Our Lady of Victories Sallynoggin / Glenageary Pearse Street, Sallynoggin Phone: (01) 2854667 email: [email protected] Website: www.sallynogginandglenagearyparish.com Twenty-eighth Sunday in Ordinary Time, Year B, October 11th 2015. 50’s 2011 2013 70’s 60’s 90’s 80’s Our Lady of Victories CONFESSIONS Saturday: 10.30 a.m.—11.30 a.m. 5.30 p.m.—6.15 p.m. BAPTISMS Celebrated on the First Sunday and Third Saturday of the month, arrangements having been made in person at the presbytery giving three weeks notice. EUCHARISTIC ADORATION Chapel open from 7.30 a.m. to 10.00 p.m. daily DIVINE MERCY Wednesdays from 2.45 p.m. to 3.45 p.m. Sunday 11th October Twenty-eighth Sunday in Ordinary Time Mass at 11.30 a.m. launches the Diamond Jubilee of our Church and the Golden Jubilee of our Parish. Monday 12th October Miraculous Medal Novena at all Masses Thursday 15th October St. Teresa of Avila Friday 16th October Holy Hour after 6.30 p.m. Mass Saturday 17th October St Ignatius of Antioch, bishop and martyr. Benediction follows 6.30 p.m. Mass. Please remember in your prayers the sick of the parish Niamh Byrne, Seán Ó Brádaigh, Gerard Smyth, Carmel Kavanagh, Joe Martin, Jean Power, Tony & Patricia O’Brien, Derek Howard, Mrs Hannah Johnston, Joe Whyte, Mary Sweeney, Maureen Reid, Noel Goggins, Maura & Bill McAllister, Freda Williams, Mary Boyle, Cristóir & Rita Ó’Floinn and Fr. Henry Nevin SDS.. If you would like us to pray for someone you know who is ill please contact the parish office with their name. Special collection for The Legion of Mary are collecting Mission Sunday on the at the Church gate today for the weekend of 17th/18th homeless hostels they run in the October 2015 city centre. Vigil Wed 6.30 Joan Gleeson + anniv 9.00 Bernard O’Beirne + anniv Marie Downer + anniv Ian Whyte + anniv Andy Kirwan + anniv 6.30 Johnny Whyte + 1st anniv Evelyn Wynne + rec dec Thurs 8.30 For parishioners 9.00 Coffey Family (deceased) 6.30 Ben Redahan + anniv 10.00 Teresa McMahon + anniv Fri 11.30 Susan Bustillo + 1st anniv 9.00 Charles Tinsley + anniv Mona McNabb + anniv 6.30 Mick McKenna + anniv Mary Kenny + anniv Christopher Collins + 3rd anniv Charlotte Hayden & Thomas O’Neill + annivs Sat Helen O’Connor 97th Birthday 9.00 Paul McConnell + anniv 6.30 6.30 Eddie McCabe + anniv René Curtis + months mind Mon Joan Martin + months mind 9.00 Cecilia O’Sullivan + anniv Sun 6.30 Aidan Fennell + anniv 8.30 For parishioners Kay Cooney + anniv 10.00 Ewan Hogan + rec dec 11.30 Szcezepan Wochala + months mind Mary Jessop birthday Sean Mooney + rec dec Tues Helen & Tony get well intention 9.00 Don & Angela Nellenbach+ annivs 6.30 Christopher Tobin + anniv 6.30 Mary Dowd + rec dec Our Dear Departed Anniversaries: Teresa McMahon, Joan Gleeson, Mona McNabb, Susan Bustillo, Mary Kenny, Thomas O’Neill, Charlotte Hayden, Kay Cooney, Cecilia O’Sullivan, Aidan Fennell, Don & Angela Nellenbach, Bernard O’Beirne, Ian Whyte, Johnny Whyte, Ben Redahan, Charles Tinsley, Christopher Collins, Mick McKenna, Paul McConnell, Eddie McCabe. Please remember them in your prayers The Legion of Mary in the Parish would welcome new members to help their activities which include Baptism Preparation, Sale of Catholic papers and magazines at weekend Masses and visiting in the Parish. If you would like to give it a try, please phone Anne on 0874165682, or come along to our meeting, as a visitor, any Thursday at 8p.m. in the Parish Centre at the back of the Presbytery. 11th October 2015 As we begin our Jubilee year I extend a warm welcome to Bishop Kevin Doran, a native of our Parish who is chief celebrant at the opening Mass. Today we celebrate our Patroness - Our Lady of Victories. I hope this will be a wonderful year of celebrating the past 60 years as we have much to be grateful for. We acknowledge our humanity and mistakes and look for this year to be a time of renewal and rededication to Our Lord and Saviour during this Year of Mercy as decreed by Pope Francis. Many thanks to the LPI for launching the newsletter earlier than planned. We appreciate their professionalism /support of the last few months. Hoping you enjoy reading the results over the coming year! We have also received a message of encouragement from Archbishop Diarmuid Martin, marking the beginning of our Jubilee Celebration 1st October 2015 Dear Fr. Gleeson, I write to congratulate the people and priests of the parish of Our Lady of Victories as you gather to celebrate this double Jubilee of your Church and Parish. A Jubilee is an opportunity to recall the past, and look to the future. In recalling the