & 11.30 am Weekday: 9.30 am Rathcoole: Saturday Vigil: 6.00 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. Confession Saggart: Friday after 9.30am Mass Rathcoole: Saturday after 10.00am Mass Newcastle: Saturday after 7.00pm Mass Baptism Saggart 1st, 2nd and 3rd Sundays 12.30pm Rathcoole 1st and 3rd Saturday 4.00pm Newcastle 4th Sunday 12.30pm Please contact the Parish Office Marriage Please contact the Parish Office
Faithfest, Friday 27th January Faithfest @ Tallaght - Is an initiative organised by the Youth Focus Group in Bishop Eamon Walsh’s area. Faithfest @ Tallaght is an evening of fun, music, meditation and workshops, for Secondary School students. Venue: St. Mary’s Priory, Tallaght Village, on Friday January 27th, from 6pm – 9. 30pm. Consent Forms available in Schools. For further information contact: Breda Carroll, Pastoral Worker 01-4589209
Saggart Parish Pastoral Council Saggart Parish Council Meeting Tuesday 24th January, 7.30pm. Any items for the meeting should be given to the Parish secretary or to one of the members of the Parish Council
Iona Institute Talk: ‘American Christians in the Age of Trump’ Thursday 26th January, 8.00pm, Davenport Hotel, Dublin 2. This talk will be delivered by RR Reno, editor of First Things, a journal of religion and public life based in New York city. The talk could hardly be more topical as it will be delivered only days after the inauguration of Donald Trump as the President of the United States. What are American (and other) Christians to make of Trump? Why did a huge majority of Evangelical Christians vote for a man who is not religious and whose personal life has so often been so out-of-step with Christian morality? Why did a majority of Catholics also vote for him? What will his presidency mean for Christians, and what would a Clinton presidency have meant? RR Reno will consider these questions and more. He will also consider the place of Christians in an increasingly hostile public square more generally. Russell Ronald Reno was formerly a professor of theology and ethics at Creighton University. He is the author of several books, including most recently Resurrecting the Idea of a Christian Society. He was born in Baltimore, Maryland in 1959. He attended Haverford College, receiving a B.A. in 1983. He began graduate study at Yale University in the Department of Religious Studies in 1984 and completed his doctoral degree in 1990 in the area of religious ethics. He received his first faculty appointment at Creighton University in 1990, where he taught until 2010 when he took an extended academic leave to work full-time at First Things. CPSMA responds to Minister Bruton’s school admission policy proposal The Catholic Primary Schools Management Association broadly welcomes the public consultation process on school admission policies announced by the Minster for Education and Skills, Richard Bruton TD. However, it notes that the issues arising from it may well impact in adverse ways on minority groups and urges that these be taken properly into account. Responding to the Minister’s announcement, Seamus Mulconry, General Secretary of Catholic Primary Schools Management Association, said, “This issue is being misleadingly referred to as the ‘baptism bar’. It is important to clarify that there is no requirement for parents to have their children baptised in order to gain admission to a Catholic school. “The issue the Minster is proposing to address only occurs in the small number of schools who are oversubscribed. The vast majority of Catholic schools are not oversubscribed and enrol all applicants. The issue mainly arises in areas of Dublin and in small pockets of the commuter belt surrounding the capital. “Reforms to admissions policies will do nothing to alleviate the shortage of school places: only extra school places can achieve that.” The CPSMA pointed out that the Church was already engaged in this issue and that Archbishop Eamon Martin, in a recent interview in the Sunday Business Post, stated that, “I could understand where a local parish primary school is in an oversubscribed situation, that preference would be given to children who are in that local Catholic parish. And then maybe to children who are in the local area who may not be Catholic.” Mr Mulconry concluded, “While we see the Minister’s reforms in this area as having little impact on Catholic schools, we believe that attention needs to be given to the impact on any such changes to minority faiths and to the ability of those communities to live out their own ethos.”