17/02/2017 :: 3rd Sunday of Advent :: Gaudete Sunday
Sacrament of Reconciliation
Sacrament of Reconciliation will be held
in St. Colman’s Church, Gort
Friday 22nd Dec.
at 7.30pm
Anniversaries & Intentions
| Please pray for the following for whom Mass will be offered | |
December 2017 |
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| Saturday 16th 7pm Kinvara [St. Joseph’s] |
Michael Staunton, Loughcurra, Months Mind & his wife, Kathleen [Anniversary] Padraig & Kathleen Naughton & John & Bridget McInerney [Anniversary] Frances Keane, The Cottage, Kinvara [Anniversary] & deceased members of the Keane family. |
| Sunday 17th 9am Doorus |
People of the Parish |
| Sunday 17th 10.30am Ballinderreen |
Mark Fordham, Keamsella, [2nd Anniversary] |
| 12.00 noon Kinvara [St. Colman’s] |
Francie Ryan, Main Street, Kinvara, Months Mind Tom Burke, Moy [Anniversary] |
| Tuesday 19th 7pm Ballinderreen |
Shane & David Bishop, Drumacoo [Anniversary] |
| Wednesday 20th 2.30pm Blake Manor |
Blake Manor |
| Wednesday 10am Kinvara [St. Joseph’s] |
Tony Becker, Clare View, Kinvara Months Mind |
| Thursday 21st 10am Kinvara [St. Joseph’s] |
Mass |
| Friday 22nd 10am Kinvara [St. Joseph’s] |
Mass |
| Saturday 23rd 7.00pm Kinvara [St. Joseph’s] |
Mass |
| Sunday 24th 9am Doorus |
Eileen & Alf Mahon & Patrick Halvey, Doorus [Anniversary] Margaret Fahy, Parkmore [Anniversary] |
| Sunday 24th 10.30am Christmas Eve Ballinderreen |
John Martyn, Mulrook [Anniversary] Jack, Kate, Christopher & Seamus St. George, Newtown [Anniversary] |
| St Colman’s 12.00 noonnoon Kinvara [St. Colman’s] |
Mattie Noone, Carnamadra [3rd Anniversary] Jack & Nora Conole, Crushoa [Anniversary] John & Margaret McHugh, Leitrim [Anniversary] & Felix & Bridie Leonard, Fermanagh [Anniversary] |
| Christmas Eve 5pm Kinvara |
Children’s Mass |
| Christmas Eve 7pm Kinvara [St. Joseph’s] |
Vigil Mass |
| Christmas Eve 9:15pm Ballinderreen |
Vigil Mass |
| Christmas Day 10.30am Ballinderreen |
Christmas Day Mass |
| Christmas Day 9am Doorus |
Christmas Day Mass |
| 12 noon Kinvara [St. Colman’s] |
Christmas Day Mass |
Last Sunday’s Collection
Ballinderreen: € 522.57
Kinvara: € 995.36
A sincere ‘Thank you’ for your kindness, generosity and support.
All the money collected in the weekend collections goes towards the maintenance and upkeep our Parish and Churches.
Weekly Envelopes
Will be available for collection in the three churches after each Saturday & Sunday Mass.
Readers
Required to read at Mass on Sat. evenings. Please contact Catherine in the parish Office before Fri. 15th Dec.
Family Mass
Volunteers required to participate in our monthly Family Mass. Please contact Catherine in the Parish Office.
Silent Retreat
Spiritual Exercises of Saint Ignatius: Will take place at the Alexian Brothers Monastery, Knock, Co. Mayo, for women aged 18 years and up. From December 28th 2017 to January 1st 2018. Places are limited. Please book early. For more information contact 085-8235525.
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Christmas Dues
Those of you using box of envelopes, please return the red envelope at your convenience. Anyone not using the boxes, envelopes are available at the back of the Church.
Annual Mass Remembering all Babies
Sun.17th Dec. 6pm, St. Columbanus, NUI Galway (University Chapel).
Ardrahan Church of Ireland
will hold a community Carol Service on Tuesday 19th December at 7.30 pm led by Revd. John Godfrey and Fr. Joseph Roche (Labane). All welcome
SVP
Ballinderreen annual Christmas food appeal for SVP Last day for food appeal donations Dec. 19th.
Ballinderreen Juvenile Hurling
2018 fundraiser calendar for sale in Apple Green, Kerrigan’s Londis and Jordan’s.
The Annual Christmas Swim
In aid of COPE takes place as usual at Tarea Pier after Christmas Day Mass approx. 12 noon. Please support this worthy cause.