history of this Church and Parish, and the priests who served in the parish both diocesan and Salvatorian, we are remembering the faith of all those who lived and worshipped there, with each person gathering on October 11thserving as a witness to the faith of past generations. The 60 years since the building of your Church has seen many changes in your parish, and in the Church in Dublin. Change is not always welcome, times of Church services or changes to the staffing of Parishes often upset people, but it is necessary. Yet all of these things are in a way external, that is not to say unimportant, but they are not our primary focus. What serves as a great comfort to me as Archbishop and to my priests, is the faith and goodness of the people of God, both in the parish of Our Lady of Victories and elsewhere. Your commitment to your Church and parish is heartening, and I take this opportunity to thank all who serve the Church in their respective ministries. May this Jubilee year be a source of renewal and joy for the people of this parish. Yours sincerely, Diarmuid Martin Archbishop of Dublin Ann Doyle receives Papal Honour The parish are delighted to present the Bene Merenti Medal to Ann Doyle for her many years of service to the Church and the Community of Sallynoggin/Glenageary. The Benemerenti Medal is the highest honour awarded by the Pope to lay persons in recognition of their long and exceptional service to the Church. The medal has been blessed by Pope Francis and is inscribed with the word ‘Benemerenti’ which is derived from the latin ‘to a well deserved person’. Congratulations Ann and thank you for the many years of Service! BAPTISMS We welcomed into the Christian Community through the Sacrament of Baptism Ceoilín Caoimhe Cécile De Frein Kyle Hennessy Tom Anthony Kelly Kavanagh Eadie Beau Merrigan Harbourne Sienna Mags Byrne Lottie Ellen Merrigan Kendrick Ellie Hope Hickey McGarry Our congratulations to the parents and godparents. MASS TIME CHANGES From October 25th the evening Mass on Sunday will change to 5.30 p.m. We are also pleased to let you know that we will have a musician to lead the singing at this Mass. N.B. because we have been informed that Fr. Michael will be leaving us (date yet to be confirmed) it may be necessary to cease the weekday 6.30 p.m. evening Mass. We will of course keep you informed of any changes. A BRIEF HISTORY Our Lady of Victories was opened and blessed by his Grace, Most Rev John Charles McQuaid, DD, Archbishop of Dublin and Primate of Ireland on 7 th August, 1955. The first Mass was celebrated, on the same day, by Very Rev Michael O’Halloran, DD, parish priest of St Joseph’s Church, Glasthule, in which parish Sallynoggin was situated at the time. It was not until 1966 that Sallynoggin was constituted a separate parish. Prior to the building of the new church, Sallynoggin was served by a temporary wooden church of St Kevin, which was built in 1927, and was sited across the road from Chadwicks. It was a Chapel of Ease in Dun Laoghaire parish. At the time Sallynoggin was divided between Dun Laoghaire and Glasthule parishes. This arrangement was changed when plans for the development of the whole of the Upper Glenageary area were drawn up by the housing authorities. Pat Downes. One of the last First In May 1950, at a public meeting in Glasthule it was Communicants in St. Kevin’s. decided that the Dun Laoghaire portion of Sallynoggin would be transferred to Glasthule and that Glasthule Parish was to erect the new church. The site of the permanent church was changed to its present position where it would be in the centre of the developed area. Work was underway for the new church in 1952. Archbishop McQuaid blessed the site to be occupied by the altar and also laid and blessed the Foundation Stone in January 1953. The church itself, which is 180 feet long and 155 in width can seat approx. 1800. The bell tower is 120 feet and is surmounted by a 9 foot cross. It was expected at the time that the church would cater for a population of about 6,000 people living in 1,280 dwellings of Sallynoggin and Upper Glenageary. Archbishop McQuaid blesses the Foundation Stone on Monday the 19th January 1953 The bell was not of the old type. It was described as a loud speaker sound, being produced by records, kept in the sacristy, and relayed from speakers in the tower. Only two other such bells were in use at the time, one in Cork and one in Athlone. The high altar was finished in Italian marble and on the front of the altar in the red vein of the mar- ble is a representation of a chalice.