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. Christopher & Bridget Brannigan (Anniv)
& Patricia Bray (Anniv)
Sunday 9.00 a.m. Marian Keane (1st Anniv) Annette Greene (30th Anniv) 12 Noon Hughie Ryan (Anniv)
Anam Cara is holding its monthly Parent Evening on Monday 18th January from 7.30 p.m. to 9.00 p.m. in the Horse and Jockey Hotel, Thurles (weather dependent). Anam Cara Services are available free of charge to all bereaved parents.
St. Oliver’s Craft Group are holding an exhibition in Clonmel Library from Monday 25th to Saturday 29th January 2016. All are welcome.
Evening Classes for Health, Relaxation, Sleep and Vitality take place at St. Oliver’s Parish Centre on Monday evenings. Beginners Class at 7.00 p.m. Cost €6 per class. For information contact 083-3745760.
Mindfullness Based Stress Reduction (MBSR) A MBSR 8 week course will take place in Glencomeragh House, Kilsheelan starting Saturday 23rd January at 10 a.m. For information or an application form please contact Deirdre on 086-8551152, dmkdowling@gmail.com
Catholic Schools Week starts on Sunday 31st January and finishes on Saturday 6th February 2016.
2 Day Symposium at WIT on Thursday 4th and Friday 5th February. “The Divided Self Addiction and Recovery in a Secular Age”. Booking to 01-7083349 or email icfc@spcm.ie.
Family Mass Our next Family Mass will be at 12 Noon on Sunday 7th February. Volunteers please contact Fr. Hegarty or the Parish Office.
Come and See Maybe you have been thinking about the priesthood as a way of life. This event at St. Patrick’s College, Thurles is an opportunity for you to ‘Come and See’. Starts on Friday 5th with dinner at 6.30 p.m. and ends at 3.00 p.m. on Saturday 6th February. Event Free. Contact Diocesan Office 051-874463 or 087-2465509
Divine Mercy Conference on Friday 19th to Sunday 21st February at RDS, Ballsbridge, Dublin.
Important Notice Re Funerals We sometimes have a Funeral on a Saturday at 11.30 a.m. or on a Sunday at 12 Noon. If there are intentions already booked for these Masses, the Intentions will be remembered and, if people so wish, another Mass can be arranged at a future date.
Community Education Programmes A list of possible classes to take place in St. Oliver’s Parish Centre are available on notice boards in the Church and Parish Centre. If interested please contact Jimmy Moloney Tel 6126901 or the Parish Office Tel 6125679 and give name, address and which class you are interested in, by Monday 1st February. Preference will be given to the most requested classes.
“Do This in Memory” Our Parish Preparation Programme for First Communion Children and their parents/guardians, continues on Saturday next 23rd January at 7.30 p.m. Mass. Thanks to you parishioners who have a supporting role to play.
Welcome into our Christian Community Charlie Philip Dunne who was baptised last weekend.
Offertory Collections
Wednesday 6th January Envelopes – €320.80 Notes and Coin – €154.20
Sunday 10th January Envelopes – €629.87 Notes and Coin – €503.13 Thank You.
The Holy Year of Mercy
“With our eyes fixed on Jesus and his merciful gaze, we experience the love of the Most Holy Trinity’. The mission Jesus received from the Father was that of revealing the mystery of divine love in its fullness. ‘God is love’ (1Jn 4:8,16), John affirms for the first and only time in all of Holy Scripture.
This love has now been made visible and tangible in Jesus’ entire life. His person is nothing but love, a love given gratuitously. The relationships he forms with the people who approach him manifest something entirely unique and unrepeatable. The signs he works, especially in favour of sinners, the poor, the marginalised, the sick, and the suffering, are all meant to teach mercy. Everything in him speaks of mercy. Nothing in him is devoid of compassion”. (Pope Francis, Misericoriae Vultus, n.8)
Among the Year of Mercy initiatives the following is suggested: Catholics are invited to take up again the ancient Christian custom of abstaining from meat each Friday in honour of our Saviours passion and death.
Prayer of St. Thomas Aquinas (1226-1274) after Holy Communion
I thank you, Lord, Almighty Father, everlasting God, for having been pleased, through no merit of mine, but of your great mercy alone, to feed me, a sinner, and your unworthy servant, with the precious Body and Blood of your Son, our Lord Jesus Christ.
I pray that this Holy Communion may not be for my judgement and condemnation, but for my pardon and salvation.
Let this Holy Communion be to me a armour of faith and a shield of good will, a cleansing of all vices, and a rooting out of all evil desires.
May it increase love and patience, humility and obedience, and all the virtues.
May it be a firm defence against the evil designs of all my visible and invisible enemies, a perfect quieting of all the desires of soul and body.
May this Holy Communion being about a perfect union with you, the one true God, and at last enable me to reach eternal bliss when you will call me.
I pray that you bring me, a sinner, to the indescribable feast where you, with your Son and the Holy Spirit, are to your saints true light, full blessedness, everlasting joy, and perfect happiness. Through the same Christ our Lord. Amen.
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