Church of St Colmcille Kells & Church of the Immaculate Conception Girley.
Mass Times:Kells. Saturday. 8pm. Sunday. 8am, 9.30am,11.00am, 12.15pm.Girley. Sunday. 10.00am.
Weekly Notices courtesy of Martin Grace,
Parish Office
Priest on Duty – Fr. Liam Malone Ph 40213.
Times of weekend Masses: Sat Vigil 8pm,
Sunday 8am, 9.30, 11oc and 12.15. Girley 10oc.
Confessions: Saturday 10.30 – 11oc, 2-3, 7-8pm.
Baptisms Second and Fourth Sunday 3oc.
Adoration of Blessed Sacrament Monday to Friday 8am-8pm
ADORATION OF BLESSED SACRAMENT: Additional people are needed for Adoration. Anyone available for 1 hour anyday Monday to Friday between 8am and 8pm contact Alice 40848, Anne 49682 or Nora 41734.
CANDLEMAS OFFERINGS: Today is an Offering Day. We ask you to use the WHITE envelope that our volunteers distributed, or an ordinary envelope with name and address.
LECTIO DIVINA – members will meet in Edmund Rice Centre on Monday Feb 11,
8-9pm and on all Mondays throughout Lent. Scripture Reading is an encounter with Christ, offering us good news and enabling us to descend to the level of the heart. New members welcome.
Recently Departed
Masses for Week
Sat 8pm - 4th Ann – Elsie Dever, Carrick Court
Tuesday: 9.30 - Mass for deceased members of Kells Tidy Towns
Saturday: 9oc – 2nd Ann – Alice 0’Reilly, Rodstown.
10oc – 1st Ann – Bridie Mulvany, Balrath Rd.
8pm – 5th Ann – Annie Rourke, Maudlin Rd.
Anniversary Masses
Matt and Rose Healy, Station House Margaret King, Kilmainham
Olive McGovern, Fair Green Michael Friary, Loyd
William and Mary Healy and Family, Carrick St
Christopher Lee, Bective St Rose Hickey, Kenlis Place.
Mary Ann Smith, Bective St (2) Dan and Rose Ann Smith and Family, Suffolk St (2)
Peter, Mary and Jim Quigley, Gardenrath Rd . George McGuinness snr, Loyd
Kathleen Black, nee Morris, Carrick St Mary Ann and Thomas Brady, Fair Green (2)
RECENTLY BAPTISED: The Parish welcomes into our Christian Community – Paul Christopher Reilly, Dylan Courtney, Sarah Courtney, Jack Nicholas Smith, Lawrence Thomas Morgan, Aideen Louise Farrelly,
COLLECTIONS
Offertory and missalettes €2223
Development fund (weekly envelopes) Kells € 1285 Girley €70
We thank all that contribute weekly
Ceili Social in aid of Fr. Nicholas Murray, Columban Missionary leaving for China in Headfort Arms Hotel on Thursday 7 March 9-12. Music by Davey Joe Fallon. Adm. €7.
Lourdes Pilgrimage from Kilmainhamwood – 1 April. 5 nights full board €535. Details Joe Walsh Tours (01) 2410802.
Tarahumara Indians Mexico : The annual collection will take place next Saturday Feb 9 outside Supervalue in Kells in aid of Tarahumara Appeal.
ICA Meeting Wedns 6 Feb at 8.30. New members welcome.
‘Ten Commandments for Parents’ – a talk by Dr. Vincent Maloney in Dowdstown House, Dalgan Park on Monday 4 Feb at 8pm. Adm. €8.
Alps – Tues. 5 Feb Yvonne Gilsenan Health and Fitness
Handball Lotto – no winner. This week €2600.Kilmainham Lotto – no winner. This week €3100
Kilmainham Ladies Club recommences on Wedns Feb 6 in Iona Hall. All welcome.
Kells Heritage Festival Museum: AGM in NMCDA Resource Centre Thurs 7 Feb at 8pm. New members welcome.
Drumbaragh Lotto – no winner. This week €2200. Dinner Dance 15 March.
Found: Silver Watch Rockfield area. Ph 40532.
Disability Equality Group require Community Employment Project Worker for office based in Moynalty. Contact Sean Leydon for application 43728. Closing date 22 Feb.
