Notice anything special about today’s date?
Well today (Shrove Tuesday) reads the very same forward and backwards!!
21/02/2012
Now when it that likely to happen again?! (S.R.)
Day: February 21, 2012
Fr. Peter McVerry Kicks Off Lenten Talks in Millstreet
Millstreet Parish have organised a series of three talks to mark the season of Lent. They will take place on Monday nights in Millstreet Community School library at 8pm, beginning on 27th February. The overall theme of the talks is ‘Compassion’ and they will be delivered by three highly regarded speakers, Fr. Peter McVerry SJ, Dr. Patricia Kieran, and Mr. Justin Kilcullen. Each talk will conclude with the chance to ask questions and some light refreshments.The first talk will take place on Monday 27th February. Fr. Peter McVerry SJ will speak about ‘Jesus the Compassionate One’.
Fr. McVerry grew up in Newry, Co. Down. In 1962, he entered the Jesuit Order and was ordained in 1975. He worked as a priest in the Inner City in Dublin from 1975 to 1980 and there he encountered some homeless children. He opened a hostel for homeless children in 1979 and this subsequently became his life-time work. He moved to Ballymun in 1980 and [read more …] “Fr. Peter McVerry Kicks Off Lenten Talks in Millstreet”
Death Notice: Desmond (Des) Kelleher, Kilmeedy Lower
The death has occurred on Tuesday, February 14, 2012 of Desmond(Des) Kelleher of Australia and Millstreet, Cork. Reposing at Tarrant’s Funeral Home Millstreet on friday evening from 5.30pm followed by removal at 8.00pm to St.Patrick’s Church Millstreet. Requiem Mass on Saturday at 12.00 noon followed by burial in St.Mary’s Cemetery Millstreet.
Regional Report 1103 – 21st February 2012
by
Eily Buckley
Dia is mhuire diobh go leir a cairde and welcome to News Report 1103 from Millstreet. Fondest Greetings dear listeners and I wish you all the very best on this calm but showery Tuesday morning.
Dia is mhuire diobh go leir a cairde and welcome to News Report 1103 from Millstreet. Fondest Greetings dear listeners and I wish you all the very best on this calm but showery Tuesday morning.
Today is Shrove Tuesday, time to have a feast of those lovely pancakes before giving up some of our favourite things for Lent.
Our Community School is putting on three weekly Lenten Talks , for adults over the next three weeks. They will be held on Monday nights, starting on next Monday night February 27th at 8 with a talk by Fr Peter McAverry entitled , “Jesus the Compassionate One”
O’Leary Letters from Adrivale #1 of 3
Patrick O’Leary from Louisville, Kentucky, USA has very kindly been given us three letters that are nearly a century old, sent by his Great-Grand-Uncle Patrick O’Leary of Adrivale, Millstreet to his Great-Grandfather in the USA.
Below is the first of those letters (4 pages) from March 16, 1919 where Patrick talks about the end of WWI, Patsy who was a soldier in the war, President Wilson, the 1916 rising in Dublin, and Sinn Féin.
The Patsy in the letter was his Grandfather Patrick John O’Leary. He was born in Ohio 1894 and he served in WWI. The Sister Mary Francis in the letter is his Great Aunt that was a nun.
[read more …] “O’Leary Letters from Adrivale #1 of 3”
Old stamps for guide dogs
