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Best of Luck to all our Choir Members

  

  

Last  Choir Summer Workshop.

The Next Choir Workshop takes place on  Saturday 6thSeptember, in Kilmore Church, starting promptly at 11am. We are so proud of all our church choirs and music teams here in our parish. We have something unique, and we should celebrate it well. The next workshop will focus on more new music and so If you are thinking of joining the choir or are curious and would like to take part in this great opportunity -simply speak to the music team or to any member of the choir. Be sure to book your place soon.

Best of Luck to Helena for the week ahead.

  

Helena Murray fundraising for Cycle Against Suicide in Mizen to Malin – Cycle of Hope 2025

Thank you for visiting my fundraising page. Your support is really appreciated. If you can help me to promote this page, I would greatly appreciate it. CAS is working to raise awareness, reduce stigma and encourages supportive conservation helping to give HOPE to those who are struggling. Life is particularly challenging at the moment also many struggle daily with their mental health. I ve chosen to do the Cycle of Hope this year as I and other family members have and continue to fight against anxiety and depression. I signed up to do the M2M cycle just after my dad's 2nd anniversary and the cycle takes place just before my mam s 3rd anniversary. I want to honour their memory and continue to remind myself that we can survive hard times. I will turn 50 in October and as someone who battles demons daily I wanted to do something impactful. By supporting my fundraiser for CAS your are supporting this charities commitment through education, awareness and support to weave suicide prevention into the very fabric of our communities. They run programmes in schools, communities and workplaces and encourage those struggling to share their struggles. It's ok not to feel ok and it's definitely ok to ask for help. Together we can help break the cycle. Thanks again for your support.


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Best of Luck to all our Choir Members

  

  

 The Parish Pilgrimage to Our Lady’s Island for the combined areas of Kilmore and Piercestown will take place on Friday 5th September                               with Mass at 3pm.                                                      We would like to invite all choir members  who are available to please come along on the day. We are happy to announce that we are also running a minibus on the day leaving Kilmore at 1pm. Anyone who wishes to avail of this service, please contact the Parish Office as soon as possible as seats are limited.  

Diocesan Appointments and Retirements 2025

  

Diocesan Appointments and Retirements in the Diocese of Ferns,
Bishop Ger Nash has announced new appointments in the Diocese of Ferns, effective Monday, September 15th, 2025.

Retiring Priests:

Msgr Denis Lennon, Co-PP Clonard

Fr Jim Finn, Co-PP Crossabeg/Ballymurn

Fr Ray Gahan, Co-PP Kilaveney

Fr Lar O’Connor, Co-PP Bunclody

Fr Paddy Cushen, Co-PP Ferns Bunclody (will remain in Ferns to assist)

New Appointments and Changes:

Fr Roger O’Neill becomes Director of Vocations and Youth Ministry and part-time Diocesan Secretary, while pastoral care of Cushinstown/Newbawn will be handled by area priests.

Fr Odhrán Furlong moves from hospital chaplaincy to Co-PP in New Ross.

Fr Brian Whelan transfers to Ferns Bunclody Kilrush as Co-PP, resident in Ferns.

Fr David Murphy returns from Army Chaplaincy to Co-PP in Annacurra, Carnew Kilanerin, resident in Tinahely.

Fr John Byrne, Co-PP in Ferns Bunclody Kilrush, will be resident in Bunclody.

Fr Eamon Salmon, newly ordained, will serve as chaplain in Wexford General Hospital.

Pastoral Care Notes:

Ballymurn/Crossabeg and Clonard parishes will be managed by the relevant pastoral area priests.

Moderators for the Ferns Bunclody and New Ross/Cushinstown/Adamstown/Newbawn pastoral areas will be appointed in the coming weeks.

Last Minute Offer - Two seats have just become available -contact the Office immediately if you wish to come - Our Mystery Tour with Kilmore Scope is planning an exciting overnight mystery tour, in conjunction with the HSE Lottery Funds for this special Tour-and we would ask all those who have book


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'CARRY THIS JUBILEE OF HOPE HOME WITH YOU!'

