Diary
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June 15th 2025
Sun 15th June 2025
Most Holy Trinity
Diary for the Week
Masses Kilaveney
Mon, Tues, Weds & Fri : 9.30am
Thurs 7.30pm Tridium Mass
Sat Vigil 6.00pm
Sun 11amAdoration Weds 10.00am –8pm
Crossbridge Mass
Sun 9.am
Adoration Tues 11.30 am-3pm
Feast Days
Thurs St Romuald, Bl Dermot O’Hurley & Companions
Fri The Blessed Irish Martyrs
Sat St Aloysius Gonzaga
Sun Corpus Christi
Mass Intentions Kilaveney
Sat Pat Murray, The Togher
Sun Sheila Doyle, Kevin St
Blessing of the Graves
Crossbridge: Sun 29th June 2.30pm
Kilaveney: Sun 13th July 2.30pm
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Other News
St Kevin’s Church Kilaveney
Tridium Novena to Our Lady of
Perpetual Help
Join us for a special Tridium of Prayer-
3 Days in June
Continuing next
Thursday 19th June
Mass with special guest Fr David Vard
Friday 27th June:
Mass with special guest Oisín McConville
Rosary each evening 7.10pm
Mass at 7.30pm
Kilaveney Church
All Welcome
Bring your petitions
Place them in Petition Box in Church
Candlelight prayers
offered for all intentions
Fr David Vard
As a 31-year-old who is an avid Munster rugby fan, is savvy on social media, enjoys travel and dotes on his
nephew and nieces, Fr David Vard is like many others his age.
But as one of the youngest priests in the country who has
featured on the Tommy Tiernan Show, his story diverges from those of other 30-somethings.
Appointed to Portlaoise parish in 2017, he
recently relocated to Stradbally for his new role as administrator
Kilaveney
Graveyard
Volunteers Needed
Can you please help with the mowing and strimming of the graveyard this summer?
If you can help, please
contact: 087 988 7973
Thank you
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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
Saint of the Day
St Aloysius Gonzaga
(9th March 1958 -21st June 1591)
Feast day 21st June
Aloysius Gonzaga was born into a family of
immense wealth and prestige.
As the first-born son of his father, Ferrante, and his mother, Marta, he was in line to inherit his father’s title of Marquis.
His parents did everything in their power to prepare their son for an illustrious future.
Aloysius wanted more than just a comfortable lifestyle and a fat
allowance. While still in Spanish court in Madrid, he informed his
parents that he wanted to join the newly founded religious order called the Society of Jesus.
Aloysius began his studies as a young Jesuit in Rome, devoting his time to prayer and practices of austerity.
But Rome was in the midst of a serious plague epidemic that left the poor and indigent dying in the streets.
The young Jesuit regularly went through the city, doing
whatever he could for the victims, including carrying them to hospitals where he would care for them, washing their wounds and feeding them. Not surprisingly, he contracted the disease himself.
On June 21, 1591, at the age of 23, still six years away from his
priestly ordination, he died.
St. Aloysius Gonzaga, despite his youth, has taught us to search out God in those who need our help and care.
He has taught us to look beyond the external and into the heart and spirit of our fellow humans, where we will find God’s love is alive in everyone.
Quotes attributed to St Aloysius
“It is better to be a child of God than king of the whole world.”
“He who trusts in himself is lost. He who trusts in God can do all things.”
“What does it cost us to say, ‘My God help me!'”
Little Church
Will hopefully be starting back in the next few weeks
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A new commandment I give you.
Todays Gospel: John 13:31-35
To love as Christ Loved
The 3 main characteristics of Christ’s love were:
1. Love is sacrificial
There was no limit to Jesus’ sacrifice because there was no limit to his love for us.If we follow Jesus model of sacrificial love, we will love one another sacrificially.
2. Love is unconditional
Jesus didn’t die for us because we deserved it. Jesus’ love was absolutely unconditional. So despite our weaknesses and failings, we are called to love others unconditionally too. We need to be gentle with each other. Society is becoming so harsh and judgemental; we immediately think the worse of others, we judge, we blame, we accuse. We need to follow in the footsteps of Jesus and treat others with the same gentleness, patience and kindness that God shows us.
3. Love is practical
Love is intensely practical. Think of the hospice nurse caring for the dying patient, the mother clearing up her child’s sick in the middle of the night, the parents who sacrifice their own dreams for the sake of their children. Its all about love, sacrificial, unconditional and practical…worked out in kindness, patience, gentleness and hospitality.
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
