Palm Sunday of the Lord’s Passion
24th March 2024
Holy Week
Palm Sunday
5.00pm: Penitential
Service and Confessions in Church of Immaculate Conception
Monday
Masses: 7.00am; 10.00am.
Tuesday
Masses: 7.00am; 7.00pm
Confessions: After
7.00pm Mass
Wednesday
Masses: 7.00am; 10.00am
Confessions: 10.30am
Holy Thursday
4.00pm: Mass for School Children &
Elderly
7.00pm: Mass
of the Lord's Supper, followed by Adoration at the Altar of Repose in the Day
Chapel until 9.00pm
The 7.00pm Mass is the
principal Mass for Holy Thursday and is the beginning of the Easter Triduum.
Strictly speaking it should be the only Parish Mass today. We encourage people
to come to this Mass.
Good Friday (A Day of Fast and
Abstinence)
10.00am: Morning Prayer
11.30am - 12noon: Confessions
3.00pm: Celebration of the Lord's Passion
4.00pm - 4.30pm: Confessions
7.00pm: Stations of the Cross
Holy Saturday
10.00am: Morning Prayer
11.30am - 12noon: Confessions
8.30pm: Mass of the Easter Vigil (Please
bring a candle)
Please Note: There will not be Mass at
7.00pm this evening.
Easter Sunday
Masses: 8.30am; 10.30am; 12.30pm
Holy
Week and Easter are the most important times in the Church year. Possibly your
Lent never got off the ground or maybe you failed in your resolutions at an
early stage. Why not make the extra effort during this week to come to daily
Mass or make some special sacrifice. May the Lord bless all those who attended
Mass in such great numbers during Lent.
We
welcome into God’s Family through the Sacrament of Baptism:
Scarlett Mai Lynch
We
congratulate the following couple who were recently united in the Sacrament of
Marriage:
Louise Moore and Martin
Murray
May
they Rest in Peace
Deaths
Mary Gillespie, 20
Knockavoe Crescent
Greta Barr, 134
Carlton Drive
Michael Thomas Hamilton,
Mulvey House
Frances
McGinley, Lifford
Brigid Logue, Portrush
Yvonne Hackett,
Augher
Pearse McCauley, Fountain
Street
Anniversaries
Paul McMenamin, Alice Canavan, Seamus O’Doherty
Peggy Hegarty, Joe McCosker, Rita
Sharkey
Vincent Sharkey, Robert McKenna, Maggie McKenna
Mary Meehan, Betty Roulston, Packie Patton
Michael Canavan, Helen O’Neill, Myra Catterson
Tommy McCallion, Nellie Ferry, Ray Smith
Willie Doherty, Terry McNulty, Sarah Carlin
Mary McElroy, Tessie McCallion, Tommy McGillicuddy
Mary Alice Byrne
Announcements
Last
week’s collection amounted to £3328.00. Thank you.
Those who pay to the
weekly collection or any special collections, including Priest’s Collection, by
cheque are asked that all cheques should be made payable to ‘Melmount
Parish’.
Parishioners
can still leave their contributions in the Parish Office. Contributions can be
made by cheque made payable to Melmount Parish or cash. If the Office is closed
please use the letterbox.
Notices
for the Bulletin Due to the Bank Holiday on Good Friday all anniversaries and notices for
next week’s bulletin must be notified by 12 noon on Tuesday 26 March.
Exposition
of the Blessed Sacrament will take place in the church on Monday 25 March after 10.00am Mass until
6.00pm.
Trócaire Trócaire Collection boxes should be
returned to the Church at any of the ceremonies for Holy Week or on Easter
Sunday. It would be a great help if small coins could be changed for notes or
pound coins. Because of banking requirements all cheques should be made payable
to ‘Melmount Parish’.
Vocations
For our seminarians and
those who are considering priesthood, that in their ministry they will do all
they can to ensure that, in the words of St. Paul, ‘…every tongue should
acclaim Jesus Christ as Lord, to the glory of God the Father.’
Mass
of Chrism will take place on Holy
Thursday, 28 March at 10.00am in St. Eugene’s Cathedral, Derry. Bishop Donal
McKeown will be the Principal Celebrant. All priests and people of the diocese
are invited to come and join in this celebration of the Eucharist. The bishop
will bless the oil of catechumens, the oil of the sick and the oil of Chrism,
all of which are used for the celebration of the sacraments during the year.
Blessing
of Graves The
Annual Ceremony of the Blessing of Graves will take place here in Melmount on
Sunday 19 May 2024 at 4.00pm.
Parish
Draw Promoters should make
their returns for April to the Parish Office on Monday 15 April from 2.00pm
- 4.00pm. The Draw for April will take place on Thursday 18 April at
10.30am in the Parish Office.
Baptism
Dates
April: Saturday 6; Sunday 14; Sunday 21.
May: Sunday 5; Saturday 11; Saturday 25.
June: Sunday 9; Saturday 22; Saturday 29.
July: Sunday 7; Saturday 13; Saturday 27.
August: Sunday 4; Saturday 10; Saturday 24.
Baptisms
will be at 4.00pm on a Saturday and 1.15pm on a Sunday.
To book a Baptism contact
the Parish Office on 71383777 during office hours.
Accord
Derry Marriage Preparation Courses (Pre-Marriage Courses) will take place on 19/20 April; 17/18
May and 14/15 June. Courses can be booked online at www.accordni.com. Please
note that all courses are now in person and NOT virtual.
Collection
Envelopes We thank those who
contributed to the Parish during the year. Those who made their contributions
using the collection envelope will receive a new box to begin on Sunday 7
April. Envelopes will be delivered over the coming weeks. Please do not
use these envelopes before the 7 April 2024 as they belong to a new tax year.
If anyone who has not been using envelopes would like a box please contact the
Parish Office on 71383777. Anyone who pays income tax, even those who are
retired but who receive a taxable pension, and who would like to consider being
part of the Gift Aid Scheme by using an envelope, which is of tremendous
benefit to the parish, should contact the Parish Office on 71383777 for more
information.
The
Parish Draw for March took place on Thursday 21 March. The winners are as follows:
£500: 1268
Mary Patton – Elizabeth O’Hare
£250: 1127
Carmel McDaid – Ann Donaghey
£250: 1428
Jean McDermott - Sheelagh
McKelvey
£250:
1489
Siobhan Devine – Maureen Hegarty
£150: 1474
Martha O’Donnell – Elizabeth O’Hare
£150: 1185
Angela McColgan – Sheelagh McKelvey
£150: 1003
Anne Winters – Dolores Houston
£100: 1424
Lisa Browne – Elizabeth O’Hare
£100:
1115 Padraig Donaghey – Ann
Donaghey
£100: 1553
Maureen O’Donnell – Katrina Houston
