Oldcastle & Moylagh Parish
31st Sunday of the Year Fr Ray Kelly P.P
29th/30th October 2016 049 8541142 The Diocese of Meath is now available on line www.dioceseofmeath.ie Parish Website oldcastleandmoylaghparish.com Church Services & Mass Intentions
Masses OLDCASTLE
Saturday (vigil) 7.00pm Paddy & Aisling McCann & decd family, Jakob & Free Middlekamp, Netherlands
Sunday 11.30am Tom & Kathleen Plunkett & son Thomas Swansbrook, Kathleen Lynch Ballineal & daughter-in-law Maree Lynch Monday (vigil) 7.00pm Vigil Feast of all Saints Tuesday 10.00am Feast of All Saints 7.00pm Feast of All Saints Wednesday 7.00pm The Commeration of the Faithful Departed, All Souls Day Anniv Joe Tynan & decd family St Brigid’s Tce Thursday 10.00am st 1 Friday 7.00pm List of the Dead Saturday (vigil) 7.00pm Decd Clinton & Cooney families, Peter Gilsenan Liss, his grandparents Thomas & Mary Francis Griffin & decd family Sunday 11.30am Barney & Rose Farrell Farnaglough
MOYLAGH
Saturday (vigil) 5.45pm Remembrance mass for Paddy Kenny & Mary Farrelly (request of Blotto Committee) Sunday 10.00am Eugene, Olive, Catherine & Olivia O’Growney Monday (vigil) st 7.00pm Vigil Feast of all Saints 1 Friday 10.00am List of the Dead Saturday (vigil) 5.45pm 1st Anniv Margaret Husband, Anniv Mary & Joe McCormack Gortloney Sunday 10.00am Rose Gibney Moylagh, John Monaghan Ballintogher
Monday/Thursday 9.20am/ In Oldcastle Eucharistic 9.00pm Tuesday Adoration 1pm/ 2pm In Moylagh
On request in both Churches Confessions
Please note e-mail address [email protected] can be used for notices for Mass Bulletin Visit our new Parish Website at www.oldcastleandmoylaghparish.com
All the sick and housebound will be visited by the priest in Moylagh Thursday morning 3rd November and in Oldcastle Friday morning 4th November.
Altar Servers for Oldcastle Church W/End 29th/30th Oct Groups 5 & 1 – W/End 5th/6th Nov Groups 2 & 3.
Readers for November 2016 at St Brigid’s Church, Oldcastle. Brendan Brady 7.00pm Sat 5th & 19th November Paul Connors 7.00pm Sat 12th & 26th November Pat Gibney 11.30am Sun 6th & 20th November Brenda Wilson 11.30am Sun 13th & 27th November
St Vincent de Paul Confidential Helpline Phone 087 4191457 . VINCENT’S (St. Vincent de Paul) Shop – Opening Hours 11am to 1pm Thursday, Friday and Saturday and 2.00 pm to 4.30 pm on Thursday & Friday. We would be grateful for donations of good quality clean clothes.
In Memory Kindly remember in your prayers the repose of the soul of the Benny Monaghan Cavan Street who died recently. May he rest in peace.
Congratulations to Elaine Cunningham & Christopher Barr also Eileen Rahill & Jonathan Culligan on the occasion of their recent wedding. We wish them a long life of health and happiness.
We welcome into the Church Penny Wynne-Maguire who was baptised recently in St Brigid’s Church Oldcastle
November Offerings will be taken up at all Masses this weekend and following. It is one of the major offering days in order for you to support your priest. Please use special envelope in family box or any envelope with your name and address on it.
Pre- Baptism Course. Next pre baptism course Friday 4th November at 7.25pm in St Oliver’s Parish Centre in Church grounds. It is important that you notify Fr Ray if you are going to attend the pre-baptism course, in order that the baptism team are present on that evening
National Concert Hall Hallelujah – An evening with Fr Ray Kelly at the National Concert Hall Sunday 13th November. A bus has been organised and if you wish to travel on it please contact the parochial house on 049 8541142. Ticket cost for show €32.50, €27.50, €25.00 and €20.00. (Guest artist Lucy O’Byrne who recently was runner-up on The Voice UK 2015)
Do this in Memory. This weekend we continue our Do this in Memory Programme for children and their parents who are preparing for First Holy Communion next year. We will welcome the children from Scoil Mhuire. Moylagh on Sunday morning 30th Oct at our 10.00am Mass and the children from Gilson NS also on Sunday morning 30th Oct at 11.30m Mass. I ask all parents to please bring your children along.
