KILLAVULLEN
BALLYGOWN AND KILLAVULLEN NS
Enrolments for new pupils are now being accepted at Ballygown and Killavullen National Schools. For further information visit www.killavullenns.ie or www.ballygown.ie and click on the ‘admissions’ tab for more information on the procedure.
BUSY HANDS - TUESDAYS
Join the Sisters at Nano Nagle Birthplace - Eileen Nash for knitting and Lois Greene for crochet beginning on February 16. Tuesdays from 2pm-3.30 followed by afternoon tea. Learn a new skill or share your skills with others. We are all life-long learners! No charge!
BOOK CLUB - WEDNESDAYS WITH NANO
Come to Nano Nagle Birthplace on Wednesdays from 2pm-3.30 February 9, 16, 23 and March 2, 9, and 16 to explore the life and challenges of Nano Nagle - native daughter of Killavullen. This recently written booklet by Anne Lyons pbvm, who was part of the team here from 2008–2011, is in stock in the bookstore. It is an interesting read and should lead to some informative chat followed by afternoon tea. Suggested offering €30, book included.
LIVING THE QUESTIONS
“Be patient toward all that is unsolved
in your heart and try to love the questions themselves, like locked rooms and like books that are now written in a very foreign tongue. Do not now seek the answers, which cannot be given you because you would not be able to live them. And the point is, to live everything. Live the questions now. Perhaps you will then gradually, without noticing it, live along some distant day into the answer.” – Rainer Maria Rilke (Bohemian-Austrian poet) 1875 – 1926.
During the season of Lent, (March 3 – April 7) join Thursday Zoom conversations from 7.30–9pm to explore the questions which haunt us, puzzle us, disturb us, bamboozle us. Chat with like minds as we ponder the questions in our lives. Also being offered from 2.00 – 3.30 in person on Fridays in March at Nano Nagle Birthplace, Ballygriffin. Suggested offering for total sessions, €30.
SUSTAINABLE DEVELOPMENT GOALS (SDGS)
This course, looking weekly at a different one of the 17 goals is currently offered virtually and will finish on March 10. It will be offered again in the spring both virtually and on site. The sessions include chat rooms where we can discuss what we have learned, any surprises, questions, new awareness, similarities across cultures. To register for any of the above call 022-26411 or email lgreene@presentationsisters.ca
Children’s Liturgy of the Word begins this week, at the 11.30am Mass. We are forming a rota of willing and suitable adults to assist with this ministry of explaining the Sunday readings in a child-centred manner. For children aged 5-9. Please contact Fr Gerard if you would like to volunteer.
YOUNG CHRISTIAN WORKERS
YCW meetings take place regularly, for young adults who would like to join see www.ycw.ie or contact the Parish Office for more details.
KILLAVULLEN CHURCH CLEANERS
Please consider joining the rota of cleaners who work to help keep our church looking so well. Cleaners serve for a month at a time as part of a rota.
MOBILE VAN
The OPW are seeking expressions of interest for the operation of a mobile coffee van or similar for the 2022 opening season at Annesgrove Gardens Castletownroche. Expressions of interest should be submitted to sandram.murphy@opw.ie before the 23rd.
MARIAN PILGRIMAGES
A pilgrimage to Medjugorje with a direct flight from Cork will take place from May 25-June 1. Fr Aquin Casey will accompany the pilgrimage as spiritual director.
COMMUNITY COUNCIL LOTTO IS BACK UP AND RUNNING
The bonus ball of the National Lottery draw is the winning number each Wednesday and Saturday evening. The following people have been the most recent lucky winners - on Wednesday, February 9th it was Paul Stafford and on Saturday, February 12th Brendan Canavan for the second week running. Thank you to one and all for your support.