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 Archbishop Alan Harper “Banks in the retail sector, who continue to refuse to perform in a socially responsible manner, should have their licences revoked,” stated the Church of Ireland’s Archbishop of Armagh and Primate of All Ireland Alan E. T. Harper, OBE, at the Church of Ireland’s three day Synod, which began on Thursday last and was attended by many C of I clergy from Co.Tipperary.
In his Presidential address, Archbishop Harper stated:
“The consequences of recession are devastating for those forced into unemployment or faced with the collapse of their Companies. I recently received a letter from a GP. He described what he encounters in his consulting rooms as a result of families stressed to the limit by pressure from their banks: decent folk, pillars of the local community, reduced to tears. That GP’s observations are more than supported by the statistics of suicide in both jurisdictions.
I have no special knowledge of banking practice except the experience of being a member of a single income family throughout my working life of 45 years. I know what it is to bump along the bottom and to have to depend on an understanding bank manager in a crisis situation. I know what it means to enjoy the generosity of family and the understanding of friends. What concerns me now is the extent to which things have changed.
The effects of the restriction in bank lending have been disastrous for small and medium sized businesses, especially in the construction sector, and, consequently, for those made unemployed as businesses contract. Many employers have been forced to the wall; one long established firm I know has laid off 60% of its workforce, others have ceased trading altogether; punitive rates of interest, in some cases more than 5% above LIBOR, are being demanded; banks are reducing overdraft facilities; asset rich but cash poor businesses, often described by the banks themselves as their core customers, are being starved of the cash required to enable them to trade, yet these same small and medium sized businesses are the backbone of the local economy.
Time was when banks were either investment partnerships or retail banks. Then, starting with Salomon Brothers in the United States in 1981, partnerships were floated as corporations, transferring the risks to shareholders rather than the partners and employees, and blurring the distinctions between two very different types of activity. At this point the strength of the capitalist system in collectivizing the sharing of risk became, it could be argued, a weakness. As the financial sector sought to create more high risk credit and to invent products to spread the risk of investment among an ever widening pool of shareholders and clients, many people became involved in this area of the economy without being fully aware of the risk that they carried.”
To read the full text of Archbishop Harpers very fine address entitled “The Priority of Mission in the Church of God” click here, as it makes for some very interesting Sunday reading by all so called Christians.
 Canon Katharine Poulton The Church of Ireland has appointed a woman as Dean of St Canice’s Cathedral in the vibrant medieval city of Kilkenny which is part of the Diocese of Cashel and Ossory and which has been totally male-dominated since the Middle Ages.
The Church of Ireland has over 115,000 members in the Republic of Ireland and the Dioceses of Cashel and Ossory is one of 12 dioceses, covering the counties of Tipperary, Kilkenny, Carlow, Waterford, Wexford and some outer areas of Laois and Wicklow.
Canon Poulton will be formally installed and will take up her new post shortly after Easter 2010.
Aged 48, Rev Canon Poulton was born in Belfast, the daughter of a priest of the Dioceses of Down and Dromore, and moved to the Republic in 1999. She made ecclesiastical history as the first women to be ordained a Deacon in the Church of Ireland in 1987 and the second only female Dean in the Church of Ireland. She currently resides in Killiney South Co Dublin, with her two teenage children and husband Rev.Ian Poulton, who is rector of the Dublin parish of Ballybrack.
The Rev. Canon Poulton is currently serving as Bishop’s Curate of the Dublin inner city parish of St George and St Thomas, based at Cathal Brugha Street and has been a canon of Christ Church Cathedral, Dublin since 2007. She is also a chaplain to the Mater Hospital, Temple Street Hospital and Mountjoy Prison.
Canon Poulton succeeds the Rev. Norman Lynas, who recently vacated his Kilkenny post to become a ‘Canon In Residence’ in Hamilton on the island of Bermuda.
Last month, the US ambassador to Ireland Mr Dan Rooney visited St Canice’s Cathedral, to see the tomb of bishop John Kearney, an ancestor of US President Barack Hussein Obama, thus confirming speculation that the American President will visit Kilkenny and St Canice’s Cathedral, when he visits Ireland shortly. President Obama is also expected to visit Moneygall, situated on the border separating counties Tipperary and Offaly, the original home of his Irish ancestors.
Dates and venues have now been agreed for Confirmation and First Holy Communion in Thurles, during 2010, and are shown hereunder.
 Thurles Cathedral, Thurles. Thurles Confirmation Date:
Date: Saturday April 24th., 2010.
Time: 11.00 a.m.
Venue: Cathedral of The Assumption, Thurles
Thurles First Holy Communion Dates:
Date: Saturday May 8th., 2010.
Time: 11.00 a.m.
Venue: Cathedral of The Assumption, Thurles.
Schools: Scoil Ailbhe C.B.S. Primary School and Scoil Mhuire Presentation Primary School.
Date: Saturday May 15th., 2010.
Time: 11.00 a.m.
Venue: Cathedral of The Assumption, Thurles.
Schools: Leugh N.S., Rahealty N.S. and Scoil Angela Ursuline Primary School.
Date: Saturday May 15th., 2010.
Time: 12.00 Noon.
Venue: Church of St. Joseph and Bridget, Bóthar Na Naomh, Thurles.
School: Gaelscoil Bhríde.
It was on the 15th November 1996 that the Minute Book of the Thurles /Rahealty Famine Food Committee was first discovered in St. Mary’s Church Thurles Co. Tipperary. The book had been put in an old apple box with some unwanted prayer and hymn books in 1850 and then placed on the top floor in the bell tower for safe keeping. Over the next 146 years the 2nd and 3rd floors leading to the 4th floor bell tower became unsafe and the contents of the apple box were forgotten. Then in 1996 it was decided to fully restore the church and its 13th century tower resulting in the box and its contents being located and identified.