List of the Dead Envelopes The Church in its pilgrim members, from the very earliest days of the Christian religion, has always honoured with great respect the memory of the dead, and because it is a holy and a wholesome thought to pray for our loved one’s departed. After all remembering them in prayer is the only gift we can give them now. We do that by offering up Mass on the 1st Friday of every month. By submitting your departed loved one’s names on a list, they are included and remembered in a special way at that Mass. List of the Dead Envelopes are available in the Church. Please return them as soon as possible to be included in these Masses
In November , We remember...Take the Short -Term Pledge for the month of November for deceased family and friends who have gone before us marked with the Sign of Faith. Join online at http://www.pioneerassociation.ie/ or contact local centre. Any Pioneer from Oldcastle Centre who feels that they are entitled to a silver or gold pin should contact 087 9419493 or 097 0984302
On Wednesday 2nd November Feast of the Commemoration of All the Faithful Departed all Masses in the parish are offered up for our deceased loved ones.
Throughout November the names of all our loved ones from our List of the Dead lie before our Altar intermixed with flowers and candles. In a symbolic way, the living community gather around the Dead and commends them to the mercy and love of God. The temporary Shrine is also a reminder to us of the Communion of Saints – that the Dead are still in Communion with us in Christ and that inevitably each one of us will follow the same path that they have taken. In this, our Parish Community is seeking to fulfil its obligation of praying for its loved ones, after all remembering them in prayer is the only gift we can give them now and we are also following an ancient trend of humanity and a common practice in many religions and cultures. Praying for the dead is an early Christian tradition that is provided for in present-day Liturgy and recommended as a private practice. Honouring and praying for the dead is important for us who pray in so far as it extends our consciousness of life to include life after death. This is a life work. The average teenager is immortal. Mortality encroaches as we encounter sickness and death among family and friends. Every funeral we attend is quietly pushing out the boundaries of life to include death. When our nearest and dearest departs, death becomes more imminent but often more welcoming also. Our November prayers should also include the bereaved. Their suffering may be much greater than that of the dear departed and they need the support of our prayers. They also need on-going support from family, friends and neighbours, not in a suffocating manner which gives them little time to grieve but in a discreet and supportive way.
Winter time begins at 2.00am on Sunday morning so don’t forget to put your clock back one hour before you go to bed on Saturday night as all Masses on Sunday will be according to OLD TIME. `
Set Dancing classes upstairs in Caffrey’s commencing on Monday the 7th of November at 8pm, all levels welcome, 5 euro per class, any queries contact Kenneth Murphy on 0861708174.
Oldcastle Credit Union Secured by shares loan sale started on Mon Oct 24th and will run until Nov 12th only. Draw down date on the 30th Nov 2016. Ring or call into CU for more details. Leaflets are available. T&C apply. There will be no extension to the above dates.
The Fundraising Committee for the Oldcastle & District Alzheimer’s Day Care centre will be holding their AGM in the day Care Centre at the Health Centre Oldcastle on Thursday 10th November at 8pm. The day centre which provides twice weekly respite care for Alzheimer’s and Dementia clients and their families covers the areas of Oldcastle, Moylagh, Carnaross, Crossakiel, Castlepollard, Collinstown, Fore, Ballinacree, Mountnugent, Kilnaleck, Ballyjamesduff, Virginia & Maghera. The participation and support of all in these local communities is much welcomed and encouraged particularly as fundraising to keep this much needed service open and in our community is now essential. All welcome to come along and join the discussion and hear the committee’s aims and objectives for the year ahead.
"A Garden is a friend you can visit any time" We propose to develop a Garden in the field behind the Church in Oldcastle. There are short pamphlets outlining the basic proposal at the back of the church. Please take one if you are interested in finding out more.
Moylagh Historical Society welcomes everyone to the launch of the republication of 'Sinn Fein - the Oldcastle Monthly Review' in Oldcastle Library on Thursday 3rd Nov at 7.30pm. All welcome, free admission
Creative Kids Halloween Art and Craft Camps in Moylagh Community Centre Friday 4th November 10am – 2pm – ages 4 – 12years. €15 for the day. To book contact Nici 086 1013357