PARISH INFORMATION
Priests of the Parish: Fr. Michael Hegarty I.C. Fr. James Pollock I.C.
Tel: 6125679 E Mail stoliver@eircom.net
Sister: Sr. Mary Muckley Tel: 6125235
Parish Office: Open Monday – Thursday 9.00 a.m. – 4.30 p.m. Friday 9.00 a.m. – 1.00 p.m.
Parish Website: www.stoliverspc.org
Facebook Page: https://www.facebook.com/stoliverspc
Society of St. Vincent de Paul Helpline 052 – 6123878
Local Safeguarding Representatives: Margaret Waters 086-8917440 Fiona Stanley 087-9340382
Bereavement Support: Tel 6125679
Masses for Weekend
Saturday 7.30 p.m. Esther, Mary & Thomas O’ Donnell (Anniv)
Sunday 9.00 a.m. Sarah Byrne & Eileen Kennedy (Anniv) 12 Noon Frank & Della Lafford & sons Anthony and Billy (Anniv)
EUCHARISTIC ADORATION
Our Parish Eucharistic Adoration takes place each week on Monday from 2.00 p.m. to 8.00 p.m. (except when Monday is a Church Holiday or a Public Holiday).
“Come and See” Catholic Young Adults Conference (ages 18 – 40) will take place at All Hallows College, Dublin on 29th – 30th August. 2 days non-residential: €40. Residential: €55. Contact Liam 086-8888918 or Declan 085-8032848 or www.facebook.com/deus.patria
The National Eucharistic Congress 2015 (NEC) The NEC will be held at Knock on Saturday 26th and Sunday 27th September 2015. We are looking for a volunteer or volunteers to promote the Congress. There is a website www.nec2015.ie “Christ, our Hope” (Col 1:27) Críost Ár nDóchas.
Elation Ministries Praise and Worship Concert will take place at Knock Basilica on Saturday 26th September at 8.30 p.m. Free admission. “Young people commited to spreading the good news through music and song”.
Laudato Sí (Praised Be) Copies of this very important letter of Pope Francis are available in the Sacristy at the reduced price of €4 per copy.
We pray for the repose of the soul of Paige Crotty, late of 4, Emmet Court, Clonmel who died during the week.
The Priory Institute – Bringing Theology Home Theology Matters! Join our enthusiastic student community and study theology from home or in class. Application deadline is 21st September. Tel: 01- 4048124. Web: www.prioryinstitute.ie E Mail: enquires@prioryinstitute.com
Good Reading Please feel free to take away any unsold copies of the Irish Catholic or of other pamphlets, prayer cards and booklets available in the Church.
Offertory Collections last weekend
Saturday 15th August – Envelopes – €265.94 Notes and Coin – € 95.06
(Assumption of our Lady)
Sunday 16th August – Envelopes – €565.95 Notes and Coin – €508.05 Thank You.
Another Appeal for Volunteers
Our Parish needs more people for the following services:
1. Ministers of the Eucharist
2. Readers
3. Membership of the Parish Pastoral Council
4. Child-Safeguarding
5. To help with the “Wednesday Club”
Thanks to all those who are already involved. Please feel free to suggest other ways of helping. Contact Fr. Hegarty through the Parish Office at 6125679 or email mhegarty@rosminians.ie
Our New Parish Centre
Target: €130,000.00 Donated so far: €122,915.10
Thanks for all your generosity
Sunday
On Sunday, our participation in the Eucharist has special importance. Sunday, like the Jewish Sabbath, is meant to be a day which heals our relationships with God, with ourselves, with others and with the world. Sunday is the day of the Resurrection, the ‘first day’ of the new creation, whose first fruits are the Lord’s risen humanity, the pledge of the final transfiguration of all created reality. It also proclaims ‘man’s eternal rest in God’. In this way, Christian spirituality incorporates the value of relaxation and festivity.
We tend to demean contemplative rest as something unproductive and unnecessary, but this is to do away with the very thing which is most important about work: its meaning. We are called to include in our work a dimension of receptivity and gratuity, which is quite different from mere inactivity. Rather, it is another way of working, which forms part of our very essence. It protects human action from becoming empty activism; it also prevents that unfettered greed and sense of isolation which make us seek personal gain to the detriment of all else.
The law of weekly rest forbade work on the seventh day, ‘so that your ox and your donkey may have rest, and the son of your maidservant, and the stranger, may be refreshed’ (Ex 23:12). Rest opens our eyes to the larger picture and gives us renewed sensitivity to the rights of others. And so the day of rest, centred on the Eucharist, sheds it light on the whole week, and
motivates us to greater concern for nature and the poor.
(Pope Francis, Laudato Sí, No. 237)
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