Patrickswell news for w/e June 10th

CHURCH NOTICES:    

       

Listed readers for this weekend June 11-12, The Feast of Pentecost, are as follows, Saturday at 7pm Seamus Enright, Sunday at 10am Sam Milburn, Sunday at 12noon Ann Higgins. Eucharistic Ministers, Saturday at 7pm, Michael Houlihan, John Collopy, Maria Bucke, Sunday at 10am, Kathleen Enright, Sam Milburn, Joanne Tierney, Sunday at 12noon, Michael McDermott, Eileen O’Shea, Louise Carey.

Please arrange a replacement if you are unable to fulfill any duty allocated to you. Weekday masses are at the usual time of 9-30 am Monday to Friday.  There will be no weekly prayer meetings for the duration of the Life in the Spirit seminars, the sixth of which is this Thursday, June 9 commencing at 8pm.

PARISH NEWSLETTER:

Items for inclusion in the weekly Parish Newsletter should be handed into the sacristy by 9-30am each Friday, or contact Fr. Muiris O’Connor on 353711 or 0866075628. Alternatively they can be emailed to muirisoc@eircom.net

PARISH CLERK:

The collection for the Parish Clerk will be taken up at all masses this weekend, and your generosity is asked in recognition of all the work undertaken by her week by week throughout the year.

SOLEMN NOVENA:

The Limerick Solemn Novena to Our Lady of Perpetual Help, commences at Mount St. Alphonsus on Friday June 17 until Saturday June 25. Representatives from the Redemptorist Community were in attendance at all masses last weekend to invite and encourage participation in this annual celebration of prayer and devotion. This year’s theme is, “Eucharist- Food For Life” Leaflets are available with details of times, support services and special events during the nine day festival, and also at  www.novena.ie

SUNFLOWERS:

National Sunflower Day is celebrating its twenty first anniversary this Friday and Saturday June 10 and 11, in support of the Irish Hospice Foundation. All money raised locally will be for Milford Hospice. Volunteers are required to assist with the fund raising, and promoting awareness. Sunflowers will be available in numerous locations throughout the city and county. Fundraising plays an important ongoing role in the financing of current and developing Palliative Care Services provided by Milford Care Centre throughout Counties Clare, Limerick and North Tipperary. 

If you can spare a couple of hours of your time to collect for Sunflowers 2011, we would be delighted to hear from you. For more information contact Milford on 061- 485860 / 485800, or e-mail: fundraising@milfordcarecentre.ie

SOCCER CLUB:

Notice to all members of St. Patricks soccer club Patrickswell both present and past. The club will be celebrating its fortieth birthday this year. To honour this occasion there will be a reunion of all members, which will be held in the Cu Chulainn bar on Saturday June 25 starting at 9pm. Anyone who has ever played for the club or managed or worked on the committee over these forty years are more than welcome to attend the party on the night. There will be music and craic, plus old and new stories to be shared. If anyone has any old pictures or any old material that is in connection with the club over the last 40 years, the organising committee would be grateful if you would forward it to them with the guarantee that all material will be returned to you without fail.
Also on the night there will be a raffle, the proceeds of which will go towards the old folks party which will be held later on in the year. For any further information contact Joe Lynch, Liam O’Carroll, Kieran Darcy or Timmie Sheehan.

BLOOD:

World Blood Donor Day is being celebrated on June 14, the birthday of Karl Landsteiner, the creator of the ABO blood group system, for which he won the Nobel Prize. The first celebration was held in 2005. One of the main goals of the World Blood Donor Day is to ensure the availability of safe blood and blood products, and to raise awareness and  thank voluntary unpaid blood donors for their life-saving gifts of blood. The theme for World Blood Donor Day 2011 is, "More blood. More life." This theme reinforces the urgent need for more people all over the world to become life savers by volunteering to donate blood regularly. The Irish Blood Transfusion Service requires three thousand donations of blood every week, and donor clinics are being held in Caherdavin, Raheen and Castletroy during the week commencing June 20. You can visit any blood donor clinic as long as ninety days have elapsed since you last gave blood. For more information contact the Donor Information Line on 1850 731137, or the Blood Transfusion website.

GOLF SOCIETY:

Patrickswell Golfers have hit the limelight in recent weeks, playing in various competions in Adare,  with Eamonn Kelleher winning his first major cup, namely the Kennelly Cup with a fine score of 42 points. In second place was Brian Geoghen with 41points. In the Rathkeale Cup, Pa Carey (Jnr.) was in the prizes with 38points. In the Tuesday singles Paul Darcy won a prize with 38points. Our next outing will be in Cahir on Saturday June 25.

TIDY TOWNS:

The Community Resource Centre was first out of the traps this year with a fine array of  window boxes and hanging baskets on display, closely followed by the Dark Horse and Helen McDermott’s Food store. The Dark Horse was commended for its display in last year’s competition. We are very pleased to see these additions to our own planting, and hope that other premises will follow suit in time for the Limerick in Bloom Competition, which will be judged from mid July to mid August. Our own planting is now complete, and the weekly watering rota is in operation. If anyone would like to offer a few hours a week to assist with this very important job, we would be delighted to hear from them. Since the completion of the planting, we have been asked on numerous occasions if the council provides us with the plants, over fifteen hundred this year alone. We would like to take this opportunity to point out that although we are a working group of the community council, we are self sufficient in terms of fund raising and purchasing requirements. Our existence is reliant solely on our own fund raising efforts, which take the form of our annual church gate collection in April, and a table quiz in October, which are always well supported. The local business community is, and always has been supportive in sponsoring spot prizes for this particular event, and we are very appreciative of them for that. We also receive various small donations from well wishers from time to time, for which we are extremely grateful of course, but receive no grant aid or sponsorship, or practical help from any other organisation including the county council, as Patrickswell does not have Heritage or Tourist status. The founding members of the group, ie, the chair person and  the twelve original ladies are still together after eleven years, although our numbers have increased gradually over the last few years, with another four ladies joining our ranks, together with six or seven fellas, which has enabled us to undertake more of the physical type of work all aimed at improving our surroundings, and hopefully improving the quality of life in Patrickswell. All members send their very best wishes for a speedy recovery to Marie Foley after her recent surgery.