Bodyke and Tuamgraney Parish News Fr. Dariusz Plasek: 087 - 7036053 MASS TIMES Email: [email protected] Parish Office: 087 - 1498763 Saturday Vigil Tuamgraney 6.30pm Office email: Sunday Morning Bodyke 9.30am Website: www.bodyketuamgraneyparish.ie Ogonnelloe Parish Office can be contacted by calling Wednesday Tuamgraney 10.00am 085 8779113 or by email: [email protected]. Friday Bodyke 10.00am See also the website: www.ogonnelloeparish.ie 26th Sunday in Ordinary Time 26th September 2021 Vol. 37 No. 39

This Week’s Masses & Anniversaries The Parish Office is located in the

Tuamgraney - St. Joseph’s Church Opening hours are:

Saturday 25th September 6.30pm Ettie O’Brien • Tuesdays 9am to 12.30pm Wednesday 29th September 10.00am Mass • Thursdays 9am to 12.30pm Saturday 2nd October 6.30pm Jimmy, Kathleen & Peter Long Contact number - 087 1498763 Michael & Bridget Minogue Jerry & Dermot Walsh Please call the number above with newsletter items, to be issued with Bodyke - Church of the Assumption sacramental certificates, to book Sunday 26th September 9.30am anniversary masses or to get Mass Cards & Bouquets. Noel Gleeson Friday 1st October 7.00pm Margaret & Tommy Whelan Sunday 3rd October 9.30am Yellow Envelope Contributions Michael & Molly Wilmott Week ended 19th September Please note there will be no 10am Mass in Bodyke on Friday October 1st €278.56 Thank you for your continued Our Bodyke & Tuamgraney Parish Child Protection Representatives kind and generous support. can be contacted through Fr. Dariusz or the Parish Office

PARISH NOTES 2nd/3rd October 2021 (27th Sunday in Ordinary Time) First Friday Tuamgraney October 1st is the First Friday and there will be Reader: Ella O’Shaughnessy Mass in Bodyke at 7pm. Please note that there will Eucharist: Bernie Malone be no 10am Mass in Bodyke on that morning.

Bodyke The Priest’s October envelope collection Reader: Sarah Wiley will be taken up at Masses next weekend - Eucharist: Michael McNamara October 2nd/3rd. Envelopes can also be dropped into the Tuamgraney Parish Office with your weekly Eucharistic Adoration takes place in envelopes if you haven’t yet returned to mass. Tuamgraney Church on Wednesdays from just after 10am. You are welcome to visit the Charity Tax Rebate Blessed Sacrament during these hours. Strict Our parish has recently applied to revenue for a tax HSE & government guidelines on hygiene and numbers rebate in respect of donations received by the of people in church must be observed at all times. parish in 2020. This rebate is a valuable source of World Day of Migrants and Refugees income and is at no extra cost to the donors. We This Sunday, September 26th, is World Day of are most grateful to the 40 taxpayers who have Migrants and Refugees. The Church has been donated more than €200 each and who have celebrating World Day of Migrants and Refugees signed and returned the CHY3 form in 2018 or (WDMR) since 1914. It’s always an occasion to since. It is thanks to them that we could make this express concern for different vulnerable people on application to revenue. If you think you can help or the move; to pray for them as they face many if you need further information please contact challenges; and to increase awareness about the Noreen in the parish office. opportunities that migration offers. Saints / Feast Days this week Bodyke GAA Lotto in now online at • Monday 27th: St Vincent de Paul www.klubfunder.com/Clubs/bodykegaa/lotto • Tuesday 28th: St Wenceslaus There was no Jackpot winner of the September 20th draw. €25 winners were Bridget Minogue, • Wednesday 29th: St Michael, St Gabriel and Niall McGrath, Sean Keating, Nuala & Marcinn St Raphael (Archangels) (Bane's). The next draw is on Monday 4th October at 9pm. The cut off time for purchasing online lotto tickets • Thursday 30th: St Jerome is 10pm on Sunday 3rd October. Any lotto tickets • Friday Oct 1st: St Thérèse of the Child Jesus purchased online after this cut off time will be entered (Patroness of the Missions) into the next draw. Please note that lotto tickets are also • Saturday 2nd: The Holy Guardian Angels available in Niland’s Tuamgraney, The Cobbler’s, Copies of the current rotas for Readers and Nuala’s and Bane’s Shop Scariff. Thank you for your Eucharistic Ministers in Tuamgraney and Bodyke continued support. (up to weekend of October 30th/31st) are available Ladies Boutique Clearance Sale in aid of in both churches and also on the parish website. Missionvale Ireland will take place on Saturday 2nd A set of keys were left in the door of the parish October at 10:30am in O'Gonnelloe Exchange house Tuamgraney. If they are yours please call Community Hall. Range of new women's clothing in the parish office on 087 1498763. sizes 8-24 with Smart, Casual, Day & Evening Wear and Wedding Outfits. Don't miss this Anniversary Masses 60%/70% off Retail Price Sale! When booking an Anniversary Mass for a departed loved one please contact the parish office at least Clare Older People’s one month before the date on which you wish to Volunteer of the Year Award 2021 have the Mass celebrated. Please also note that as The search is on again to recognise those who give more requests are made for anniversary Masses, it their time, energy and skills to help others in the will be necessary to include a number of intentions local community. For nomination forms please at the same Mass. We thank you for your contact Helen on (065) 6846240 or email: understanding and co-operation. [email protected] Closing date for receipt of nomination forms is Friday 1st October. Free Smartphone classes starting from September 27th at participating Clare Request for plastic bottles Libraries. Become more familiar with installing We are looking for empty plastic bottles (500ml or apps, using Zoom and sending emails. Contact smaller) to fill with holy water and leave in the Scariff Library on 061 922893 to book your place. churches for people to take home with them. If you have any such bottles we would greatly appreciate You still have time to visit St. Cronan's 10th it if you could drop them into the parish office during Century Church in Tuamgraney before it closes office opening hours. Please make sure that the for the season at the end of September. There is a bottles are FULLY RINSED OUT AND CLEAN. very informative free 6 minute audio visual presentation. Donations very welcome. If you are available once a month on Saturdays and Wednesdays for sacristan duties in Tuamgraney Children Church we would be very grateful if you could contact Jesus warned those who would lead the little ones astray the parish office. but he blessed those who care for them. TFI Local Link bus public transport has recently One of the most touching things about children launched a new Route C1 timetable serving Feakle is their openness. to Ennis. There is a pick up point at Niland’s Shop But this same openness leaves them Tuamgraney and at Bodyke Church. Copies of the extremely vulnerable. timetable are at the back of both churches. They may not say much but they feel everything. They are like crocuses Guided Pilgrimages on the Lough Derg Pilgrim which appear in the open in February - Path will be offered on Sunday 26th September and frail, delicate, beautiful creatures - Sunday 3rd October, with Mass outdoors, weather innocents abroad in an unpredictable climate. permitting. The full route is a 12km loop, with a shorter If they are embraced by the sun, 8km option. Advance booking is essential. For further they will bloom to their full potential. information email [email protected] or call 071 But if they are assailed by hail, 9861518. www.loughderg.org Lough Derg Pilgrim they will die a premature death. Path, Pettigo, Co Donegal. F94 N289 Love is to a child what sunshine is to a flower. Newsletter Deadline: News items for inclusion in the Parish Newsletter should be with the Parish Office by 9.00am on Thursday. Email: [email protected] or Tel: 087 - 1498763 website: www.bodyketuamgraneyparish.ie