Parish of Saints Columbanus and Gall - Weekly Bulletin
Saturday & Sunday, February 28th & March 1st, 2009, First Sunday in Lent
•We thank you for last weeks Offertory Collection which amounted to €1,134 and the Share Collection which amounted to €757.
•A Ceremony of Commitment will take place at the 10am Mass this Sunday. Children from the Parish who are to receive the Sacrament of Confirmation this year are welcome to participate in this ceremony.
•There will be a 6pm Mass on Monday, Tuesday & Thursday evenings during Lent.
•The Trocaire Lenten Campaign for 2009 is focused on displacement in Somalia. There are Trocaire boxes available at the back of the church. Please collect one for your home today.
•We offer our condolences to the family of the late Roibeard Ó Cuinn from Crannagh, whose funeral Mass took place here on Saturday morning.
•A Parish Mission and Celebration of Hope will commence here on this Wednesday evening, March 4th, at 8pm. It will continue on the evenings of March 11th, 18th and 25th. Members of the Mission Team will also speak at all Masses on Saturday and Sunday 28th and 29th of March. The Mission will be conducted by members of The Ember Team, all of whom are trained in the Vincentian tradition. A brochure giving details of each of the evening’s talks will continue to be circulated to all homes during the coming week. Further details of the Mission are also on the Parish Notice boards.
•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.
•Please let the Parish office know of any parishioners who may wish to have Holy Communion brought to them in their home.
•The local Focolaire Community are endeavouring to set up a Children’s Singing Group in the parish. This group will participate in the 10am mass on the 2nd & 3rd Sunday of each month. Parents who are interested in their children becoming involved with this singing group should speak to one of the organisers after Mass.
•On Monday night, March 2nd, the Parish Baptism Team will meet with the parents of children who are to be baptised here next weekend.
•Milltown Parish Local History Society has invited Rev. Fr. Tom Morrissey S.J. to give a talk on ‘William Martin Murphy Revisited’. This talk will take place in the Parish Centre at 8pm on this Monday night, March 2nd.
•The Milltown Parish Active Retirement Group will have their “Gentle activity to Music” session in the Parish Pastoral Centre at 10.30am on next Tuesday, 3rd of March. All members are encouraged to attend.
•The Active Retirement Group have also organised a 3 day hotel break in the Galway Bay Hotel. This will take place from the 10th – 13th May. Further details are available on the Parish Notice boards.
