Mount Merrion Parish Newsletter

8TH MARCH 2015
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Mount Merrion Parish
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MASS INTENTIONS
Saturday 7th March
10.00 Noreen O’Connell [M.M.]
Lil Cronin [A]
6.00 Eamon Bailey [A]
Lar & Letitia O’Donoghue [A]
Michael Kelly [A]
Ina Moore [A]
Sunday 8th March
10.00 Nora Finlay [A]
Desmond Browne [A]
Kathleen O’Brien [A]
Richard & Ailish Hayes [A]
11.15 Brenda Dempsey [A]
Peter Ewing [R.D.]
7.30 Baby Emma Lyons [A]
John Donnellan [A]
Rory O Connallain [A]
Terry Connellan [A]
Tony Kennedy [A]
Monday 9th March
10.00 For all who are ill
7.30
Tuesday 10th March
10.00
Wednesday 11th March
10.00 Robert O’Connor [A]
7.30 Patrick Scally [A]
Thursday 12th March
10.00
Friday 13th March
10.00
Saturday 14th March
10.00
6.00 Daniel & Rosemary Kelly [A]
Sunday 15th March
10.00 Jo Newton [R.D.]
Mel Healy [A]
Eileen McCann [A]
Catherine Flack [A]
Aisling Crown [A]
James Cathcart [A]
11.15 David Power [A]
7.30
3RD SUNDAY OF LENT
Last October an extraordinary synod on the family took place in Rome.
Following several days of discussion those present with the guidance of
Pope Francis produced a document called Relatio Synod. The Pope has
asked that there is discussion on this document in parishes throughout
the world before the Ordinary Synod convenes in October 2015.
In Kilmacud/Mount Merrion Parish we are making the document
available on both parish websites and in booklet form. Please have your
voice heard and read the document and come to an assembly on
Monday March 23rd 2015 at 7.30pm in the Stillorgan Park Hotel. Our
submissions from group discussion will then be sent to the Dublin
Diocese before being dispatched to Rome.
APOSTOLATE OF
EUCHARISTIC ADORATION
Our A.G.M will be held in the Community
Centre on Tuesday 10th March at 8.00pm.
We would be grateful if all our members
could attend.
Please think of spending one hour per
week with Jesus during Lent.
LENTEN SCRATCH CALENDAR
Some copies are still available in the
bookshop at a cost of €1.00 each. 70 cent
from each sale will go to Trócaire.
Thanks to everyone for their
generosity so far.
All are welcome to visit
the Bookshop and see
our new range of gifts:
rosaries, religious
goods, books and
cards.
All at reasonable
prices.
DIVINE MERCY AGM
Monday 16th March
8.00pm
in Community Centre
MASSES FOR
ST. PATRICK’S DAY
Our sympathies to the families, friends
and neighbours of
Eithne Lee
Patrick Cooke
Moira Reddy
whose funerals took place here this week.
are as follows:
Mount Merrion
Mon. 16th: 7.30 p.m.
Tues. 17th: 10.00 a.m.
Kilmacud
Tues. 17th: 11.30 a.m.
8TH MARCH 2015
PARISH TEAM
JOY BOOK CLUBS
Fr. Tony Coote
Administrator
79 The Rise
Tel. 2889879
[email protected]
Fr. Brian O’Reilly
Tel. 2109563
Caroline Kehoe
Parish Catechist
Tel.
2881271
E. [email protected]
Fr. Conleth Meehan
Kilmacud
Tel. 2880545
Fr. Paddy O’Byrne
Kilmacud
Sr. Catherine Greene
Kilmacud
PARISH OFFICE
Many thanks once again to those who hosted
a ‘Joy of the Gospel’ Book Club and to
everyone who attended. As most are drawing
to a close now, we ask that the responses to
the questions posed at the outset, plus any
other comments, be forwarded via email
attachment (if possible) to the Parish Office:
[email protected] by
Monday 9th March.
SAVE THE DATE: The follow-up PARISH JOY
ASSEMBLY is arranged for Sunday Afternoon
26th April in the Community Centre
commencing @ 2pm. We look forward to
exploring the thoughts and ideas about the
‘Joy of the Gospel’ and its impact on us and on
our parish on that date. The format, agenda
and all details of THE PARISH JOY ASSEMBLY
will be confirmed closer to the date.
MONDAY – FRIDAY
9am – 11.30am
PARISH SECRETARY
Rosemary Dempsey
Tel. 2881271
E.mountmerrionparishoffic
[email protected]
COMMUNITY CENTRE
Tel. 2884485
E.mountmerrioncommu
[email protected]
SOCIETY OF ST.
VINCENT DE PAUL
Helpline 086 6009857
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CARMELITE SISTERS,
DELGANY,
CO. WICKLOW
invite you to join them on
Saturday 14th March at 3.00 p.m.
to celebrate 500th Anniversary of the birth of
ST. TERESA OF AVILA
Fr. Vincent O’Hara O.C.D. Prior of Avila,
will give a talk on St. Teresa of Avila.
Not to be missed!
All welcome
Refreshments afterwards.
GOLFERS! A DATE FOR YOUR DIARY
51st Mount Merrion
Ecumenical Golf Outing
Elm Park Golf Club 22nd May 2015
ALTAR SERVERS ON TOUR
A group of altar servers, parents
together with Fr. Conleth, a total of 49
from the Parish, will travel next
weekend to Paris on the biennial fiveday trip. The group will attend Mass on
St. Patrick's Day in the Irish
College, Sunday Mass in the Church of
Our Lady of the Miraculous Medal in the
Rue du Bac and a reception with the
Irish Ambassador. The group will also
visit the Louvre, the Eiffel Tower,
Versailles, Notre Dame, Montmartre,
Musee D'Orsay and Disneyland.
Sincere thanks to all who have
supported this trip.
Please keep us all in your prayers during
this time.
7.30pm Mass on Mondays
& Wednesdays during Lent.
FREE LEGAL ADVICE (FLAC)
AND OTHER SERVICES
on offer in
Stillorgan Citizens’ Information
Centre
St. Laurence’s Parish Centre,
Lower Kilmacud Rd.
The volunteers at Stillorgan Citizens’
Information Centre (CIC) are pleased to
announce that we shall be able to offer
you a Free Legal Advice Clinic, starting in
March, staffed by a volunteer solicitor.
The solicitor will not take on your case
for you, but will give you expert advice
on how to go about solving your
problem.
We also have a highly qualified
Tax Consultant who holds a free Tax
Clinic, giving advice and information on
the more common Tax, Universal Social
Charge and PRSI issues.
Both of these clinics are by appointment
only.
Phone us at 0761 077 440
Opening hours are:
Tuesday, Wednesday and Friday
10.30 a.m. – 1.30 p.m.
Monday and Thursday,
2p.m. - 4.30 p.m.
Parish Chil d Safeguardi ng – receipt of the Archdioces e of Dublin poli cy by all member s was a cknowledg ed. T here wa s an initi al dis cussion on the pos sibility of a Fa mily Ministry Group.
Lente n Scrat ch Off Calendar – a cale ndar wit h a task for ea ch day of Le nt will be on sal e in ai d of Trocaire at masse s duri ng the w eeke nd of 14 /15 Fe bruary at a cost of E uro 1. 00
Year of Conse crated Life – a mass to cele brate the Religi ous of the Pari sh will be celebrate d on 1st Mar ch at 10 .00 am by Ar chbishop Martin to be followed by a rece ption.
or observations.