📰 Faughart Parish Newsboard – Week of 19th April 2026
Our Priests: Fr. Vinod Kurian, Fr. Oliver Stansfield, Deacon George
🌐 www.faughartparish.ie
📘 Facebook: Faughart Parish
📧 info@faughartparish.ie
📞 042 933 4410
🙏 Recent Bereavement
We pray for the happy repose of Jackie Lawlor, who died during the week.
May her soul rest in peace.
👶 Baptism
We welcome Caragh Mary Catherine Dullaghan into our Christian community, baptised last weekend.
💒 Weekly Contributions
Thank you for your continued generosity towards the upkeep of the parish:
- Castletown: €175.00
- Kilcurry: €371.30
- Brid-a-Chrin: €208.50
- Faughart: €238.00
- Non-envelope: €476.53 & £14.11
- Faughart Shrine: €242.19 & £88.26
📦 Trócaire Boxes
Please return your Trócaire boxes, with coins exchanged for notes where possible.
☕ Faughart Lourdes Committee
The Annual Coffee Morning & Draw takes place:
- 📅 Sunday 19th April
- 📍 Kilcurry Resource Centre
- ⏰ From 10:00am
All are welcome to call in for a cuppa and support this worthy cause. Homemade treats are very welcome!
🎟️ Raffle on the day with great prizes.
📌 Committee meeting: Wednesday at 7:30pm in the Parochial House.
🕯️ Blessing of the Graves 2026
- Kilcurry – Sunday 7th June @ 7:30pm
- Urnai – Wednesday 10th June @ 7:30pm
- Castletown (Old) – Thursday 11th June @ 7:30pm
- Brid-A-Crinn – Sunday 14th June @ 7:30pm
- Kane – Tuesday 16th June @ 7:30pm
- Faughart – Thursday 18th June @ 7:30pm
- Castletown (New) – Sunday 28th June @ 7:30pm
💃 Faughart Social Group
- Céilí dancing classes continue Monday evenings in the Resource Centre.
- Trip to Arklow (Arklow Bay Hotel)
- 📅 Departing Tuesday 26th May
- 🛏️ 3 nights / 4 days
- 💶 €395 sharing (€25 single supplement per night)
Open to everyone — you don’t need to be a member.
📞 Contact Eileen: 087 7984112
🚨 Task Community Care Alarm
A monitored Care Link alarm system is available for your home, with installation and monitoring covered.
📞 Laurena: 085 183 3110
⛪ Mass Intentions
Kilcurry
Sunday 11:00am
Rosaleen Clarke (1st Ann), Patrick Clarke, Cyril & Peter Finnegan, Hugh McDonald (4th Ann), Kathleen Dunne
Next Sunday 11:00am
Seamus Reilly; Alan McGeough; Noel & Rose Nash; Jimmy & Bridgid Rafferty & DFM; Bridget McKay; Montgomery & Kelly families
Faughart / Brid-a-Chrin
Sunday 10:00am
Brigid Gernon (BR), Nuala, Colm & Matthew Farrelly, Ben Flynn & DFM, Brendan & Maureen O’Callaghan, John & Mary Doherty, Kevin Campbell
Friday 7:30pm
Watters family intentions
Next Sunday 10:00am
Mona & Patsy Rogers
Castletown
Saturday 6:00pm
Martin Robinson, Ann Murray, Ann McArdle, Betty Haque, Pauric Kelly, John Hearty
Sunday 12:00 noon
John & Mary Savage, George Savage (BR), Rosario Andrew & DFM, Jimmy McKenna & DFM
Next Saturday 6:00pm
Patsy & Mona Rogers, Briege Meegan Grant
Next Sunday 12:00 noon
Rose & Paddy Sherry, Lily & Paddy Kirk, May & Gerry Sherry & son Gerry, Seamus Connolly (6th Ann)
Faughart (Evening Mass)
Next Saturday 7:30pm
Peter & May Byrne & DFM; Ellen Hughes & DFM