Newsletter Saturday 19 to 25 September 2020
Twenty-Fifth Sunday in Ordinary Time
Your prayers are requested for the soul of the recently deceased and for all whose anniversary occurs about this time.
MAY THEIR SOULS AND THE SOULS OF ALL THE FAITHFUL DEPARTED THROUGH THE MERCY OF GOD REST IN PEACE. AMEN.
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Mass Times and Intentions |
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Saturday 19 |
10 am |
Celebrant’s intentions |
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4.30 pm Also Also Also |
Michael O’Flynn – Anniversary John Scully – Recently Deceased May Kearns – Recently Deceased Marie Quinn – Recently Deceased |
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6 pm |
Celebrant’s intentions |
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Sunday 20 |
9.00 am Also
Also |
Paddy, Peggy and Patrick Gorman also Anne Lawlor, Pauric Morris + Bert Nelson Anniversary Joe Hawker - Anniversary |
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10.30 am |
James Gregan – Anniversary |
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12 noon Also Also |
David Dunphy – Recently Deceased Michael Byrne – Month’s Mind Brenda Feeley - Anniversary |
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Monday 21 |
10 am |
John Hyslop – Recently Deceased |
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Tuesday 22 |
10 am Also |
Breda Nugent – Recently Deceased Special Intention |
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Wednesday 23 |
10 am |
Special Intention |
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Thursday 24 |
10 am |
Dag Henrichsen – 1st Anniversary |
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Friday 25 |
10 am |
Celebrant’s intentions |
Kindly note that once the list of intentions for the coming week as above has been posted to the Newsletter page on the Parish website (www.holyfamilyparish.ie) and printed off for the Priests’ use during the Masses, additions/adjustments to that week’s list cannot be easily and conveniently made after 11.30 a.m. Thursday of the week.
The September collection for the ST VINCENT DE PAUL realised €2,220.00. The Conference sincerely thanks all contributors for their generosity.
URGENT NOTICE CONCERNING THE PASTORAL SITUATION IN
COUNTY DUBLIN UNDER CHANGED CORONAVIRUS NORMS
18 September 2020
It now seems most likely that the entire County Dublin will be placed on Level 3 of the Governments COVID-19 Resilience and National Recovery Plan, beginning at midnight tonight for a three-week period.
I will send out more definitive guidance when the decisions are announced later, but I feel it is good to send this preliminary advice based on the published general Level 3 advice.
The norms apply only to Churches and Oratories within County Dublin. It does not apply to the Churches in the Archdiocese of Dublin in Counties Wicklow, Wexford, Kildare, and Laois.
It is likely therefore that places of worship will remain closed from midnight tonight, except for private prayer, weddings and funerals. Attendance at wedding liturgies and funerals would be limited to 25. Religious services can be transited online with no public presence.
Effectively this places Churches in the position they were before the reopening earlier this summer, or as the situation was in counties Kildare and Laois early this month.
Confirmation and First Communion services will therefore not be possible during this period and will have to be postponed. Permission already granted for Confirmations remain valid for the new date.
+Diarmuid Martin
Friday 18 September 2020
LEGAL NOTICE:
CHURCH CLOSED FROM 19 SEPTEMBER 2020
The Churches will be locked down this weekend, and during coming days, as a consequence of the Government’s decision to curb the spread of Covid-19, you and your family will be unable to attend in person the Mass that you asked for
In memory of:..………………………………………………........
At:……………………………………………………………………
On:………………………………………………………………….
However, you, your family members, and friends might like to follow the Mass on the parish webcam by accessing the parish website at www.holyfamilyparish.ie at the time of the Mass.
LINK TO GOVERNMENT ANNOUNCEMENT: HTTPS://WWW.GOV.IE/EN/PUBLICATION/AD569-LEVEL-3/
Thank you
Holy Family Parish
LETTER OF ARCHBISHOP DIARMUID MARTIN IN SUPPORT OF THE
CROSSCARE APPEAL THIS WEEKEND
As you are aware – it was planned to take up the Annual Crosscare Collection at Masses this weekend.
As County Dublin has moved to level 3 public worship will be suspended. Please donate to Crosscare online at www.crosscare.ie
Please help support Crosscare working for those most in need in our communities at this time of crisis.
19 September 2020
LETTER OF ARCHBISHOP DIARMUID MARTIN IN SUPPORT OF THE
CROSSCARE APPEAL
TO BE READ AT ALL MASSES ON SEPTEMBER 19th and 20th 2020
My Dear People,
This weekend the Annual Collection to support the work of Crosscare takes place and replaces the Share Collection at all Masses. Now more than ever before Crosscare need our help to sustain their critical services to people in need. This current pandemic has put enormous pressure on the agency as it strives to reconcile increasing demands on services with cuts in funding across the board. Crosscare are determined to continue to offer the care and support we know them for and thousands of young people, families and service users need them to continue.
Crosscare is the social support agency of the Archdiocese of Dublin and sets out to ease the harsh burden that so many feel. This year of 2020 has been extraordinary and I am very proud of the way the staff and volunteers in Crosscare have responded to the challenges. Quickly, in March, Crosscare adjusted to the Covid threat. To ensure that all of their vulnerable clients and services users remained safe services were adjusted and a new 100 bed cocooning service for particularly vulnerable homeless people was established.
Where services could not be adapted to allow face to face contact they moved to telephone and on line support. New initiatives particularly in the area of food support were provided for thousands of families who were unable to cope in the initial stages of the pandemic. Where services had to close, staff were quickly redeployed to support the front line residential and food supports that were under enormous pressure.
What needs to be done is being done without hesitation. However, Crosscare like many other charities are now finding it difficult to sustain their efforts due to shortfalls in funding.
Crosscare needs our help now more than ever before. Please give as generously as you can in the collection today by donating at the back of the church, taking away one of the free post envelopes and posting a contribution or by giving on line at www.crosscare.ie
Yours sincerely
+ Diarmuid Martin,
Archbishop of Dublin.