Masses for the week
Monday 4th - Sunday 10th March 2019
Monday, 4th March Saint Casimir
8.00am: Holy Souls 10.00am: Winnie Stokes (Month’s
Mind)
Tuesday, 5th March Saint Kieran
8.00am: Molly Campbell 10.00am: George Frayne
St Joseph’s 11am: No
Intention
Wednesday, 6th March Ash Wednesday - A Day of Fast &
Abstinence
8.00am: No Intention 10.00am Joe Quinn
1.05pm: William Lawrence (1st Anniv) 7.30pm Daniel
Kieran Farrell
Thursday, 7th March Saint Perpetua and Saint Felicity
8.00am: Dan O’Sullivan 10.00am: Mary and James Dermody
St Joseph’s 11am: No
Intention
1.05pm: No Intention 7.30pm: Ann Kelly
Friday, 8th March Saint Senan and Saint John of God
8.00am: No Intention 10.00am: Con, Hannah and Condy
O’Sullivan 1.05pm No Intention 7.30pm: Kathleen Gray
Saturday, 9th March Saint Frances of Rome
8.00am: No Intention 10.00am: Seán Connolly
Sunday, 10th March First Sunday of Lent
Vigil 7.30pm: Bernard Oates
8.00am: No Intention 10.00am: Thomás and Mary Burke
and DFM
11.30am: Shared:
Ross McCann (Month’s Mind).
Sam Dennigan.
1.00pm: Helen McEvilly
St.
Anne’s, Curry: 9.30a.m. No Intention
St. Michael’s, Shroid: 10.30a.m. Paddy and
Patricia Glennon
St.
Joseph’s Chapel: 11.00a.m. Deceased members of the Shiels
and Taaffe families.
REST IN PEACE
Your
prayers are requested for David Hughes, Teffia Park, whose funeral will take place
on Monday at 11am, burial afterwards in Ballymacormack Cemetery.
RECENTLY BAPTISED: We
welcomed into the Christian Community recently: Darragh Jody Jones and Edward Martin Gerard McDonagh.
OFFERTORY COLLECTION: we thank you for your contribution
to last Sunday’s Offertory Collection that amounted to €4,810.00.
SHROVE DUES COLLECTION: for the
support of the priests of the Parish is due at this time.
STATION OF THE CROSS: There
will be Stations of the Cross on each Friday of Lent at 6.45pm. Our children will
lead the Stations of the Cross. All are welcome.
THE BETHANY BEREAVEMENT SUPPORT
GROUP: Meet
in the Family Centre on this Wednesday from 10.45am to 11.45am and 8pm to 9pm. All
bereaved people are welcome. Contact: 087 7552192.
FAMILY MASS: is next Sunday 10th
March at 10am. We are looking forward to meeting all our young friends and many
new ones.
PANCAKES FOR MARY’S MEALS: on
Shrove Tuesday, Mar 5th in the Family Centre after 10am Mass and up to lunch time.
Entrance via the (side door).
LONGFORD COLLEGE OF FURTHER EDUCATION: Open
Day will take place on Wed Mar 6th from 10am- 6pm at Connolly Barracks Longford.
QQI Level 5& 6 offered in Business, Information
Technology, Nursing, Healthcare, Beauty and Hairdressing. 390 CAO POINTS obtainable.
TEMPERANCE SUNDAY : Today
is Temperance Sunday a day of special prayer for the virtue of Temperance in our
lives. With this in mind we are planning to 'call back to life' the Pioneer Total
Abstinence Association in our parish. If you are a pioneer or would like to become
a member of the P.T.A.A. or just get to some information, you are invited to a meeting
upstairs in St Mel's Cathedral on Monday 11th March at 8pm.
KILLOE PARISH MISSION: Redemptorist
Mission Team. Sunday 10th March to Saturday 16th March. St Mary’s, Ennybegs and
St Oliver’s, Cullyfad.
ARDAGH AND CLONMACNOIS PILGRIMAGE
TO LOURDES 2019: will take place from Sunday 26th May to Friday 31st May. Five nights fully
inclusive price €749. Please contact Joe Walsh Tours 01 2410812. Pilgrimage Director:
Rt. Rev Monsignor Bernard Noonan P.P. Moate, Co. Westmeath. Tel: 090 64 81180. Director
Special Section for Sick/Assisted Pilgrims: V Rev Michael Scanlon P.P. Cloghan Co
Offaly. Tel 090 64 57122.
LENT: We will celebrate
Mass at 1.05pm, each weekday during the season of Lent. We will make every effort
to have the Mass completed by 1.30pm. We hope that this Mass will accommodate people
working locally and others who cannot make the morning Mass but would like to make
every effort to attend Mass for the season of Lent, which begins on Wed 6th Mar.