Round Towers Meeting Wed 6 Feb at 9.30 in Gaelic Centre.
Kells Musical and Dramatic Society presents ‘Cinderella’ by John Grant in St. Vincent de Paul Hall Kells 3-10 Feb with usual matinees and night shows. Not to be missed. Booking office opens Monday 28 Jan at 10am in the Hall or phone 41844.
Priest on Duty – Fr. John Byrne Ph 40213.
Times of weekend Masses: Sat Vigil 8pm,
Sunday 8am, 9.30, 11oc and 12.15. Girley 10oc.
Confessions: Saturday 10.30 – 11oc, 2-3, 7-8pm.
Baptisms Second and Fourth Sunday 3oc.
Adoration of Blessed Sacrament Monday to Friday 8am-8pm
SEASON LENT
Lent commences next Wedns. It is a time to check in what direction we are pointing in life. Three signposts are given to us to find the right road or to ensure that we stay on the right road. These are:
PRAYER
FASTING
ALMSGIVING
These signposts are as ancient as Christianity itself.
LENT IN OUR PARISH
1.There is in this Parish a strong tradition of participation in daily Mass during Lent. It is hoped that this tradition will continue this year. Starting Ash Wednesday Masses for Lent will be 7.45am, 9.30am and 7.30 p.m. Monday to Friday. Girley weekly Mass will be on Friday at 7.30.
2. Adoration before the Blessed Sacrament continues Monday to Friday 8am-8pm.
3. Fasting is especially encouraged on the Fridays of Lent.
4. Daily support of the Trocaire Box is encouraged.
ASH Wednesday
Masses 7.45, 9.30 and 7.30pm. Girley 7.30pm.
Ashes blessed and distributed at all Masses
MEETING OF PASTORAL COUNCIL
The next meeting will take place on Monday 11 Feb at 8pm in Parochial House. The main task of this meeting will be to establish the priorities for our Parish at this time
TROCAIRE BOXES
This Lent, Trocaire is highlighting the obscenity of child exploitation and child labour.
Your help is needed.
Sadly the lives of millions of children – especially those in poorer countries – are absolutely hell. Children in poverty are often weak and vulnerable. Many governments, armies, corrupt war lords, ruthless businessmen and corporations see children, not as a treasure to be nourished, but as a commodity to be exploited.
Each home should receive a Trocaire Box soon. Any home that does not receive a Box is asked to contact the Parish Office.
We appeal to you to deposit EURO only in the Box. At the end of Lent when we count the collection for Trocaire, decimal coins will make it difficult to count and may damage our counting machines which are tuned to EURO only..
Recently Departed
Peggy McMahon, Maudlin Rd. Stephen Burke, Dunshaughlin
Masses for Week
Sat (Feb 9) 8pm : 5th Ann – Annie Rourke, Maudlin Rd.
Monday; 7.45 – 2nd Ann – Bernadette Gilligan, Mullingar
Tuesday: 9.30 – 2nd Ann – Patricia Fitzsimons, Cookstown.
Wednesday: 7.30 pm– 5th Ann – Mary and Hugh McHugh, Bective St.
Thursday: 9.30 – Mass for Peter Tevlin, Church View.
Friday: 7.30pm – 4th Ann – Bertie Reilly, Archdeaconry
Saturday: 9oc – 4th Ann – Clara and John Reilly, Carrick St.
10oc – 5th Ann – Hannah Kilkenny, Rockfield Rd.
8pm – 5th Ann - Cissie Ryan, Syddenrath
Sunday (Feb 17) 11oc – Month’s Memory – PJ Cole, Moynalty Rd.
Anniversary Masses
Joe and Peggy Keyes, Rockfield Rd. James and Anne Coyne, Allenstown
Dan Conaty, Sycamore Ave. Jim and Rosaleen Keenan, Maudlin Rd.
Mary Ann and James Smith, Calliaghstown James and Mary Casserly. Springville Morris Family, Carrick St. Paddy Murphy, Rockfield Rd.
Michael Moriarity, Gardenrath Close, John (Jack) Barrett, Canon St.
Stephen Tormay, Climber Hall McMahon Family, Church View.
Frank Fitzsimons, Headfort Rd. Pat and Mary Griffin, Balrath Rd.Jim, Sheila and Dermot Grimes. Church View(3)
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St Vincent De Paul Shop will re-open on Tuesday 12 Feb.
