Castleisland Parish
Sunday 29th December 2013
Priest: Fr Dan O’Riordan P.P.
Email: castleisland@dioceseofkerry.ie
Phone: 066-7141241
Priest on Weekend Duty:
Fr Nicholas Flynn
087 967 3521
Recently Deceased:
 Nicholas Foran, Knockeen and
Dingle
 Sheila Brosnan, 5 Desmond’s Ave.
 Michael Pender, Athleague,
Roscommon.
 Dr Dick Shanahan, Farranfore.
Castleisland Mass Intentions:
Sat 28th 6.15pm: Sheila Stack,
Woodview House, Ahaneboy
(Months Mind)
Sun 29th 11.30am: Sonny Reidy,
Knockeen (Anniversary)
Mon 30th 11.00am: Christmas
Bouquet Mass
Tues 31st 11.00am: Christmas
Bouquet Mass
Wed 1st January11.00am: Eileen
Branagan, Church Street (A)
Thurs 2nd January 11.00am:
Christmas Bouquet Mass
Fri 3rdJanuary 11.00am: Jeremiah
and Ellen Nolan, Dromtrasna.
Sat 4th January 6.15pm: Jackie
McCarthy, Camp (1st Anniversary)
also Kitty McCarthy, Camp.
Sun 5th 11.30am: Michael O’Connell,
Killarney Road, also Madge, Paten
Murphy, Tralee Road and deceased
family members.
Monday 6th January Holy Day
Mon 6th Jan 11.30am: Canon
Michael Herlihy, Castleisland
(20th Anniversary)
Mon 6th Jan 7.00pm: Michael
Hickey, Barrack Street (Anniversary)
Note: Weekday evening Masses on
Monday, Tuesday and Friday will
resume on Monday 13th January
Cordal Mass Intentions:
Sun 29th 9.30am: Thomas T. and
Sheila O’Connor, Barness
Sun 5th Jan 9.30am: Timothy J. and
Bridget Brosnan, Glountane (A)
Mon 6th Jan 9.30am: Christmas
Bouquet Mass
Scartaglen Mass Intentions:
Sun 29th 10.30am: Johanna and John
J. Brosnan, Knockreigh and deceased
family members
Mon 30th 7.00pm: Bill O’Connell,
Counguilla (Anniversary)
Fri 3rd January 8.00pm
Anniversaries Mass
 Josephine Galvin, Adriville
 Mary Flynn and deceased family
members, Knockrour West
 Joseph Fitzgerald, Dromulton and
Malaysia
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Denny and Nora Herlihy, Direen
Martin O’Leary, Coolnageragh
John O’Connor, Dromulton
Francie Davy and Nora O’Connor,
Dromulton
Sun 5th Jan 10.30am: Mary Flynn,
Knockrour West and deceased family
members.
Mon 6th Jan 10.30am: Tom Walsh,
Knockreigh (Anniversary)
Scartaglen Offertory Collectors for
January: Pat Sullivan and John
Walsh, Counguilla
Castleisland Parish Office will
reopen on Thursday 2nd January.
Public Talk the Diocese of Kerry
will host a public talk by Mary Kenny
in The Gleneagle Hotel, Muckross
Road, Killarney on Wednesday
January 8th 2014, beginning at 8.00
pm. Mary Kenny is a well-known
journalist. There is no charge for the
talk and all are welcome
Blood Donor Clinic in Castleisland
Community Centre on Wednesday 8th
and Thursday 9th January. Time:
6.00pm to 9.00pm
Muire Gan Smál School reopening
on Tuesday 7th January
Bereavement Group: Meeting will
resume on Thursday 9th January
Vocations 5th January 2014. “Man’s
highest life does not involve selfexpression but self-sacrifice”
(R. H. Benson).I God calling you to
be a Priest? Contact Vocations
Director. Fr. Liam Lovell
liam.lovell@yahoo.ieMob; 087-1640967
Fr Dan and staff would like to
wish you and yours a very happy
and holy New Year
Castleisland Parish News Magazine
2013
Still available in all Churches in the
Parish
Castleisland Parish Mission
22nd to 28thFebruary 2014
You are invited to help with our
Parish Mission.
Meeting on Monday 20th January
at 7.30pm
Venue: the River Island Hotel
Please support your Parish Mission
Parish Office 066 7141241
Saturday/Sunday Collections last
weekend amounted to: Envelope
collections €3,309.00 Offertory
collections €947.00. Thank you for
your generous support of the parish
Church Gate Collection: Diocesan
collection next weekend in aid of
Needs of the Holy Land
Castleisland Parish Newsletter
online: at www.dioceseofkerry.ie
Start your Sunday morning with
Horizons on Radio Kerry at 9.00am
Spread the word and spread the
Christian message. If you feel there is
someone with something to contribute
to Horizons from your area contact:
maryfagan@dioceseofkerry.ie.
Exposition of the Blessed
Sacrament: Each Friday in
Castleisland Parish Church (prayer
room) from 11.30am to 6.45pm and
Scartaglen Church: On Monday
from 10.00am to 9.00pm.
Confessions in Castleisland Parish
Church: will take place after the
11.00am Mass on Friday mornings
and after the 6.15pm Vigil Mass on
Saturday evenings
Bereavement Group: Meeting 2nd
Thursday of each month at NEKD
building, near to An Riocht, from
7.00pm to 9.00pm. Call 087 609 2618
12th January 2014.
Baptism of the Lord.
“After their Baptism, Christians
walk in newness of life, the life of
the new creation, the life of the age
to come” (Alan Richardson)
Is God calling you to be a Priest?
Contact Vocations Director. Fr.
Liam Lovell.
liam.lovell@yahoo.ie
Mob;
087-1640967
19th January 2014.
World day for Migrants and
Refugees.
“The test of a good preacher is that
the congregation goes away saying
NOT “What a lovely sermon” BUT
“I will do something”
(St Francis de Sales)
Is God calling you to be a Priest?
Contact Vocations Director. Fr.
Liam Lovell.
liam.lovell@yahoo.ie
Mob; 087-1640967
26th January 2014.
Catholic Schools Week.
“No ray of light can shine if severed
from its source; without my inner
light – I lose my course”
(Angelus Silesius)
Is God calling you to be a Priest?
Contact Vocations Director. Fr.
Liam Lovell.
liam.lovell@yahoo.ie
Mob; 087-1640967