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Askeaton Ballysteen Parish Newsletter
17th Sunday in Ordinary Time. 27/07/2025
Ballysteen Mass Schedule
Sun 27th: 9am Molly & Jack Downes. A/V.
Fri 1st: 10am First Friday Morning Mass.
Sun 3rd: 9am Mass for the People
Askeaton Mass Schedule
· Sat 26th: 7.30pm Thomas O’Donnell, St Francis Ave. A/V.
· Sun 27th: 10.30am Sunday Mass & 6.30pm Adoration.
· Mon 28th: 9.30am Morning Mass & Holy Hour.
· Tues 29th: 9.30am Morning Mass & Holy Hour.
· Wed 30th: 9.30am Morning Mass & Holy Hour.
· Thurs 31st: 9.30am Mass for the Popes Intentions & Holy Hour.
· Fri 1st 9pm Alliance of the Two Hearts.
· Sat 2nd: 7.30pm Barry Sheahan, A/V preceded by Holy Hour.
· Sun 3rd: 10.30am Mass for the People
· 6.30pm Adoration
Confessions: Sat 6pm,7-7.30pm
Adoration: Mon -Thurs 10-11am, Fri - Sun 6.30-7.30pm (Askeaton Church)
First Friday 9-9.30am/after Adoration
Tuesday 7-8pm (Ballysteen Church)
Funerals: - Funerals will take place at 11am in our parish churches. (On these days there
will be no weekday morning Mass & Eucharistic Adoration will be scheduled at 6.30pm Askeaton Church).
First Friday Calls to the Sick and Housebound. Sick and housebound parishioners can receive Sacraments at home. Please contact the Parish Office 061-398 077 on Tuesday’s or speak to one of the Sacristans.
For Baptisms, Weddings & Anniversary: Contact the office on Tuesday’s 9-5pm 061-398 077 Anniversaries can also be booked in the Sacristy of the church where mass is to be said.
Come and See Inspirations: Google ‘Come and See Inspirations’ for a locally produced podcast available on Facebook, YouTube, Spotify and more. Text 087-4668850 email comeandseeinspirations@gmail.com. Please note we can now be listened to on YouTube by
searching for Come and See Inspirations.
Padre Pio: There is no Padre Pio Healing Mass in August.
Prayers for the Elderly: Today: World Day of Grandparents and the Elderly
Father, we pray that you would soften our hearts to our elderly neighbours – that you would stir us to love them in both word and deed. Holy Spirit, move us towards action, help us to slow down, to take time to offer care and assistance to our elderly neighbours for whom daily life has become a struggle. Amen.
Seventeenth Sunday in Ordinary Time
27 July 2025 • World Day of Grandparents and the Elderly
Prayer does not guarantee an outcome, undo the past, or offer an escape from life or the circumstances of our lives. It keeps us open to the future. And the future is always better, not because it necessarily will be, but because it might be (Caputo). That possibility, the ‘might be’ of the future, is our daily bread, why we forgive, and why we refuse to turn away. Some mornings that ‘might be’ is the only reason we have the will to get out of bed; because it might be different, it might be better, it might offer something new. The ‘might be’ of the future is at the heart of every prayer we offer.
Where there is a future, whether it is an hour, a day, a month, or twenty years, there is the possibility of life and more life. That’s what Jesus is promising in today’s gospel. And it’s what I want, don’t you? I want the possibility of life and more life for you, and myself.
Jesus is not teaching a technique of prayer or a magic formula of words. He’s teaching prayer as a posture, a way of standing before God, exposed and responsive to a holy and life-giving Spirit (Caputo, What Would Jesus Deconstruct? p.55). It is a risky and vulnerable place to stand. It asks a lot of us. It means you and I have a role in bringing about the future. It means we have work to do.
The prayer Jesus taught asks us to offer ourselves as the place and means for the in-breaking of the future, for change, for life and more life.
Michael K. Marsh
interruptingthesilence.com
Sunday Smiles: - Funny Church Signs.
“Need a lifeguard? Ours walks on water!”
“Sin Burn is prevented by Son Screen. “
“Seven days without prayer makes one weak.”
“Tweet others as you would like to be tweeted.”
“Lord help us to be the people our dogs think we are!”
“Don’t give up! Moses was once a basket case!”
“Looking for “Mr. Right? This is his house!”
- Alliance of the Two Hearts: 1st Fridays at 9pm
· St. Joseph’s Prayer Group: 1st Wednesday at 8pm in Meeting Room.
· Healing Mass of Padre Pio: 2nd Fridays at 7.30pm.
· Youth Evening Monthly Holy Hour: 3rd Sunday at 6.30pm -7.30pm
· Family & Life Evening Monthly Mass: 4th Friday at 7.30pm.
Parish Contact Information:
- Fr. John Mockler - Mobile: 086-234 2242 Office: 061-398 077 (on Tuesday).
- Office Hours: - Tue’s Only 9-5pm. Parish Email: easbaile@gmail.com
Parish Website: https://www.askeatonballysteen.ie/ FB: Askeaton Ballysteen Parish.
Offertory/Dues Contributions; Cheques as follows: Parish: The Askeaton Parish A/C. Priest: St. Mary’s Priests Dues A/C.
