Parish of Saints Columbanus and Gall - Weekly Bulletin
Third Sunday in Ordinary Time
Saturday & Sunday, January 24th & 25th, 2009
•We wish to thank you for last weeks Offertory Collection which amounted to €1,452 and the Share Collection which amounted to €977.
•We wish to thank those of you who have already returned your Christmas Dues. Acknowledgement of these will be posted to you in due course.
•We wish to draw your attention to the brochure containing information on our parish’s Child Protection Policy. This publication is available at the entrance doors to the Church, on the Church bookrack and in the Parish Pastoral Centre. We urge parents, who have not as yet collected a copy of this important publication, to take one home with them today. A full copy of the Child Protection Policy is available in the Parish Office and can be viewed on the parish website.
•The Bethany Group will have their monthly support meeting in the Parish Centre on Monday next, January 26th at 7.30pm. All those who have suffered loss of any kind are welcome to attend this meeting which will be for one hour’s duration. Please contact the Parish Office if you would like to attend training to become a minister in the Parish’s Bethany Bereavement Support Group.
•The parish Bethany Group wish to bring to your attention details of a Residential Weekend for bereaved people which will take place in Orlagh College on the weekend commencing Friday 20th February. Further details of this weekend are on the church notice boards.
•We wish to offer our condolences to the families of Marie Austin from Dundrum Rd. and Margaret Phelan from Clonskeagh Rd. Their funeral Masses took place in our church during the last week.
•A housebound parishioner who lives in the Whitebeam area of the parish would like to attend Mass here on Sunday evenings. Perhaps a fellow parishioner from this area could kindly offer to bring this lady to Sunday evening Mass. Please contact the Parish office for further details.
•The local Focolaire Community are endeavouring to set up a Children’s Singing Group normally on the 2nd and 3rd Sunday of each month. Parents are welcome to talk with the organisers of this Parish Liturgy after one of these masses.
•The January meeting of the Parish Pastoral Council will be held on Tuesday next, January 27th.
•Following the positive response to last week’s notice re providing a Yoga Class in the Parish Centre, we are pleased to announce that a Yoga course will commence on Thursday February 12th at 3pm. This course will run for 9 weeks, ending on April 9th. The cost for this course is €140. If you are still interested in attending please confirm your booking in the Parish Office.
•The A.G.M. of the Milltown Parish Active Retirement Association will be held in the Parish Pastoral Centre at 2.30pm on Tuesday, February 10th. All members are encouraged to attend.
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