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

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This will be the sixth weekend that mass has not been  Set up a standing order – email the parish and the Mass will be celebrated, in the prayer room in the celebrated in our parish churches. The reality is that it is forms will be sent to you. You can cease this order parochial house, and broadcast live via webcam, unknown when the churches will be allowed to re-open whenever you wish. you can watch live or at a later time that suits you. and under what conditions they will be allowed to re-  Online donation – go to the Diocesan website Please go to the website: open. The main concern is that each person keeps as safe www.dromorediocese.org look for the donate www.dromaradgooland.org (home page) for the link and as healthy as possible and in doing so helps to keep button. You can donate to the parish, find your to live streaming others healthy and safe as well. parish, and for the priests and the money will come The issue of money has been raised with me but I do not to the parish via the diocese. This will be gift- Mass times for the incoming week (and for the see it as the priority at this time, the pastoral care needed aidable. A follow-up email to the parish will help foreseeable future) : Sat 6:00pm Sun 9:00am to be addressed. The webcam and YouTube has allowed keep a record. Mon 9:00am Tues 9:00am a connection. It was not a case of money that delayed this  Any envelopes or donations that are placed in the Wed 7:30pm Fri 7:30pm connection but rather it was beyond my skill set and I am letterbox are opened and lodged in the correct very grateful to the parishioner who has enabled the parish account. Leitrim Community Playgroup broadcasting of masses. It is with deep regret that I have decided in my Personal finance is a major worry for many people at this Trócaire realise that coins cannot be returned at this 20th year at Leitrim Community Playgroup to retire time, some may have lost their jobs, some are on reduced time, but this can be done when churches are re-opened as Playgroup Leader at the end of June 2020. income and others fear that they might have the same for mass. Any cheque is best made payable to the parish Playgroup has been my life and I have enjoyed experience soon. Your priority is to care for you and your and this reduces the costs to Trócaire for handling welcoming hundreds of children in their pre-school loved ones. purposes. Online donations to Trócaire can be done by year experience a wonderful learning environment The financial statements for 2019 are prepared. The two visiting www.trocaisre.org or telephone 0800 9121200. and to have provided them with a safe, caring and parishes have money in the bank due to your generosity, loving environment. We are truly blessed with the Dromara has £101,220 and Drumgooland has £132,990. Fr Peter children and their families that have entered our There will be no major financial undertakings until life setting. returns to normal. The bills that come in will be paid. I would like to take this opportunity to thank the I continue to receive £1,600 per month. I am aware that Please remember these anniversaries in your prayers th staff, children, parents, grandparents, childminders, some were very worried that I have no money but a few Sat 18 – Margaret Morgan () committees past and present, and of course the years ago we adjusted the priests’ income to be the same Fri 24th – Mary and James McKay (Levalleyreagh) wider community who have supported me and each month and then balance it out at the end of the year. have been so generous over the years. Most of all I The new boxes of envelopes are prepared but cannot be Sat 25th – Clare McCrickard; Charlie, Bridget and would like to thank the trustees who employed me, delivered at this time. If anyone wishes to make a Sr Philomena Rooney not forgetting the GAC club who supported me financial contribution to the parish or priest’s collection throughout all these years. there are a few options: Sun 26th – Fr Paddy Rooney  People can wait until the churches re-open and make I wish my successor all the best and I hope they will a donation or return filled envelopes Recently deceased Pat Hamilton, enjoy and appreciate every minute that they spend  Post a cheque, made payable to either the ‘Parish of with the children as I have done. Dromara’ or the ‘Parish of Drumgooland’, to the Requests for anniversary notices can be made via email, the Your sincerely parochial house. If you do so, please include your telephone answering machine or by leaving a note through the parochial house letterbox. envelope number, please indicate how much is for Doreen Shahmohammadi x parish, priest or Trócaire.

Praying for each other in our townlands At this time of staying at home, I have extended the praying for each other until the end of May.

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