GlynnBarntown
TOGETHER WE WILL SUCCEED
Glynn-Barntown GAA Club has a group of volunteers willing to help vulnerable parishioners at this time for grocery/medical collections etc. Please visit our website for further information or contact – John Cooney 087 2807679.
It is important to keep the older people in our community ‘connected’ and informed during this time. Please pick up the phone or check in with elderly family members and neighbours to make sure they are not feeling isolated.
O’BRIEN’S LONDIS
Our store will now be closing at 10 p.m. every night till further notice. Please spread the word.
A reminder also to anyone who may be nervous about being out and about, O’Brien’s Londis, Larkins Cross is offering a free local delivery service during this current crisis. Please phone the shop at 053 9120021 with your order. Feel free also to put the word out to those who may not know. We also want our customers to know that we are doing everything we can to ensure that they feel safe while in the shop.
In addition to our floor markings, we have now placed screens at all our checkouts so that social distancing can be practiced there too. Take care everyone.
CHURCH NEWS
EASTER CEREMONIES – There will be no public Easter ceremonies this coming week. You are invited to watch them on television where they will be broadcast and Fr Carroll will celebrate them privately.
11.15 a.m. Easter Sunday – Broadcast on Barntown Heritage Group Facebook page.
CEREMONIES ON RTÉ – Holy Thursday, April 9, 16:40-17:35: Mass of the Lord’s Supper. Father Joe Campbell CC, Mullingar, diocese of Meath, to celebrate Mass in commemoration of the Last Supper and Christ’s agony in Gethsemane, from the Cathedral of Christ the King, Mullingar. (RTÉ One TV and RTÉ Radio one Extra/ LW252/Digital Radio platforms.
Good Friday, April 10, 15:0016:00: Solemn Liturgy for Good Friday. Live from the Cathedral of Christ the King, Father Derek Darby commemorates the Passion and death of Christ, observing full health and social distancing protocols. (RTÉ One TV and RTÉ Radio 1Extra/LW252)
Holy Saturday, April 11, 22:0023:00: Easter Vigil Mass. Bishop Tom Deenihan of Meath celebrates the resurrection of Christ, with a vigil Mass in the Cathedral of Christ the King. Beginning with the lighting of the Paschal candle, the liturgy, which signifies the triumph of light over darkness and of life over death (RTÉ Two and RTÉ Radio one Extra/LW252).
Easter Sunday, April 12, 10:0011:00: Easter Sunday Mass. A Eurovision Mass, previously planned for Metz Cathedral, takes place instead in the Dominican Convent of St Jacque’s (St James the Great) in Paris, due to France’s COVID-related restrictions on indoor gatherings. Translation and commentary are by Fr Thomas McCarthy OP (RTÉ One and RTÉ Radio one Extra). ROSARY ON FACEBOOK LIVE Fr Paddy McCafferty – a regular visitor to Barntown – will lead the Rosary every evening on Facebook live at 8 p.m. If the time has to change, Fr Paddy will let everyone know this on Facebook. Thank you Fr Paddy.
TRÓCAIRE BOXES – This time of year, we would usually get back Trócaire boxes here in the diocese of Ferns, but this is not possible this year, and unfortunate because it’s at a time when the developing world needs our help the most. Please hold onto your boxes till further notice and we will be in contact about how to return them when it will be safe for you to do so. Donations can be made over the phone – LoCall 1850 408408 or donations can be made online at trocaire.org.
WEEKLY NOTICES
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Glynn-Barntown District Notices, please send your notices to hillaryobrien@eircom.net or phone or text Hillary at 087 2028065.