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Thought for the Week – The era of the Holy Spirit

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Growing up in Ireland in the 50’s and 60’s Jesus was the centre of our spirituality. The Holy Spirit or Holy Ghost, as it was then, was not in the picture and was rightly known as the Holy Ghost – ‘the cinderella of theology’ – ‘the forgotten God’.

Yves Cougar, one of the best known theologians of the 20^th century was a participant at Vatican 2. Having listened to the Orthodox theologians he realised he knew nothing about the Holy Spirit and claimed that we needed Vatican 3 to restore the role of the Holy Spirit in the church. It didn’t happen. And today ironically the church suffers from a fundamental problem – a lack of faith in the reality of the Holy Spirit

The Orthodox claimed that the church had opted for what they called the three great white things and ignored the role of the Holy Spirit – the Pope dressed in white, the white host, the pure, white virgin.

The emphasis on Jesus and the downplaying of the role of the Spirit was underpinned by a powerful, unchanging, institutional church, founded by Jesus Christ and upheld by his vicar the Pope.

There was little room here for anything as unpredictable as the Holy Spirit blowing where it will.

We need to recover a livelier doctrine of the Holy Spirit as a divine person. Mark Wallace maintains, ” that the most adequate response to the current crisis lies in a recovery of the Holy Spirit as a natural living being who indwells and sustain all forms of life.” It is making a come back as a fluid and expansive presence in the world – we are entering a new era the era of the Holy Spirit following the era of the Father (Judaism) and of the son (Christianity) .

Recital By Escolania de Montserrat in Glenstal Abbey Mon 16th @8pm

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The world-famous choir of the Escolania de Montserrat, from Catalunya, in Northern Spain, visit Ireland for the first time and are in Glenstal Abbey this Monday 16^th April. Recital at 8pm followed by Compline with Monks of Glenstal concluding with Salve Regina & Virolai by the Escolania. Free admission. Information at 061 – 621005. Further Concert, Tuesday 17^th @ 8pm – Redemptorist Church, Limerick.

Murroe Sporting Clubs Supporting the DiL in Murroe 4.15am on Saturday morning 12th May.

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Murroe-Boher Ladies Intermediate Camogie team, Murroe Men’s Soccer A team and Murroe-Boher Ladies Senior Football team supporting registration for Darkness into Light walk in Murroe 4.15am on Saturday morning 12th May.

Murroe /Boher Newsletter 15th April 2018

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Parish Clergy: Fr Loughlin Brennan Fr. Tom Ryan

Tel. 386227 Mobile 087 9814051 Tel. 352223 Mobile 087 6291557

Recent Deaths: Raymond (Ray) Barlow, Garryduff, Tipperary

Anniversaries: Murroe

Nora Coleman Months Mind and

Carol McKie Months Mind 7pm this Saturday

John Quigley and John O’Connell 9am this Sunday

Niall O’Riordan 11.30am this Sunday

Dan Ryan and

Paddy Rainsford and

Anna and Tony McGuire 7pm next Saturday

Greg Byrnes 11.30am next Sunday

May They Rest in Peace

Eucharistic Ministers Next Weekend: Boher: Pat Madigan.

Murroe: Evelyn Lorigan 7pm, Michael O’Loughlin 9am, Kathryn Buckley 11.30am.

Masses for coming week: Boher – Tuesday and Thursday at 9.30am.

Murroe – Monday, Wednesday and Friday at 10am.

Church Windows Fundraising: Jimmy Buckley concert takes place on Sunday April 29^th. Some Tickets are available for this. A lot of work has had to be done in both Church’s recently, so any funds raised will be gratefully received.

Coffee Morning for Cancer Research at Madaboy House (close to Abington Creamery) will take place this year on Saturday next, 21^st April, from 10.30 a.m. to 1.00 p.m. Please consider supporting this worthy cause in an effort to fund new and innovative breakthrough therapies and treatments for many types of cancer. Prepare to be pampered with the best in home baking treats and entertainment by the popular Ukealadies ensemble, following on last year’s success! Make it a date for your diary.

Recital: The world-famous choir of the Escolania de Montserrat, from Catalunya, in Northern Spain, visit Ireland for the first time and are in Glenstal Abbey this Monday 16^th April. Recital at 8pm followed by Compline with Monks of Glenstal concluding with Salve Regina & Virolai by the Escolania. Free admission. Information at 061 – 621005. Further Concert, Tuesday 17^th @ 8pm – Redemptorist Church, Limerick.

Murroe Boher ICA is holding their AGM on Next Tuesday 17^th April in the Muintir Na Tire Hall at 8pm. If you would like to find out more about the Guild make new friendships and maybe learn a new skill along the way you are welcome to join us on the night.

