Parishes of and

Fr Peter McNeill Tel: 406 50207 Emergency Tel: 079 69403762 Email: [email protected] www.dromaradgooland.org

st Solemnity of Pentecost – 31 May 2020

Churches open for prayer Recently deceased Holly Quail, Portlaoise I will celebrate mass in the prayer room of Thank you to all the people who cleaned the the parochial house, and broadcast live via churches and to those who are willing to open and Please remember these anniversaries in your prayers webcam, you can watch live or at a later time close them each day, and to those who have Sat 30th – Jim Joe O’Hare (MM) that suits you. Please go to the website: volunteered to clean them regularly. Bernard, Margaret and Patrick Doyle www.dromaradgooland.org (home page) for the All four churches will be open for private prayer Sun 31st – Kevin O’Hare link to live streaming from this weekend. St Mary of the Angels, Mary Galbraith Dechomet will be open on a Saturday and Sunday, Mass times for the incoming week are: Vincent and Desmond O’Hare Sat 6:00pm Sun 9:00am the others will be open every day. Cecilia and Seamus McCullough Please show care and respect to others, use the hand Mon 9:00am Tues 9:00am Rosey Williams Wed 7:30pm Fri 7:30pm sanitizers, or your own, respect the social distance th Sat 6 – Aisling O’Donnell and only use the seats that are available. Pat Doyle If you are uneasy about entering any church or Phyllis and Seamus Doyle Retreat building, do not enter, respect yourself. Sun 7th – William and Mary McAvoy We can pray at home or out in nature as well as in I was due to be away on retreat in mid-June but Betty Byrne that is not possible. The invite is to stay at the church ‘’ We the family of the late Jim Joe O’Hare would home. like to express our sincere thanks and appreciation I am currently trying to arrange a retreat where Praying for each other to all who sympathised with us during our recent I can stay here, hold the silence and touch in The updated list for the next six weeks is available bereavement. with the retreat director each day. That will with this bulletin We would like to thank all who contacted us via mean I will not broadcast weekday masses at phone, letters, mass cards and social media. We that time, nor will I be available to answer would especially like to thank all our friends and phone calls or the door. When I have it better Thank you for the donations lodged this week neighbours who lined the cortege route to the organised I will let you know. Parish £515 Priest £190 Trócaire £245 church. Often I have been asked is there anything that A special appreciation needs to be expressed to all can be done for me, the simple answer is your Thank you to all who collected their envelope boxes. the carers and nurses who helped look after Dad in prayer, it is a very precious gift and one that I Over the next two weeks the rest will be delivered. his final weeks. need and would be honoured to receive. If anyone wants to deliver boxes, please let me Finally, we would like to express our heartfelt know. thanks to Father Peter and Miceal Sawey on the caring and dignified manner in which the funeral was carried out during this very difficult time.”

The O’ Hare Family,

Backaderry, Leitrim

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