CHURCH NOTICES: Listed readers for this weekend August 11-12, The Nineteenth Sunday in Ordinary Time, are as follows, Saturday at 7pm James McCarthy, Sunday at 10am Ann Higgins, Sunday at 12noon Frances Lynch. Eucharistic Ministers,Saturday at 7pm Mary Collins, Mary Bennis and Breda Carroll, Sunday at 10am Michael O’Mara, Mary Enright and Michael Punch, Sunday at 12noon Seamus Enright, Patricia Barry and Rory Bennis. Please arrange a replacement if you are unable to fulfill any duty allocated to you. Weekday masses are at the usual time of 9-30am Monday to Friday. The weekly prayer meeting takes place on Monday at 8pm and all are welcome. The weekly parish newsletter will return on the first weekend in September and all items for inclusion should be handed into the sacristy by 9-30am on Friday August 31, and each Friday after that for subsequent issues, or contact Fr. Muiris O’Connor on 353711 or 0866075628. Alternatively they can be emailed tomuirisoc@eircom.net.
FEAST OF THE ASSUMPTION: The Feast of the Assumption of the Blessed Virgin Mary will be celebrated next Wednesday, August 15, and is a Holy Day of Obligation. It commemorates her death and her bodily assumption into Heaven, “Having completed the course of her earthly life was assumed body and soul into heavenly glory”, and is the most important of all Marian feasts. It also became known as Pattern Day, pattern being a derivative of pátrún in Irish, or patron in English. The day was celebrated in practically every parish in Ireland from the middle ages to the mid nineteenth century, and was associated with holy wells. The people would walk around the well a certain number of times while saying special prayers, and drinking the water as well as bathing in it because of its curative powers. As well as the religious aspect, Pattern Days became noted for rowdy amusements, and the clergy in 1660 tried to keep matters under control by announcing the following decree: “Dancing, flute-playing, bands of music, riotous revels and other abuses in visiting wells and other holy places are forbidden”. Mass will be at 7pm on Tuesday August 14, Eucharistic Ministers, Maria Bucke, John Collopy and Mary Bennis. Morning mass on Wednesday will be at 10am and not 9-30, Eucharistic Ministers, Sam Milburn, Pat Kirby and Michael O’Mara.
BLOOD DONORS: The Irish Blood Transfusion Service requires three thousand donations every week, and donor clinics are being held at the following locations; South Court Hotel, Raheen Roundabout on Monday August 13 from 5 to 8pm, and the
Dunraven Arms Hotel, Adare, on Tuesday August 14 from 6 to 9pm. You can visit any blood donor clinic as long as ninety days have elapsed since you last gave blood, and you are urged to please give regularly. For more information contact theDonor Information Line on 1850 731137, or their website.
Dunraven Arms Hotel, Adare, on Tuesday August 14 from 6 to 9pm. You can visit any blood donor clinic as long as ninety days have elapsed since you last gave blood, and you are urged to please give regularly. For more information contact theDonor Information Line on 1850 731137, or their website.
HERITAGE WEEK: If boredom is setting in with the school holidays, or the weather has dampened any of your activities, Heritage Week, which runs from Saturday August 18 until Sunday August 26, may offer some respite, with a host of interesting and unusual attractions and events both locally and nationally, most of which are free and child friendly. Promoted and coordinated by the Heritage Council, National Heritage Week this year is focusing on Ireland’s Built Heritage. During the week, over 600 built heritage events will take place with many sites and houses being made accessible to the public for the first time. The Hunt Museum is hosting a range of activities including arts and crafts, tours and lectures, phone 061- 312833, oreducation@huntmuseum.com for more details. Other local events will be taking place at the City Art Gallery, and Lough Gur, and in Kilmallock on the weekend of August 18-19, the town will be hosting Walled Town Day.The free National Heritage Week Event Guide is available from Libraries, Fáilte Ireland Tourist Offices, OPW sites and Heritage Centres nationwide. More details are also available from the Heritage Week, County Council, and tourism websites.
WORLD DAYS: Sunday August 12 is the United Nations’ International Youth Day, and is celebrated each year to recognize efforts of the world’s youth in enhancing global society. It also aims to promote ways to engage them in becoming more actively involved in making positive contributions to their communities, “Building a Better World: Partnering with Youth”. The UN defines the worlds’ youth as the age group between 15 and 24 years old, making up one-sixth of the human population. Monday August 13 is dedicated to lefthanded people, chitógs, to raise awareness of left-handedness, (sinistrality), and the challenges caused by living in a right-handed world. Lefthanders, or southpaws, form seven to ten per cent of the population, which makes them a minority, and as such, are discriminated against. International Lefthanders Day works to end this discrimination.
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