Newsletter 16th /17th November 2019

HOLY FAMILY PARISH

KILL-O-THE-GRANGE

Payers & Readings on page 388

Volunteers to help stuff Christmas Envelopes

Parishioners are requested to help to put cards and other items into the envelopes provided for delivery to Catholic homes in the parish. This exercise is planned to take place at the back of the (bigger section) of the church, beginning on Wednesday, 20^th November, immediately after the 10'clock Mass. If there is a funeral, we will wait until the mourners have vacated the church building. It is hoped that tea/coffee may be available. Your assistance would be greatly appreciated.

Fr. Michael O’Connor Adm.

CHURCHES TOGETHER

Find the Christmas Season Tough?

You are warmly invited to a Service of Reflection, Prayer, and Music.

“Light in our Darkness”

In Holy Family Parish Church, Kill Avenue, Dun Laoghaire.

On Sunday 8^th December 2019 at 4 pm.

Everyone is Welcome, Come and bring a friend.

REST IN PEACE

Your prayers are requested for the soul of

Bernadette Carroll R.I.P. and also for all the souls whose anniversary occurs about this time:

Betty Courtney

MAY THEIR SOULS AND THE SOULS OF ALL THE FAITHFUL DEPARTED THROUGH THE MERCY OF GOD REST IN PEACE. AMEN.

November Mass times & Intentions
Sat 16	6.00 pm	Joe Perry (Anniv)
Sun 17	9.00 am
	10.30 am Also Also Also	Liam Sellars (Anniv) Joan McGrory (Anniv) Margaret Kelly (Anniv) John Alexander (2^nd Anniv)
	12 noon Also Also Also	Dick + Vera O’Hanrahan (Anniv) Charlie + Aideen Gilmartin (Anniv) Tommy (Jnr) Howard (Anniv) Tommy (Sr), Ellen, John + Helen Howard
Mon 18	7.00 pm	Intentions of Parishioners
Tue 19	7.00 pm Also	Kay + Denis Gowing (Anniv) Holy Souls
Wed 20		10 am Mass only
Thu 21	7.00 pm Also Also Also Also Also Also	Tony Martin (Anniv) Patrick + Kathleen Monaghan (Anniv) V.J. Alexander (R.I.P.) Annamma John (R.I.P.) K.C. Mathew (R.I.P.) Cicily Mathew (R.I.P.) Aleyamma John (R.I.P.)
Fri 22	7.00pm	Gloria Cassidy (Rec Dec)

TRIDUUM MASS CARDS cost €3 each are now available at the Shop. Masses will be on 16^th 17^th and 19^th December. Donations to Bro. Kevin Crowley O.F.M. Cap. at Capuchin Day Centre, Church St. Dublin

Safeguarding – Vulnerable Adults

The Diocesan Safeguarding Vulnerable Adult policy (July 2019) is available on www.csp.dublindiocese.ie.

Parish Environmental Group - A world being eaten up. At every Mass, we hear the bread and wine described as “the work of human hands”. This exemplifies the extraordinary capacity of human beings to take natural materials and transform them into something new. But there is a dark side. The same human power to mold and shape nature has also created the climate crisis. The model of economic growth based on the unlimited exploitation and consumption of materials is still enormously powerful. So powerful that to overcome it requires what Pope Francis calls an “ecological conversion” to free ourselves from its grip. We have to change at two levels - in our personal behaviour, but equally through community conversion (Laudato Si, 219). Each of us must not only develop our own sustainable lifestyle, but we have to ensure our whole society is also sustainable. Policies, institutions, and practices must change radically - and urgently. Catholics must push for these societal and structural changes. Without them, we will continue the slide into an ecological disaster now eating up the world before our eyes.