Diary

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Sun 13th April 2025
Palm ( Passion) Sunday
Diary for the Week
Masses Kilaveney
Mon to Weds 9.30am
Holy Thursday 7.30pm
Good Friday Service 3.00pm
Holy Saturday 8.00pm
Easter Sun 6am & 10am
Confessions for Holy Week: St. Kevins.
Monday 7.30 pm (Penitential rite)
Wed 7.00 & Thurs after mass.
Fri at 5 to 6, and Sat 11 to 12.
Adoration Weds 10.00am –8pm
Stations of the Cross: Weds 7.30pm
Crossbridge Masses
Holy Thursday 7.30pm
Good Friday 5pm
Holy Sat 6.30pm
Easter Sun 9.00am
(Full Details on back page)
Adoration Tues 11.30 am-3pm
Feast Days
Thurs Holy Thursday
Fri Good Friday
Sat Holy Saturday
Sun Easter Sunday
Mass Intentions Kilaveney
Weds Catherine Roberts, Ballybeg
Sun Laurence Kinsella, Toberpatrick
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Welcome to
Kilaveney Parish Website.
Our mission as a parish is to foster a welcoming community of faith and love, by worshiping together, receiving the sacraments and practicing charity to all. Sun 30th March 2025

Tinahely Active Retirement
Fairgreen Resource Centre
Every Tuesday
10.30am—12.30pm
Call in for coffee and a chat.
A variety of courses and activities take place during the year, along with annual outings.
All welcome to join!

“Thy Will be Done”.
Tinahely Community Sports Hall.
Tuesday & Wednesday 22/23rd April 8pm
In preparation for the 2025 ALL IRELAND CONFINED DRAMA
Festival/ Claremorris Drama And Fringe Festival on
Tuesday 29th April & due to popular demand, we are
performing
PRE ALL IRELAND shows
of “Thy Will be Done” by Michael Carey

The Stations of the Cross
During Lent we invite you to attend the Stations of the Cross on
Wednesdays at 7.30pm,

Blessed Carlo Acutis (1991 -2006)
Blessed Carlo Acutis was born on May 3rd 1991, in London to Italian
parents. From a young age, he displayed an extraordinary devotion
and attended Mass daily, and developed a deep love for the Eucharist.
On October 10, 2020, he was beatified by Pope Francis, becoming the first millennial to be declared ‘Blessed’ by the Catholic Church. Blessed Carlo Acutis would be celebrating his 33rd birthday this year on May 3rd, had he not died of leukaemia in 2006, at the age of 15.
He used his computer skills and internet savvy to help his family put together an exhibition on Eucharistic miracles that has gone on to be displayed at thousands of parishes on five
continents.
The Relics of Blessed Carlo, currently on a tour of Ireland, will be coming to
Bunclody Parish Pastoral Centre
From Tuesday 8th to Sunday 13th April
Full details on the back of the newsletter
Little Church
Will hopefully be starting back in the next few weeks
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Parish Envelopes
The Parish envelopes are now available at the back of the Church.
They are in order of
area.
Please take your neighbours/friends envelopes if they are not out at Mass.
Thank you
WOMAN TAKEN IN ADULTERY

Dear friends. In the wonderful Gospel story of the woman accused of adultery, Jesus directs all the characters in the drama towards these three elements: facing our own imperfections, being free and striving to become better people.
The first task is to acknowledge our own imperfections and brokenness. For the mob who wanted to stone the woman that day, it was their blindness of their own faults that Jesus brilliantly exposed with those famous words ‘let the one who is without sin cast the first stone’. How important it is to be humble! Humility starts with me. It is never losing sight of my own brokenness and imperfections and staying grounded in them. St Frances de Sales referred to his ‘beloved imperfections’ because they helped him to be humble, never to judge others and to know his need for God. It is when I lose sight of my own imperfections that I lose sight of reality and live in in fantasy, thinking I am someone I’m not. Humility makes me the same as everyone else. Humility is also concerned with what is right. Pride on the other hand, is concerned with who is right. This was the sin of the mob who wanted to stone the woman. In their eyes, they were right, she was wrong. Jesus turned the question around from who was right to what was right.
Second, being grounded in our imperfection sets us free. There is something wonderfully liberating that comes with honesty. We don’t need to pretend anymore, wear masks but just be ourselves. This is how God wants us to be – honest before him and to know the freedom that comes with that. From the Gospel story, everyone who surrounded the Lord that day went home free: the woman who was forgiven but also the men with the rocks which represent their desire to hurt others with their own self-righteousness but that also weighed them down. Pride weighs us down. Being humble brings with it the gift of freedom and lightness of spirit and soul.
Lastly, the Gospel story calls us to conversion and to strive to become better people, the people God wants us to become. For many of us, we want God’s mercy but deep down we want to stay the same. We are afraid to change and afraid what this might mean. But no one who experiences the mercy of God is ever left unchanged. We see that in the Gospel today. St Irenaeus once wrote that ‘God loves us as we are but so much that we are not left as we are’. We listen to the words of St Paul in the second reading: ‘I am still running…I strain ahead for what is still to come, I am racing for the finish’. To the woman who is forgiven Jesus tells her ‘go away and don’t sin any more’. These are words that call us to strive for holiness, to improve and embark on the adventure to become all who God created us to be.
To be humble, to be free and to strive to be better: three lessons from an inspiring Gospel where God’s mercy meets our humanity and changes everything.
CONFESSIONS

I shall hear confessions after the six pm mass on Saturday evenings
Sin exists, as is evident at every level, from individual human relationships to international wars. We all sin and, therefore, we all need forgiveness. We are not yet the saints that we are called to become through our Baptism. To ignore the reality of sin in our lives, or minimise it, can limit our ability to be in relationship with God. Servant of God, Archbishop Martinez, who was from Mexico said:
“For all sin, grave or light, large or small, wounds God’s divine heart and, since we love him, naturally we should feel great sorrow for having offended him.”
Trocaire

Trocaire
This year, Trocaire’s Lenten campaign focuses our attention on helping people whose lives are being effected negatively by climate change. Children all over the world are being denied an education because of the effects of the climate crisis says Trócaire ,as it launched its annual Trócaire Box appeal for Lent today Ash Wednesday (5th March).
More than 242 million students in 85 countries had their schooling disrupted by extreme climate events in 2024. These events included heatwaves, tropical cyclones, storms, floods and droughts, exacerbating an existing learning challenge in developing countries where children already face barriers to education.
This year, the family featured on the Trocaire box is one from the La Paz community in Guatemala in South America. Guatemala is one of many examples of countries who have contributed least to the climate change crisis and yet who have suffered most. This is a profound injustice that Trocaire seeks our help to address this Lent.
Please support Trocaire’s Lenten campaign by clicking on the link below:
Trócaire – Together for a Just World