A reunion (for anyone who attended the Convent Secondary School, Doon up until 1965) will be held on Tuesday, July 10^th 2018 in Ballykisteen Golf Hotel, Co Tipperary (starting about mid-day). Further information is available from our web site: www.doonconventreunion.com. Spread the word, please.

Lotto Results for 08/04/18 -4,7,19,28- No Jackpot Winner. €20 Lucky Dips Donal O’Brien, Maura English, Beibhinn McGuire & Andrew Hickey. Next week’s Jackpot 5,900. Draw in Pa McGrath’s.

June Bank Holiday Weekend: The Boher Community Development Association Charity Cycle in aid of Cliona’s Foundation in memory of Ciara McCarthy, has been rescheduled to Friday evening, 1^st June and the Boher Family Fun Day will take place on Sunday 3^rd June. More details on these events later.

Senator Maria Byrne invites you to a ‘Care of our Older Citizen’ Public Meeting next Tuesday 17^th April at 7pm in the Castletroy Park Hotel. Guest speaker on the night is Minister for State with Special Responsibility for Mental Health and Older People, Jim Daly TD with many other speakers.

Murroe AFC Notes: Our 50^th anniversary Dinner Dance Tickets are now available from any committee member. The event takes place in the Castletroy Park Hotel on Friday May 4^th at 7-30pm. A great night celebrating the clubs 1^st 50 years with music by local band TRAFFIC and DJ till late. Tickets are €30 and can be got from Jimmy Quinn 087-2334561 Noel Regan 086-8109682 or ANY committee member.

Murroe Boher GAA Club are running a Golf Classic on the 10^th/11^th May in Ballykisteen Golf Club. If anyone is interested in playing or putting in a team, they can contact Rory on 086 31768224, or any member of the committee. A team of 3 players cost €120 or you can sponsor a Tee box for €50. This fundraiser is to complete our Ball Wall facility, due to be complete by June 01^st.

Murroe/Boher Camogie Club Well done to our intermediate team who had a great win over county champions Na Piarsaigh last weekend to go top of their league group. On Saturday the girls played Ballybrown in their last group game of the league. Our U16 team played Crecora on Friday evening in their second league group game. Next Friday (April 20^th) our girls will play Blackrock/Effin in their third round. Please come out to support our girls. Best of luck to all our teams. This Saturday (14^th April) we will hold a fundraising Blind Date in Crokers, Murroe at 8.30pm. A night of fun and possibly some romances is promised! Please get out and support our club and enjoy the craic!

Thought for the week – Hope is essential for our future

April 10, 2018 Murroe Website Editor Thought for the Week No comments

The message of Easter is one of hope and not just hope in some distant utopia or fulfilment in an after- life. Hope leavens the life of a believer – and can permeate every aspect of our lives.

But hope is not optimism – optimism is about how we would like things to turn out – like winning the lotto. Hope is the conviction that our world has meaning and not at the mercy of chance or the invisible hand of economics.

Optimism can lead to a non-acceptance of what is here and now.

Hope is about now, this present moment, the conviction that something is worth doing no matter how it turns out – that there is meaning now.

Hope helps us to let go, to give up the control we yearn that inhibits our vision of a larger possibility….we are not responsible for creating significance each moment of every day.

Hope is essential for our future – without it none of us would believe in the possibility of a different world, let alone work towards it…

St Paul in his letter to the Ephesians

My death defying ‘no’ to despair and my life affirming ‘yes’ to seemingly insurmountable problems in the midst of my life are both animated by hope in the invincible might of the risen Jesus and in the immeasurable scope of his power in us who believe. (Eph 1:19)

Mulcair Men’s Shed are hosting a Coffee Morning in support of Special Olympics Ireland.

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Mulcair Men’s Shed are hosting a Coffee Morning in support of Special Olympics Ireland.

This will take place on Saturday the 14th April from 10:00am until 1:00pm in the assembly hall of Newport Boys National School.

Please join us on the morning and support this very worthy cause.

Murroe /Boher Newsletter 8th April 2018

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Parish Clergy: Fr Loughlin Brennan Fr. Tom Ryan

Tel. 386227 Mobile 087 9814051 Tel. 352223 Mobile 087 6291557

Anniversaries: Murroe

James McNamara 7pm this Saturday

Jimmy Rabbitte and

James Corbett 11.30am this Sunday

Nora Coleman Months Mind and

Carol McKie Months Mind 7pm next Saturday

John Quigley and John O’Connell 9am next Sunday

Niall O’Riordan 11.30am next Sunday

Boher

Lily Fenton and

Pat Tobin 10am this Sunday

May They Rest in Peace

Eucharistic Ministers Next Weekend: Boher: Esther Reilly.

