Feast of Corpus Christi Celebration
Mass & Eucharistic Procession is set to return to Athea this year, after an absence of over 20 years. Following 7.30pm mass on Saturday June 17th, our local clergy carrying the Monstrance and consecrated Eucharist together with the Holy Communion & Confirmation Children will process down Con Colbert Street to Con Colbert Memorial Hall.
The Holy Communion Children are invited once again to dress in their Holy Communion outfits and sprinkle petals during the journey to welcome the Holy Eucharist. Houses/Businesses on the Main Street/ Route are also invited to set up a Holy Altar / Display at their premises. Light refreshments will be served at the Hall following the procession.
A warm welcome is extended to everyone to join the Holy Mass and Procession and help us to ‘Unite Once Again’.
Many people have shared very fond memories of the Processions in Athea in the years gone by and we look forward to sharing this important and significant tradition with the younger generation on June 17th also.
Anyone wishing to donate baked goods for the occasion are asked to text 087 7770375
St. Bartholomew’s Church Athea
No booked Intentions for next Saturday June 17th 7.30pm: Mass pro populo
Ministers of the Word: Linda Hunt & Amy O’Connor.
Ministers of the Eucharist: Pat Higgins & Margaret Ahern.
Weekday Masses this coming week: Tuesday & Thursday morning at 9.30am – followed by Eucharistic Adoration and Devine Mercy Chaplet on Tuesday morning.
All masses are streamed live on https://www,churchservices.tv/athea
Baptisms on the 4th Saturday of the month at 2.30pm. Baptism course on Tues June 13th at 8pm.
Parish Office: Mon-Fri 11am-1pm. Call 087-3331459, email [email protected]
Celebration Corpus Christi Mass and Eucharistic Procession: A Time to Unite Once Again – Sat June 17th to celebrate the Feast of Corpus Christi, we will have a Procession through the village (weather permitting) next Saturday evening after the 7.30pm Vigil Mass. The Eucharistic Procession will begin after Mass at the parish church and proceed to the Con Colbert Memorial Community Centre for prayers before the Blessed Sacrament and concluding with Benediction. Refreshments will be served in the hall afterwards. All are welcome.
Many Thanks
Patrick Langan, Glenagragra would like to thank all the people who sent him good wishes during his recent illness. Thanks for all the cards and phone calls, it was very much appreciated.
Camino Challenge 2023.
I have signed up to take part in the Irish Hospice Foundation’s Camino Challenge 2023. Along with 30 others from Ireland, we will take on a challenging 114km walk over five days along the First Stage of French Camino – crossing the challenging Pyrenees in September. Each participant funds their own expenses, with a target set for fundraising €1,200, which will go directly towards furthering the work of the Irish Hospice Foundation, striving for best care at end of life for all. This charity rely on voluntary fundraising to support and maintain this work. I would be most grateful for any support you could give by way of donation by contacting me on 0879042477.
Tugaim buíochas leat roimh ré as do chabhair.
Damien
The Way I See It
By Domhnall de Barra
First of all I want to apologize to all you crossword enthusiasts who missed out on the crossword for the past two weeks. I had the wrong grid inserted which meant that the clues could not possibly fit. Thanks to Mairéad Langan for pointing it out to me. I have no excuse except that I may be “doting” in my old age. Anyway, back to normal this week – enjoy.
Voice recognition technology is now part of many of the phones, tablets, PCs and televisions we use every day. It is no longer necessary to type in a request, we can talk to “Siri” or “Alexa” or whatever and our wish is their command. It is very useful when composing a long text message or saving having to scroll through program listings to get the desired channel on TV. Young people have no problem but older folk, like myself, run into difficulties due to the way we talk. We grew up with a language that is very different to what is used today. It comes from the fact that for years we were speaking a mixture of Irish and English and based our pronunciations on the Irish “blas”. We also speak very quickly and don’t leave spaces between words which is fine when we are talking to each other but not good when we try to communicate with people from outside our own area or voice recognition. When I was going to school we were only a couple of generations away from an Irish speaking society so it is understandable that our grasp of a language that was strange to us would take some time. The fact that we use broad vowels, like we have in Irish, means we pronounce things in a different way. We don’t say mean, we say “mane”; cream is “crame ( as in “the cramery”). We also put in “h” after “s” in many words so that we have the Easht, Wesht, besht., mosht etc. We also tend to drop g at the end of words ending in ing. Morning becomes “mornin”, evening “evenin” etc. We sometimes drop Y from the start of words like “you” which becomes “oo”. And we also have a problem with words that start with wh. We tend to replace it with an f sound. What becomes “fhat” and where becomes “fhere”. Add to that the fact that we run our words together and shorten some of them means we have phrases like this; “What do you mean” sounds like “fhat d’u mane” “am I not telling you” becomes “amen’t I tellinu”. When you go up, go in and tell him to go out becomes “fhen you gup, goin an tell him gout”. There was a story about a tourist in Kerry who was watching fishing boats leaving a harbour in the morning. He asked a local man how long the Japanese had been fishing in the area. He explained that one captain was shouting to another in Japanese. “What did he say”, asked the local. He replied, “he shouted hi ohara, ohara uhuru howeru”. The local got a fit of laughing because he knew that what the man was really saying was, “Hi O’Hara, O’Hara you whore you, how are you”. In some areas they have also a problem with Vs and Ys. It is not uncommon to hear somebody order a “wodka and fiite” at a bar. There was a man in Kerry, long ago, who had been in the IRA during the War of Independence. He was running for local government and his chances of success were being discussed in the local pub. Some said it would be difficult for him but one pundit put forward the suggestion that “he will get elected on the wotes of the wolenteers”. Another problem is the use of I instead of E. Somebody approaching a group of men might say “hower d’min” (how are the men). It looks bad when it is written like that but when it is said we don’t take any notice of it because it is just the way we used to communicate. There is actually nothing wrong with it as the main reason for language is to communicate and as long as we understand each other, that’s fine. The problem is that Siri or Alexa weren’t living around here and have no knowledge of our colourful way of talking to each other. I have tried, for the fun of it, just talking normally, in the local dialect into the phone. What I was saying and the text it produced were poles apart and quite unintelligible so I had to go back to the drawing board, speak as properly and distinctly as I could and try again. It was better this time but it wasn’t 100% correct and I could never depend on it. We are not unique in this. People from all over the country have the same problem so we will all have to brush up on our pronunciation and diction if we want to get the best out of a technology that might be very useful to us.. In the meantime I will probably still salute with something like: “howeru gettinon”.