Ceili Social in aid of Fr. Nicholas Murray, Columban Missionary leaving for China in Headfort Arms Hotel on Thursday 7 March 9-12. Music by Davey Joe Fallon. Adm. €7
Quit Smoking Retreat: For less than the price of 2 week’s smoking, this 1 day seminar is offered to help you quit the habit – starts Ash Wedns 10am-5pm in Bellinter House, Navan Ph 21241. Cost €57.14.
Feeling Lucky – Come to Kells Bingo every Friday in St. Vincent de Paul Hall at 8.45pm. Prize money €1400.
Gaelic Centre Lotto – Jan 31 – no winner. Next Jackpot €1900
Handball Lotto – no winner. |This week €2600.
Kilmainham Lotto - €3100 winner Margaret Curran. This week €1270.
Irish Epilepsy Association – collection this weekend 9/10 Feb.
Drumbaragh Lotto – no winner. This week €24. Dinner Dance 15 March. Tickets €20.
Spina Bifida and Hydrocephalus – collection weekend 16/17 Feb.
Citizens Information Centre: information on budget changes. Open Monday and Friday 10am-12 noon.
Swimming Pool – parents/child class Sat 10am. Special mid term opening 3-5pm Mon. 11 and Fri 15 Feb. children’s improvers and advanced lessons Sundays 2pm, men's lessons Tues. 9.40pm. Ladies Wedns 8.50pm. Details 40551.
Alps – Frankie 0’Sullivan on Yoga Tuesday 12 Feb.
Drumbaragh Ladies Club – Monday 8.15. This week Margaret Lynott, author and TV personality. Bring a friend.
Kells Musical Dramatic Pantomime – Cinderella – last performances Sat 9 Feb after evening Mass and Sunday at 3oc and 8pm. Not to be missed.
Priest on Duty – Fr. Liam Malone Ph 40213.
Times of weekend Masses: Sat Vigil 8pm,
Sunday 8am, 9.30, 11oc and 12.15. Girley 10oc.
Confessions: Saturday 10.30 – 11oc, 2-3, 7-8pm.
Baptisms Second and Fourth Sunday 3oc.
Adoration of Blessed Sacrament Monday to Friday 8am-8pm
LENT
Masses for Lent at 7.45, 9.30 and 7.30pm Monday to Friday.
Saturday Masses 9oc, 10oc and 8pm.Girley Mass Friday 7.30pm.
Tax Relief for Donations to Parish
Parishioners are advised that a Tax Relief Scheme now exists whereby income tax can be reclaimed on sums of €250 or more donated to the Parish during 2002. In the case of PAYE Taxpayers, the Revenue Commissioners will pay the money directly to the Parish. For example, PAYE Taxpayer, paying Tax at 42%, gives €250 to the parish in 2002. Revenue will refund the Tax associated with the donation to the Parish on ‘grossed up’ basis i.e. €181.03.
Self-assessed Taxpayers will be able to claim a tax allowance on submission of a certificate from the Parish.
Parishioners wishing to avail of the Tax Relief Scheme should contact the Parish Office or Parochial House.
PRIORITIES IN OUR PARISH
At last week’s meeting of the Parish Pastoral Council, the following areas were seen as priority at present in the Parish:
CONFIRMATION COMMITTMENT CEREMONIES
At the 9.30 and 11oc Masses next Sunday the Confirmation children and their parents will make a public commitment in preparation for the Sacrament.
The front seats in the Church will be reserved for them
Recently Departed
Masses for Week
Sat (16 Fen) 8pm – 5th Ann – Cissie Ryan, Syddenrath
Sun (17 Feb) 11oc – Month’s Memory – P.J. Cole, Moynalty Rd.
Monday: 7.30 – Month’s Memory – Joan Shipp and 4th Ann – Peter Shipp, London
Thursday: 7.30pm – 2nd Ann – Mai Newman, the Hill, Kilmainham
Friday: 9.30 – 5th Ann – Mary B. Sheridan, Church View.
7.30 – 2nd Ann – Sadie Doyle, 0’Growney Tce.
