Katelyn Anderson and Benjamin Arigho were baptised here on Saturday morning. We welcome them into our Christian community and congratulate their parents.
Condolences to the families and friends of the late Luke Leonard. His Funeral Mass took place here during the past week.
The Share Collection at all Masses next weekend will be replaced by the diocesan collection for the 50th International Eucharistic Congress which will take place in Ireland in 2012. 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 Milltown Parish Active Retirement Group have organised a day trip to Kilkenny on Wednesday June 8th. Further details of this outing are on the Parish Notice Boards.
Confirmation Prayer
Send your Holy Spirit to be my helper and my guide.
Give me the spirit of wisdom and understanding,
the Spirit of right judgement and courage,
the spirit of knowledge and reverence,
fill me with the Spirit of wonder and awe in your presence.
The fruits of the Holy Spirit
Love,Joy,Peace,Patience,Kindness,
Goodness,Faithfulness,
Gentleness and Self Control.
Prayer to the Holy Spirit
Let your Holy Spirit guide me in all my decisions.
Let your Holy Spirit show me the best way to live my life.
Let my heart give thanks for the wonder of God’s creation.
Let the gifts that you have given me be used for the good of others.
Let me trust in your loving presence and not be afraid.
Let me see myself as Jesus sees me and love myself as God loves me.
Let me show God’s love to others.
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.
Fr. Philip is living in Apt. 5 while refurbishment of No. 67 Ramleh Park is under way. His phone number is: 2680055
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.
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
There will be a Summer Fair in the Milltown Mosque on this June Bank Holiday Monday. People are invited to take a stall for €20. For more information please contact Nasreen at 087, 2463335
The Holy Rosary Missionaries /Killeshandra Sisters thank parishioners for their warm welcome to the parish and your contributions which amounted to €1058.
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
The Parish Liturgy Group will meet at 8.30 pm on Tuesday next, June 7th .
Midsummer Barbeque for 10 – 14 year olds!
Parents are reminded of the Barbeque planning meeting which is due to take place at 7.30pm in the Parish Pastoral Centre on Friday next June 10th If this event for the young people of the parish is to take place additional volunteers are required to help with the organising of it.
An outdoor collection for the Hospice will take place after all masses next weekend.
A Blessing of Remembrance will take place today at 3pm in the Angels Memory Garden at Glasnevin Cemetery. Each year hundreds of parents and family members, both recently and long ago bereaved, come together for a Blessing Service at the Old Angels memory garden. All are Welcome.
The Irish Guide Dogs for the Blind wish to thank the parishioners of Milltown for the €717.53 which they donated to the outdoor collection which was held here two weeks ago.
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
The Society of St. Vincent De Paul thanks parishioners for their generous support to last weekend’s Annual Churchgate Clothing Appeal.
You are invited to join in a PENTECOST VIGIL in Orlagh Retreat Centre on Saturday, June 11th from 7.00pm to 11.00pm. The Vigil will include prayer, scripture reflection and time for personal meditation. There is no charge and no advance booking is required. Just come along. To book, contact Fr. John Byrne OSA, Orlagh Retreat Centre, Old Court Road, Dublin 16. Tel: 4958190.Email info@orlagh.ie
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