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. Mary & Martin Ryan (Anniv)
Sunday 9.00 a.m. Conor O’ Mahony (Anniv)
12 Noon Joan & Michael Kelleher (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).
There will be no Adoration on Bank Holiday Monday 4th August.
St. Vincent de Paul Monthly Collection will take place after all Masses this weekend Saturday 2nd and Sunday 3rd August. We appeal for your support to continue our work in the parish and we wish to thank you for your generosity in the past.
Annual Pilgrimage to the Holy Year Cross will take place this Monday 4th August with Mass at 11.00 a.m.
STAC Summer Camp for August South Tipperary Art Centre is now taking bookings for Art, Craft, Drama and Games Camp coming on 11th – 15th August from 10.00 a.m. – 1.00 p.m. For ages 7 – 12 years. €60 each for the week. Tel 052-6127877 as soon as possible as places are limited.
Youth 2000 Summer Festival will take place at the Cistercian College, Roscrea, Co. Tipperary from Thursday 14th – Sunday 17th August. For young people aged 16-35. The weekend will include inspiring talks, workshops, dramas, concert, prayer, games and times of sharing.
This Festival has been nicknamed the “Holy Oxygen” with over 1000 young people from all corners of Ireland attending last year. It promises to be a great opportunity for young people from all around Ireland to explore what their Catholic faith is all about in a chilled out setting. The festival is donation only. Free buses available from towns throughout Ireland, just bring a sleeping bag. For more information and to book online see www.youth2000.ie or phone 01-6753690.
The Secular Franciscan Order Pilgrimage to Our Lady’s Island, in Wexford will take place on Friday 15th August (Feast of the Assumption of our Lady). Bus leaving Penny’s at 11.00 a.m. sharp. Cost €28 includes bus and evening meal. Names and Fare taken at the Friary Office.
We pray for: Damien Ruth, 61 Honeyview Estate, Chrissie Donovan (Shine), Queen Street, Peggy Laste, 34 Willow Park who died recently. May they rest in peace.
Legion of Mary There will be no Meetings of the Legion of Mary during August. Next Meeting: Monday 1st September 2014. New members welcome.
Collection last weekend
Envelopes – €656.15 Notes and Coin – €435.85 Thank You
Our New Parish Centre
Target: €130,000.00 Donated so far: €130,000.00
Thanks for all your generosity
The Pope’s Intentions for August
Universal: That refugees, forced by violence to abandon their homes, may find a generous welcome and the protection of their rights.
For Evangelisation: That Christians in Oceania may joyfully announce the faith to all the people of that region.
The Eucharist
The Eucharist is not only the memorial of the death and resurection of the Lord, but also a sign and foretaste of the final unity of the Kingdom of God. From celebration to celebration, God’s pilgrim people advances towards the great banquet in heaven, ‘when all the elect will be seated at the table of the kingdom’. It is the Lord of Glory who comes to us in the Eucharist, and we anticipate there ‘the joys of the age to come’.
We celebrate together the communion we already share, but we are also very aware of the imperfection of our unity, even among Catholics gathered to share together the one Bread of Life. We come forward to receive Holy Communion as a foretaste of our future unity as God’s pilgrim people, and our ‘Amen’ should include a real commitment to the fullness of that unity.
It is as well to remember, in the pain, sorrow and frustration of our journey together as fellow Christians, yearning for unity and yet still disunited, that fullness of communion is a gift of God’s grace, and that we will have to ‘wait in joyful hope for the coming of our Saviour, Jesus Christ’. This does not mean, of course, that we simply sit and wait. God wills to work through us, and the Eucharist consecrates those who take part in it to be instruments and ambassadors of reconciliaton.
(One Bread One Body n.44)
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