 


MESSAGE OF POPE LEO FOR WORLD DAY OF PRAYER FOR CREATION

 

 

Dear Brothers and Sisters!

The theme of this World Day of Prayer for the Care of Creation, chosen by our beloved Pope Francis, is “Seeds of Peace and Hope”. On the tenth anniversary of the establishment of this Day of Prayer, which coincided with the publication of the Encyclical Laudato Si’, we find ourselves celebrating the present Jubilee as “Pilgrims of Hope.” This year’s theme thus appears most timely. 

In proclaiming the Kingdom of God, Jesus often used the image of the seed. As the time of his Passion drew near, he applied that image to himself, comparing himself to the grain of wheat that must die in order to bear fruit (cf. Jn 12:24). Seeds are buried in the earth, and there, to our wonder, life springs up, even in the most unexpected places, pointing to the promise of new beginnings. We can think, for example, of flowers springing up on our roadsides from seeds that landed up there almost by chance. As those flowers grow, they brighten the gray tarmac and even manage to break through its hard surface.

In Christ, we too are seeds, and indeed, “seeds of peace and hope.” The prophet Isaiah tells us that the Spirit of God can make an arid and parched desert into a garden, a place of rest and serenity. In his words, “a spirit from on high will be poured out on us, and the wilderness will become a fruitful field, and the fruitful field a forest. Then justice will dwell in the wilderness, and righteousness abide in the fruitful field. The work of righteousness will be peace, and the work of righteousness, quietness and trust forever. My people will abide in a peaceful habitation, in secure dwellings, and in quiet resting places” (Is 32:15-18).

These words of the prophet will accompany the “Season of Creation,” an ecumenical initiative to be celebrated from 1 September to 4 October 2025. They remind us that, together with prayer, determination and concrete actions are necessary if this “caress of God” is to become visible to our world (cf. Laudato Si’, 84). The prophet contrasts justice and law with the desolation of the desert. His message is extraordinarily timely, given the evidence in various parts of the world that our earth is being ravaged. On all sides, injustice, violations of international law and the rights of peoples, grave inequalities and the greed that fuels them are spawning deforestation, pollution and the loss of biodiversity. Extreme natural phenomena caused by climate changes provoked by human activity are growing in intensity and frequency (cf. Laudato Deum, 5), to say nothing of the medium and long-term effects of the human and ecological devastation being wrought by armed conflicts.

As yet, we seem incapable of recognizing that the destruction of nature does not affect everyone in the same way. When justice and peace are trampled underfoot, those who are most hurt are the poor, the marginalized and the excluded. The suffering of indigenous communities is emblematic in this regard.

That is not all. Nature itself is reduced at times to a bargaining chip, a commodity to be bartered for economic or political gain. As a result, God’s creation turns into a battleground for the control of vital resources. We see this in agricultural areas and forests peppered with landmines, “scorched earth” policies, [1] conflicts over water sources, and the unequal distribution of raw materials, which penalizes the poorer nations and undermines social stability itself.

These various wounds are the effect of sin. This is surely not what God had in mind when he entrusted the earth to the men and women whom he created in his image (cf. Gen 1:24-29). The Bible provides no justification for us to exercise “tyranny over creation” (Laudato Si’, 200). On the contrary, “the biblical texts are to be read in their context, with an appropriate hermeneutic, recognizing that they tell us to ‘till and keep’ the garden of the world [cf. Gen 2:15]. ‘Tilling’ refers to cultivating, ploughing or working, while ‘keeping’ means caring, protecting, overseeing and preserving. This implies a relationship of mutual responsibility between human beings and nature” (ibid., 67).

Environmental justice – implicitly proclaimed by the prophets – can no longer be regarded as an abstract concept or a distant goal. It is an urgent need that involves much more than simply protecting the environment. For it is a matter of justice – social, economic and human. For believers it is also a duty born of faith, since the universe reflects the face of Jesus Christ, in whom all things were created and redeemed. In a world where the most vulnerable of our brothers and sisters are the first to suffer the devastating effects of climate change, deforestation and pollution, care for creation becomes an expression of our faith and humanity.