Notices: - If you would like to include any notices in the parish newsletter, please email easbaile@gmail.com Deadline is Tuesday at 11am.
Askeaton Ballysteen Parish Newsletter
18th Sunday in Ordinary Time. 03/08/2025
Ballysteen Mass Schedule
· Sun 3rd: 9am Mass for the People
· Sun 10th: 9am Mass for the People
Askeaton Mass Schedule
· Sat 2nd: 7.30pm Barry Sheahan, A/V preceded by Holy Hour.
· Sun 3rd: 10.30am Mass for the People
· 6.30pm Adoration
· Mon 4th: 9.30am Mass for the People followed by Holy Hour.
· Tues 5th: 9.30am Mass for the People followed by Holy Hour.
· Wed 6th: 9.30am Mass for the People followed by Holy Hour.
· Thurs 7th: 9.30am Mass for Popes Intentions followed by Holy Hour.
· Fri 8th: 9.30am Morning Mass. (No Padre Pio Mass this Month)
· Sat 9th: 7.30pm Anne Devitt, A/V, preceded by Adoration.
· Sun 10th: 10.30am Mass for the People of the Parish.
· 6.30pm Adoration.
Confessions: Sat 6pm,7-7.30pm
Adoration: Mon -Thurs 10-11am, Fri - Sun 6.30-7.30pm (Askeaton Church)
First Friday 9-9.30am/after Adoration
Tuesday 7-8pm (Ballysteen Church)
Funerals: - Funerals will take place at 11am in our parish churches. (On these days there
will be no weekday morning Mass & Eucharistic Adoration will be scheduled at 6.30pm Askeaton Church).
First Friday Calls to the Sick and Housebound. Sick and housebound parishioners can receive Sacraments at home. Please contact the Parish Office 061-398 077 on Tuesday’s or speak to one of the Sacristans.
For Baptisms, Weddings & Anniversary: Contact the office on Tuesday’s 9-5pm 061-398 077 Anniversaries can also be booked in the Sacristy of the church where mass is to be said.
Come and See Inspirations: Google ‘Come and See Inspirations’ for a locally produced podcast available on Facebook, YouTube, Spotify and more. Text 087-4668850 email comeandseeinspirations@gmail.com. Please note we can now be listened to on YouTube by
searching for Come and See Inspirations.
Padre Pio: There is no Padre Pio Healing Mass in August.
Words of Wisdom:
They asked: “Why is it important to be kind?” I said: “Because we walk past hundreds of people every day, and none of them wear signs that say, “I’m grieving,” “I’m exhausted, “or I’m barley holding it together.” But they’re everywhere. Kindness might be the only softness they receive today.
Eighteenth Sunday in Ordinary Time - 3 August 2025
Earthly riches are like the reed. Its roots are sunk in the swamp, and its exterior is fair to behold; but inside it is hollow. If a man leans on such a reed, it will snap off and pierce his soul. St Anthony of Padua
Eighteenth Sunday in Ordinary Time - 3 August 2025
Today’s gospel goes to the heart of our Cistercian life. Our spiritual ancestors such as Saint Anthony of the Desert, St Francis and St Benedict adopted lives of penance and simplicity when they didn’t ultimately need to. For many people the decisions that these great Saints made was weird. They turned away from wealth and grandeur and privilege and embraced the kind of life that we live here at Mount St Joseph Abbey. At the centre of our vocation is the desire to communicate with our creator. This desire transcends the need and desire for temporal goods, money and worldly power, and for any of the other vacuous trappings of life. The decision that these Saints made is not necessarily a single decision but had to be remade sometimes daily. This is what we call daily conversion. Starting again. In other words, getting back up again when we fall flat on our faces. Looking into a bank account full of savings is wonderful because we see the result. But building a spiritual store house is not so easy. We may feel totally useless or incapable, even after much effort in the spiritual sphere. But the storehouses of Heaven are a mystical place, and we do not fully understand them. God wants us in some ways to experience the full range of humanity, and this includes the truth of failure, of not being any good. Yet all of this is part of our store, part of the gift that God gives us towards becoming members of his Kingdom. Mount St Joseph Abbey
Order of Cistercians of the strict observance msjroscrea.ie
- Alliance of the Two Hearts: 1st Fridays at 9pm
· St. Joseph’s Prayer Group: 1st Wednesday at 8pm in Meeting Room.
· Healing Mass of Padre Pio: 2nd Fridays at 7.30pm.
· Youth Evening Monthly Holy Hour: 3rd Sunday at 6.30pm -7.30pm
· Family & Life Evening Monthly Mass: 4th Friday at 7.30pm.
Parish Contact Information:
- Fr. John Mockler - Mobile: 086-234 2242 Office: 061-398 077 (on Tuesday).
- Office Hours: - Tue’s Only 9-5pm. Parish Email: easbaile@gmail.com
Parish Website: https://www.askeatonballysteen.ie/ FB: Askeaton Ballysteen Parish.
Offertory/Dues Contributions; Cheques as follows: Parish: The Askeaton Parish A/C. Priest: St. Mary’s Priests Dues A/C.
Notices: - If you would like to include any notices in the parish newsletter, please email easbaile@gmail.com Deadline is Tuesday at 11am.