This minute book contains valuable information of both local & national importance, concerning the ‘Great Famine’ period 1846 and 1847.
 Lila Stanley, Linda Stanley, Kathy Langley & Mary Russell In this book the locations of the soup kitchens in Thurles are given, together with details of their running costs and those employed there.
On Sunday next 15th November for the first time since 1849 a group of ladies from this parish Church will make history by manufacturing this soup, based solely on the recipe contained in these historical minutes.
Visitors to the Church on Sunday next from 10.00am until 6.00pm can view the large collection of famine memorabilia contained in the Famine Museum and if they wish can also taste, for the first time, this famine soup which was given, mainly free, to those forced to attend the 3 soup kitchens then established here in Thurles during the 1845 to 1849 period.
All tours on the day will be accompanied by a guide.
This event will be followed later in the evening by the second annual Famine Memorial multi denomination service which will take place in St. Mary’s Church also on Sunday next, 15th November at 8.00 pm. This ceremony will be conducted by the Rector of St. Mary’s, Rev Peter Cole-Baker assisted by local historian Rev. Monsignor Dr. Maurice Dooley, latter retired parish priest of Loughmore, who will also preach the sermon. Music for this famine memorial service will be provided by members and musicians of the Thurles Cathedral Youth Choir and Phoenix Productions under the direction of local Councillor & Solicitor Mr. Gerard O’Brien.
A warm invitation is issued to all who wish to attend any part of this full day event on Sunday next and elderly persons are advised to come early for the memorial service to ensure seating.
Front and rear gates to St. Mary’s Church will be open, to allow for easy access and car parking.
The annual nine day Solemn Novena to Our Lady of Perpetual Help will commence in Holycross Abbey, Thurles , Co.Tipperary, on Tuesday next September 8th and continue daily until Wednesday, September 16th . The Abbey’s parish priest is presently Rev.Fr. Thomas Breen.
Mass Times for this years Solemn Novena
 Holycross Abbey 1841 Daily Times
Abbey: 7.00 a.m. – 10.30 a.m. – 4.30 p.m. – 7.30. p.m. – 9.30. p.m.
Marquee: 10.30 a.m. – 4.30 p.m. – 7.30 p.m. – 9.30 p.m.
(Note: Confessions before, during and after each session.)
Sunday Times
Abbey: 7.00 a.m. – 10.30 a.m. – 12.30. p.m. – 2.30. p.m. – 7.30 p.m. 9.30 p.m.
Marquee: 10.30. a.m. – 12.30. p.m. – 2.30. p.m. – 7.30. p.m. and 9.30. p.m.
(Special Note: Special ceremony for the sick (anointing of the sick) on Saturday 2.30 p.m. during the Novena.)
During this Solemn Novena each year thousands of Christian pilgrims gather at this historic Abbey, in search and, more importantly, often finding the spiritual and natural healing they so earnestly seek in their lives.
History Of Holycross Abbey
The Holy Cross Abbey (Mainistir na Croise Naofa) is a now a beautifully restored Cistercian monastery in the village of Holycross, five miles from Thurles town. Situated on the River Suir (Abhainn na Siúire) this Abbey takes its name from a relic of the True Cross or Holy Rood. The fragment of that Holy Rood was brought to Ireland by the French Plantagenet Queen Isabella of Angouleme, in approximately 1233.
The beautiful Queen Isabella (1188 – 1246) was the second wife, and then widow of King John (1166 -1216 – Legendary enemy of English folklore hero Robin Hood). Queen Isabella married King John at the tender age of 12 years becoming mother of Henry 111, (Henry of Winchester). Following King John’s death she remarried one Hugh X of Lusignan and during her two marriages she gave issue to 14 children all of whom survived into adulthood.
Queen Isabella bestowed this relic on the original Cistercian Monastery in Thurles, which she then had reconstructed and from hence it derives it’s present name, ‘Holy Cross Abbey’.
Following the attempted dissolution of the monasteries through the Tudor conquest and the Cromwellian War (1649 – 1653), HolyCross Abbey slowly fell into ruins towards the middle of the 17th century, and instead now slowly become a place for public burial, amid its ruins, particularly after 1740.
Following special legislation in the Irish Parliament (Dáil Éireann) on its 50th anniversary,(21st of January 1969), Holy Cross Abbey was rightfully restored as a place of Roman Catholic worship and was correctly recognised primarily as a national Irish monument of great exception.
The Sacristan of St. Peter’s Basilica in Rome provided an authenticated relic of the Holy Cross, and the emblem of the Jerusalem Cross, also referred too as the Crusader Cross, has now been returned to the Abbey.
The thousands of tourists who make a pilgrimage to Holycross each year from all over the world, speak of the Abbey’s great beauty, peace and serenity.
 Lucky Ann Marie Purcell-Hennessy pictured here being presented with the keys of her new Renault car which she won by supporting the Thurles Parish Car Draw.
Thurles Parish is grateful to all those who have supported this draw which has generated €87,958.00 of the €1,315,260.00 total collected to date.
Also in the picture is Fr. Martin Hayes, Adm., James Hennessy, Ann Purcell and Fr. Tom Lanigan-Ryan.
Note the fund raising target for this refurbishment is €2.5 million.
Meanwhile work is continuing at the Bothar-Na-Naomh complex where the construction of ‘Meeting Room’ facilities and the refurbishment of the presbytery are due to be completed by September of this year.
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Saint Patrick’s College here in Thurles, County Tipperary, will welcome visitors from all over the world on Tuesday next as it hosts its International reunion for past students.
Books of Condolences which are currently located in the Enquiries Office will be outside the Public Theatre for the Memorial Service, should those in attendance wish to sign them.
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