TWENTY-FIFTH SUNDAY OF THE YEAR

Morning Masses

• Glengoole: each morning at 9.30am.
• Gortnahoe: each morning at 9.30am.

Collection
The October Collection for the Archbishop and priests of the diocese will be taken up next week-end. We ask you to give what you have been requested. Envelopes were distributed at the beginning of the year. We ask the usual collectors to kindly attend.

Millennium Family Resource Centre

Twenty-eight women photographed at the Millennium Family Resource Centre in Glengoole, where they are taking part in a FAS 'Services Training Programme'. Included are Liam O'Brien, SEO FÁS, Clare Cashman, Project Manager, Sr Patricia Wall, Voluntary Management, Alice Power and Josephine Rafter, Course Co-Ordinators.

FAS launch 'Services Training Programme' in the Millennium Family Resource Centre. A forty-week FETAC accredited part-time course runs from the 18th September 2006 to 7th July 2007. This is the third year that FAS has supported this programme in the Slieveardagh area. To-date over 50 people have taken part in the course and many have gone on to further education, training and employment.

The aim of the training course is to provide skills based educational programme designed to meet the needs of people living in a rural area. The twenty-eight women here to-day are beginning a journey of self-discovery, developing new skills, making new friends and working together to support each other. Their days will be full either in the beautiful catering kitchen, the state of the art IT Centre (with Broadband) or the bright friendly tutor rooms. Art & Craft, Maths, Caring for the Older Person, Childcare, Children with Special Needs, Catering for Diversity, HACCP, Cookery & Nutrition are just some of the modules covered by the programme.

The Millennium family Resource Centre in Glengoole is a community development project funded by the Family Support Agency to tackle disadvantage and marginalisation in a rural community. Serving the Slieveardagh area it  encourages participation in training education, life-long learning for all who live in the area especially people who for a variety of reasons may not have completed their formal education, have a recognised skill or qualification or have been out of the work force for a number of years.

As well as running these courses, the centre has a new childcare facility which offers both pre-school and after-schools in Glengoole, it is developing full-day childcare in Ballingarry, it providing a variety of services to the public including FAX, Photocopying, Internet Access (broadband), CV and other document preparation.

Support
Some special financial support is available again this year for students attending Third Level Colleges Please contact Fr. O’Rourke for further information.

Gortnahoe Senior Citizens
Gortnahoe Senior Citizens will resume their monthly get-togethers on Tuesday next, 26th September, 2006 at 2.30pm.  The Committee would welcome new members to ensure the continuation of the Club.

As and from Tuesday, Ring-a-Link will provide the transport and will collect members at the same time as Civil Defence.  Anyone wishing to avail of this service should contact the Ring-a-Link Office Lo Call No: 1890 42 41 41 any time up to 4.30pm the previous evening.  

An afternoon outing to Mount Juliet Estate, Thomastown has been arranged for Thursday, 12th October, 2006. Bus will leave the Community Hall at  1.30pm. Cost is €15. This includes bus, 30 minute guided tour of the estate and tea/coffee and scones.

Anyone wishing to travel please give names as soon as possible to Post Office, Fr. O’Keeffe, Noreen Bambrick or any member of the committee. All are welcome.

Gortnahoe  Folk  Choir
The Folk choir will restart practice after the summer break on Wed 4th Oct. at 8pm in Gortnahoe Hall. New singers and musicians are most welcome.

Meetings
All Eucharistic Ministers in the parish are invited to a meeting in Ballysloe School on Tuesday night at 8.30.

There will be a meeting of Glengoole Senior Citizens Committee in Glengoole Hall on Wednesday night at 8.30.

Outing
There will be a bus outing to Galway on Monday 2nd October, leaving Urlingford at 8.45 a.m. For details ring Hyacinth Roche at 056 8831266.

Pray for the following

• Michael Dunne, Gortnahoe,
  who was buried during the week.
• Joan  Kealy, Cornwall, England
  (wife of the late Nicolas Kealy Kilcooley)
  Mass and burial in Galmoy from Gortnahoe Hall on Friday at 11.30.

Glengoole Church

• Toddy Maguire, Ballynonty.
  Anniversary Mass Saturday  at 7.00.
• Mary Ellen Fogarty, Mellison.
  Anniversary Mass Sunday  at 9.30
• James O’Connell, Glengoole Nth.
  Anniversary Mass Sunday  at 11.00.
• Ciss Teehan, Ballysloe.
  Anniversary Mass Monday 9.30
• William Kennedy, Glengoole.
  Anniversary Mass Tuesday at 9.30
• Mary Nolan, Ballinastick.
  Anniversary Mass offered.
• John Troy, Ballinastick.
  Anniversary Mass Saturday 31st at 7.00.
• Nora Kennedy, Glengoole
• Anniversary Mass Sunday  1st at 9.30.
• Patrick Stokes, Kilbraugh.
  Anniversary Mass Sunday 1st at 11.00.

Gortnahoe Church

• David, Margaret & Lucy Tobin, Gortnahoe & Elizabeth Taylor.
  Anniversary Mass Saturday at 7.30
• Tommy & Sarah Gleeson, Rathbeg and Murt Gleeson, Coole.
  Anniversary Mass Sunday  at 11.00.
• Thomas,  Eileen & Michael Purcell, Urard.
  Anniv. Mass Sat. 31st at 7.30.
• Martin, Bridget & Margaret Barnaville, Fennor.
  Anniversary Mass Sunday 1st at 11.00.

PROTECTION PRAYER
Deliver me Lord from every evil,
And grant me peace during this day.
In your mercy keep me free from sin
And protect me from all anxiety.  Amen.

Newsletter Publishers for October

• V. Rev. John J. O’Rourke, P.P. 056 8834128.
  
  
• Rev. John O’Keeffe C.C. 056 8834139
  Email: jkfe2325@eircom.net 

All notices to the publishers or the priests by Friday at 6pm.