Murroe: Breda Fitzpatrick 7pm, Suzanne Barron 9am, Margaret Holmes 11.30am.

Masses for coming week: Boher – Tuesday and Thursday at 9.30am.

Murroe – Monday, Wednesday and Friday at 10am.

Divine Mercy Sunday is this Sunday 8^th April. Ceremonies will commence at 2.30pm with Mass followed by Confessions, Adoration and Chaplet of Divine Mercy.

The Irish Blood Transfusion Service will be holding a Blood Donor Clinic in the Community centre Newport, on this Sunday 8^th April. Time: 12noon to 3pm.

Coffee Morning for Cancer Research at Madaboy House (close to Abington Creamery) will take place this year on Saturday 21st April from 10.30 a.m. to 1.00 p.m. Please consider supporting this worthy cause in an effort to fund new and innovative breakthrough therapies and treatments for many types of cancer. Prepare to be pampered with the best in home baking treats and entertainment by the popular Ukealadies ensemble, following on last year’s success! Make it a date for your diary.

An Opportunity for Insight, Ideas and Inspiration at the Ballyhoura North East District Forum. The Ballyhoura North East District Forum will take place on Tuesday April 10^th at 7.30pm at the Community Centre in Pallasgreen. The Main focus on the Night will be on the upcoming funding opportunities available to Communities in the coming months. This District Forum meeting will give the opportunity to look at the local issues in common across local enterprise, your community, environment and social inclusion matters, and then agree on actions to progress onward towards innovative solutions. It’s also your chance to meet the Ballyhoura Development staff and gain insight on various projects and initiatives delivered and see how these ideas could inspire your local Community. For further information contact John Hassett Development Officer, Ballyhoura Development CLG, LCFE East limerick campus, Cappamore, Co. Limerick, Tel: 061-387040 jhassett@ballyhoura.org

Lotto Results for 02/04/18 -1,12,22,30- No Jackpot Winner. €50 Lucky dips. Amy Shaw, Saoirse Kennedy, Stephen Keogh. €20 Lucky Dips Coimhe Fitzpatrick, C. O’Connell, Tom Joe Boyle & Rose Flemming. Next week’s Jackpot 5,900. Draw in Powers.

Boher Clean Up: Sincere thank you to everybody who helped on Friday with our Clean Up. Approximately 90 people participated. It was a great opportunity for neighbours to work together and lovely to see the green roadsides later in the day. Over 400 bags of rubbish were collected along with some large items. Well done everybody!

At the CFR Boher Annual General meeting held recently, we reported that we are getting approximately 1 call out per month, covering 70% of time supporting the National Ambulance Service in the area. Training is held on a regular basis, and members of the community are invited to learn CPR techniques at drop-in sessions for their personal benefit, while volunteers are trained to Pre-Hospital Emergence Care Council (PHECC) standards. If anyone is interested in finding out more about the scheme, joining the committee, helping with fundraising or volunteering, please contact us at cfrboher@gmail.com. We would like to thank everyone who has helped with CFR Boher.

Blind Date: Murroe/Boher will run a fundraiser on April 14^th which promises to be a night of laughs and possibly a few romances! Blind Date takes place on Saturday 14^th April at 8.30pm in Crokers Bar, Murroe with DJ, Live Band and raffle on the night with the ever-entertaining Paul Coffey as MC. It will be a night not to be missed, with plenty of familiar faces taking to the stage. Tickets €5 and available from any member of the camogie committee or intermediate team or Lisa Ryan (0868623310) or John Buckley (0872058563).

Murroe Boher Bord na nOg had a very busy Easter. We had 92 boys and Girls who attended our 3-day Easter Camp on the Astro Turf last week. Most Campers received new Windcheater’s and Club Socks. On the Final day of the camp, all of our campers took part in TLC4, which helped to keep our pitch and its environs very tidy. On Friday 30^th March and Saturday 31^st March, we held our annual bag pack in Dunnes Stores on Childers Road. We collected nearly €3,100, and the Bord na nOg are very thankful to all who supported and helped out over the weekend. On Friday 06^th April, our u11’s & u12’s played 3 games in Croke Park, as well as a Museum Tour, and a trip to Supermacs on the way home. Finally, the Bord na nOg, would like to wish Harry Clohessy the best of luck, representing the Club in the POC Fada in the Greyhound stadium on Saturday evening.

Murroe/Boher Camogie Club Best of luck to our U16 and intermediate teams who line out in the second rounds of their respective leagues. On Friday (6th April) the U16 team took on Crecora while on Sunday at 2.30pm in Na Piarsaigh our intermediate team play last year’s county champions in what promises to be a cracking game. Next weekend our intermediate team will take on Ballybrown in their final league group game in Ballybrown. Well done to our intermediates who beat Patrickswell in their opening group game last weekend. Hard luck to our U16s who lost to Galbally. Please get out and support our girls and keep up to date with fixtures on our Facebook page.