Thanks Mark
Grateful appreciation to Mark Lane for generously donating the Christmas trees to the Parish and Tidy Village initative
Tidy Towns
Well Done to The Tidy Town Committee On the wonderful job that they have done in the village. It’s beginning to look a lot like Christmas!!!!
Ballinderreen Social Services
will hold their Christmas Party on Sunday the 7th of January in Ballinderreen Community Centre at 1 pm. Early booking essential as places are limited. Please write your name on the list in Ballinderreen Church porch. Please contact Liz at 087 13816646 or Aileen at 087 2612029 for details.
Senior Citizens Christmas Party
Christmas Party, 7th Jan. in the Merriman Hotel at 1pm. Please give your name to any committee member.
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Wellbeing Workshop
Starting Tuesday 9th January at 7.30pm – 9.30pm for 7 weeks. Contact Séamus for more information on 087-2274108 or seamusgruane@gmail.com
Land Owners / Farmers
Please check coastline around Kinvara and Ballinderreen for missing person.
Join in and support Reindeer Run
In aid of the ‘Irish Motor Neurone Disease Association’ at The Flaggy Shore, New Quay on the 23rd of December. It’s a family friendly day with a Half Marathon, a 10km event and a 5km event. All welcome to participate in the event at any time between 10am & 3pm to support and donate to this worthy cause. If you can’t make it on the 23rd, we will be back on the Flaggy again at 12pm on Christmas Day doing our Annual Icebreaking Swim for Motor Neurone Disease. Bring your best Christmas cheer!!!
House Maids in Ethiopia
Two large organic spelt flour Christmas cakes Will be raffled Christmas Eve in aid of House Maids in Ethiopia. Cakes and raffle tickets available in Harvest Moon, Kinvara and Open Sesame Gort. Please support.
Ballinderreen Lotto
Numbers No’s. 1,3,6,23. No winner. One match 3 Bernadette Kelly. Jackpot €7,800 draw in O’Looneys Sat. 16th
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Holy Well Project
Ireland’s National Monuments Service documents the early nineteenth-century locations of over 2900 holy wells.
A new project which encourages large-scale participation through tools of the digital age is being started. Employing revised questions from 1934, the information gathered will be a publicly-accessible database donated to UCD’s National Folklore Collection.
Local researchers will be capturing accounts of the prayer “rounds” unique to each holy well site, patron saints, associated flora and fauna, and cures. The mobile-phone-friendly Omeka website can also receive audio clips of pronunciations of well names and their townland locations, video clips of interviews, pattern days, or persons demonstrating the rounds, and photographs of well sites, votive offerings and any associated stations.
Please see the attached PDF for more details.
Dates for your Diary for 2018
COMMUNION
Northampton N.S.: Saturday 26th May
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Ministers of the Word
Kinvara FM
Is pleased to announce that you can now listen to it on the internet every Saturday and Sunday from 12 noon to 8pm. The Saturday Vigil Mass from St Joseph’s Church can now be heard every Sunday at 12 noon on 92.4 FM. Please pass on this news to those in the community who are unable to attend Mass.
Items at the back of Church
You are welcome to take, free of charge, the prayer cards and religious magazines etc. left at the back of the Churches (except the Irish Catholic, which has to be paid for).
Coeliac Hosts
Please indicate to Priest or Minister of Holy Communion as you receive.
Car Parking in Ballinderreen Church grounds
Please do not block the exits in the Church Car Park
Loop Hearing Aid System
This system is now installed in St. Colman’s Church, Ballinderreen, St. Colman’s Church, Kinvara and St. Joseph’s Church, Kinvara. However, this system will not be available in St. Kieran’s Church, Doorus as the Church is too small for it to be effective.
In order to avail of this facility please switch your Hearing Aid to the ‘T’ position.
Induction loop systems are invaluable in assisting hearing aid users to understand spoken language, particularly in situations where there is background noise. Hopefully, this will be of great benefit to all hearing aid users.
Notices for the Parish Newsletter
The deadline for notices for the Parish Newsletter is 12 noon on Thursday. Community notices are welcome when there is space, and if suitable for a Church newsletter. Please try to keep them as brief as possible. Notices of a commercial nature cannot be included in the Newsletter.
Communion
Please walk up on the right and down on the left to ease congestion
Parking, St. Colman’s Church Kinvara
For Health & Safety reasons, please do not park along the wall to the left hand side of the barrier. Thank You.
Please Note
Church gate collections are to be taken up after Mass.
Parish Office
Parish Office Opening Hours:
| Tuesday & Wednesday | Ballinderreen | 9.30am—12.30pm |
| Thursday & Friday | Kinvara | 9.30am—12.30pm |
Parish office phone no. 086-8577644