Back to the Future.
Milltown Parish is in the Donnybrook Deanery, one of the 16 in the Diocese. The Deaneries meet four times a year, and the Archbishop meets the Vicars Forane (Deanery leaders), in anticipation of these gatherings. The system goes back a long way in the Diocese and the Church. They form one of many ways that the Archbishop is in contact with the parishes.
Each Deanery has a representative on the Priest’s Council. This Council is more of a Counsel, its role etc. is laid down in Canon Law. For my sins, I’m the Donnybrook Deanery rep on the Priest’s council! We meet about 10 times a year from about 11 till 4pm. We met last Wed and the next meeting is in September. The Topics are very interesting and often help to look at the future and the Church of the Future.
Our Agenda varies from very pressing matters i.e. last year’s Eucharistic Congress, to looking at Catholic Schools in the future, to the welfare of Priest’s and the new translation of the Missal. Much of the work of the Council is done by sub-committees, between the actual meetings. Recently, we have looked at the functioning of the Deanery, and how can the system be used to help/co-ordinate the mission of the Diocese. In some Deaneries Parish Pastoral Council members come along, sometimes in financial matters, the members of the Parish Finance Committees attend too.
As most of the Deanery meetings happen in the morning or afternoon, there needs to be a change if the other groups come along as they usually aren’t free to meet during the working day. Thus our most recent topic of reflecting on the Deanery and how it works, and what shape the Deanery meeting/s will be in the next 10 or 20 years. It really is quite interesting!
Fr. Philip Adm (No time machine)
Thank you for the €1,188 which you donated to last Sunday’s collection for the Support of Priests of the Parish (& Dioceses) and for the Share Collection which amounted to €825.
Celebration of Marriage:
Congratulations to the couples who are this year celebrating significant wedding anniversaries, (25th, 40th, 50th & 60th) this year. They are particularly invited to the 11.30am Mass today where we as the local Christian Community can celebrate this occasion with them.
Maya Harrington, Rozanna Purcell, Nathalie Purcell, Finn Boyle, Olive Stacey, Isabel Butler, Jacob Garvin and Conor Mc. Dermott were baptised in our church last weekend. We welcome them into our Christian community and congratulate their parents and Godparents.
Parish Census:
Parishioners are requested to return their completed Census Form to the Parish. Returning a completed form will mean that a parish representative will not have to call to your home in the autumn.
Parish Pastoral Council:
The June meeting of the Council will take place at 8pm on next Thurs. June 13th.
Liturgy Group:
The Liturgy Group will meet at 8pm on Friday, June 14th.
There will be an outdoor collection for the Hospice at our church next weekend.
Hospice Sunflower Days take place next Friday, June 14th & 15th. Contact Imelda at 01, 4911072 if you are available to volunteer as a collector for a couple hours on either of those days. Further information is available on our Parish Notice Boards.
Milltown Parish Active Retirement Group has arranged an outing to Kilruddary House and Kilquade Gardens on Wednesday, June 19th. Further details of this outing are on the Parish Notice Boards.
The St. Vincent De Paul Society would like to thank you for your co-operation with their Annual Church Gate Clothing Appeal. The generosity of parishioners has once more been outstanding.
Later Life Mediation:
a one day workshop, which will facilitate adult family members exploring and managing issues around ageing within their family, will take place in the Parish Pastoral Centre on Saturday June 22nd. Please contact Claire at 087, 2552904 to find out more about this programme, Further details are also on the Parish Notice Boards.
Rio-in-Dublin – Registration is now open for Rio in Dublin, which will take place from 26th-28th July. Rio in Dublin is an exciting programme of faith filled and music led events, coinciding with Pope Francis’s historic trip to Brazil for World Youth Day 2013. The Office for Evangelisation has planned a series of exciting initiatives – including music and prayers with the Brazilian community in Dublin; a specially designed Magis programme encouraging young people (18+) to get involved with service initiatives; a Pilgrim walk through the city, concerts, workshops and late night live video links to Rio for the events with Pope Francis. To register just log on to www.evangelisation.ie or emailwyd@dublindiocese.ie
Summer Music at Sandford Church
There will be free at There will be Friday Lunch Hour Music Concerts on selected Fridays in June, July & August at Sandford Parish Church. The next concert will be on Tuesday, June 14th. Further details are available on our Parish Noticeboards.
Change a life - become a Foster Carer.
Fostering is caring for somebody else’s child in your own home, providing family life for a child or young person, who for one reason or another, cannot live with his or her own parents. Foster carers are always needed – could you give a child a chance? For further information please contact 01-4916401 or visit www.fostering.ie
Have you ever attended Mass on holidays abroad and not known what the readings of the day are? With this situation in mind we invite parishioners to collect a copy of the weekly Mass sheet/s from the Sacristy to bring with them when they are travelling abroad to a non-English speaking country.
The Alzheimer Café - South County Dublin
are hosting a talk called: Early Intervention with People with Dementia: The Speaker will be Dr. Michelle Kelly, Early Intervention Coordinator, Alzheimer Society of Ireland and the NEIL Programme, Trinity College Dublin. The Alzheimer Café is located in Bloomfield Hospital, Stocking Lane, Rathfarnham, Dublin 16. Attendance is free.
Further details are available on the following website: www.bloomfield/acscd.ie
Dublin Diocesan Pilgrimage to Lourdes, 7th – 12th Sept.Application forms are available for any sick person who may wish to attend this pilgrimage. The sick pilgrims are accommodated in the Accueil Notre Dame which is situated close to the Grotto, and are cared for by voluntary doctors, nurses and helpers from all over the diocese. All applications are subject to consideration by the Pilgrimage Medical board. For further information call Geraldine at 8376820.