2018 Darkness into Light Murroe Registration and Information

April 5, 2018 Murroe Website Editor News, What's on No comments

2018 Darkness into Light Murroe – registration and information Community Engagement

in Crokers @ 4-6pm Sat 6th April and Sat 20th April.

Bee Blogs – March 2018

April 3, 2018 Murroe Website Editor Bee Blogs, Uncategorized No comments

Bee Prayer

Winged spirit of sweetness, I call on you.

Teach me the ways of

Transformation and fertilisation.

The path from pollen to sweetest honey.

Teach me, to taste the essence of each place I alight

Carrying that essence with me to continue creations cycle.

Teach me the ways of hope,

Reminding me that what seems impossible

May yet be achieved.

Flitting tears of the Gods

Draw me ever closer to the wisdom

Hidden within beauty.

Give me flight and sunlight,

Passion and productivity,

Co-operation with those around me and

Sharpened strength to defend my home.

May I ever spiral out from my heart

Searching for what I need and return there once again

To tune those lessons into nourishment.

Bee Spirit, I call to you.

The month of April is characterised by increasing day length and rising temperatures – the days have lengthened but the temperatures are still low. And March was cold though I did get a chance to look through my hives one day when the sun shone. I was shocked at the state of the colonies – particularly my strongest colonies from last year. They are barely alive. This has happened before – the colonies that build up well and work very hard one year are very often the poorest ones the following year. Do they overreach themselves and are worn out the following year? It is a puzzle. I presume the long, wet winter has not helped. I am considering sending off some of the bees to get checked for disease. They had plenty of food but maybe too much of it was ivy honey which they find difficult to use in the winter as they need water to dilute it.

There is little sign of flowers yet- even the dandelions are slow to appear. I hope they haven’t given up in protest at farmers spraying their fields to remove any plant that could deprive their precious grass of space or nutrients. The more I see these huge fields appearing – these green deserts – the angrier and more depressed I feel – hedgerows are disappearing – soon there won’t be a habitat for a rabbit, a bee or a butterfly. What sort of arrogance is this that allows us to dispossess other creatures of a home and a livelihood? I had to get that off my chest. I am planning to write to the Minister of Agriculture to make my feelings known for all the good it will do but I will feel better!

What we need now is farmers who tend their hedgerows as an asset; who let old pastures grow, with their mix of plants and not just cultivate a monoculture of grass. We need to encourage diversity – otherness -it is essential for our flourishing as well as the rest of nature. A rain forest thrives by virtue of its infinite, interdependent diversity: none of the species could survive alone. It is not biodiversity but monoculture that poses the biggest threat.

After all that I notice the chestnut leaves peeping out – chestnut flowers are an important source of pollen and honey. Their flowers have a small patch of yellow which acts as a nectar guide for visiting bees. These turn crimson once the flowers are pollinated – this is important because bees can’t see red and so does not waste time visiting that flower again as it has no nectar or pollen to offer…But then the Japanese have now developing robotic bees to do pollination – they are called Robo-Bees – bee-like pollinating drone which are designed to make up for the lack of bees in some parts of the world.

This device is made using horsehair, a sticky gel and a drone. The drones fly into flowers like a bee and inside the flower pollen gets stuck to gel and horsehair and this pollen is shaken off at the next flew and so on. Surely prevention would be better than the cure. We already have great pollinators on Earth – they are called bees. So instead of building drones that replicate their behaviour, perhaps we should focus on saving the ones we’ve got! Otherwise, we could be working on “Robo-trees” next.

I like the point made by Saint Francis de Sales when he says;

“The bee collects honey from flowers in such a way as to do the least damage or destruction to them and he leaves them whole, undamaged and fresh, just as he found them.” I suspect the same would not be true of Robo-bees. Francis obviously did not know that a worker is a she rather than a he!

Time magazine reported on a study from Harvard’s School of Public Health. It found that pesticides were the cause of Colony Collapse Disorder (CCD) – the phenomenon in which worker bees suddenly up and leave a colony without warning. The pesticides in question are those that contain neonicotinoids (NNIs) and they are partially or completely banned in the EU, Canada and the U.S.

Abington Church are holding an evening of music and song on Friday April 6th at 8pm.

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The friends of Abington Church are holding an evening of music and song on Friday April 6^th at 8pm. In the church.

This features two groups, “The Ukealadies” and “Zion”.

Proceeds are in aid of the Eldorado Textile Project in San Paulo, Brazil with which a local volunteer, and member of the Church, is involved.

This is a community project in a deprived area which depends on voluntary donations to continue.

Admission €10. For details Tel.087-2964287.