Please pray for Mary Flood, Oughterard, sister of Barbara Grealish & Geraldine Walsh. New Restrictions Updated 13th November 2020 Mick Flaherty, Carnmore and the following for whom Mass will be offered during the coming In line with the government latest Covid 19 level 5 restrictions. All churches have been week: st th closed for public Masses until 1 December. The guidelines are as follows: Sat 14 7.30p.m. (Vigil) Seán & Michaél Cloherty, Cloon. Patrick & Mary Cloherty, Cloon & Una Lalor and her parents Mass will take place in private and will be broadcast on parish radio 106.4 FM. Martin & Mary Cloherty, Cloon. You can now view mass on live broadcast on churchtv.ie/claregalway or visit our Sun 15th 9.00a.m. Paddy & deceased members of the Bodkin family, Gortatleva. website www.claregalwayparish.ie and click the link to see live broadcast. 11.00a.m. Marty Ward, Tuam (1st Anniversary). Booked Mass Intentions will be offered in private. th Mon 16 7.30p.m. John & Delia Carr, Carnmore. Funerals now restricted to 25 people th Tues 17 9.30a.m. Bridget, Sarah & Thomas Flesk, Cloon. Weddings also restricted to 25 people th Wed 18 9.30a.m. Delia Carr, Cregboy. Baptisms. The Sacrament of Baptism may proceed with, in addition to the child and the Thur 19th 7.30p.m. Michael & Sarah Madden, Kileen. th priest, four people present, preferably from the child's household only. It may be necessary for Fri 20 9.30a.m. People of the parish. godparents to be represented by proxy. Please contact the parish office. Sat 21st 9.30a.m. Breda Duggan, Montiagh (1st Anniversary). The Church will remain open for private prayer during the day. Strict adherence to face 7.30p.m. (Vigil) Deceased members of the Hession family, Gortadooey. covering, social distancing and hand sanitizing protocols continue to be of critical importance. Tom & Agnes Lenihan, Lakeview. Peggy Gallagher, Carnmore. Parish office. Please make contact by phone or email. Phone/email will be checked Sun 22nd 9.00a.m. Special Intention. daily. 11.00a.m. Special Intention. Confessions. Please contact parish office if you require Confessions. The above Mass intentions will be broadcast on parish radio106.4 fm. and on our new parish I will continue to respond to emergencies and sick-calls to the best of my ability in adherence webcam www.churchtv.ie/claregalway or can be accessed through website to government guidelines. www.claregalwayparish.ie and click link webcam. MASS BROADCAST EVERY DAY ON THESE WEBSITES The November lists of the Dead are still available at the church Claregalway Church www.churchtv.ie/claregalway or via website Altar Society www.claregalwayparish.ie and click link webcam. Monday 7.30pm. Tuesday, doors. Please return lists to the letterbox on Sacristy door or to the Wednesday, Friday & Saturday at 9.30am. Saturday Vigil 7.30pm & Sunday 9am Group H parish office/parochial house during the week. Your intentions will be included on the First Monday of every month at 7.30p.m. for 2021 & 11am. First Friday of the 7.30pm Galway Cathedral www.facebook.com/cathedralingalway at 11a.m. & 6.00p.m. Repository. You are invited to place Memorial Cards of your departed loved ones in Radio Maria www.radiomaria.ie +Saoirview ch. 210 our Parish Repository situated at the Altar. The people you remember in this way will be EWTN www.ewtnireland.com + Sky TV included in our Masses for the Holy Souls and your precious Memorial Cards will be kept Vatican TV www.vaticannews.va/en at 11.30a.m. safe in Perpetuity. Shalom TV www.shalomworld.ie SUNDAY MASS ON RADIO AND ONLINE Adoration of the Most Blessed Sacrament will take place on 9am Clare FM 10am. Mid-West Radio - Sunday, Wednesday & Friday at 10a.m. Tuesday’s from 10am-11.am. In the Church. 11am Radió Na Galetachta and www.knockshrine.ie at 12noon & 7.30p.m Holy Water. If people would like water to be blessed, please leave in a sealed container with name behind the Altar & it will be blessed and can be collected the next day. Diocesan Vocations Director Fr Ian O’Neill Tel: 091-798741 or email [email protected]. A YouTube video message from John Gerard Welcome into our Christian community - Aidan & Joseph .Congratulations to their families. Acton, newly ordained deacon can be found on https://youtu.be/Swkf2RbUaqQ. Collection. €905.00. Thank you to all of you who support the church. Weekly envelopes/Dues envelopes can be returned through the letterbox of the PRAYER IN TIME OF BEREAVEMENT We continue to keep in our sacristy door behind the altar, the parish office or the parochial house if you so wish. Sincere Lord, you are close to the broken hearted. prayers the many nurses, doctors thanks to all of you who return envelope, your support is very much appreciated. If you would Be with me now in my grief and loneliness. and healthcare staff from our like to or are in a position to give your contributions re electronic transfer please use the Give me the courage to face my loss and not grieve in parish who work in our following accounts: silence. Be with me as I struggle with many different and hospitals, nursing homes and in Claregalway Church. Weekly Offerings: Claregalway Church A/C Current Account 1 painful feelings. the community to protect our IBAN: IE64BOFI 9040 4281 5728 35 BIC: BOFIIE2D Ease the hurt in my heart. Encircle me in your love. health. May God bless the work Autumn Dues Offerings: Claregalway Church A/C Current Account 2 Stay with me, Lord, support me. of their hands. We pray too for IBAN: IE42BOFI 9040 4281 5728 43 BIC: BOFIIE2D Help me to know that your power is at work within me Galway Diocese has set up a donation button on the website www.galwaydiocese.ie all those in positions of as I deal with my grief. you can now click on the I donate button and select Claregalway Parish if you wish to leadership - may God guide and donate. Or our website www.claregalwayparish.ie and click donations. Amen. direct them. Revenue Refund. CHY3 (5 year Certificate) are been issued to those who donated over Church of The Assumption & St James Lakeview, €250 