Thank you for last Sunday’s Offertory Collection of €1,210 and the Share Collection which amounted to €889.
Condolences to the families and friends of the late Teresa Halpin and Patrick Farrelly. Their Funeral Masses took place here during the past week.
The collection for the 50th International Eucharistic Congress which was scheduled to take place this weekend has been postponed until Sunday the 26th of June. All large celebrations require a great deal of materials and preparation. This Congress is an event expected to be attended by 100,000. Your donation to this fund will help transform the RDS and Croke Park where the main events of the Congress will take place. It will also finance the printing of posters and welcome signs for pilgrims which will be posted all around the city. Further details on the Congress can be found on www.iec2012.ie .
Communion arrangements for coeliac sufferers:
If you would like to receive from the chalice you should call into the sacristy before Mass. A chalice will be placed on a table at the side of the altar. You may process to the altar with the congregation to receive Holy Communion. You may also bring a low gluten host into the sacristy before Mass.
The Parish Pastoral Centre is open for Tea/Coffee every weekday and Sunday morning. Volunteers are required to help with teas and coffees on Sunday mornings during the month of July. If you are available to help, please call into the Centre some Sunday morning in June and give your name to Margaret. Training will be given to all volunteers.
The Annual Bohernabreena Cemetery Mass takes place at 3pm on June 19th.
The Sunshine Fund of the Society of St. Vincent De Paul greatly appreciates the support and assistance received from Milltown parishioners with this year’s Advocate collection. The congregation of the parish contributed €1995.18.
We remember in our prayers all students who are sitting state exams during these few weeks.
There will be an outdoor collection next weekend for Vita which is an Irish charity working in Africa to fight hunger, poverty and the effects of climate change. For further details on this organisation visit www.vita.ie
The annual Diocesan Eucharistic Procession will take place in the grounds of Clonliffe College on Thursday 23rd June at 7.30pm. Bishop Eamonn Field, Chairperson of the Dublin Diocesan Eucharistic Congress preparatory committee will lead the procession. First communicants are very welcome and parish groups are invited to attend with their banners.
Lost or Found?
About 2 weeks ago 2 brass vases and an 18 inch brass candle stick were found at the back of the church. Are these items lost or found? Any information please to Fr. Philip.
Fr. Philip is living in Apt. 5 while refurbishment of No. 67 Ramleh Park is under way. His phone number is: 2680055
National Eucharistic Congress 2011
Milltown and Clonskeagh Parish’s have jointly arranged a Triduum of Prayer which will take place on, Thursday June 23rd, Friday June 24th and Saturday June 25th. Details of this Triduum are available at in a handout at the back of the church.
Knock, Saturday June 25th
Parishioners from the parishes of Milltown and Clonskeagh are invited to travel together to this National Eucharistic Congress. A schedule for the day is also included in the handout at the back of the church. There are 25 seats on the coach reserved for Milltown parishioners. If you wish to travel with this group please leave your name and €40 into the Sacristy or the Parish Office. Places will be allocated on a first come first serve basis.
Corpus Christi Procession – Sun. June 26th
Mass will be celebrated in Milltown Church on Sunday morning June 26th at 10am and 11.00am. Following the 11am Mass, parishioners are invited to join in a Corpus Christi Procession. This procession will walk to Our Lady’s Grotto in the Marist Fathers grounds in Mount St. Mary’s on the Dundrum Road. Parishioners from Clonskeagh Parish will meet up with this group who will be processing from Bird Ave. Church after their 11am Mass. Children who have received their First Holy Communion this year are particularly welcome to join in this Eucharistic Procession .Benediction of the Blessed Sacrament will take place at Our Lady’s Grotto.
You are invited to continue the ceremony by bringing and sharing a light picnic (weather permitting) in Mount St. Mary’s.
A separate handout containing details of the National Eucharistic Congress is available at the back of the church.
The Diocesan committee charged with planning and preparing with Dublin parishes in the lead up to the Eucharistic Congress in June next year have published are leaflet containing information on the Volunteer Programme for the congress. Copies of this publication are available for collection at the back of the church.
The Solemnity of the Body and Blood of Christ (Corpus Christi) will be celebrated on Sunday 26 June 2011. Every parish in the Archdiocese of Dublin will mark this day in communion with parishes throughout the island of Ireland as another highpoint on the journey to the 50th International Eucharistic Congress 2012.
Further details on the Congress are available on the Dublin Diocesan Liturgical Resource Centre website www.litmus.dublindiocese.ie
Glenstal Ecumenical Conference: This year the Conference will be held from Tuesday the 28th of June to Thursday the 30th of June and the theme for this years conference is “The Word of God: Lost in Translation?” Full details can be found at www.glenstal.org
Milltown Parish Pastoral Council
The Parish Pastoral Council will meet at 8pm in the Parish Pastoral Centre on Tuesday next, June 14th .
Lough Derg, THREE DAY PILGRIMAGE, You may begin your pilgrimage on any day of the week from Wednesday 1st June until Saturday 13th August. Cost: €55 includes boat fare and accommodation. For bookings or further information visit: www.loughderg.org Email: info@loughderg.org Tel: 071 9861518 (from N.I. 028 686 32391). Lough Derg Office, Pettigo, Co Donegal
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.
(Please leave details of any item you wish to have included in this Weekly Bulletin in the Parish office before lunch hour on Wednesday.)
