St. Mary's Parish, MASS TIMES & INTENTIONS Parish Office: Mon to Fri. 9am to 3pm. Tel: 074 9731013 • Sunday 26th August 2012: Twenty-First Sunday in Ordinary Time (Cycle B) Parish Secretary : Ann O’Donnell • Weekday Readings: Twenty-First Week in Ordinary Time Email : [email protected] Website : killybegsparish.com Saturday 25th August: 07.30pm - Michael Hamilton (Anniversary) Parish Priest: Fr. Colm Ó Gallchóir : Tel: 074 9731013 Sunday 26th August: 09.00am - Margaret & Frank Brennan (Anniversaries) 11.00am - Gerry O’Doherty (1st Anniversary) & Church Restoration ’s First Junior Margaret O’Doherty (10th Anniversary) • Sunday Masses at Foresters Hall Strictly Come Dancing! Monday 27th August: 10.00am - Joe Cannon (2nd Anniversary) rd th Thursday 30th August: 10.00am - Kathleen & John Briordy (Anniversaries) • Weekday Masses in the Tara Hotel. Calling all 3 to 6 class pupils of Killybegs & National Schools for Junior Strictly Friday 31st August: 10.00am - Denis Kinsella (Anniversary) • We anticipate that the project will not be Come Dancing, taking place in Killybegs on Saturday 1st September: 07.30pm - Bridget McBrearty & Paddy Heekin (Anniv) completed until late September. We will give the afternoon of Sunday 25th November 2012. Sunday 2nd September: 09.00am - Deceased members of the Rawdon family details of official opening date as soon as we can. Parents are invited to bring along their 11.00am - Aidan Mc Ginley (Month’s Mind Mass) Thank you for your patience. children to open auditions, which will take Adoration - Sunday 6pm to Monday midnight Restoration Finances place on Saturday 15 th September in The Tara Confessions - Saturdays 6.45pm in Prayer Room • Interest-Free loans , of any amounts, small or Hotel. The Commons N.S., Niall Mór N.S, large, repayable on request, would be gratefully Fintra N.S. & S.N. Chartha Naofa, Kilcar are Pray for those who died recently: Frank Laffey who died in Renfrew, Scotland (brother-in law-of accepted. Please contact Fr Colm. invited to audition. All funds raised will go to Christine Smith); David Kee , whose funeral took place on Monday. • Weekly restoration envelopes: if anyone would St. Mary’s Church Restoration Fund. Further Suaimhneas síoraí. like to receive a set, contact Parish Office. details regarding audition times will be Fundraising Events provided in the newsletter at a later date. University of welcomes applications for our Blessed Sacrament Adoration • Scrap Metal Collection: . part-time courses (Diploma/Degree) 26th August - Caroline O’Gorman Blood Donor Clinic in Tara Hotel For further enquiries ring Parish Office 9731013. at Magee (Derry), Annagry, and 2nd September - Patricia O’Boyle Monday 27th August 6.30pm - 9.30pm . Please call (028)71675277 or email • Sheep Farmer Appeal: we are appealing to sheep Tuesday 28th August 3.00pm - 5.00pm [email protected] for further information. Sunday Collection € 1,615.00 farmers to donate the price of one lamb from their 7.00pm - 9.30pm flock. Please contact the Parish Office 9731013 Dancing for the Stars Restoration & Development Fund: Re-opening of Schools Envelopes 18th & 19th August: € 1,300.00 Accord Marriage Preparation Courses Commons N.S. Monday 3rd August. in the Abbey Hotel, Donegal Town for Autumn 2012 Donegal Town 074 9723944 on Sat 29th September at 8pm. Hosted by TV3’s Total Fund: € 1,858,240.50 Junior Infants finish at 12 noon. Thank you for your continued generosity. October 5th & 6th; November 9th & 10th Fintra N.S. Monday 3rd September Mr Noel Cunningham. Adm €15. Proceeds in aid of Book online www.accord.ie Residents’ Comfort Fund, Áras Mhic Suibhne, Junior Infants finish at 12.30. Courses in religious education and theology Laghey and St Naul’s Church, Ardaghey. Weekend Masses in Foresters’ Hall. Niall Mór N.S. Monday 3rd September studies open to teachers, parents, sacrament Weekday Mass in The Tara Hotel Function Room Junior Infants finish at 12.25. preparation teams and those who are interested Pulsewave Ireland are offering medically Monday, Thursday and Friday 10am. in these areas are being run in St Angela’s Happy Days Playschool, The Commons approved non-invasive heart & artery screenings in Ard na Carraige Prayer Room: Open 8am - 8pm. College, Sligo. 071 9195550 / reopening Wed 29th August Tel: 087 2926375 Mill Park Hotel, Donegal on Tuesday 28th The Parish Office, Monday to Friday 9am - 3pm www.stangelas.nuigalway.ie / August, Are you at risk? Call 087-6995357 for email: [email protected] Rosary at Grotto, Fintra Rd, Sunday 7pm. appointments or log onto www.pulsewaveireland.net The Annual Mass For Expectant Families in St Eunan's Cathedral, Letterkenny on Friday 7th September Lourdes 7th September for 5 nights. Found.. Set of 2 keys found on Fintra Rd. at 7.30pm. The chief celebrant will be the Papal Nuncio €649 ex Dublin. www.marian.ie / 01 8788159 Killybegs History & Heritage Committee Tel 086 2362376 Archbishop Charles J Brown. Bishop Philip Boyce will next meeting on Wednesday 29th August Franciscan Pilgrimage to Lourdes The Society of St Vincent De Paul preside. Given that it is the First Friday of the Adult Religious Education Course Would you like Sept 22nd -27th. €685. Tel: 01 6359300 have requests for a fridge and a chest of month Mass will be followed with rosary, exposition and to know more about the Seven Sacraments? Would benediction and everyone is then invited to come together drawers. If you can help with either of these you like the Mass explained in ordinary language? in the Conference Room for tea and light refreshments. Life in the Eucharist Retreat in Ards Friary, please contact any member. on Sat 1 st to Sunday 2 nd Sept. If so, Fr Sweeney would run a 10 week course All are welcome to join with expectant families from September or October. Suitable for all ages and no James Kilbane & Country Band In Concert around the diocese for this special time of prayer. Directed by Fr Jim Campbell. Saturday 9.30am to Sunday 4.30pm. formal education would be required. . Tel: Fr in The Blue Haven Sunday 7th October in support of Rebuild for Bosnia (a housing Peru Children’s Charity Church Gate Collection Cost: €85 Residential, €55 Non-Residential, Sweeney, Parochial House, Ardaghey, 074 9736007. charity for Bosnian refugees) & amounted to €988. Many thanks to everyone who €40 Saturday only. Contact: Ards Friary on St Mary’s Restoration Fund. contributed and to the collectors. 074 9138909 or at [email protected] The obvious is that which is never seen until someone expresses it simply Tickets €15 from Declan’s Photocentre; Music Concert in Áislann Chill Chartha on Saturday 25 th August at 8.30pm. Refreshments served. Kahlil Gibran Parish Office or Celia McGee 085 2806365.