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Ss. Peter and Pauls, Clonmel
Sunday 26th February 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:
Matt Whelan, Elm Park and formerly Bolton St.
Edmond Phelan, Mullinarinka, Clonmel.
Patrick (Paddy) Corbett, Grange, Clonmel and Newcastle.
Months Mind of:
Sr. Margaret Finn, Nicholas Ryan, Ann Moore, Liam Aherne, James Lynch, Alice Horan, Noelle OBrien,
John McEvoy, Eily Barson., Dick Phelan
Anniversaries of
Philip and Joan Shanahan, Susan Grant,
TJ Hackett, Majella Hackett, Cyril Nugent,
Billy Byrne, John R. Sullivan,
Biddy Bourke (1st Anniv), Maymie Cleary.
Tony Alazia, John Bourke, Clonmel/London,
Tom Halpin, Bridget (Dolly) Bowe (1st Anniv),
Helen Lyons (1st Anniv) Bridget Moore, Tessie Harte.
Masses this Weekend
Ss. Peter & Pauls Church
7.30 pm Dick Phelan (Months Mind)
11.00am Mary Farrell (Slievenamon Rd) (Anniv)
Tina Keane (1st Anniv)
12.30pm Linda Marie Condon (Anniv)
Church of the Resurrection
10am Noelle OBrien (née Moloughney) (MM)
Masses Next Weekend
Ss. Peter & Pauls Church
7.30 pm John McEvoy (Months Mind)
11.00am People of the Parish
12.30pm Mary and William Doyle, Knocklucas (A)
Church of the Resurrection
10am John Joe and Elsie Ryan, Fred and Mary Culkin and Hanna Sullivan (Anniv)
Minsters 4th/5th March 2017
Ss Peter & Pauls & Resurrection
Ministers of the Word: Team B
Extraordinary Ministers of Holy Communion: Team 2 Altar Servers : St. Pauls.
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. Pre Marriage Course: It is strongly recommended to partake in a Pre marriage course organised by ACCORD (Catholic Marriage Advisory Council) for bookings and information contact 052 6124144 .
Masses Peter and Pauls: Vigil:7.30pm Sun:11am and 12.30pm. Weekly 1pm . Church of Resurrection:Sunday:10.00am. Weekly 9.30am.
Place4u Café Activities at Place4u Café have resumed each day from 10am to 12.30pm. Come along for art, paper craft, crochet, sewing, playing cards (25s). Details of all activities or classes can be got at the cafe or by ringing 087 4407935.
Next Friday, 3rd March is the First Friday of the month, a day when we bring Holy Communion to the sick and housebound of our parish. Please contact one of the priests or ring the Parish Shop 6122138 if you or someone you know needs a call.
CHURCH RENOVATIONS
Donations: 275
We are most grateful to so many parishioners and visitors who have donated 424,691towards the renovation of our church which cost 875,000.
Donations: 100, 50, 50, 50, 15, 5, 5.
Balance to pay: 75,309.Thank You
Coffee Morning: A coffee morning to launch Clonmel Daffodil Days fundraising for 2017 will be held in the Greyhound Stadium Clonmel, Saturday 25th February from 10.30am. Please come along and bring a friend or two to support this worthy cause.
Family & Youth Evening of Eucharistic Adoration and Rosary. Spiritual Director Fr. James R Kelleher with Special Guest Dana. St Marys Clonmel, Monday 27th February at 7pm. All Welcome.
Umbra Clothing Appeal: Clothing collection on behalf of Fr Nicholas Ngulutu, Kenya. All types of clean ladies, gents and childrens clothing and paired shoes. Collection on Tuesday 28th February before 12 noon from St. Maryss. All donations greatly appreciated.
Waterford Pro Life: follow up talk and training on How to argue the case for the Pro Life Amendment with Paddy Manning and Michael Dwyer of Family & Life on Tuesday February 28th in St Joseph & St Benildus Church Parish Centre, Waterford at 7.30pm. All Welcome.
