Our Advent Carol Service will take place in our Parish church at 4pm on this Sunday Dec. 19th
We thank you for last Sunday Offertory Collection of €1295 and the St. Vincent De Paul Collection which amounted to €18,546.
Milltown Parish Christmas cards are now for sale. A pack of 10 cards cost €6. Cards are available on the Church Book stand and in the Parish Pastoral Centre.
PARISH ADVENT PROGRAMME
‘Advent People through Art’
Dr. Eileen Kane, a member of the Dublin Diocesan Commission for Sacred Art & Architecture will present her third talk on Advent in the Parish Centre at 8pm on Monday night. All welcome to attend.
Apostolic Visitation of Cardinal Sean O’ Malley re. child sexual abuse.
Our Archbishop has asked us to inform parishioners that The Apostolic Visitation by Cardinal Sean O’Malley has begun. The ‘Visitator’ has had initial meetings with survivors, priests and lay people working in the area of child safeguarding. Cardinal O’Malley is willing – in so far as possible- to meet with priests and parishioners. Those wishing to meet the cardinal should forward him a letter, marked confidential, to the Apostolic Nunciature at 183 Navan Road, Dublin 7. Cardinal O’ Malley is also pleased to receive written communications.
Parish Christmas arrangements
Sunday 19th December
Advent Carol Service at 4pm
Friday 24th December: Christmas Eve-
Morning Mass: 10am
Vigil Mass: 6pm
Chamber Choir Carol Service: 8.30pm
Night Mass: 9pm
Saturday 25th December: Christmas Day
Morning Mass: 10am & 11.30am
No evening Mass on Christmas Day
Sunday 26th December: Feast of the Holy Family
Morning Mass: 10am & 11.30am
Evening Mass: 5.30pm
Thursday 6th January: Feast of the Epiphany
Vigil Mass: Wednesday 6pm.
Morning Mass; 10am & 11.30am
Evening Mass: 5.30pm
Sunday 9th January: Feast of The Baptism of Our Lord
11.30am Mass for families of children baptised during 2010.
SACRAMENT OF RECONCILIATION
A Penitential Service will take place at the 6pm Mass on Saturday, Dec. 18th and Sunday 19th at 11.30am.
Confessions on Christmas Eve: 10.30am - 12noon & 7.30pm – 8.30pm.
PARISH PASTORAL CENTRE
The Parish Pastoral Centre will close on Thursday December 23rd and will reopen on Tuesday January 4th. (Tea/ coffee will be available, as usual, after morning Masses on all Sundays)
Parents and kids are being asked to buy a very special present for their teacher this Christmas - a helping hand to those most in need. Instead of buying gifts this year - we are asking you to make a donation to Crosscare (www.crosscare.ie) and download our specially designed Thanks for Teachers cards.
Copies of the Parish’s Christmas Schedule and 2011 Calendar are available for distribution. Please call into the Sacristy and collect a bundle to deliver to your neighbours. Your help in circulating this parish publication is very much appreciated.
COMMUNION IN THE HOME
We invite parishioners to inform the priests if any members of their families or neighbours who may be housebound and would wish the Eucharist to be taken to them periodically.
The Rathmines Women’s Refuge on Lr. Rathmines Rd. (opposite Rathmines Church) urgently requires ladies and children’s clothing, bedding and toys. Please consider dropping some of these items into the Refuge, your donations will be very much appreciated.
The Church Book Rack has been replenished and now has some informative & interesting publications for sale. There are also packets of the Parish Christmas Cards for sale on the book rack..
DUNDRUM PUBLIC LIBRARY is a free service to everyone in the community. Members can borrow books, CDs, DVDs, talking books and computer games. We also provide free Internet access and WiFi. .For more information go twww.dlrcoco.ie/library or ring us at 2985000
JANUARY IN ORLAGH: A good way to start the new year would be to base yourself firmly in your identity as a person loved by God. This will be the topic of our opening Day for Yourself in the coming year. John Byrne and Bernadette Toal will lead the day on January 8th entitled Owning your identity and believing that God loves you. The day will run from 10.00 am to 4.30 pm with the opportunity of staying on for Mass at 4.30. Cosr €50 (including a full lunch).
THIS CHRISTMAS
Mend a quarrel
Seek out a forgotten friend
Share some treasure
Give a soft answer
Encourage youth
Keep a promise
Find the time to listen
Apologise if you were wrong
Be gentle
Laugh a little, laugh a lot more
Express your gratitude
Welcome a stranger
Gladden the heart of a child
Take pleasure in the beauty
And wonder of the earth
Speak your love, speak it again
Speak it still once again.
The Parish Adult & Toddler Group meets in the Parish Pastoral centre at 10.30am on
Friday mornings.
99 Cent to Help a Sick Child This Christmas?
Students from St. Michael's Secondary School in Dublin have written and recorded a Single entitled "Christmas Time" in aid of the Children’s Hospital Crumlin. The single is available now for download from iTunes for only 99 Cent. You can access the song by searching for our band (“Snow Business”) on itunes.
Please leave details of any item you wish to have included in this Weekly Bulletin in the Parish office before lunch hour on Wednesday.
