SAINT PIO Devotions were due to
take place on this Tuesday 15th March. at 7pm in Listowel
Church, starting with the Rosary, Mass and Benediction. Prayers
will also be said for the forthcoming beatification of Pope
John II.
MEDJUGORJE Prayer Meeting was due to be held on Monday 14th
March at St. Patrick’s Hall, Listowel at 7.00pm.
COMMUNITY Centre Knockanure; Aerobics and Body Conditioning
Class on Wed. from 8pm to 9pm, running for 8 weeks, details from
Maggie at 087 9866 533.
Social Day was due to be held at Knockanure Centre on Monday
14th March. Table Top and Car boot Sale at Knockanure on Sunday
March 20th between Noon and 4pm, book with 068 49799 or 087 7528
626.
SCOIL Chorp Chríost Parents Association, Knockanure will be
holding a Church Gate Collection at Knockanure on Sunday, March
20th. Your support would be greatly appreciated.
QUIZ: Scoil Chorp Chríost Parents’ Association, Knockanure held
a Pub Quiz in Flynn’s Bar, Knockanure on March 4th. To all who
attended, occupied tables and bought raffle tickets, we wish to
thank you. Thanks to the School teachers for supplying questions
and keeping score. Thanks ,also, to Anne and Gerry Woods for
accommodating us and supplying amplification, Marian Hall,
Moyvane for chairs, Scoil Chorp Chríost for tables and Flynn’s
Bar and Enda Murphy, Taxi for extra spot prizes. Winning team
were Brendan Keane, Bunagara, Lily and Davey Morris, Coilbee
& Margaret McCarthy, Coilbee. who very kindly donated
winnings to Parents Association. Runners up following Tie
breaker round were Jeremy Gould, Fiona Gould, Liz Coleman,
Yvonne Caplice, Breda Caplice, Michelle Hennessy, & Ca
O’Regan.
QUIZ: Kerry Credit Union teams who will represent Chapter 23 at
R.D.S. Dublin, on Sunday 3rd April 2011.Competition A – Under
11, Lissivigeen N.S. Killarney and Scoil Lios Teilic N.S,
Tralee ; Competition B – Under 13 Sliabh a’Mhadra N.S.
Ballyduff and Scoil Naomh Eoin Baiste Lispole
IRISH: The Department of Community, Equality and Gaeltacht
Affairs funds up to ten accommodation scholarships each year to
second level students to attend Colaiste Naomh Eoin on Inis
Meain.
PRESCHOOL: Wishing Tree Preschool Tarbert, now enrolling for
September 2011.Free ECCE places available, also offering a
playgroup for younger children on Wednesday afternoons.
(Qualifications: Fetac Level 5, Fetac Level 6, Special needs,
Child psychology, Contact Julie Finucane 087 9940951 for further
details.
LOTTO: Knockanure GAA Lotto Results for 11th March 2011, numbers
drawn were 13-19-26 and 28, no winner of E7,400 Jackpot .Lucky
Dips went to; Aaron Whyte, Lisaniskea;
Dolly Stack, Listowel; Jackie McMahon, Lisaniskea;
Ann O Connor, Keylod; Con Scanlon, Glenoe; Seanie Sweeney,
Lisaniskea; Bar prize Edward McCarthy; Next Weeks Jackpot E7,500
SUPPORT: Kerry Adolescent Counselling Service is starting a
bereavement support group for young people aged 15 -25 years.
The first session will take place on Friday, March 25th at their
office in Balloonagh. Contact KACS on 066 7181333
PHARMACEUTICAL Centre; On March 15th & 16th, a delegation
of potential investors in this project will be visiting Tralee.
A drug for high-risk pregnant women costing about $20 per
injection till now in the US. In a week, the price shoots up to
$1,500 a dose due to Government regulations.
CANCER Support Group Will launch Daffodil Day in Listowel Arms
Hotel on Wednesday 16th at 8pm. Volunteers welcome.
