Dear Reader,

How many of us on a daily basis hear at the next junction turn left” and continue straight ahead? Are we depending on GPS to direct us through life? Is this our modern day shepherd?

In today’s readings we hear how God leads and cares for us, and how we are to lead and care for others in God’s flock. However, before we can be good shepherds we must be the sheep who follow the Shepherd’s voice. If we doubt ourselves, our capabilities or let all the stresses and strains of life take over, can we still hear His voice or have we have gone astray?

Today we pray that we hear God’s voice and that some of us will hear the calling to become new shepherds and to continue to help and guide people in their daily lives.

On this 51st World Day of Prayer for Vocations, we are especially asked to pray that the Church may be provided with the leaders needed to do its work of spreading the Word of God. “A vocation is a fruit that ripens in a well cultivated field of mutual love that becomes mutual service, in the context of an authentic ecclesial life. No vocation is born of itself or lives for itself. A vocation flows from the heart of God and blossoms in the good soil of faithful people, in the experience of fraternal love” Pope Francis

Contact Details:

Fr Liam Rigney Parish Priest

Tel: 0872607377

Fr Paul Kelly, C.C. Tel: 0872463876

Parish Office Martina Kennedy

Tel: 6293018

Mass times (Maynooth)

Saturday Evening: 19:00 (The Folk Group

every 2nd week)

Sunday 08:45, 10:00(Family Mass Group), 11:30 (Choir) 13:00, 18:00

(Maynooth Gospel Choir 1st Sunday of the Month)

(Young People’s Mass 2nd

Sunday of the Month)

(Ladychapel) Sunday 10:00 (Adult

Choir) Live streaming available

@ www.maynoothparish.org

maynoothparishoffice @eircom.net

  For young men and women; That God may give them the gift of understanding to discern their service in the Church, the priesthood, diaconate, or consecrated life; And for the gift of courage to follow His call.

Queen of Heaven, rejoice. Alleluia For He Whom Thou was worthy to bear, Alleluia Has risen as He promised. Alleluia Pray for us to God. Alleluia Rejoice and be glad, O Virgin Mary. Alleluia For the Lord has risen indeed. Alleluia Let us pray, O God, Who gave joy to the world through the resurrection of Thy Son, Our Lord Jesus Christ, grant, we beseech Thee, that through the intercession of the Blessed Virgin Mary, His Mother, we may attain the joys of eternal salvation. Through the same Christ, our Lord. Amen.

For our younger readers to colour!

Parish Newsletter St Mary’s & Ladychapel, Maynooth

11 May, 2014  

Parish Newsletter • The next edition of the newsletter will be published on 24/25 May. Items for inclusion must be

sent to the Secretary at maynoothparishnewsletter@gmail.com before Saturday 17 May  • The committee reserves the right to edit submissions due to space  

 

 

Thought for the day! What is distinctive about our faith as Christians? We do not believe in a system of ideas or even in a higher ethics: we believe in a person, who gives life “a new horizon and a decisive direction” (Benedict XVI)

Trocaire  Boxes  

 

 

Sunday 11 May Irish Wheelchair Association – Church Gate Collection will take place at all Masses.

Sunday 11 May Young Peoples’ Mass in St. Mary’s Church at 18:00.

Monday 12 May Parish Finance Committee Meeting in Parochial House at 20:00.

Saturday 17 May First Holy Communion for the Girls from the Presentation Girls’ School in St. Mary’s Church at 11:00.

Saturday 17 May In Caelo Choir, Newbridge will be singing at the Saturday evening Mass at 19:00.

Sunday 18 May Maynooth Post Primary 10K Run at 10:30.

Wednesday 21 May

Meeting of St. Joseph’s Young Priests Society in the Parochial House at 20:00.

Saturday 24 May First Holy Communion for the Boys and Girls from Gaelscoil Ui Fhiaich in St. Mary’s Church at 11:00.

Sunday 25 May First Holy Communion for the Boys and Girls from Educate Together in St. Mary’s Church at 10:00.

Recent Deaths  We pray for the repose of the souls of:

Padraig Kearney (Carton Court) who died on 23 April.

Mary Doyle (Old Greenfield) who died on the 26 April.

Ita O’Shea (Ennis) who died on 26 April and

Michael Quinn (Kilcock) who died on the 27 April.  

 

Maynooth Tidy Towns Church Gate Collection The Maynooth Tidy Towns Church Gate Collection will take place on the weekend of 24/25 May.

CEMETERY SUNDAY AT LARAGHBRYAN

The Annual Mass and Blessing of Graves

will take place at Laraghbryan Cemetery

on Sunday 15 June at 3.00 p.m.

 

  First Holy Communions Congratulations to the Boys from St. Mary’s Boys’ National School who received their First Holy Communion on Saturday 11 May. The Girls from the Presentation Girls’ School will receive their First Holy Communion on Saturday 17 May. Boys and Girls from Gaelscoil Ui Fhiach on the 24 May and Boys and Girls from Educate Together on Sunday 25 May.

 

Official Opening of Gaelscoil Uí Fhiaich

We congratulate Gaelscoil Ui Fhiach on the official opening of their new school which will take place on the 16 May.

 

 

The  St.  Vincent  de  Paul  Society  -­‐  Sunshine  Fund  thank  all  the  Parishioners  of  Maynooth  who  contributed  to  their  recent  Church  Gate  Collection  on  Palm  Sunday  which  amounted  to  €1,810.72  

 

 

New Parish Family Envelopes

The new boxes of Family Envelopes will be available at the back of the Church after Mass. If you are presently contributing or would like to contribute please collect your box from Helen. If you would prefer to contribute by Standing Order Helen will provide you with a Standing Order Form.