Saturday: 9oc – 4th Ann – Anne Conaty, Archdeaconry Glebe
10oc – 2nd Ann – Frank 0’Dowd, Maudlin Rd.
8pm – 1st Ann – Genevieve Harte, Balrath Rd.
Anniversary Masses
Mary and James McGowan, Drumbaragh, Paddy Ward, Kilmainham
James McDonnell, Columba Tce.
COLLECTIONS
Offertory and missalettes €2335
Development Fund envelopes Kells €1665 Girley €80
We thank all that contribute weekly.
Society of the St. Vincent de Paul: The Society thanks all for their generosity to recent collection, which totalled £10120 and exceeded all expectations. Committee for the coming year – Veronica Flanagan (President), Martin Hanney (vice president), Mary McCabe (treasurer) Fr. John Byrne (spiritual advisor).
PTAA thank all that contributed to recent collection. Total €789.
Blood Transfusion Service: Headfort Arms Monday 18 Feb, Tuesday 19 Feb, 4.30-8.30pm. Be a Blood Donor.
Benefit Night in aid of Meath Hospice in Brays Fordstown on Thurs 21 Feb at 9p.m.,featuring Ritchie Kavanagh , the Blow Ins and local artists. Free taxi service available from Kells Post office at 8.30pm and Athboy Post Office 8.30pm and return free also. Enquiries to Raymond at Fordstown Office 046 – 34121.
Handball Lotto – no winner. This week €3100.
Kilmainham Lotto – no winner. This week €1470.
Kilmainham Ladies Club: Night out at dogs Mullingar Sat Feb 23. Contact Geraldine 40102, Kathleen 40049.
Gaeil Colmcille Lotto – Jan 17 – no winner. Next jackpot €2050.
Drumbaragh Ladies Club: Every Monday 8.15pm. This week Maria Byrne from Aishling Drug Centre.
Alps Tuesday 19 Feb. Cookery demo. 10.30—12.30.
TROCAIRE
More than 300,000 children, some as young as seven, are forced to fight with armies and militia in over 30 countries. Trocaire supports organisations in Sierra Leone and Nicaragua, which are working to support children who have been forced to work as child soldiers or who live and work on dumps.
Each house should have received a Trocaire Box. If you did not, kindly contact the Parish Office. Remember: Euro and cents only in your Trocaire Box
Priest on Duty – Fr. Liam Malone Ph 40213.
Times of weekend Masses: Sat Vigil 8pm,
Sunday 8am, 9.30, 11oc and 12.15. Girley 10oc.
Confessions: Saturday 10.30 – 11oc, 2-3, 7-8pm.
Baptisms Second and Fourth Sunday 3oc.
Adoration of Blessed Sacrament Monday to Friday 8am-8pm
Adoration of Blessed Sacrament: Committee Meeting after evening Mass Monday 25 Feb.
MONDAY: Padre Pio Mass Monday 7.30.
Lent: Masses 7.45, 9.30 and 8pm Monday to Friday.
Monday Padre Pio Mass 7.30. Marian Movement in Convent after Padre Pio Mass.
St. Joseph Young Priests Society in Parochial House at 7pm.
Thursday: Confessions 7-8pm.
Friday: First of the Month.Masses for names on List of Dead.
Girley First Friday: Exposition 10-8pm. Mass 8pm.
LENT IN OUR PARISH
1.There is in this Parish a strong tradition of participation in daily Mass during Lent. It
is hoped that this tradition will continue this year. Masses for Lent will be 7.45am,
9.30am and 7.30 p.m. Monday to Friday. Girley weekly Mass will be on Friday at 7.30.
2. Adoration before the Blessed Sacrament continues Monday to Friday 8am-8pm.
3. Fasting is especially encouraged on the Fridays of Lent.
4. Daily support of the Trocaire Box is encouraged
CEMETERY DRAW
The vast increases in refuse disposal and insurance has brought our annual maintenance costs to over €20000.
This year we propose to hold just one Cemetery Draw on Thurs April 25.
Since most of our cards in previous Draws were fully paid up from the start, the new arrangement should suit both promoters and subscribers. Prizes will be increased fivefold – six prizes of €200, eight prizes of €100, six prizes of €50 and four promoter’s prizes of €50. Total €2500 (£1968). Subscription for the Draw will be €15 (fifteen euro).
