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MASS INTENTIONS for the week ahead:
Sat Midnight Mass: Billy & Mai Bryan
Sun 9am: Nancy Smith
Sun 11.30am: Bernard, Margaret & Mary Monaghan
Thurs 11am: John Ryder
Fri 11am: Bill Brady
Sat Vigil: Patsy Mahon M.M.
Sun 9am: Dec’d members of the Mooney Family
Sun 11.30am: Annie Jane, Jim & Seamus Kelly
WEEKDAY MASSES: Every morning this week at 11am & Sat at 10am.
MINISTERS OF THE WORD for next weekend Masses are: Vigil (Sat Dec 31st) Alice Doherty 11.30am (Sun Jan 1st) M. Anderson
MINISTERS OF THE EUCHARIST for next weekends’ Masses are: Vigil (Sat Dec 31st) Marie Leavy, Jacqueline Barrett, Eileen Renehan, Noreen Whelahan & Donal Mc Loughlin. 11.30am (Sun Jan 1st) Madeline Bracken, Judy O’Doherty, Peig Timmons, Claire Gargan & Frances Ennis.
ADORATION OF THE BLESSED SACRAMENT: Adoration on Friday commencing after Mass (11am) and continuing throughout the day until late.
COLLECTIONS: Athboy €968, Rathmore: €130, Rathcairn €220. Thank you for your support.
FEASTDAYS occurring in the week ahead:
Mon Dec 26th –St. Stephen, First Martyr
Tues Dec 27th St. John: Apostle & Evangelist
Wed Dec 28th– The Holy Innocents
Thurs Dec 29th – St. Thomas á Becket
Fri Dec 30th – The Holy Family
Sat Dec 31st – St. Sylvester
We wish everyone a prayerful and peaceful Christmas
OFFERING DAY: Today Christmas Day is an offering day for the support of the priests of our parish.
BAPTISMAL MEETING: The next Baptismal meeting will take place on Wed Jan 4th 2012 at 8pm in the Old Darnley Lodge Hotel. Bookings for baptisms at this meeting.
CHRISTMAS TRIDUUM of Masses takes place on Mon, Tues and Wed Dec 26th, 27th & 28th at 11am
VIGIL MASS next Saturday evening Dec 31st will be recorded by LMFM for broadcasting on Sunday morning New Year’s Day.
THANK YOU: Athboy Vincent de Paul would like to thank you all for your kind donations to us and for the fundraisers some of you have held too. The funds are being well used. Envelopes can still be left into the Post Office. Our contact no. is 087 6941776
CHRISTMAS BINGO: The organisers of the Christmas Bingo held last Sunday wish to thank everyone who supported the Bingo and raffle in aid of Church Funds and all those who sponsored prizes towards the raffle.
THE DEEP END – THE X FACTOR: Some people may not acknowledge Christmas as Christ’s Day, that He is the X-Factor of the X-Mass scene. This world is crying out for Light, for Hope, for Joy, for Love and at Christmas we celebrate that God is present with us in this world: EMMANUEL. We must allow that Love to penetrate our hearts and celebrate with our family and friends the Joy that lives amongst us. And when we have finished celebrating the X factor of Christmas, remember that then the real work of Christmas begins:
When the song of the angels is stilled.
When the star in the sky is gone.
When the kings and princes are gone home.
When the shepherds are back with their flocks.
The work of Christmas begins;
to find the lost; to heal the broken; to feed the hungry;
to release the prisoner; to rebuild the nations; to bring peace among people;
to make music in the heart. Howard Thurman
DATES FOR NEXT YEAR
Confirmation: Fri 24th Feb at 3pm.
First Communion: in Athboy on Sat 28th April at 10am, in Rathmore on Sun 29th April at 9am & in Rathcairn on Sun 29th April at 10.15am.
Cemetery Sundays: Rathmore - 17th June at 3pm, Athboy - 24th June at 3pm, Hill of Ward – Fri 22nd June at 7.30pm, Abbey Cemetery – Fri 10th Aug at 7.30pm.
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