Now is the time to follow words with deeds. “Living our vocation to be protectors of God’s handiwork is essential to a life of virtue; it is not an optional or a secondary aspect of our Christian experience” (Laudato Si’, 217). By working with love and perseverance, we can sow many seeds of justice and thus contribute to the growth of peace and the renewal of hope. It may well take years for this plant to bear its first fruits, years that, for their part, involve an entire ecosystem made up of continuity, fidelity, cooperation and love, especially if that love mirrors the Lord’s own self-sacrificing Love.

Among the Church’s initiatives that are like seeds sown in this field, I would mention the Borgo Laudato Si’ project that Pope Francis bequeathed to us at Castel Gandolfo. It is a seed that promises to bear fruits of justice and peace, and an educational project in integral ecology that can serve as an example of how people can live, work and build community by applying the principles of the Encyclical Laudato Si’.

I pray that Almighty God will send us in abundance his “Spirit from on high” (Is 32:15), so that these seeds, and others like them, may bring forth an abundant harvest of peace and hope.

The Encyclical Laudato Si’ has now guided the Catholic Church and many people of good will for ten years. May it continue to inspire us and may integral ecology be increasingly accepted as the right path to follow. In this way, seeds of hope will multiply, to be “tilled and kept” by the grace of our great and unfailing Hope, who is the risen Christ. In his name, I offer all of you my blessing.

From the Vatican, 30 June 2025

FAITH EXPRESSION IN TRADITIONAL IRISH HYMNS AND SONGS

 

Máel Ísu Ua Brolcháin was the Abbot of Iona, a cleric, a poet, and a teacher from Donegal. He was described in the Annals of Ulster as “being eminent in wisdom and piety and poetry”. Those attributes are captured pithily in his hymn which has endured and is still sung almost a thousand years after Ua Brolcháin died in 1086.

That hymn is, of course, Deus Meus, the much-loved song of praise which is also an invocation, a plea for God’s help in realising the gift of faith. It is a macaronic hymn, written in Latin and Irish.

Ancient as Deus Meus is, older macaronic hymns are on record, such as that written by Colman Ó Cluasaigh, head master of the renowned seminary founded by St Finbar – Naomh Fionnbarra - in Cork who wrote a hymn of 27 stanzas in the 7th century also in Latin and Irish.

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Welcome Fr Eamonn Salmon to the Diocese of Ferns

  

Short Extract from  Bishop Ger’s homily for the 

Ordination of Eamonn Salmon
Dear Friends, it is a great privilege to be here this afternoon to confer on Eamonn the Sacrament of Priesthood, to welcome him as he joins us who are ordained and takes up the unique role of service to the people of God that priesthood is. Eamonn I welcome you sincerely not just to this sacred moment but to membership of a family, the family of the priests and deacons of the Diocese of Ferns. Eamon, I welcome your family who together with your late wife Antoinette was your first vocation. I welcome your sons, Brian, Edward, Terence, your daughter Gillian, your grandchildren who are here with us, Ralf, Alex and Heidi and family and friends who have travelled from Europe and the USA.
Eamonn, we thank you for your generosity of spirit and faith which encouraged you to take this path to priesthood after the death of Antoinette. It is a measure of your awareness that all lives are given to be lives of service of God and of others and by taking the road to priesthood, you affirmed your continued commitment to a life of service begun in marriage and family life and now continued in priesthood. 

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May He Rest in Peace Brother Kevin.


President Michael D. Higgins has led tributes to Brother Kevin Crowley of the Capuchin Franciscans, who passed away yesterday at the age of 90. The order said that Br Kevin, who devoted over five decades to serving the poor and marginalised, died at Mount Desert Nursing Home in his home county of Cork.

He founded the Capuchin Day Centre, a homeless service in Dublin, in 1969, which was visited by Pope Francis in 2018. Br Kevin’s funeral Mass will be held at St Mary of the Angels on Church Street in Dublin at 11 am on Saturday 5th of July.

‘In 1969, he founded the Capuchin Day Centre, where he worked selflessly and with good humour for 53 years, providing help to vulnerable people. He truly lived the gospel. His compassion, devotion, and non-judgmental approach to helping the marginalised was unwavering. May he Rest in Peace

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