St. James Church, Carracastle & St. Joseph's Church, Rooskey
Twenty-First Sunday ........................ 23 August 2009
Fr. Joe Caulfield ....... 094-9254301 ........ 087-2473234
frjoecaulfield@carracastle.com

Mass Times & Intentions:
Sunday ..... 10.00 Rooskey: ... Johnny Cawley & Charles Ryan, Srah.
Sunday ......11.30 Carracastle: For the Community, the Living & the Deceased.
Monday .....10.00 Carracastle: Donor's Intention.
Tuesday ....10.00 Carracastle: Martin Regan, Castleduff & Newcastle-on-Tyne 27.8.'92.
Wednes. ....10.00 Rooskey: ... No Mass this morning; works on-going in the Church.
Thurs. .......10.00 Carracastle: Annie Carrabine, 22.8.'89 & husb. Patrick, 20.12.'82, Cloonfane.
Friday ........ 7.00 Rooskey: ... No Mass this evening... works etc.
Sat/day .....10.00 Carracastle: Tom Egan, Lavey , who died 23 June, in California, his brother Sean, sister Kitty Forward & Padraig, 28.8.'83.
Sat/day ..... 8.00 Carracastle: Noreen Dooney 8.5.'07, husb. Tom, 20.9.'06 & decd. of the Coleman & Dooney families, Cloonlumney.
Sunday ......10.00 Rooskey: ... Peter & Ellen Gallagher, Cloonlarhan.

Your prayers please for Eileen Golden, Calva, husb. James, parents Paddy & Jane O'Gara.
Mary Sherlock nee Shannon, Moygara, mother of Fr. Vincent, who died unexpextedly on Fri. 21st. Funeral from her home to Cloonloo Church on Mon. to arrive at 8pm. Mass on Tues. at 12 noon. Our sympathy to her husband Bill, family, Gerard, Kieran & Fr. Vincent, daughter-in-law Helena (Gallagher, Cloonlarhan) & family.
Joe McMorrow, Boyle, father of Sean McMorrow, Rooskey, 29.8.'07.
Madeline Lavin, Sligo, 26.8.'06. Mother of Marie Henry, Derrikinlough.
Joe Caulfield, of Ballaghaderreen & Dublin, 29.8.'05.
Joseph Coggeran, Palmfield, 26.8.'90.

Feastdays: Mon. 24th. St. Bartholomew, Apostle; identified with Nathanael of Cana.
Thurs . 27th. St. Monica, 332-387, mother of St. Augustine. Patron saint of mothers.
Fri. 28th. St. Augustine, 354-430, bishop of Hippo, N. Africa, Doctor of the Church.
Sat.. 29th. The beheading of St. John the Baptist, his greatest act of witness to Christ.

Readers & Servers for next Sunday 30 Aug. the Twenty-Second Sunday in Ordinary Time.
Carracastle: Saturday 8.00; Reader, The Dooney Family.
............................................ Servers, Shane Fleming, Ciaran Murphy, Aidan Morrisroe.
.................... Sunday 11.30: Reader, Margaret Owens.
............................................ Servers, Brendan & Paul Vesey, Aidan Hopkins.
Rooskey: ..... Sunday 10.00; Reader, Jacqui McMorrow.
............................................ Servers, Nuala & Leah Gallagher & Jason Gallagher.

The Cemetery Thank you to all who gave to the Annual Cemetery Maintenance Fund. Envelopes may be given in the Offertory basket or to Committee members or Parish House.

Altar Flowers Carracastle to appreciate the work of the small number of women who kindly & faithfully change the flowers each week, often providing the flowers themselves.

Scoil Iosa Each year it is a challenge to keep up the pupil numbers with less births/ pupils enrolling than the number graduating. It is expected that the Government will increase the pupil-teacher ratio, as was done last year. All parents, & people of the community in general can help Scoil Iosa by seeking new pupils to enrol, or by recommending our School. It is of some concern that here has not been a child born (& living) in the parish since mid Nov. last. Principal- Marian Maloney 087-2112555. School website www.scoiliosacarracastle.com

Carracastle Childcare Pre-School & After-School webpage can be viewed on www.scoiliosacarracastle.com

It has been satisfying over the past 2 weeks to have some jobs attended to, which had been intended, at both Churches & at the Parish House. Work is progressing at Rooskey Church to fit dry-lining, at 5 feet high, all about inside to remedy the problem where-by efflourescent salts- a reaction between damp & the cement plaster- was breaking the paint to 5 feet high.
The exterior of Carracastle Church has been brightened by power-washing; the low wall & railings at the road also cleaned. This week we expect the tarmac to finish along the path.
At the Parish House many & various pieces of work, inside & out- repairs to the pine-wood bay windows & glass replaced, to make the house more ready for the new priest coming.
It has been an intense time attending to this, & still some more to do in this coming week.
Thankfully, it has been a quiet enough time to be able to get on with it.
To thank the men especially, for being available & for doing the work so ably, at the Parish House in particular, with so many small pieces of repairs & works.
Fr. Phillip Mulligan had the Parish House built, in 1913, to a very high standard of design & finish- with glass porch & bay windows, fine stairs & tiled hall-way, large rooms with high ceilings & ornate plaster mouldings, marble fireplace in main front room. The work being done now is to prepare the structure/ surfaces for the next stage of painting & decoration. There is still a difficult enough piece of repair to be done in the front main room (on the left as one faces the house), where wet had over years had been entering through cracks at an upper level in the corner quoins, which caused decay in ceiling/ upper floor joists, & collapse of a corner portion of the latt & plaster ceiling. The quoins were replaced some years ago.
Internally, the house will need total painting/ decor, as well as outside- which is so obvious.
It seems advisable for the new priest to avail of alternative accomodation for a few weeks, for the duration of the works & decoration, until the house ready to occupy.
Since the house was built during the reign of King Edward, and is a very fine example of Edwardian architecture/style, it is listed by Mayo Co. Council in the Development Plan.
With the need to attend to these works I have been less able to attend to office/paper work & to finishing up, apart from the whole business of packing & getting ready for moving.
So, will be a busy week ahead to attend to the finishing-up stuff, and the removals to happen in the week after, from 1st. September.

Congratulations to Ceire Moran, Coppulcurragh, who was crowned Carracastle Lass 2009 last Sunday night. The Community Council thanks all 10 girls who took part & their sponsors.

Caiseal Gaels Boys U-12 team will play in a Blitz in Croke Park on Tues. 25 Aug. We wish them all the best on this very special day for them, their trainers & families going with them.
Best Wishes to the Under-13 team which includes girls who will play in the County Final against Tooreen this Sunday 23rd, in Tooreen at 7pm. This game was postrponed due to the heavy rainfall this weekend. Support appreciated. We hope to look forward to a celebration home-coming afterwards.

CPR/ Defibrillator Response Course to be held on Wed. 26th. & Thurs. 27th., 7 to 10pm, in Cosgallen. Further details 094-9255070.

Appreciation to Les & Louise Hardy & son Mark, Cloonfane who, over the years, have most generously provided to the Community & to the Parish the excellent Carracastle Community Website, which they have created & maintain at their own expense. To note, that it is first a Community website, to which you are invited to submit/ contribute items of information, notices, articles of interest, photos. Les Hardy is the administrator (admin@carracastle.com).
Fr. Joe up-loads the Parish Newsletter each week. It is considerable that if you 'Google' the name 'Carracastle', of the many Carracastles that exist, our Carracastle comes top of the list.

www.mayofree.com a business directory for Co. Mayo- where you can have a free page to advertise your business, service, club, community activity- has been created by Mark Hardy.