PARISH INFORMATION
Priest of the Parish: Fr. Michael Hegarty I.C.
Deacon for the Clonmel Pastoral Area: Rev. Lazarus Gidolf
In Residence: Fr. James Pollock I.C.
Sister: Sr. Mary Muckley Tel: 6125235
Parish Office: Open Monday – Thursday 9.00 a.m. – 5.00 p.m.
Office Closed on Friday
Tel: 6125679 E Mail stoliver@eircom.net
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. Keith Doolan & Joseph Kennedy (Anniv)
Sunday 9.00 a.m. Daniel Gibbons (Anniv) 12 Noon Kenneth O’ Donnell (Anniv)
Anam Cara is holding its monthly Parent Evening on Monday 17th October from 7.30 p.m. – 9.00 p.m. in the Horse and Jockey Hotel. This event is open to all bereaved parents regardless of the age your child died, the circumstances of their death, or whether the death was recent or not. Anam Cara Services are available free of charge to bereaved parents.
“Have Catholics lost their Courage?” Café Theology presents Petra Conroy of Catholic Comment in the Granville Hotel, Waterford on Tues 18th October at 7.30 p.m. Petra is a well known commentator on TV and Radio and a founder member of Catholic Comment which serves the Church and media. “Our speakers offer authoritative comment on news stories related to the Catholic Church, especially those issues which are often the source of debate or controversy in Irish media. We aim to shed light rather than heat. We communicate our values very clearly while respecting the goodwill, sincerity & intelligence of others”. An engaging speaker who will get you thinking. Come along and bring a friend. Admission free, but donations welcome.
Loreto Secondary School, Clonmel All 6th class girls and their parents/guardians are invited to an OPEN NIGHT on Thursday 20th October from 6.00 p.m. – 8.00 p.m. Principal’s address 7.00 p.m. You will have an opportunity to tour the school facilities on the night.
A Healing Mass will be held in St. Nicholas Church, Carrick on Suir on Thursday 20th October at 7.30 p.m. All are welcome.
Liturgical Music Workshop with facilitator Mary Pedder Daly and accompanist Susan O’ Brien at St. John’s Pastoral Centre, Waterford on Saturday 22nd October from 10.00 a.m. – 1.30 p.m. Booking essential. Tel 051-874199. Cost €10 per person with music & light refreshments.
Pilgrimage to Benevento, San Giovanni & Sorrento Fr. Michael Toomey is arranging a Parish Pilgrimage to Benevento, San Giovanni & Sorrento visiting Pietrelcina and Pompeii from 1st April 2017 for 5 nights including 2 nights full board, 4* hotel San Giovanni and 3 nights half board, 4* hotel Sorrento. Group leader: Fr. Michael Toomey. Special Group price €789 per person. Bookings with Joe Walsh Tours.
World Mission Sunday is being celebrated next Sunday 23rd October. The theme this year is: “Every Christian is a Missionary”. There will be a second collection after Communion. Those who have a Mission Sunday Envelope in their box of envelopes, please put in the basket.
Remembrance Garden The Remembrance Garden at Toberaheena Well was officially inaugurated recently. Great credit is due to the members of C-Saw in collaboration with Clonmel & Cahir District Council, who are continuing to develop the garden. It is a place of peace where people who have lost loved ones through suicide will find some consolation in their grief.
Eternal Rest to Dane Fogarty late of Highfield Grove and Elm Park, and to Indre Hennessy late of Kilganey who died during the week and whose funerals were in St. Oliver’s Church.
Welcome into our Christian Community Ellie Lacey Power Doyle who was baptised last weekend.
Collection last weekend
Envelopes – €635.88 Notes and Coin – €477.12 Thank You
Sharing the Good News
We meet God, in the first place, in our family life. The family is sometimes referred to as the ‘domestic Church’. It is in this Church in our own homes that we have the first experience of being Christianand here we learn the beliefs and values that will inform our lives.
Here too we have our first experience of prayer. A father or mother that teaches their child to make the sign of the cross, or to bless themselves with holy water as a reminder of their baptism, is doing something that will stay with their child for his/her entire life.
Families must not wait for their child to go to school before introducing them to Jesus. At the child’s baptism, they committed themselves to being the first teachers of their child in the ways of faith.
Parents may sometimes feel inadequate for this role and may need support and encouragement. They get this from the prayer and encouragement of the parish community and from the childrens’ teachers when they go to school.
But the support and example of the wider family is also very important and grandparents have a very important role in passing on the faith. Parents and the wider family can learn much from taking an interest in what the children are learning in the catechetical programme in school.
For children in primary school, the new Grow in Love programme, already introduced to Junior Infants and to First and Second Classes is particularly helpful.
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