COMPLIANT: European Tire and Rubber Manufacturers’ Association,
March 8th 2011 announced findings after testing tires sold in
the EU for the use of high-PAH oils. Eleven percent of tested
tires were non-compliant.
MEPs got and extra monthly allowance of E1,500 recently for
extra work and they got the same amount last year also for extra
work, they must have lost touch with the present situation.
EU: The world is in turmoil due to high food prices, the EU have
capacity to immediately increase milk and other food products,
by removing milk quota restrictions and diverting crops being
used for bio fuel to food. Lifting of quota restrictions in
Ireland will help us pay our national debt. The policy makers
allowed the banks to get out of hand, now is their chance to
give leadership in the food sector.
COURSE: A 35 week Fetac accredited full time course in radio
production is planned to commence in Abbeyfeale shortly. For
further details contact 068 32444. Tommy Rivers has Country and
Western music every Saturday night from 8pm to 10pm on West
Limerick 102fm
Garden class in Abbeyfeale will run from Wednesday, March 23rd
and each Wednesday following from 7 to 9pm. There are 30 places
available, 20 for new students and 10 for 2nd. Years, book with
087 6866450.
NEWS: 07 March 2011 news report that More than 20,000 Christians
from all over Pakistan went to a Village in the Faisalabad
Diocese for the funeral of Shahbaz Bhatti, Pakistan’s
assassinated minister for minorities.
On the same day A mob of nearly four thousand Muslims attacked
Coptic homes 30 km from Cairo, and burned the Church of St.
Mina and St. George.
ST JOHN’S: Weds 16th, The Water Tower Bucket Boys, four piece
group from Portland, Oregon, on guitar, mandolin, fiddle,
harmonica and banjo. Fri 18th ,Ceoltóirí Sliábh Luachra, With 22
musicians, singers and dancers, led by Jack Roache;
Weds 23rd, Kerry School of Music, Featuring students from The
Listowel Centre. Directed by Aidan O’ Carroll; Thurs 24th,Niall
Teague & The Fast Company, Multi instrumentalist Niall
is joined by Pádraic Joyce, Kelvin Busher, Javi Mula, Una Mc
Loughlainn and Maidgh O hEanaigh, details from 068 22566.
HISTORY lecture at Tralee Library on March 19th at 3pm with Dr.
Declan Downey.
SIAMSA: Michael Collins the Musical runs from 15th to 20th
March, more from 066 7123055.
St. Patrick’s Day Parade 2011 in Listowel, start at the earlier
time of 12.30pm. Seán Kelly MEP will be a special guest for the
occasion, contact, Matt at 068 21420 or Christy 087 7477372;
Ceili at the Arms Hotel on March 16th;ST PATRICK’S Day Mass in
Knockanure and Moyvane same time as Sundays. Parade 2011 in
Listowel, start at the earlier time of 12.30pm. Seán Kelly MEP
will be a special guest for the occasion, contact, Matt at 068
21420 or Christy 087 7477372; Ceili at the Arms Hotel on March
16th; Abbeyfeale Parade will leave the convent yard at 4pm on St
Patrick’s Day led by the Rathkeale Brass Band; West Limerick Set
Dancing Club have a Ceili at the Devon Hotel on St Patrick’s
night at 9.30pm, they are also having a Ceili at the Convent
Hall in Abbeyfeale on Sunday March 20th at 4pm; Limerick London
Association will hold a St Patrick’s Dinner Dance on Saturday
March 19th at the Crown Moran Hotel, Cricklewood, Broadway.
Local man Mayor of Kerry Pat Leahy is going to New York for St
Patrick’s Day.
