(Season of Creation 4) “Time is running out” Gospel: Luke 16:9-31 A great reversal
In Luke’s Gospel, there is an emphasis on seeing the poor and the oppressed. The rich man in today’s Gospel does not ‘see’ Lazarus, and even in the afterlife, he is still blinded and unwilling to change. He wants…
Sometimes I stumble onto an insight from an unexpected source that astounds me. Turkey vultures recently provided that. Yes, turkey vultures. I admit to having despised these carrion-feeding birds floating in the air, circling and circling. “Disgusting creatures,” was always my assessment when I thought of how their movement provided the means of locating fresh…
RATHVILLY KILTEGAN PARISH LOTTO (Kildare & Leighlin Co-Op Lotto Draw)
Draw Results for Wednesday, 21st September
Numbers: 02, 08, 15, 18
No €13,000 Jackpot winner
24 Match 3s get €42 each
WINNER PROMOTER PARISH
Mary Listen Connie Hennessy Kildare
Carmel Moore Margie Sheridan Kildare
Tom & Bernie…
RESULTS OF FREE DRAW FOR LOCAL SUPPORTERS
€50 – Oliver Byrne Promoter – Angela Byrne
€50 – Noreen O’Brien Promoter – Nora Coates
€25 – Sadie…
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…
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…
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…
A CORONAVIRUS PRAYER
Loving and healing God,
we, the people of Kildare & Leighlin turn to you in prayer,
confident that you are with us and with all people in every moment.
We stand before you as people of hope, trusting in your care and protection.
May your faithful love…
FR CRISTIAN PISTA
A reminder of Fr Cristian Pista who spent last July in our Parish. Since September
2019 he is back in Marsabit Diocese in a desert area of Kenya near Lake Turkana.
He is in charge of developing the new parish of Turbi. The project of building a
parish…
29 March 1970-2020
This Sunday 29 March marks the Golden Jubilee of the Priestly Ordination of Fr Pat O’Brien, SPS CC, Kiltegan who has served in the Parish of Rathvilly and Kiltegan since September 2015. In 1970, Easter Sunday occurred on 29 March and, he says, it was a bitter cold day at Killamoate Church…