PARISH INFORMATION
Priest of the Parish: Fr. Michael Hegarty I.C.
In Residence: 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. Breda Campbell (Anniv)
Sunday 9.00 a.m. Kathleen Ahearne (Anniv) 12 Noon Mary & Willie O’ Brien (Anniv)
EUCHARISTIC ADORATION Our Parish Eucharistic Adoration will finish every Monday during Lent at 7.30 p.m.
Milford Care Centre & Anam Cara are holding a Bereavement Information Evening on Monday 29th February from 7 p.m. – 9 p.m. in Milford Care Centre, Limerick. Guest Speaker is Sharon Vard. (Numbers need to be confirmed) Contact info@anamcara.ie or tel 01-4045378.
Stroke Support Group Meeting for encouragement, support and advice for stroke survivors, family members and carers will take place at St. Oliver’s Parish Centre this Tuesday evening 1st March at 8.00 p.m. Contact: Gemma 087-9129263.
Parables of Mercy During this Jubilee Year of Mercy, the Parables of Mercy continue with Dr. Michael Mullins DD , at St. John’s Pastoral Centre, Waterford on Thursday 3rd March at 7.30 p.m. Donation €5.00.
First Friday Next Friday is the First Friday of the month. Sr. Mary and Fr. Hegarty will bring Holy Communion to the persons who have asked to receive it in their own homes.
World Day of Prayer Over 3 million people in Ireland and worldwide will take part in the Annual World Day of Prayer Ecumenical Service on Friday 4th March. The Clonmel Service will take place in Old St. Mary’s Church at 7.30 p.m. This years’ service has been prepared by Christian women of Cuba. Parishes across the Clonmel area are participating. All are welcome.
A Series of Café Talks on the history of Clonmel is being hosted by Place4u. “Outside the Walls” with Shay Hurley on Friday 4th March, “Holy Year Cross” with Richard Howley on Friday 18th March, “Clonmel Parish Registers” with Éanna Condon on Friday 25th March. All talks at 11.00 a.m. Cost is €3 per talk and includes light refreshments.
St. Vincent de Paul Monthly Collection will take place after all Masses next weekend Saturday 5th and Sunday 6th March.
Family Mass Our next Family Mass will be on Sunday 6th March at 12 Noon. We are looking for more Family members – adults and children – to do Reading, Prayers of the Faithful and bring up the Offertory Gifts, at this or other Monthly Family Masses.
Thanks Br. Brian Johnson OSF has written to express heartfelt thanks for the reception he received here last weekend. His collection raised €1,875.00, every cent of which will go to the Uganda and Kenya Missions where the Brothers work.
Welcome into our Christian Community Harry Augustine McSherry who was baptised last weekend.
Waterford & Lismore Diocesan Pilgrimage to Lourdes 58th Annual Diocesan Pilgrimage will take place from Monday 6th – Saturday 11th June 2016. Information for sick pilgrims: contact John Healy Tel 052-6123791. Booking Forms available from the Parish Office.
Irish Blood Transfusion Service would like to thank 483 Donors who attended their Blood Donor Clinic in Clonmel recently. Donors, together with the families, friends and neighbours that support them, make up a community that brings life and hope to hospital patients every day.
Collection last weekend
Envelopes – €730.35 Notes and Coin – €373.65 Thank You
A Lenten Prayer Called the Passion
Dear Lord Jesus, by Your Passion and Resurrection You brought life to the world. But the glory of the Resurrection came only after the sufferings of the Passion.
You laid down Your life willingly and gave up everything for us. Your body was broken and fastened to a Cross, your clothing became the prize of soldiers, your blood ebbed slowly but surely away, and Your Mother was entrusted to the beloved disciple.
Stretched out on the Cross, deprived of all earthly possessions and human aid, You cried out to Your Father that the end had come. You had accomplished the work given You, and You committed into His hands, as a perfect gift, the little life that remained to You.
Lord, teach me to accept all afflictions after the example You have given. Let me place my death in Yours and my weakness in Your abandonment, Take hold of me with Your love, that same foolish love that knew no limits, and let me offer myself to the Father with You so that I may rise with You to eternal life. (From Catholic Online)
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