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 – 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 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. Bridget Mackey (Anniv)
12 Noon Donagh & Nuala Wall (Anniv)
Would you like to play 25’s Come to Place4u, Morton Street on Tuesdays from 10.00 a.m. to 12.30 p.m. starting 10th February, where you can learn to play cards and have a tea/coffee for only €5. All are welcome.
Introduction to Digital Photography Weekend Workshop will take place at Glencomeragh House, Kilsheelan, Clonmel from Friday 13th – Sunday 15th February. A beginners level course ideal for the Digital Single Lens Reflex user and point and shoot enthusiasts. Tel 6133181 for details.
Do This in Memory Our next Parish Preparation Mass for First Communion children and their parents/guardians takes place next Saturday 14th February at 7.30 p.m. We hope to see you all present.
Wellness Day Fundraiser in aid of South Tipperary Hospice will take place on Sunday 15th February from 10.00 a.m. – 6.00 p.m. at St. Oliver’s Parish Centre. Treatments include Reiki, Reflexology, Acupuncture, Bio Energy, Nutritional Advice, Food Allergy Testing and lots more. €20 per treatment (no need to book) Tea, Coffee and Refreshments also available. All proceeds will go to the South Tipperary Hospice. For further information Tel Ann Marie 086-3621777.
Scripture Prayer/Reflection Lent is approaching! Our Scripture Prayer begins on Tuesday February 18th at 7.30 pm. and continues each Tuesday for 6 weeks. Perhaps you would like to ‘come and see’ for yourself this year. You are MOST WELCOME any evening, or every evening! Venue: 21 Heywood Heights.
Clonmel Area Parishes Social Evening The Social Evening takes place on Friday February 27th in the Hotel Minella at 7.45 p.m. Parishioners from all the parishes across the Clonmel area as well as the Friary are invited to this special evening. Tickets are on sale at SS Peter & Paul’s Parish Office, the Church of the Resurrection, the Friary Office and Marian’s for €25. This entertaining evening will consist of dinner and dancing, music by Jeb.
Make a big Difference in a Child’s Life! The Brothers of Charity Services are seeking Host families to provide short breaks to children and with intellectual disabilities, involving them in everyday activity in your home whilst giving families a break. If interested please contact Children’s Homeshare Co-ordinator, the Brothers of Charity Services South East, Child & Family Centre, 2 Jervis Place, Parnell St., Clonmel Tel 6124499 or email: childrenshomeshare@tipperary.brothersofcharity.ie
Irish Heart Foundation would like to thank most sincerely, the parishioners of St. Oliver’s for the generosity they showed during their recent Church Gate Collection. Total amounted to €258.00.
Irish Wheelchair Association will hold their annual Church Gate Collection on Saturday 14th and Sunday 15th February.
Welcome into our Christian Community Odhrán Cináed Costello and Cailey Megan Newman who were baptised last weekend.
Collection last weekend
Envelopes – €558.72 Notes and Coin – €514.28 Thank You
The Pope’s Intentions for February
Universal: Prisoners That prisoners, especially the young, may be able to rebuild lives of dignity.
For Evangelisation: Separated Spouses That married people who are separated may find welcome and support in the Christian community.
First International Day of Prayer against Human Trafficking
We are invited to say this prayer
“O God, when we hear of children and adults deceived and taken to unknown places for purposes of sexual exploitation, forced labour, and organ ‘harvesting’, our hearts are saddened and our spirits angry that their dignity and rights are ignored through threats, lies and force.
We cry out against the evil practice of this modern slavery, and pray with St. Bakhita for it to end. Give us wisdom and courage to reach out and stand with those whose bodies, hearts and spirits have been so wounded, so that together we may make real your promises to fill these sisters and brothers with a love that is tender and good.
Send the exploiters away empty-handed to be converted from their wickedness, and help us all to claim the freedom that is your gift to your children. Amen”.
World Day of Prayer – 8th February 2015
Reflection and Action on the Slave Trade. We invoke the intercession of St. Josephine Bakhita for all those enslaved or trafficked.
St. Josephine Bakhita Born in 1869 in the region of Darfur in southern Sudan, Josephine – the name given to her at her baptism – says of her early years, ‘I lived a very happy and carefree life, without knowing suffering’. But things changed when around eight or nine years old she was kidnapped by Arab slave traders. Over the next twelve years she was sold several times as a slave.
Traumatised and abused, she even forgot her name, taking the name bakhita, Arabic for ‘fortunate’ or ’lucky’. At one time she said, ’No day passed without some wound or other, including from whipping and the multilations of tattooing and marks on her body.
In 1885 the Italian consul bought her, treated her well, brought her to Italy, eventually ending up in the custody of the Canossian sisters in Venice. She became a Christian, receiving the sacraments of initiation on 9 January 1890, taking the names Josephine Margaret. At the end of 1893 she entered the Canossian sisters and after her peofession went to their convent in Schio in the province of Vicenza, where she spent the rest of her life.
She often told the story of her early experience as a slave, was renowned for her care of the townspeople and her encouragement of sisters to work in Africa. She died on 8 February 1947. Beatified in 1992 and canonised as saint in 2000, her feast is 8 February, though not celebrated this year as it is the Fifth Sunday in Ordinary Time.
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