Cemeteries are increasingly expensive to maintain and develop and we will be grateful for your co-operation with the Promoters. Cards are available at the Parish Office.
Come and join us for Women’s World Day of Prayer Friday March 1 in St. Columba’s Church at 8pm. All welcome.
ECUMENICAL DAY OF REFLECTION: Saturday March 9 starting 10.30 in Bellinter Navan . The reflection will centre on ’Individual Racism’. Subscription (including meals) €25. Details and booking 21241
ROOF FUND
Presently €79,930 Target €139000
We thank all who returned the ‘ONCE OFF’ envelope. We also acknowledge an anonymous subscription of €200 and two of €100 .We also acknowledge a contribution from the Tidy Towns Committee. If you have mislaid your ‘Roof Fund’ envelope please use an ordinary envelope with name and address marked ‘ROOF’.
Readers for March
Sat 8pm – Aidan Wall
Sun 8am – Thomas Skelly, 9.30 – Victor Duffy
11oc – Pamela Rogers, 12.15 – John Murphy
Weekday Readers for March
9.30am Monday to Saturday – P.J. McCaffrey (1st week), Sean Flanagan (2nd week), Henry Flanagan (3rd week), Nora Reilly (4th week).
7.30 pm Monday to Friday – Marion Reilly (1st week), Carol Malone (2nd week), Anna Brunnock (3rd week), Victor Duffy (4th week)
Special Ministers for March – Group 3.
St. Colmcille’s Boys National School: Annual Table Quiz on Wed. 27 Feb at 7.30pm. Fun for all the family. €12 per table of 4 (max 2 adults and at least 1 pupil from St, Colmcille’s).
Girley PTAA: AGM in Girley Hall after Mass next Sunday 3 March at 8oc. All members are asked to attend.
Recently Departed
Tess Reilly, St. Patrick’s Terrace
Masses for Week
Sat 8pm (Feb 23) – 1st Ann – Genevieve Harte, Balrath Rd.
Monday: 7.30pm – 2nd Ann – Mary Sheridan and 2nd Ann –Pat Cheevers, Church View.
Wedns 9.30 – Patrick and Mary Daly and Daly Family.
7.30pm – 5th Ann – Kathleen Smith, Suffolk St.
Thursday: 7.30 – Month’s Memory – Kathleen Costello (nee Kennedy) late Fyanstown
Saturday(March 2): 8pm – 5th Ann – Lily and John Heeney, St. Colmcille Villas.
Sunday (March 3) 11oc – Month’s Memory – Peggy McMahon, Maudlin Rd
Anniversary Masses
Julia and Matthew 0’Rourke, Maudlin Rd Annie Dunne, Cross St
Ceili/Social in aid of Fr. Nicholas Murray, Columban Missionary leaving for Chile, in Headfort Arms Thurs 7 March, 9-12. Tickets €7.
Lourdes Invalid Fund: Annual collection next Saturday and Sunday 2/3 March.
Help give an opportunity for local invalids to visit Lourdes.
COLLECTIONS
Offertory and missalettes €2335, Development fund (weekly envelopes) Kells £1650, Girley €57
We thank all that contribute weekly.
Meath Peace Group – Public Lecture ‘ North Belfast – Communities in Crisis – Challenges for the Belfast Agreement’ at Dalgan Park on Wedns 27 Feb at 8pm.
Alps – Tuesday 26 Feb, 10.30-12.30.
Charity Bridge Night on Friday 1 March in Headfort Golf Club at 7.30pm. Proceeds to Meath Hospice. All welcome.
Kilmainham Lotto – no winner. This week €1670.
Drumbaragh Lotto – no winner. This week 2800. Dinner Dance 15 March, Tickets €20.
Gael Colmcille Lotto –14 Feb – winner Aoibhann Morris €2050. Next Jackpot €1500.
Handball lotto – no winner. This week €4100 .
Trocaire
‘Trocaire desperately needs the support of the Irish public this Lent if we are to support children world-wide who have been exploited, brutalised and enslaved’ (Justin Kilcullen, Trocaire). Trocaire has called on the Government to ratify the Rome Statute of the International Criminal Court which would ensure that those who used children in armed conflict could be brought to justice under a fair and independent court of law.
Remember your weekly support to Trocaire. (EURO currency only please)