LISTOWEL PARISH NEWSLETTER 2Nd SUNDAY AFTER CHRISTMAS - 4Th JANUARY 2015

LISTOWEL PARISH NEWSLETTER – 2nd SUNDAY AFTER CHRISTMAS - 4th JANUARY 2015 Parish Priest: Canon Declan O Connor. Parish Office (Mon – Fri 10am – 1pm & 2pm – 5pm) 068-21188. After hours emergency no. 0870908949.Email: [email protected]. Notices for Parish Newsletter have to be in by 2.00pm on Thursdays. Funerals take place on weekdays at 11.30am and Sundays and Holy Days at 11.00am. Baptisms are at pre-arranged times and must be booked through the Parish Office. Confessions: every Saturday after 10.30am Mass. Check out our web page and all Diocesan news on: www.dioceseofkerry.ie

______RECENT DEATH John (Charlie) O’Sullivan, Killocrim. CHURCH NOTICES PARISH OFFICE is open on th ANNIVERSARY REMEMBRANCE Agnes O Mahoney, DIOCESAN COLLECTIONS 2015: As you are Monday, January 5 2015 at 10.00 Gortacrissane, Elizabeth O’Connor & Debra Canty, Nora aware the Diocese has 12 Diocesan Collections a.m. O’Shaughnessy, William Street. each year, whereby the Diocese has a acquired a IRISH CATHOLIC CATECHISM COURSE MASSES THIS WEEK DECEMBER 4 th to 11 th public permit from the Garda. The List for 2015 is FOR ADULTS; facilitated by Fr. Sean Sheehy, Saturday Don Middleton, Tralee, Months Mind / up on the Notice Board at the back of the Church will be starting Monday 12th January 2015, taking 3rd Jackie Twomey, Ballyhadigue / as you enter. While these Collection takes place place in the Meeting Parish Room and Running for Tim Flaherty, Derry / within the church immediately after Holy John Joe Halpin, Breda Hinkens nee Halpin, 10 weeks. Vigil Ellen Halpin, Bridget & Johnny O’Sullivan, Dirha Communion on these dates no other collection has A PUBLIC TALK by Fr. Mark Patrick 7.00pm Cottages & Ennismore / permission outside the gates on these dates. The Hederman, Abbot of Glenstal Abbey, will take Richard & Margaret Roche & Deceased Family first Diocesan Collection for the month of January Members, O’Connell’s Ave. & Jacqueline place in the Gleneagle Hotel, Killarney on th Jennings nee Roche O’Connell’s Ave. / throughout the Diocese of Kerry is taking place Thursday next January 8 at 8pm. He will be with rd t Molly & Richard O Shea, William Street this weekend, (Sat. Jan. 3 / Sun. Jan. 4 ) after th the Priests of the Diocese of Kerry who are on Sunday 4 People of the Parish 9.00am Holy Communion and it is for the NEEDS OF Assembly / Conference that week. Admission is Christy O’Connor, Coolnalaught & THE HOLY LAND ANNUAL DIOCESAN James Culhane & Pat Galvin, Moyvane / 11.00am free and all are welcome. Baby Mark Grace, Kenny Heights COLLECTION: This collection provides Prayer for Vocations to the Priesthood: O Lord Mon 5th 10.30am assistance to those in need in the Holy Land and Jesus Christ, great High-Priest, we ask You to call Bob Kelly, Dirha / 7.00pm helps fund 36 Dispensaries, 21 Charitable many worthy souls to Your holy priesthood. Teresa Bambury, Gurtaglana, Kilmorna Vigil Institutes, 120 Centres of Education and also Tues 6th People of the Parish 11.00am Enlighten the superiors in the choice of Maltida, Johnny & Patrick Kelly, Billerough 1.10pm housing projects for the deprived. candidates, the spiritual directors in guiding them, Wed. 7th Peg Kelly / 10.30am CHILDREN'S LITURGY OF THE WORD The and the professors in instructing them. Lead the Joe Devine, Church Street children's liturgy will be held on this Sunday 4th Thurs. 8th Bridie Cronin, Ballyruddery 10.30am seminarians daily in unerring footsteps, so that Friday 9th Tom & Maire Keane, The Lodge 10.30am January 2015 at 11am. Mass. The children's they may become priests who are models of Saturday Peter Murphy, Ennismore 10.30am liturgy happens during the mass while the readings purity, possessors of wisdom and heroes of 10th Margaret Moloney, Derry, Months Mind / are being read. It is pitched at Primary School sacrifice; steeped in humility and aflame with st Paudie Horan, Cherry tree Drive, 1 Anniversary / level and all children and their parents are most Joe Carr, Balbriggan / Vigil Divine love; apostles of Your glory and sanctifiers Kathleen Hartnett, Clieveragh / 7.00pm welcome. of souls. Amen. George McEneaney, Gortacrissane / FEAST OF EPIPHANY OF THE LORD: Stuart Stack & Justin & Damien Stack th ANAM CARA is holding its monthly Parent Evening on th Sunday 11th 9.00am takes this Tuesday - January 6 It is a Holy Day Tuesday 13 of January 2015 from 19:30 to 21:00 in Christy Sommers & Deceased Family Members, of Obligation. Masses are as follows Vigil will Recovery Haven, 5 Haigs Terrace, Killerisk, Tralee. Anam 11.00am Billerough th take place on Monday 5 January at 7pm. Cara Services are available free of charge to all bereaved Tuesday: Morning mass at 11am, 1.10pm. parents. Anam Cara is an inclusive organisation where Priest on duty for Listowel Deanery on this Sunday, 4th (lunch time). parents do not identify themselves by their children’s age, January, Fr .O’Connell, 0879267038 (emergencies only). how they died, or if their death was recent or many years PARISH OFFERTORY COLLECTION: Our sincere ago. What Anam Cara provides is a safe place for thanks for the Offertory Collection last weekend. Thank you. bereaved parents to connect with others who understand the intensity of the grief and loss. Bliain nua Faoi Shéan is Faoi Mhaoise Díbh go léir. Wishing you All a Happy, Holy & Peaceful 2015