EVENTS: Irish language and cultural festival runs until 17th of
March; No cattle sale at Listowel Mart on St Patrick’s Day,
General Sale on Friday March 18th; Moyvane Ladies Football
registration at the Marian Hall on Monday March 21st at 8.30pm;
The monthly car boot sale in aid of WL 102fm will take place on
Sunday, March 20th at the Community Centre, NCW. Gates open
7.30am, further information Marian 087 6866450; Afternoon of
prayer at Scartaglen Church at 2.45pm on Sunday March 20th;
Racing, Cheltenham continues till March 18th and Cork racing on
20th; Open Day at Clonakilty Agricultural College on Tuesday
March 22nd at 11am, more from 023 8832 500; Seanchai Centre have
an exhibition by Bob Scott during March; Last week we had MS
Awareness Week and Tree Week; Energy Show in the RDS on 30-31
March, details from SEAI;
FULL Moon on March 19th. ESO have recently used several
telescopes to discover and measure the distance to the most
remote mature cluster of galaxies yet found.
TRAIL: At 3pm on St. Patrick’s Day a walk will set out from the
Old Station (now the Palatine Centre),Rathkeale, to travel over
the newly surfaced section of the old railway line to Clounagh,
near Reens Pike. The return trip is 6 miles and refreshments
will be provided at journey’s end. www.southerntrail.net
COURSE will run one evening each week in St. Ita’s Hospital,
Newcastle West for home carers, more from 061 469484.
HELP: The Recovery Haven based in Tralee offers support for
those who have finished cancer treatment. For further details
contact 066 7192122 or email [email protected].
HP: Instalment buying survey for year 1938; Mechanically
propelled vehicles bought, 4,400, value £778,200; Cycles bought
17,200, value £106,800;Items of furniture 23, 400 bought, value
£285,300;Radio Sets 7,500; Musical instruments bought 1,400,
value £26,900. Credit Terms ranged from 10% to 40%, some paid
80% to 100%. Minister for Industry and Commerce said in the Dail
that his Department had no complaints about hire purchase and he
did not intend to regulate the trade.
DIARY: Thomas Crosfield wrote in his diary on March 17th 1628
about the Prince and Peers going to Parliament in this order.
First the trumpeters, then the Guard in scarlet, then the four
masters of the Chancery in black, following each other were
Barons, Judges, Bishops, Viscounts, Earls, King Charles1, Duke
of Buckingham and the Earl of Holland. The Kings speech gave the
reason for calling parliament was to defend the Kingdom against
the Kings of Spain and France and redress grievances in the
land. Preacher at Parliament Bishop Laud tried to keep unity in
the Bond of Peace.
Beatrix Potter aged 16 wrote in her diary on 16th March 1883,
what will be blown up next, an attempt was made to bow up a
Government Office in Parliament Street last night, not much
damage was done. The Times office attack also failed, Times
recent leading article stated that the Irish had got enough and
more than enough and need ask for no more.
QUAKE: Experts claim that quake shifted the planet on its axis
by nearly 4 inches. The earthquake and tsunami on March 11th in
Japan is near the site of an apparition in which the Blessed
Virgin of Akita warned about a worldwide disaster.
STUDY: new psychology study shows that people who feel loved and
accepted by others place lower monetary values on material
possessions than folks who feel insecure and unloved.
SOME Christians try to go to heaven alone, in solitude. But
believers are not compared to bears or lions or other animals
that wander alone. Those who belong to Christ are sheep in this
respect, that they love to get together. Sheep go in flocks, and
so do God’s people, says Charles Haddon Spurgeon.
NIGHT vigil at Knock on Thursday, March 24th, the eve of the
Annunciation of the Lord, details 068 31232.
PILGRIMAGE to Rome for Beatification of Pope John Paul on 29th
April, details from 087 2618 412.
LOURDES 2011. Eucharistic Adoration Pilgrimage Retreats in
Lourdes, choice of dates from May to Sept. Cost E450.
Assistants, helpers, volunteers, cooks, priests etc all very
welcome. Further details from Máire Smye on 023 88 33273 or by
writing to: CLM HQ, South Square, Clonakilty, Co. Cork.
BIG Crowd attended Ash Wednesday Mass in Knockanure, Fr Lucid
assisted by Fr O Callaghan celebrated mass and distributed
ashes.
