Parish News for Sunday 31st October 2010

Vol.37 No.43

31st Sunday in Ordinary Time

PRIESTS OF THE PARISH
Fr Michael Canny
Fr Gerard Mongan
Fr Daniel McFaul
Fr Peter Raftery C.S.Sp.
Fr Joseph Varghese
Deacon: Rev James Devine

Remembering Our Dead

‘By virtue of the communion of saints, the Church commends the dead to God’s mercy and offers her prayers, especially the holy sacrifice of the Eucharist on their behalf’. This is how the Catechism reminds us of our need to pray for the dead throughout the year but we remember them in a special way during the month of November.

All Saints, Monday, 1st November

It is a holyday of Obligation. Masses for the Holyday are as follows:
Sunday, 31st October: 6.15 Vigil Mass (either for the obligation of Sunday or the Holyday). (No 7.30 pm Vigil Mass because of Council fireworks display.)
Monday, 1st November: 7.00, 9.30, 11.00, 12.30 pm and 7.30 pm.

The Retired Priests Collection will be taken up at all Masses on the Holyday (All Saints).

Indulgences for Holy Souls

From 12 noon on 1st November until midnight on 2nd, all who have received Holy Communion and prayed for the Pope’s intentions (one Our Father and Hail Mary, or any other prayer of one’s choice) can gain one plenary indulgence by visiting a church or oratory, and reciting one Our Father and the Apostles Creed. This indulgence is applicable only to the souls of the departed. Confession may be made at any time within the week preceding or the week following 1st November. For every other visit to a church made during this time a partial indulgence for the same intention may be gained. The faithful who visit a cemetery and pray for the dead may gain a plenary indulgence applicable only to the Holy Souls on the usual conditions once per day from 1st to 8th November. The conditions mentioned above apply also to this.

Concelebrated Mass for the Dead

There will be a Concelebrated Mass at 7.30 pm on Tuesday (2nd November) for the deceased members of each home in the parish. If a close relative was buried from another church during the past year please leave the deceased’s name in the Sacristy or Parochial House so that they can be remembered in the Mass and ask someone to receive a candle in their memory.

As November is a special month of prayer for the dead, there will be a book in which you can enrol the names of your deceased family and friends. At the Masses each day during the month, there will be a special prayer for those enrolled.

Sympathy

We offer our sympathy to the family and friends of

Meta Harrigan, 31 Northland Avenue.

May she rest in peace.

Anniversaries

We remember the anniversaries of:

Annie Gallagher, Hugh Murray, Herbert Street, Siobhan McEleney (nee Quinn),

Sean & Myra McCaul, Martin Quigley, Mary Gallagher (nee Page) and Agnes Downey.

May they rest in peace.

Baptism

We welcome as members of the Christian community:

Violet Adelene McMonagle, 8 Glenview Street.

Jennifer Katherine Diane Carr, 17 Marlborough Terrace.

Adam Niall Cassidy, 9 Park Avenue.

Readers - Weekdays
10.00 am Neil McMahon
07.30 pm Adele McCauley

Readers on duty
Feast of All Saints
06.15 pm Roísín Bonar
09.30 am Brendan Burns
11.00 am Terry Willman-Gallagher
12.30 pm Charlie McDermott
07.30 pm Adele McCauley

Readers on duty next Weekend
06.15 pm Garvin Kerr
07.30 pm Mona Tracey
09.30 am Brendan Burns
11.00 am Eugene McClintock
12.30 pm Marie Canning

Eucharistic Ministers
Team *B* begins its rota
at the 6.15 pm Vigil Mass
next weekend.

Sick Visitation

Fr Michael Canny will visit the sick in his care this week:

Mon am: 10.00 Lisfannon Park.
Mon pm: 3.00 - William St, Columbcille Crt, Chamberlain St, Brewster’s Close.
Wed am: 10.00 - Westland Ave, Westland St, Glenfada Pk, Abbey Pk, Fahan St, Joseph Place, Cable St.
Thurs am: 10.00 - Limewood St, Beechwood St, Elmwood Tce.
Thurs am: 11.30 - Fr Mulvey Pk.
Thurs pm: 2.00 - Lisfannon Pk (Upper), Eglinton Tce, Blucher St, Little Diamond.

The Monthly Devotions In Honour of Our Lady in Termonbacca on Tuesday starting with confessions at 7.30 pm followed by Rosary and Mass finishing around 10.00 pm.

An Evening for Church Flower Arrangers will take place in Thornhill Centre on Thursday, 18th November from 7.30 to 9.00 pm.

Fr Canny acknowledges with thanks donations for:

Trócaire: £50, £12. Altar Flowers: £20. St Pio: £50.

Thank you for your generosity to the Foreign Mission Collection taken up last weekend.

Renovations Collection amounted to £931.

Draw will take place on Friday, 17th December 2010.
Tickets available from the Parochial House or in the upstairs room
in the Sacristy on Friday night from 8.00 pm to 9.00 pm.

If you wish to volunteer to sell tickets please contact the Parochial House.

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