in a year to the church.CHY4 Certificate are also available at the Church doors for people who would like to sign up for one year. The refund from Revenue is a vital Claregalway, Co. Galway H91 YH05 source of income for the upkeep of the church and buildings especially this year when our Sunday Masses: Saturday: 7.30 p.m. income had been dramatically been reduced. If you are no longer eligible please sign the Sunday: 9 a.m. & 11 a.m. form and let us know and you will no longer receive correspondence from us. Your Weekdays: Monday: 7.30p.m. cooperation would be very much appreciated and I sincerely thank those who have signed Tuesday, Wednesday, Friday & Saturday: up over the years. It would be really appreciated if forms could be returned as soon as 9.30 a.m. Thursday 7.30 p.m. possible in order to re-claim the money from revenue. Thank you. Additional Mass first Friday at 7.30 p.m. 7.30 p.m. (Vigil) & 11a.m. Pope Francis’ Prayer to Mary during the coronavirus pandemic Holy Days: O Mary, you always shine on our path as a sign of salvation and of hope. Confessions: Contact Parish Office. We entrust ourselves to you, Health of the Sick, who at the cross took part in Jesus’ pain, keeping Baptisms: Contact Parish Office. your faith firm. Baptismal preparation meeting: Suspended for the moment. You, Salvation of the Roman People, know what we need, and we are sure you will provide so that, Fr. Ian O’Neill P.P. Tel: 091-798104 as in Cana of Galilee, we may return to joy and to feasting after this time of trial. Parish Office: Tel: 091-798741 Monday to Friday (10 a.m. - 1 p.m.) Help us, Mother of Divine Love, to conform to the will of the Father and to do as we are told by Email: [email protected] (from Monday 16th March) Jesus, who has taken upon himself our sufferings and carried our sorrows to lead us, through the Website: claregalwayparish.ie cross, to the joy of the resurrection. Amen. Radio Mass: FM 106.4 Mass Diary 2021 is now available. The 11o’clock Sunday Mass is normally kept for Facebook: claregalwayparish. Month’s Minds. Families of first anniversaries should try to book early to avoid Live broadcast www.churchtv.ie/claregalway disappointment later on in the year. Please email if possible. Sunday, 15th November 2020 (33rd Sunday in ordinary time). Holy Water. If people would like water to be blessed, please leave in a sealed World day of the poor. container with name behind the Altar & it will be blessed and can be collected the next day. This week’s Gospel speaks of how Jesus’ disciples are to conduct Concert. One Hour Concert broadcast live from Corrandulla Church on themselves as they await the Kingdom of Heaven. In the preceding Annaghdown/Corrandulla parish facebook on Sunday 22nd November from 7pm –8pm with passages and in last week’s Gospel, Jesus taught that there is no way Soprano Sara Geradine in aid of Cancer Care West. Your support would be most to predict the coming of the Kingdom of Heaven. His disciples must, appreciated. Donations to www.idonate.ie/whispering hope. therefore, remain vigilant and ready to receive the Son of Man at any time. SMA FATHERS CLAREGALWAY. Due to LEVEL 5 Corona Virus Protocols SMA Fathers Office will be closed until restrictions are lifted. Postal & telephone services will continue as Jesus’ parable talks about Christian discipleship using economic metaphors. Before he usual (Monday- Saturday 10a.m to 5p.m.)Tel: 091-798880 leaves on a journey, the master entrusts to his servants a different number of talents, giving to each according to their abilities. A talent is a coin of great value. Upon the Accord. Preparing couples for sacramental marriage during this time of Covid-19 . master’s return, he finds that the first and second servants have doubled their money, Please go to www.accord.ie for updates regarding pre-marriage courses. and both are rewarded. The third servant, however, has only preserved what was given Claregalway National School are accepting applications for enrolment for to him because he was afraid to lose the money. He has risked nothing; he did not even September 2021 Please see www.claregalwayns.ie for more Information or call 091798720 deposit the money in a bank to earn interest. This servant is punished by the master, and his talent is given to the one who brought the greatest return. Claregalway Parish respects & protects the personal data i.e. Sacramental records, financial contributions, contact information, booking forms etc it holds in respect of the services it Read in light of last week’s parable of the wise and foolish bridesmaids, this parable provides to parishioners and others. Recent Civil legislation (GDPR 2018) on data retention and teaches that God’s judgment will be based on the service we render to God and to one protection now require the parish to implement some new procedures on how we collect, another in accordance with the gifts that God has given to us. Our gifts, or talents, are utilise and retain this personal data. We now require explicit written permission from all volunteers to hold their contact details and to make contact with. given to us for the service of others. If we fail to use these gifts, God’s judgment on us will be severe. On the other hand, if we make use of these gifts in service to the Kingdom The Assumption & St James Church is committed to the Safeguarding of children of Heaven, we will be rewarded and entrusted with even more responsibilities. and young people in the parish. Names of parish representatives on church noticeboard. This Gospel reminds us that Christian spirituality is not passive or inactive. Our life of Claregalway Parish Facebook. 1860 likes. Thanks to all prayer helps us to discern the gifts that have been given to us by God. This prayer and of you who have liked the page. Tell your families away discernment ought to lead us to use our gifts in the service of God and our neighbour. from home so that they can get the latest parish news. God’s grace allows us to share in the work of serving the Kingdom of Heaven.