ADORATION: Moyvane Sun. 4.00pm to 5.00pm, Wed. 10.00am to
7.00pm and Knockanure Tues. 10.00am to 6.00pm; Listowel on
Tuesdays and Wednesdays after 10.30am Mass till 7pm. Adoration
Abbeyfeale each evening Monday to Friday from 6-8pm, perpetual
Adoration began on Monday, March 14, Rosary each evening at
7.30pm. Stations of the Cross each Friday during Lent after 10am
Mass.
MEDITATION: Fr. Donagh O’Shea OP is facilitating ‘Listening To
Silence’ : Organised by Kerry Christian Meditation groups on
19th March 10am- 4pm at the Parish Centre, St. Brendan’s,
Tralee.
DEATH took place on March 6th 2011 of Frank Buckles, at his home
in Charles Town, W. Va. he drove an American Army ambulance in
France in 1918, Frank was aged 110 .
ANNIVERSARIES: Margaret Horgan, Jimmy Beaton, Mary Ann Collins,
Sr. Stanislaus Kennelly, Maureen Kinnane, Dan Joe Murphy, Fr
John Beasley, Johnny Stack, Mairead Lyons, John Flaherty, Mossie
O Connor, Br. Canice Collins, Tom Daly, Margaret O Connor,
Margaret Hanrahan, Helen Kennelly, Dan Joe Leahy, Mass on Tues
15th Knockanure at 7.30pm with the Stations of the Cross after
Mass; Mass on Wed 16th Vigil for St. Patrick’s Day 7.30pm Joseph
Foley & the deceased members of the Foley Family; Mass on
Thurs. 17th St Patrick’s Day is a Holy Day of Obligation, Mass
at10.00am in Knockanure for Kitty & Mossie Flaherty and the
11.00am Mass in Moyvane is for Nora & Joseph O’Connor &
Pascal O’Rourke;
Mass on Fri. 18th at 7.30pm for John Holly; Mass on Sat. 19th
7.30pm for Kitty & Willie Shine; Mass on Sun. 20th at
10.00am for Patrick & Margaret O’Connor, Keylod an the
11.00am Mass in Moyvane is for Nora & Michael Roche, Glin
Road.
DEATH took place on February 22nd 2011 of Monsignor James
Pierce, at Seal Beach, California, he was born in 1918 at
Ballinorig House Tralee to Dan Pierce and Mary Diggin, and he
was eldest of eight children. His was predeceased by siblings,
Pat, Sr. Eileen Baptist, Sr. Rosario, Maurice and Margaret. His
brother Fr Tom and Dan survive him. Fr James was ordained in
June 1944 and spent 66 years serving in America he had an Uncle
Monsignor Patrick Pierce who was a Pastor at Oceanside Parish in
Los Angeles. Fr James Pierce was a great GAA sportsman. ,
Requiem Mass in St. John’s Church Tralee on Saturday, March 19th
at 12 noon. Interment afterwards in St John’s Church grounds.
TROCAIRE Boxes are available at every church at present.
February 1975 Trocaire expected to collect between a quarter and
half a million pounds for their activities.
DEACON: The Diocese of Kerry is continuing to invite applicants
for the Permanent Diaconate. If you are a single man, age
25-55, or a married man, age 35-55 , please contact Fr Eoin
Mangan at 087 2401201.
SISTERS of the Medical Mission of Mary will address all Masses
in Listowel this weekend the 19th & 20th March.
Confessions before the Vigil Mass on Saturdays.
READERS: Vigil, Michelle Corridan and Vigil for 17th March
Bridget McCarthy; 11.00am Paul & Anthony Kiely; Knockanure
20th March Mary Carmody & Mary Fitzgerald
CHY 2 Certs; Parishioners who contribute a total of E250 or more
to the Church will receive a CHY 2 please complete them.
Knockanure Notes – 13th March, 2011
March 13, 2011