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Christmas Newslink
Ss. Peter and Pauls, Clonmel
Sunday 25th December 2016
Canon Brendan Crowley: 61 26292
Fr. Michael Toomey 61 23239 Office: 61 22138
Rev. Deacon Lazarus Gidolf 052 61 22138
parishsspeterandpaul@gmail.com
Parish Radio 107.9 FM
Minsters 31st December2016
/1st January 2017
Ss Peter & Pauls & Resurrection
Ministers of the Word: Team B
Extraordinary Ministers of Holy Communion: Team 2. Altar Servers : St. Peters.
Remember in your Prayers
Those who died recently
Carmel Binchy (née Jones) Coleville Road, Clonmel.
John (Sunshine) Carroll, Griffith Avenue, Clonmel.
Joe Howley, Poulnagunogue, Mountain Road, Clonmel
and formerly Mooncoin, Co. Kilkenny
Jim OBrien, Raheen Road, Old Bridge and late St. Patricks Tce.
John Griffin, Kehoes Bar, Parnell St., formerly Killarney, Co. Kerry.
Shay James Fitzpatrick, Cherrymount, Clonmel.
Agnes ODwyer (née Slattery) Boulick, Clonmel.
Betty Duggan (née Brennan) Albert Street, Clonmel.
Months Mind:
Tommy Hunt, Madeleine McCormack, Nancy Lonergan, Con Barlow.
Those whose anniversaries occur at this time:
Mary and Delia OShea, Joe McMahon, Dr. Eddie McGrath,
Thomas and Hannah Lonergan, Bill and Bridget Thomas, David Bradshaw, William Whelan, Nell, Ned and John Hall, Mai and Jim Kelly,
Jackie and Mona Murray, Ned Flynn, Philip Ryan,
Kathleen Whelan, Martin Fogarty.
Special Christmas Remembrance:
Donal Kenny, Mary and Billy Farrell, Pat Ryan, Hanna, Dan and Jimmy Farrell, John Prendergast, Tony Alazia, Moll and Mick Flynn, Liam Hewitt,
Florrie and Brendan McDermott, Mollie McMahon,
Paddy Conran, Jim Kirwan Snr, Jim Kirwan Jnr, John and Mary Conran,
Jamie Lonergan, Michael Coffey, Bridget Tobin (née Sweeney),
Margaret (Ma) Strang, Josephine Whelan, Paddy and Len Aylward,
Margaret OCallaghan, Madeleine and Seán MacGabhann,
Joe, Eileen, Robert and Fintan Logue.
Last Weeks Collections
Donations: 685
Sale of Poinsettias: 1,345
Sale of CD: 1,087
Total: 3,117
CHURCH RENOVATIONS
We are most grateful to so many parishioners and visitors who have donated 416,097 towards the renovation of our church which cost 875,000.
Correction Last weeks Balance: 87,020
Balance to pay: 83,903.
Donations: 500, 100, 50, 25, 10,
1,345, 1,087. Thank You
Ss. Peter & Pauls Church
9.00 pm Vigil Mass and Pageant.
11.00 am Christmas Day Mass with Ss Peter and Pauls Choir.
12.30 pm Christmas Day Mass with Banna Cluain Meala.
Church of the Resurrection
7.00 pm Vigil Mass with Carols beforehand.
10.00 am Christmas Day Mass with the Resurrection Choir.
Distributors
Thank you for your continued assistance in the distribution of Envelopes. All of your efforts for the good of our Parish do not go unnoticed. Thank you especially to those who took on extra areas.
Christmas Greetings
The Blessings of Peace,
The Beauty of Hope,
The Spirit of Love,
The Comfort of Faith.
May these be your Gifts this Christmas Season.
The Priests of the Parish, Canon Brendan Crowley and
Fr. Michael Toomey wish all of our Parishioners
a Happy, Holy and Peaceful Christmas, we thank you for your involvement and support of all that we are trying to achieve in Ss. Peter and Pauls Parish. We invite you all to join with us in celebrating the joyous birth of the child Jesus.
Beannachtaí na Nollag agus Síochán san Ath Bhlian dhíbh go leir!
Christmas Arrangements
Confessions:
Christmas Eve – 11am – 1pm and 2pm – 4 pm.
Christmas Eve Masses
Vigil Masses on Saturday, 24th December
Church of the Resurrection at 7.00pm.
(Carols beforehand)
Ss. Peter & Pauls Church at 9.00pm.
(including live Pageant)
Polish Mass
Midnight on 24th December. All Welcome
Christmas Day Masses
Church of Resurrection 10.00am
Ss. Peter & Pauls Church 11.00am and 12.30pm
(Banna Cluain Meala playing at 12.30pm Mass)
Masses after Christmas
St. Stephens Day 26th December to Saturday 31st December
Ss. Peter & Pauls Church- 1pm
There will be no 9.30am Mass in the Church of the Resurrection on Monday 26th December or Tuesday 27th December. The 9.30am Mass will resume in the Church of the Resurrection on Wednesday 28th December.
Epiphany, Friday 6th January 2014
Masses next Weekend
Ss. Peter & Pauls Church
7.30 pm Cliff Hennessy (1st Anniv)
11.00 am Mary B. Barlow (Anniv)
12.30 pm Artie Gregory (Anniv)
Church of the Resurrection
10.00 am People of the Parish
Priests Christmas Collection
The collection for the Priests of the Parish takes place at all Masses over Christmas. Whatever is contributed at Christmas goes directly into the Clergy Diocesan Fund, from which the priests of the Diocese are paid.
We thank you for your generous support of this collection over the years.
If you have not received an envelope, they are available in the church. Thank You.
