Mass Card Availability
Mass Cards are available in the Parish Pastoral Centre. These Cards are signed by the staff on behalf of the Priests of the Parish. Your intention/name will be written in a book and it will also be written on an envelope. Should you want a particular Mass in the church on a particular day for an anniversary or intention then please call to the Sacristy before or after Mass. It is helpful to give us a contact telephone number in case a funeral happens on the same day. If the Mass is a special anniversary or occasion and other family members or friends are there, you might like to bring up the Offertory Gifts, it is always helpful to ‘pop’ into the sacristy before Mass and introduce yourself to the Priest who is celebrant that day.
Not every day is booked, so, many of the Mass intentions that are taken in at the Pastoral Centre will be offered in our Church. If the Masses build up, Fr. Alan will transfer them to other Jesuit priests (mostly on the Missions, where it is an important source of income). It is important to note that we pray for the dead at every Mass; however it is an age old tradition to ask a Priest to remember a particular intention as he celebrates Mass.
We do ask you to pay €1 for the Mass card itself and then put your offering in the envelope.
Fr. Philip Bradley Adm.
On Wednesday last, the funeral Mass for the late Fr. Raymond Murray S.M. took place in our church. We offer our condolences to the Fr. Murray’s family, friends and members of the Marist Community.
We thank you for last Sunday’s Offertory Collection of €1,228 and the Share Collection which amounted to €865.
Sacred gifts of mystic meaning:
Incense doth the God disclose,
Gold the King of Kings proclaimeth,
Myrrh a future tomb foreshows.
Welcome to the parents and families of children who were baptised into our Christian Community during the last year. As we celebrate the Feast of the Baptism of the Lord we also celebrate in remembrance those who were baptised in our church over the last year. Please remember them in your prayers.
The Milltown Parish Pastoral Council will meet in the parish Pastoral Centre at 8pm on this Tuesday evening, Jan. 11th
Copies of the “Statement of Archbishop Diarmuid martin on the Publication of Chapter 19 of the Murphy Report” are available on the bookrack.
An Ecumenical Service to celebrate the Week of Prayer for Church Unity (18th – 25th Jan.) will take place in St. Philips Church, Temple Rd. on Sunday January 23rd at 3pm. Fr. Philip Bradley will preach at this service. All welcome.
A silver brooch has been found in the Church. Please call to the Parish Office if you have lost this piece of jewellery.
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.
DUNDRUM PUBLIC LIBRARY has returned to normal opening times. This 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 to www.dlrcoco.ie/library or ring us at 2985000
The A.G.M. of the Milltown Parish Active Retirement Group will take in the Parish Pastoral Centre at 2pm on Tuesday, Jan. 11th. New members are welcome to attend
We thank those of you who have already returned your Christmas Dues. Dues envelopes may be placed in the collection bags at Mass, given to one of the priests or handed into the Sacristy or the Parish Office.
The Parish Adult & Toddler Group meets in the Parish Pastoral centre at 10.30am on
Friday mornings.
Marriage and relationship Counselling
“ACCORD offers a safe, professional and confidential process facilitating couples and individuals to explore, reflect upon and resolve difficulties in their marriage & relationship. Marriage and families are today experiencing new and more complex challenges than ever before. Our service is available to all regardless of marital status.
ACCORD Counsellors are trained to the highest professional standards. Our training is accredited by the National Association of Pastoral Counsellor and Psychotherapists.
We are a non-profit organisation and, while we ask our clients to make a donation if circumstances allow them, nobody is refused counselling due to a lack of money.
If you find that you are having difficulty talking to each other then talk to ACCORD. We are there to help you. For further information or to make an appointment please phone – 4780866 / 4784400”
Upcoming General Election!
Postal Vote
Do you know that your request for a Postal Vote in any election must be received by the Registrar of Elections within 48 hours of the calling of the election?
Fr. Philip
The Parish Pastoral Centre is open for Tea/Coffee every weekday and Sunday morning. Do drop in to meet some of your fellow parishioners.
Next Sunday, Jan. 16th is World Migrant and Refugee Sunday. Pope Benedict XVI has chosen the theme “one family of brothers and sisters in societies that are becoming ever more multiethnic and intercultural, where also people of various religions are urged to take part in dialogue, so that a serene and fruitful coexistence with respect for legitimate differences may be found” Addressing the situation of refugees and forced migrants Pope benedict said that “those who are forced to leave their homes or their country” should be “helped to find a place where they may live in peace and safety, where they may work and take on the rights and duties that exist in the country that welcomes them ,contributing to the common good and without forgetting the religious dimensions of life”.
2012 Eucharistic Congress
I arise today
Through God’s strength to pilot me,
Christ with me, Christ before me,
Christ behind me, Christ in me,
Christ beneath me, Christ above me,
Christ on my right, Christ on my left,
Christ when I lie down,
Christ when I sit down
Christ when I arise, Christ to shied me,
Christ in the heart of everyone
who thinks of me,
Christ in the heart of everyone
who speaks of me,
I arise today!
