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. Mai, Michael & John O’ Shea & Michael Curran (Anniv)
Sunday 9.00 a.m. Cally Kelly (Anniv) 12 Noon Cissy Foran (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).
Information Evening on The Study of the Catechism of the Catholic Church will take place at St. John’s Pastoral Centre, Waterford with Bishop Alphonsus Cullinan on Thursday 24th September from 7.30 p.m. – 9.00 p.m. For more details contact Fidelma Griffin at Bishops House Tel 051 – 874463.
The National Eucharistic Congress 2015 (NEC) The NEC will be held at Knock on Saturday 26th and Sunday 27th September 2015. 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 committed to spreading the good news through music and song”.
The Annual Legion of Mary Pilgrimage to Knock Shrine will take place on Sunday 27th September coinciding with the Eucharistic Congress. Cost €20. (Meals extra) For details contact any Legion of Mary member or Tel 087-7148100 or 086-3100581.
Yoga Classes for Beginners will commence on Wednesday 30th September in the Parish Centre from 10.00 a.m. – 11.30 a.m. for 7 weeks. €3 per person per week. If interested please contact the Parish Office Tel 6125679 or Jimmy Moloney Tel 087-7824828 by Monday 28th September.
Conference on Laudato Si There will be a conference on local responses to Laudato Si, Pope Francis’ Encyclical on Care for our Common Home on Saturday 3rd October in Waterford Institute of Technology. Registration at 9.00 a.m. All are welcome.
The primary aim of the conference is to raise awareness of the content of the Encyclical and to explore how we are responding locally to the challenge of environmental degradation and the danger posed by climate change.
Reflection and Formation for Ministers of the Eucharist and Readers This will take place in St. Oliver’s Parish Centre on Tuesday 6th October for Readers and on Tuesday 13th October for Ministers of the Eucharist each evening at 7.30 p.m.
We need more Readers and more Ministers of the Eucharist and this is an ideal opportunity to prepare and to be refreshed.
Children’s Choir The Parish Pastoral Council has been reflecting on the need to establish a Children’s Choir in the Parish. In the past there was such a choir, and there may be people who were members who would now be prepared to help to form a new choir. Names to any members of the PPC or to the Parish Office by phone 6125679 or by email at stoliver@eircom.net
Welcome into our Christian Community Keelan Aidan Maun, Mia Nicole Smith and Luke Thomas Fitzpatrick who were baptised last weekend.
Eucharistic Ministers Rota for October – December ’15 is now available in the Sacristy in the church.
Collection last weekend
Envelopes – €485.14 Notes and Coin – €492.86 Thank You
Education in the Faith
Last weeks Parish Newsletter highlighted the New Catholic Preschool and Primary Religious Curriculum. But Education in the faith is also the task of Parents and should begin in the child’s earliest years.
The CATECHISM OF THE CATHOLIC CHURCH (CCC) says that this “already happens when family members help one another to grow in faith by the witness of a christian life in keeping with the Gospel. Family catechesis precedes, accompanies and enriches other forms of instruction in the faith.
Parents have the mission of teaching their children to pray and to discover their vocation as children of God” (CCC 2226). Many parents feel that they need more knowledge of their faith.
Our Diocese is promoting the study of the Catechism of the Catholic Church and there is a notice of this in today’s Newletter.
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