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. Bid Sutcliffe (Anniv)
Sunday 9.00 a.m. Betty & Charlie Johnson (Anniv) 12 Noon Willie & Susan Roberts (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 Church Holiday or a Public Holiday). There will be no Adoration on Bank Holiday Monday 26th October.
Legion of Mary This weekend Saturday 24th and Sunday 25th October members of the Legion of Mary will hand out information leaflets after Masses. We appeal to please take one and read the contents, and perhaps consider joining the Legion of Mary as an active or auxiliary member.
Anam Cara is holding a Bereavement Information Evening on Tuesday 27th October from 7.30 p.m. to 9.30 p.m. in the Horse and Jockey Hotel, Thurles. The guest speaker for the evening is Irene Murphy. All Anam Cara Services are available free of charge to bereaved parents. Anam Cara will need to confirm numbers for room set up, and would appreciate if you could RSVP to info@anamcara.ie by Monday 26th October or Tel 01-4045378.
Café Theology in Waterford and Lismore will take place on Tuesday 27th October at 7.30 p.m. at The Granville Hotel, Waterford (Tapestry Room). Tony Foy and his National Evangelisation Team will present a talk on: “Can we get our Young People Back to the Church?” . All are welcome. No charge, but please leave a donation for the coffee/tea and event expenses.
St. Vincent de Paul Monthly Collection will take place after all Masses next weekend Saturday 31st October and Sunday 1st November.
Change for Charity – National Coin Week – 2nd to 8th November The Central Bank announced a National roll-out for their ‘rounding-up’ initiative, removing 1c and 2c coins from circulation. Change for Charity is a not for profit campaign which brings five Irish charities together (The Irish Heart Foundation, St. Francis Hospice, Our Lady’s Hospice and Care Services, Gaisce, and Irish Autism Action). Each charity will receive an equal portion of the funds raised by Change for Charity. People are asked to bring their jar, bottle or bag of coins to special receptacles located in all branches of AIB and Bank or Ireland between 2nd and 8th November.
The Sacrament of Confirmation will be celebrated here in St. Oliver’s at 2.00 p.m. on Thursday 19th May 2016.
We pray for Patrick (Paddy) O’ Mahony Ard Fatima, who died during the week.
IHCPT Lourdes Pilgrimage Since 1972, IHCPT – The Irish Pilgrimage Trust has been taking young people with special needs to Lourdes at Easter. Application Forms available at the Parish Office Tel 6125679. Closing date for applications is next Saturday 31st October. For futher information Tel Marie Therese Connolly 051-646074 or 087-9809304.
HELP! Youth Suicide Prevention Ireland For Free Text Suicide Crisis Information TEXT HELP to 50015 This service is free to use and you can text 50015 even if you have no credit. Available 24 hours a day.
Welcome into our Christian Community Dylan Damien Stanley who was baptised last weekend.
Collections last weekend
Sunday 18th Envelopes – €562.46 Notes and Coin – €439.54
Mission Collection (to Date) Envelopes – €331.41 Notes and Coin – €594.59 Thank You
Our New Parish Centre
Target: €130,000.00 Donated so far: €124,434.62
Thanks for all your generosity
October – The Month of the Rosary
Pope Francis was present one time when Pope John Paul 11 (now St. John Paul) was saying the Rosary. He has this to say:
“One afternoon I went to pray the Holy Rosary that the Holy Father was leading. He was in front of us on his knees. With the Holy Father’s back to me I entered into prayer. In the middle of the prayer, I became distracted looking at the pope, and time began to fade away.
I began to imagine the young priest, the seminarian, the poet, the worker, the child from Wadowice in exactly the same posture as he was now praying Hail Mary after Hail Mary. His witness struck me. I felt this man chosen to guide the Church was the summation of a path trod together with his Mother in heaven, a path that began in his childhood.
And I suddenly realised the weight of the words spoken by the Mother of Guadalupe to Saint Juan Diego, “Do not be afraid. Am I not your mother?” I grasped the presence of Mary in the Pope’s life. His witness did not get lost in memory. From that time onward I have prayed the fifteen mysteries of the Rosary every day”.
(From: Austen Ivreigh,
The Great Reformer: Francis and the Making of a Radical Pope, p. 275)
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