Sunday, 2nd April 2023 - Ardstraw East Parish Newsletter -




Parish of Ardstraw East

Palm Sunday - 2nd April 2023

CONTACTS AND CORRESPONDENCE

Rev. Roland Colhoun, CC, 41 Moyle Road, Newtownstewart, BT78 4AP

Tel: 028-8166 1445, Email: ardstraweast@derrydiocese.org   

Rev. Brian Donnelly, PP, Tel: 028-8164 8283



L I T U R G I E S   F O R   T H E   W E E K



Sunday Mass 11:30am, Rosary 11:15am (Glenock)

Monday Mass 10am, Rosary 9:45am (Oratory)

Holy ThursdayMass 7:30pm, Holy Hour 6:30pm, Confessions 8:30pm (Oratory)

Silent Prayer at the Altar of Repose 8:30pm, Rosary 9:30pm (Oratory)

Good Friday Morning – Divine Mercy Novena 10am, Morning Prayer 10:15am (Oratory)

Good Friday – The Passion 12:30pm, Stations of Cross 7:30pm (Glenock)

Holy Saturday – DM Novena 10am, Morning Prayer 10:15, Confessions 10:30 (Oratory)

Holy Saturday Evening Vigil Mass 9pm, Rosary 8:45pm (Oratory)

Easter Sunday Divine Mercy Novena 11am, Rosary 11:15am, Mass 11:30am (Glenock)

 

CONFESSION FOR HOLY WEEKEaster duty – please attend the Sacrament.

 

CONFESSIONSSunday 3:30pm (G’castle), 4:45pm (Rouskey) 7pm (Plumbridge)

Holy Thur. 8:30pm (Oratory), Good Fri. 8pm (Glenock), Holy Sat. 10:30am (Oratory)

 



SUNDAY COLLECTION – £824.  Glenock Restoration: £536.  Clerical Education (St Patrick’s Day): £512.  Thank you for your constant generosity!

 

NEW PARISH ENVELOPES – Please collect your own box at the Oratory and kindly deliver some of the boxes to your neighbours.  Supporting the Church is a duty.

 

PARISH GATHERING – Follow-up meeting – planning/discussion for the future of the parishes.  Sacred Heart Room, Oratory, Monday 3rd April, 8pm.  All welcome!

 

TRÓCAIRE BOXES – Please return your box to church/oratory during Holy Week.

 


REQUIESCANT IN PACE

Our prayers are asked for the souls of those whose anniversaries occur at this time:

John McGlinchey Snr, John McGlinchey Jnr, Mary Ellen McFadden, Jim Wilson, Annie Coyle

Margaret McDaid, Lizzie Duffy, Tommy Coyle, Marian Armstrong, Paddy Logue


 

YEAR OF PRAYER FOR VOCATIONS – We pray for all those called to serve the Good Shepherd who came to seek out and find the lost sheep.

 

ORDINATION – Reverend Liam Dodd (Liverpool) was ordained to the priesthood yesterday, 1st April, in Italy.  Fr Liam is a grandson of Patsy and Kathleen McCrory (Rouskey) and a cousin of Eamon McCrory (Newtownstewart).

 

HUMOUR – Giving up computers for forty days is Excel Lent!