Notices

PARISH LOTTO

Published on November 15, 2024

Kildare & Leighlin Co-Op Lotto Draw Results for                          

Wednesday 13th November 2024

     Numbers: 07, 17, 24, 31,  

   No €20,000 Jackpot Winner

       19 Match 3s get €53 each

 

WINNER                                             …

IN MEMORY OF OUR BEREAVED – NOVENA MASSES

Published on November 6, 2024

Novena Masses for the Dead will be offered each Monday & Friday for the month of November at 9.30 a.m. in St. Patrick’s Church, Rathvilly

NOVEMBER 2024 Abundant Peace

Published on November 6, 2024

As November begins, my thoughts turn to inner strength. I sense that those of us in the northern hemisphere are not only entering the coming seasonal winter but also a winter of the heart. Wherever you live, in whatever hemisphere, you’ll undoubtedly be affected directly or indirectly by natural disasters, illness (yours or another’s), death…

33rd Sunday in Ordinary Time Deacon: Rev. Liam Dunne

Published on October 31, 2024

Mark 13:24-32            Persevere to the end

We have come to the end of our reading of Mark for this Liturgical Year and we find ourselves where we began, in Mark chapter 13, reading “Jesus’ Apocalyptic Discourse”.  We associate ‘apocalyptic’ with doomsday predictions, but the word itself simply means ‘revelation’.  Here, Jesus is the revealer of…

SACRAMENTS 2025 – MONTHLY MASSES

Published on October 11, 2024

FIRST HOLY COMMUNION 2025     Rathvilly NS & Rathmore NS

The following Masses take place in St. Patrick’s Church, Rathvilly at 11.00 a.m.

Sunday, 20th October – Mission Sunday

Sunday, 17th November

Sunday, 15th December – 3rd Sunday of Advent

FIRST HOLY COMMUNION 2025      Talbotstown & Tynock NS

The following Masses take place…

SACRAMENTS 2025

Published on September 27, 2024

SACRAMENTS 2025

DATES FOR FIRST HOLY COMMUNION & CONFIRMATION 2025

First Holy Communion

Saturday, 10th May – Rathmore NS & Rathvilly NS in Rathvilly Church at 11 a.m.

Saturday, 17th May – Talbotstown NS & Tynock NS in Tynock Church at 11 a.m.

Confirmation

Saturday, 5th April – Rathmore NS & Rathvilly NS…

FR. PAT O’BRIEN RETIRES

Published on June 9, 2023

A lovely community evening was held last Friday
night 2nd June to honour and celebrate our curate
Fr. Pat O’ Brien on his retirement.
A mass was co-celebrated by Bishop Denis Nulty, Fr. Pat,
Fr. John, and Deacon Liam in Tynock in the company of
many St. Patrick’s priests, community…

ST. CHARLES DE FOUCAULD

Published on May 23, 2022

St. Charles de Foucauld 

This Sunday Blessed Charles de Foucauld is to be canonised. I invited Mgr. John McEvoy, who has been in the position of Priest Responsible for the European Region (2011-2017) in the Jesus Caritas Priests’ Fraternity to address the…

Pope Francis appoints Fr John McEvoy as “Chaplain to His Holiness”

Published on August 26, 2021

Pope Francis appoints Fr John McEvoy as “Chaplain to His Holiness”

I am delighted to announce today that Pope Francis has honoured Fr John McEvoy, Parish Priest of Rathvilly and Vice President of Carlow College St Patricks, appointing him as a “Chaplain to…

The Permanent Diaconate

Published on December 11, 2020

We congratulate Liam Dunne, Carlow who will be ordained a Permanent Deacon this Saturday, 12th December by Bishop Denis Nulty in Carlow Cathedral at 3 p.m. Liam will join Rathvilly Kiltegan Parish Team from next weekend.

The Permanent Diaconate
The Diaconate is an ordained ministry which is rooted in scripture. Chapter 6 of the…