PARISH INFORMATION
Priests of the Parish: Fr. Michael Hegarty I.C. Fr. James Pollock I.C.
Tel: 6125679 Fax: 6128071 E Mail stoliver@eircom.net
Sister: Sr. Mary Muckley Tel: 6125235
Parish Office: Open Monday – Friday 9.00 a.m. – 4.30 p.m.
Parish Website:www.stoliverspc.org
Facebook Page: https://www.facebook.com/stoliverspc
Society of St. Vincent de Paul Helpline 086-0412328 or 6123878
Local Safeguarding Representatives: Margaret Waters 086-8917440 Fiona Stanley 087-9340382
Bereavement Support: Tel 6125679
Masses for Weekend
Saturday 7.30 p.m. Deceased members of McHugh Families (Anniv)
Sunday 9.00 a.m. Novena
12 Noon Mary & Eugene Lynch & Bridget O’ Connor (Anniv)
EUCHARISTIC ADORATION Our Parish Eucharistic Adoration takes place each week Monday from 2.00 p.m. to 8.00 p.m. (except when Monday is a Public Holiday).
Praying for our Dead Our Novena for the Holy Souls will conclude with Mass on Monday 10th at 7.30 p.m. We will continue to remember all our dead and all those on the Altar List of the Dead during every Mass in November.
Child Safeguarding St. Oliver’s Parish seeks to implement all Diocesan Policies regarding the safeguarding of children. Please note the new posters in the Church porches and the Information and Guidance brochures.
Order of Malta Thanks to the Order of Malta for their participation in the 12.00 Noon Mass on the Feast of all Saints. We look forward to having them with us again.
The Legion of Mary meet on Thursday evening at 7.30 p.m. in the Priest’s House (to the rear of St. Oliver’s Church). For further information please come along or phone 087-2590817 or 6131354. New active and auxiliary members most welcome.
St. Paul Fr. Michael Mullins DD will talk on St. Paul over three Tuesdays 11th, 18th and 25th November at St. John’s Pastoral Centre, Waterford at 7.30 p.m. Over these three evenings, Fr. Michael will look at St. Paul as Disciple, Apostle, Pastor, Writer and Theologian. Donation €5 including light refreshements.
‘Do This in Memory’ We welcome our FIRST COMMUNION children and their parents/guardians to their Enrolment Ceremony on next Saturday night 15th November at 7.30 p.m.
A Time to Remember Loved Ones Passed Away and Support for the Bereaved Reflections, Prayers, Readings, Hymns, Songs and Music with Tony Egan, Mala and Michael Raggett will take place at Rosminian House of Prayer, Glencomeragh, Kilsheelan on Sunday 16th November at 3 p.m.
Special Mass Celebration Our annual Mass for the BEREAVED will be held in St. Oliver’s Church on Tuesday November 18th at 7.30 p.m. All who have been bereaved at ANY time are welcome. As usual we will have a special Ceremony of Remembrance, during which you will be invited to light a candle in memory of your departed loved ones. You are most welcome for a “cuppa” in our Parish Centre afterwards.
Evening of Music and Reflection in aid of St. Mary’s Cistercian Abbey, Glencairn, Building Fund will take place in Rockwell College Church, on Friday 28th November at 7.30 p.m. Featuring Tipperary Gospel Choir and many more performers. Tickets €10. Refreshments and Raffle. Tickets available from Mary Holleran tel 087-6358158.
Offertory Collections
Saturday 1st November Envelopes – €192.77 Notes and Coin – €114.23
Sunday 2nd November Envelopes – €705.35 Notes and Coin – €509.65
The Pope’s Intentions for November
Universal: That all who suffer loneliness may experience the closeness of God and the support of others.
For Evangelisation: That young seminarians and religious may have wise and well-formed mentors.
Prayer for the Dead
God of infinite mercy, we entrust to your immense goodness all those who have left this world for eternity, where you await all humanity, redeemed by the precious blood of Christ Your Son, who died to save us from our sins.
Look not Lord, at our poverty, misery and human weaknesses when we present ourselves before you to be judged in happiness or condemned.
Gaze upon us with pity, born of your tender heart and help us to walk the path of purification. May none of your children be lost to the eternal fires of hell, where repentance is no more.
We entrust to you Lord, the souls of our beloved departed, of those who died without the comfort of the Sacraments or who did not have opportunity to repent, not even at the end of their life.
May no one fear the encounter with You at the end of their earthly pilgrimage, in the hope of being welcomed within the embrace of your infinite mercy. May sister death find us in prayerful vigilance, and full of all the good we have done during our existance, be it long or short.
Lord may nothing distance us from you on this earth. May everything and everyone support us in our ardent hope to serenely and eternally rest in you. Amen.
(Pope Francis on the 2nd November 2014)
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