Birthright
They had wandered into this,
inheriting the light.
The old landscape
Riven by cruelty, blasphemy and sloth
Now transformed.
The Lord had banished that darkness.
A new beginning
A mother carrying divinity
A human father,
The compassionate, exemplary consort
The rowdy Inn
No new-age ‘affirmed at the door
There was a stable
High in the hill.
Superior, forever, in human acclamation
An exultant cry rings out
Hallelujah! Tommy Norris
Thank You
We would like to thank the Ss Peter and Pauls Church Choir with Organist Tony Egan and Musical Director Vivienne McAuliff for their continued efforts in selling their CD Calm me Lord in aid of the Church Restoration Fund. To date they have raised 10,010 as a result of constant efforts promoting the CD and giving of their own time including Carol singing in Dove Hill. We would like to thank them most sincerely and congratulate them on a fantastic achievement of raising over 10,000. This initiative would not have been possible without the sponsorship and support of local businessman Willie Nagle and Ann Cleary who has spent so much of her own time promoting the CD.
Car Treasure Hunt: There will be a car treasure hunt on St Stephens Day, 26th December starting at 2pm at the Clonmel Park Hotel. 20 per car in aid of Family Carers Ireland, Clonmel Branch.
Charity Céilí in aid of South Tipp Hospice Movement and South Tipperary Parkinson’s Support Group on Wednesday 28th Dec in Hillview. Dancing from 8pm to 11pm with The Johnny Reidy Céilí Band. Cost: 10.
Active Retirement: We have now finished for Christmas but will re start on Thursday 19th January 2017 at 3pm in Place4u. Happy Christmas to all our Group and their families.
The Sisters of Charity Christmas Carol Service provided us with a great evening of Carols last Tuesday evening and we had a packed church. Our thanks to the children and their teachers for all their hard work.
At this Christmas Season we remember and honour those who are no longer with us and cherish those who are.
Christmas Story: For the Man Who Hated Christmas
By Nancy W. Gavin
It’s just a small, white envelope stuck among the branches of our Christmas tree. No name, no identification, no inscription. It has peeked through the branches of our tree for the past ten years. It all began because my husband Mike hated Christmas. Oh, not the true meaning of Christmas, but the commercial aspects of it overspending and the frantic running around at the last minute to get a tie for Uncle Harry and the dusting powder for Grandma the gifts given in desperation because you couldn’t think of anything else. Knowing he felt this way, I decided one year to bypass the usual shirts, sweaters, ties and so forth. I reached for something special just for Mike. The inspiration came in an unusual way.
Our son Kevin, who was 12 that year, was on the wrestling team at the school he attended. Shortly before Christmas, there was a non-league match against a team sponsored by an inner-city church. These youngsters, dressed in sneakers so ragged that shoestrings seemed to be the only thing holding them together, presented a sharp contrast to our boys in their spiffy blue and gold uniforms and sparkling new wrestling shoes. As the match began, I was alarmed to see that the other team was wrestling without headgear, a kind of light helmet designed to protect a wrestler’s ears. It was a luxury the ragtag team obviously could not afford. Well, we ended up walloping them. We took every weight class. Mike, seated beside me, shook his head sadly, “I wish just one of them could have won,” he said. “They have a lot of potential, but losing like this could take the heart right out of them.” Mike loved kids all kids. He so enjoyed coaching little league football, baseball and lacrosse. That’s when the idea for his present came.
That afternoon, I went to a local sporting goods store and bought an assortment of wrestling headgear and shoes, and sent them anonymously to the inner-city church. On Christmas Eve, I placed a small, white envelope on the tree, the note inside telling Mike what I had done, and that this was his gift from me. Mike’s smile was the brightest thing about Christmas that year. And that same bright smile lit up succeeding years. For each Christmas, I followed the tradition one year sending a group of mentally handicapped youngsters to a hockey game, another year a check to a pair of elderly brothers whose home had burned to the ground the week before Christmas, and on and on. The white envelope became the highlight of our Christmas. It was always the last thing opened on Christmas morning, and our children ignoring their new toys would stand with wide-eyed anticipation as their dad lifted the envelope from the tree to reveal its contents. As the children grew, the toys gave way to more practical presents, but the small, white envelope never lost its allure. The story doesn’t end there. You see, we lost Mike last year due to dreaded cancer. When Christmas rolled around, I was still so wrapped in grief that I barely got the tree up. But Christmas Eve found me placing an envelope on the tree. And the next morning, I found it was magically joined by three more. Unbeknownst to the others, each of our three children had for the first time placed a white envelope on the tree for their dad. The tradition has grown and someday will expand even further with our grandchildren standing to take down that special envelope.
Mike’s spirit, like the Christmas spirit will always be with us.
OUR CHRISTMAS POINSETTIAS
Thank you to everyone who supported the students from the High School taking part in the Pope John Paul II award in raising funds for the church and decorating both churches for Christmas with Poinsettias.
The students were busy all week unboxing, watering, decorating the sanctuary, and placing the memorial and remembrance cards into each plant – over 250 of them in total!
This was done as part of their award for assisting in the church and they raised 1,345 towards the Church Renovation Fund. We are so grateful to the students and the staff in the High School who have supported them in the award this year. We hope you like the results of all the plants we have decorating our churches this Christmas.
Parishioners, some of you may have received 2 Collection envelopes to your home. If you did we apologise. We have been making some changes to address the shortage of distributors and some errors were made. Please bear with us as we refine these changes. Thank You.
Our Good Wishes for a Speedy recovery go out to Sr. Helen Butler who is unwell at the moment. Sr. Helen would be very familiar to Communion classes in The Brothers and Sisters schools before her move from Clonmel.
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