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Ss. Peter and Pauls, Clonmel
Sunday 8th January 2017
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
Remember Those Who Died Recently:
Paddy Mullins, River St., Clonmel.
Ann Donovan (née Flynn) Toberaheena.
Alvin Boles, Thurles and late of Jossestown, Fethard and Clonmel.
Gerald (Gary) Nugent, Grange, Clonmel.
Kathleen Doyle (née Murphy) Redmondstown.
Michael Maher, Clonmel.
Derek Hogan (Snr) Riordans Hill, Clonmel.
Eileen ODonoghue (née McInerney) Dungarvan and formerly Dr. Croke Place, Clonmel.
Eileen Austin, Victoria Island, Canada.
Months Mind of:
Michael Burke, Tommy Lonergan,
Danny Fehilly, Domnick McCauley,
Jim Flynn, Teresa English.
Anniversaries of:
Catherine Cockburn, Alick Lee,
Paddy and Noel Forrestal, Jim, Michael and Paul McGrath, John and Brigid Powell,
Nellie ONeill, Martin Fogarty, Bridie Taylor, Paddy Hogg, Michael Boyle,
Kathleen (Kay) Harte.
Masses this Weekend
Ss. Peter & Pauls Church
7.30 pm Bernie Fleming (Months Mind) and Con Fleming (Anniv)
11.00am Tommy Lonergan (Months Mind)
12.30pm Carmel Condon (Anniv)
Church of the Resurrection
10am Teresa Maher (Anniv)
Masses Next Weekend
7.30 pm Nora Dougan (Months Mind)
11.00am Monica Wynne (Anniv)
12.30pm Kevin Condon (Anniv)
Church of the Resurrection
10am People of the Parish
Minsters 14th/15th January 2017
Ss Peter & Pauls & Resurrection
Ministers of the Word: Team A
Extraordinary Ministers of Holy Communion: Team 1. Altar Servers : St. Peters.
Ministers, New Rotas Have been posted and should be with you shortly. If you have not
received your rota please contact the Office.
PARISH INFORMATION
Confessions: Every Sat from 12pm to 1 and 7pm to 7.30pm Ministry to the Sick/ Nursing Homes :
Mass at Melview Nursing Home Sacrament of
anointing of the sick on request. Sacrament of Holy Communion every First Friday. Sacrament of Baptism: 5pm on the First Saturday of the month in Ss. Peter & Pauls, third Saturday in the Resurrection.
Sacrament of Marriage: Consult with one of the Priests to secure a date. Church and State Require at least 3 months notice.
Masses Peter and Pauls: Vigil:7.30pm Sun:11am and 12.30pm. Weekly 1pm
Masses Church of Resurrection:
Sunday:10.00am. Weekly 9.30am.
St Vincent de Paul: If you have any unwanted presents and you wish to donate them, St Vincent de Paul will be accepting donations in Mulcahy House from Tuesday the 3rd Jan 2017.
The Monthly Medugorje Mass will continue at Holy Family Mission, Glencomeragh, Kilsheelan on Thursday 12th January at 8pm with Rosary, Holy Mass and Prayers for Healing. All welcome
Family Carers Ireland, Looking for a career in the care sector? Family Carers Ireland are providing the QQ1 Level 5 Healthcare Award in 2017 in your area based on demand. One day topic specific workshops also available. For information contact the training unit Tel 057-9322920.
The 103rd World Day of Migrants and Refugees will be celebrated at Masses on next Sunday January 15, 2017. All are welcome to remember those who have left our shores and those who have come to live among us. The theme chosen by Pope Francis for this day is Minor migrants, vulnerable and voiceless.
Vocations Day St Benedicts Priory, Cobh, Co. Cork are holding a Vocations Day for women discerning a contemplative vocations on Saturday 7th January. Please contact Mother Prioress on 021 4811 354 or email
cobhtyburnconvent@gmail.com for details
January 8th is International Awareness Day for Human Trafficking. Human trafficking is one of the world’s most shameful crimes, a heartless violation of human rights in which lives are traded, sold, exploited, abused and ruined. We invite you to pray for the victims ofthis crime and to keep yourself informed of events and happenings in this important area of human rights.
Last Weeks Collections
Donations: 650
CHURCH RENOVATIONS
We are most grateful to so many parishioners and visitors who have donated 419,862 towards the renovation of our church which cost 875,000. Balance to pay: 80,138.
Donations: 500, 100, 50.
Thank You
Write it on your heart that every day is the best day in the year. Ralph Waldo Emerson
Waterford & Lismore Diocesan 59th
Pilgrimage to Lourdes will take place from Tuesday 6th Sunday 11th June 2017. and will cost 750 (inclusive of tax, insurance, transport to and from airport). Pilgrimage Bookings, Lourdes Office, St Johns Pastoral Centre, Johns Hill, Waterford or Call 051-878900. Bookings open 9th January.
Information for the Sick
Contact John Healy on (052) 61 23791.
The Baptism of the Lord
How can we enter into the mystery of Jesus humble self-abasement and Baptism? Gregory of Nazianzus, a fourth-century Church father tells us: Let us be buried with Christ by Baptism to rise with him; let us go down with him to be raised with him; and let us rise with him to be glorified with him. Do you want to see changes in your life? And do you want to become a more effective instrument of the Gospel? Examine Jesus humility and ask the Holy Spirit to forge this same attitude in your heart. As you do, heaven will open for you as well. The Lord is ever ready to renew us in his Spirit and to anoint us for mission. We are called to be light and salt to those around us. The Lord wants his love and truth to shine through us that others may see the goodness and truth of Gods message of salvation. Ask the Lord to fill you with his Holy Spirit that you may radiate the joy of the Gospel to those around you.
Lord, fill me with your Holy Spirit and inflame my heart with the joy of the Gospel. May I find joy in seeking to please you just as you found joy in seeking to please your Father. Don Schwager
Tríona Doherty
Message from Pope Francis for the 25th World Day of the Sick 2017.
Dear Brothers and Sisters, On 11th February next, the Twenty-fifth World Day of the Sick will be celebrated throughout the Church and in a special way at Lourdes. The theme of this years celebration is Amazement at what God has accomplished: The Almighty has done great things for me
. (Lk 1:49).
Instituted by my predecessor Saint John Paul II in 1992, and first celebrated at Lourdes on 11 February 1993, this Day is an opportunity to reflect in particular on the needs of the sick and, more generally, of all those who
suffer. It is also an occasion for those who generously assist the sick, beginning with family members, health workers and volunteers, to give thanks for their God-given vocation of accompanying our infirm brothers and sisters.
This celebration likewise gives the Church renewed spiritual energy for carrying out ever more fully that fundamental part of her mission which includes serving the poor, the infirm the suffering, the outcast and the marginalized
(cf. JOHN PAUL II, Motu Proprio Dolentium Hominum, 11 February 1985).
Dear brothers and sisters the sick, healthcare workers and volunteers I ask you to join me in praying to Mary. May her maternal intercession sustain and accompany our faith, and obtain for us from Christ her Son hope along our journey of healing and of health, a sense of fraternity and responsibility, a commitment to integral human development and the joy of feeling gratitude whenever God amazes us by his fidelity and his mercy. With the assurance of a constant remembrance in my prayers, I cordially impart to all of you my Apostolic Blessing.
Pope Francis
