Diocesan Designated Liaison Person: Ms Joan Treacy 085 8021633 Rev. Fr. John Dunphy: Phone: 059 / 9141833 / 9182882

Priest on Call for Carlow Area: (Emergency Only) Phone: - 087/2588118

Church Collections: although the churches

are closed to the public for Masses we still

need to try and keep our parish running.

If you wish you can leave your contribution into

the parish centre or alternatively you can set up a

standing order to the church bank account.

The parish account details are as follows:

Bank Name and Address: Bank of Ireland,

Shamrock Plaza, Carlow. Name of Account:

Graiguecullen Church. BIC: BOFIIE2D IBAN:

IE12 BOFI 9065 3123 3222 21. Please put your name and address in the reference box.

Donations to our parish or any diocesan

collection i.e Trocaire can now also be made

on the diocesan website at www.kandle.ie.

All our services can be viewed via webcam on

www.graiguecullenkilleshin.com or on facebook

Monday – Saturday 10am - Mass

12 noon - The Angelus

followed by the Rosary

Mon/Tues/Thurs 8.00pm Night Prayer

Wednesday 8.00pm – Holy Hour

Friday 7.30pm – Mass for those

buried in Killeshin Graveyard

Saturday 6.30pm - Vigil Mass

Sunday 11.30am - Mass

Cemetery Masses:- this Friday 5th June

was to be the date for our Killeshin

cemetery Mass. Due to the current

crowd restrictions the Mass cannot be

held in the graveyard. A Mass will be

celebrated via webcam and facebook on

Friday evening at 7.30pm for all those

buried in Killeshin particularly those who

have died during the past 12 months.

CHURCHES REOPEN:- Our churches are

open 12.30pm – 4pm daily to give people an

opportunity for quiet prayer and to light a

candle. Whilst we know that many people

from all over the country are joining us for our

Masses and services via webcam it is great to

have our churches open for people to visit.

Please remember to follow the COVID 19

guidelines posted in the churches and please

use the hand sanitisers supplied when entering

and leaving the church. We have put in place

a system whereby certain seats are used so if

you enter a seat you put down the kneeler.

Please leave it down when you are finished

(even if you don’t use the kneeler). This

gives us an indication where people have been

and means it’s not necessary to clean the whole

church every day.

Living In A Virtual World:-This week

think about people who are living in

isolation, but are doubly affected because

they do not understand the technology of

Zoom or the internet, or are hard of

hearing. Writing good old fashioned letters

is an often forgotten way to keep in touch.

Self-Made Prisons As were the first disciples, so we are sent out on a great

mission to make disciples of all nations. We are sent out

each with our own style of evangelisation and our own

very individual array of gifts. There should be no stopping us, and yet

there is. Like it or not, we all live in little prisons of our own making. We

might live in a prison where every corner of our life has been consumed

by the need to make money leaving no room for anything else. We might

live in a prison where household chores dominate from morning until

night. We might live behind the locked doors of inadequacy, inferiority,

self-doubt or fear. We might have spent our whole lives building prisons

brick by brick so that whatever dreams we might once have had, we are

now totally incapable of realising them.

In today’s gospel we find the disciples locked away for fear of the Jews,

and we must surely be able to empathise with them. But then comes the

good news. Jesus shows us that the Holy Spirit is the exit from the

hopelessness of being locked into a fearful and damaging past. The Holy

Spirit is not shy of the boundaries that people erect. The Holy Spirit is not

halted by locked doors or locked hearts. We may have spent our past

making feeble attempts to love, to forgive or to make special things

happen, but today’s exciting message is that the past does not have to

equal the future. The Spirit which filled the apostles and enabled them to

change history is the very same Spirit which has been given to us. If we

believe in, and trust in the Holy Spirit, we can make things happen.

We can of course spend more of our short lives locked away, doubting as

Thomas did that anything miraculous could happen. At the end of the day

the proof of the pudding would be to step out of our self-made prisons

and allow the Holy Spirit to work in our lives.

Did You Know?

Pentecost comes from a Jewish harvest festival called Shavuot. The apostles were celebrating this festival when the Holy Spirit descended on them.

The Day of Pentecost is seen as the culmination of the Easter season.

In many calendars, the day is listed as "Whitsunday." This comes from the phrase "White Sunday," and refers to practice of the newly baptized appearing in their white, baptismal garments on that day.

St. Vincent De Paul: Local Conference – St. Fiacc’s.

Tel: 086 – 1592775

Carlow Family Support Group -

You Are Not Alone:-Drugs and

Alcohol abuse effects families

regardless of status in life. You did

not cause it, you can't control it

and you can't cure it. Help is

available for those who live with

this dreadful disease call 085

7872730.

COVID-19 Support Line for

Older People

ALONE has launched a national

support line and additional

supports for older people who

have concerns or are facing

difficulties relating to the

outbreak of COVID-19

(Coronavirus). Professional staff

are available to answer queries

and give advice and reassurance

where necessary. The support line

is open seven days a week, 8am -

8pm, by calling 0818 222 024.

ANNIVERSARIES

(Please note all Anniversaries can be emailed to gkparish@gmail.com

Sat 30th Fr John Fingleton former Parish Priest of Graiguecullen/Killeshin Parish

Mai Lyons, Lorettoville, Oak Park Road

(Ernest John Duffett, St Fiacc’s Tce and deceased members of the

Duffett family)

Davy Hutchinson, Dunloe, Crossneen

(Deceased members of the McDonald Family, the Green Family & the

Brennan Family)

Sun 31st Fr John Fingleton former Parish Priest of Graiguecullen/Killeshin Parish

Margaret Lawler, 22 St Fiacc’s Tce also her son Jim Lawler Radharc Oisín

Patrick Brennan, Ballickmoyler Road

Aidan Power, Pacelli Ave (Birthday Rem)

Edmond McKenna, 186 Colclough Ave

Intention Mass for all those in St Fiacc’s House

Patrick & Catherine Dowling, Leaugh, Sleaty

(Thomas & Francis Ryan, 65 Maher Rd also their daughters Clare

McDonald & Carmel Pierce)-(Con Moloney, Strawhall)

James Kinsella, Blackhill, Clonmore, Hacketstown

Tues 2nd Laurence Dowling, St Fiacc’s Terrace

Sat 6th (First Anniversary) Tom Loughman, Sleaty

Michael O’Regan, Killeshin Road (Birthday Rem)

Sean & Mary Dillon, Pearce Road

Isabella Purcell, 19 Pairc Mhuire, Bagenalstown

Baby Calum Core Lawler, 17 Heatherhill Square

Christy Kelly, Coolane

Sun 7th (First Anniversary) Tom Loughman, Sleaty

Elizabeth Byrne, Lower Rossmore

Jack O’Leary, Ballygunner, Waterford

Earl Leroux, Ottawa

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World Environment Day 'Time For Nature' 5th June

The theme for World Environment Day 2020 is, 'Time for Nature,' with a

focus on its role in providing the essential infrastructure that supports life on Earth and human development.

Things to do:- 1. Start in your back yard. Create a habitat that will attract and support birds,

butterflies, and bees. Trees, shrubs, and other plants

provide shelter and food for wildlife. Consider how you might place nesting boxes, feeders and watering sites. 2. Photograph your habitat

and post it on social media. If everyone gave thought to creating a nature friendly

environment we might fuel some ‘joined up thinking’. 3. With most children still

not out and about, this would make a great weekend garden or back yard project.