Sun 13th  July 2025
Fifteenth Sunday in
Ordinary Time
 
 Diary for the Week
Masses Kilaveney
Mon to Fri 9.30am 
 
Sat Vigil 6.00pm
Sun  11amAdoration Weds 10.00am –8pm
 
Crossbridge Mass
Sun 9.am  
Adoration Tues 11.30 am-3pm
 
 
Feast Days
Mon   St Camillus de LellisTues St  Bonaventure
Weds  Our Lady of Mount Carmel
 
Mass Intentions Kilaveney
Tues  Christy & Esther Walsh, nee Hedderman
Thurs Jack & Maureen Murphy & Kitty Murphy, Dublin
Sat  Fr Fintan & Mary Morris
Sun Margaret Coogan, Mangans
 
Kilaveney Patron and Blessing of the graves today 13th at 2.30pm
 
Kilcashel Patron Sun 20th 2.30pm
 
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Todays Gospel:
Luke 10:1-2, 17-20
All of us
In addition to the inner circle of the 12 Apostles, we are told today that Jesus appointed another 72 and sent them two by two to the places he himself would be
visiting. This is a good description of our Christian role. We are supposed to go first to prepare the ground, but then it is Jesus himself who comes to plant the seed of faith.
 
Jesus instructs his disciples and we too should be listening to his words.  Jesus points out that the harvest is great but that there are few labourers…few who are
willing to do the harvesting work with
Jesus.
 
We often hear during vocation campaigns, the call for more Priests and Nuns…in
Jesus’ time, there were no Priests or Nuns so the challenge was thrown out to all his followers to join in the harvesting.
 
Today, we should not exclude ourselves from this call to work in the harvest field.  All of us, regardless of age, gender , race or position are called to share the Gospel with those around us and to be the harvesters that are so badly needed. 
 
We continue to pray for vocations but we must remember that we also have a great role to play.  It is not just a chosen few that have a calling but each one of us.
 

Medjugorje Pilgrimage
 
There are some spaces available on the Pilgrimage to Medjugorje,
 leaving on 10th September.
 
Dublin to Dubrovnik
 
7 nights
 
Guided by Joe Walsh Tours
 
Half Board
 
€899
 
For more info, please contact:
Mary O’Sullivan (Murphy)
on 087 612 1951
Humour
I just let my mind wander, and it didn’t come back.
 
“I’m so lazy I’ve got a smoke alarm with a snooze button.”
 
I’m reading a book about anti-gravity. It’s impossible to put down.
 
A guy was admitted to hospital with eight plastic horses in his stomach.
His condition is stable.
 
I once had a teacher with a lazy eye. She couldn’t control her pupils.
 
 
Lough Derg Pilgrimage
The Three Day
Pilgrimage for 2025
Continues
until Friday 15th August
 

….Kilaveney Parish Newsletter
 
July 6th 2025
 
Disturb us Lord
Disturb us, Lord, when
We are too well pleased with ourselves,
When our dreams have come true
Because we have dreamed too little,
When we arrived safely
Because we sailed too close to the shore.
Disturb us, Lord, when
With the abundance of things we possess
We have lost our thirst
For the waters of life;
Having fallen in love with life,
We have ceased to dream of eternity
And in our efforts to build a new earth,
We have allowed our vision
Of the new Heaven to dim.
Disturb us, Lord, to dare more boldly,
To venture on wider seas
Where storms will show your mastery;
Where losing sight of land,
We shall find the stars.
We ask You to push back
The horizons of our hopes;
And to push into the future
In strength, courage, hope, and love.
 
Attributed — Sir Francis Drake
1577
St Benedict Feast Day 11th July
St Benedict was born in 480 A.D. at Norcia, about 70 miles from Rome. At a young age he left his studies at Rome in pursuit of a life of sanctity and
spiritual perfection. He soon settled in the remote area of Subiaco and lived in a cave for three years under the direction of a hermit named Romanus. At the age of 31, he began founding monasteries and by the age of 39 there were twelve monasteries to his credit.
 
The “Rule of Saint Benedict” became the norm for all Western
Monasticism and is still practiced today by Benedictines the world over.
 
Saint Benedict’s twin sister, Saint Scholastica, founded an
order for nuns based on the same rule of life. While praying one day, Saint Benedict saw in a vision the death of his sister and her soul rising toward Heaven in the form of a dove. She died on February 10, 543 A.D., 40 days before his death on March 21st. They are both buried in the Cathedral of Montecassino. 
                                    
Benedict will be remembered for
instilling in his followers the belief that a deep love for prayer, work, and
 lifelong learning are truly the means to
 salvation     All welcome to attend.