Newsletter 21st /22nd December 2019
Fourth Sunday in Advent
HOLY FAMILY PARISH -KILL-O-THE-GRANGE
The Parish Team together with the Parish Staff wish all parishioners and visitors,
a Very HAPPY CHRISTMAS,
and thank all who helped in any way to make the Christmas liturgy of the commemoration of the Lord’s birth a memorable one,
Payers & Readings on page 418
ADVENT PRAYER TREE
This tree is an invitation to pray to Jesus Christ to come to us today.
Select some of the intentions and pray them from your heart
COME LORD JESUS Come Lord Jesus to our homes, to our city, to our country.
There is a box for special intentions beside the tree.
RESOURCE CENTRE
The Resource Centre and the Parish Office will be closed on 20th December, and will
reopen on 2nd January.
POPE FRANCIS AT CHRISTMAS
Christmas Eve: Mass at 8.30 pm
Christmas Day Pope’s Christmas blessing and message to the world Urbi et Orbi at 11 am
Live on EWTN SKY 588 or Virgin Media 815
Free ETWN monthly TV guide from EWTN head office. P.O.Box, 352 Limerick
The CHURCH SHOP has a superb range of Christmas items.
children’s books & gifts, cribs & candles
a variety of decorative items
REST IN PEACE
Our prayers are requested for the souls Paudie Stafford recently deceased and also for the souls of the following whose anniversaries occur about this time: Gerald J Killeen, Mary + John Boylan, Teresa Hogan, Essie Carroll
MAY THEIR SOULS AND THE SOULS OF ALL THE FAITHFUL DEPARTED THROUGH THE MERCY OF GOD REST IN PEACE. AMEN.
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December Mass times & Intentions |
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Sat 21 |
6.00 pm Also Also
Also Also |
Anna + Des Kavanagh & Seana Taylor Kavanagh Mary + Joseph Corcoran (Birthday Remembrance) Eileen Matthews (Anniv) John, Gerard + Teresa Hogan (Anniv) |
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Sun 22 |
9.00 am |
Intentions of Parishioners |
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10.30 am Also |
Eamon Gregan (Anniv) Michael Keenan (Anniv) Don + Eileen Grant (Rec Dec) |
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12 noon
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Kathleen & Maurice Boothman (Anniv) Catherine, William + Michael Ferrick Doris Perkins + Mary Kate Shea (Anniv) Ann Geraldine O’Toole (1stAnniv) |
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Mon 23 |
7 pm Also |
Oliver Reynolds (3rd Anniv) Special Intention |
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Tue 24 |
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CHRISTMAS EVE |
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Wed 25 |
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CHRISTMAS DAY |
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Thu 26 |
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10 am Mass only |
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Fri 27 |
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10 am Mass only |
Thank you to everyone who puts money into the CHRISTMAS DUES envelopes and places them in the safe.
Huge numbers of Dues cannot be allocated to parishioners because of insufficient information on the envelope.
Please print your surname clearly, house no and street name. Many thanks
Newsletter 21st /22nd December 2019
Fourth Sunday in Advent
Christmas Arrangements 2019 at Holy Family
“The Word was made flesh and lived among us”. John 1:14.
Christmas Eve - Tuesday 24th December
10.am, 6.00pm (vigil), 8.30pm Carols with adult choir; 9.00 pm (night Mass) with adult choir.
Christmas Day- Wednesday 25th December
9.00 am (dawn Mass), 10.30 am (Family Mass), 12.00 noon (day Mass)
Thursday 26th and Friday 27th December (inclusive) Mass at 10.00 am only. No Mass at 7.00 pm
Saturday 28th Dec 10.00 am, 6.00 pm (vigil of Sun)
Holy Family of Jesus, Mary & Joseph, patrons of the parish –
Sunday 29th Dec 9.00 am, 10.30 am, 12.00 noon.
Monday 30th December- Friday 3rd January 2020. 10.00 am only. No Mass at 7.00 pm
Saturday 4th January 10.00 am and 6.00 pm (vigil of Sunday)
Sunday 5th January 9.00 am, 10.30 am, 12.00 noon.
Monday 6th January Epiphany (Holy day)
Masses at 10.00 am & 7.00 pm – Weekdays (Mon, Tues, Thurs and Fri) No 7 pm Mass on Wednesday.
Wednesdays Mass at 10 am only
Mass on Bank Holidays 10 am Mass only
Saturdays - Mass at 10.00 am & 6.00 pm (Vigil of Sunday)
Sundays 9 am, 10.30 am and 12 noon.
Ecological conversion - Me
The Almighty leaves a lot to us humans, not least in the matter of the environment. God wishes to work with us and counts on our cooperation (Laudato Si, 80). The responsibility this puts on each Catholic is both exhilarating and sobering. So, the question for us this Christmas is, if God asks me (as He is), how am I cooperating, what answer could I give? Am I still part of the problem, or am I opening up to the Pope’s call for ecological conversion?