Weekly Envelopes
Parishioners: your new Weekly Envelopes are due to start on the 6th March. Thank you for your support of the Parish. Your new boxes will be delivered in due course. Can you please discard all old envelopes when you receive your new box. Any Parishioner who contributes to the weekly or the Christmas/Easter and Autumn Collections and wishes to receive a Box of Envelopes can contact the Office, or Canon Crowley or Fr. Toomey.
Distributors: Boxes of Weekly Envelopes are available now for Collection. If you usually delivered Boxes and are unable to do so can you please let us know and we will make alternative arrangements. As usual we appreciate your continued help.
Charitable Donations Parishioners thanks to contributions from yourselves, the Parish can benefit from the Tax Rebate Scheme available to Charities. For all contributions that exceed 250 the Parish can get a Tax rebate. We have contact a number of parishioners who have met this criteria. If you pay tax and would like to help we would ask you to fill in and return in the enclosed SAE, the form that you receive. If you receive a form and you do not pay tax we would ask you to fill in the bottom part of the letter and return it in the SAE, this will ensure that you do not receive communication of this type in the future. Many Parishioners have already signed and returned these forms and we thank you for this. There is no onus on any Parishioner to fill out this form it is only if you wish to further help the Parish. Thank you for your continued support.
Canon Brendan Crowley and Fr. Michael Toomey
Do You Want to Advertise an upcoming event? Is there something that you feel would be of interest to the Community? Email in your piece to parishsspeteandpaul@gmail.com or ring 052 6122138 or call to the Parish Office.. Deadline before 12pm on each Thursday.
Cancer Care Support Centre we aim to provide a warm, safe and confidential environment for people with cancer and their families. Open Mon Fri 10.00 a.m. 2.00pm p.m. at 14 Wellington Street, ClonWaterford & Lismore Diocesan 59th Pilgrimage to Lourdes 6th to 11th June 2017. Booking now open, Call 051 878900. Information for the Sick Contact John Healy on (052) 61 23791.
Parish Pastoral Council:
Next Meeting Monday 27th February at 7.30pm , 22 Gladstone St.
Fashion Show in aid of Place4u
Showcasing the exclusive Brown Thomas collection
Hosted by RTE’s Miriam O’Callaghan.. Music by Two & Half Tenors. Hotel Minella, Wed 5th April
Tickets 50 from Marian’s Bookshop, Buttermarket Café and Place4u 087 4407935.
C.SAW: A support group for those bereaved by Suicide will take place at the C.SAW office William St., Clonmel on the 1st Thurs of every month at 2pm. All Welcome.
Divine Mercy Devotions: Friday 3rd March in Ss Peter and Pauls at 3pm
Franciscan Friary Clonmel: Bible Study resumes in the Friary Hall on Monday nights at 7.30pm with Fr. Tom Russell O.F.M. All welcome.
Active Retirement in Place4U . Next Meeting Thursday 2nd March. Final Arrangements for Annual Lunch on 12th March. New members welcome.
Good, better, best. Never let it rest. ‘Til your good is better and your better is best.
St. Jerome
Lent
The season of Lent begins on Wednesday, 1st March and continues until Easter Sunday, 16th April.
Lent is a time of preparation for our celebration of the events of Holy Week, when we commemorate what is central to our Christian faiththe death and resurrection of Jesus Christ. Ash Wednesday is a day of fast and
abstinence and is marked by the blessing and distribution of ashes. Masses in Ss. Peter & Pauls Parish next Wednesday are – Church of the Resurrection 9.30 am and Ss. Peter & Pauls Church 1 pm .
Trócaire
Lent is traditionally a time of prayer, fasting, and good works. In more recent years, one of the most important good works is our contributions to Trócairean initiative of the Irish Church to help cater for needs in Third World Countries. Trócaire boxes are available in the Churches. Please take one home with you and place it in a prominent place in your home.
Contribute whatever you can to it during Lent, and return to it to the Church during Holy Week.
The Faith Journey of the Deise People with Mgr. Michael Olden March 7th & 14th 2017, 7:30 -9:00 pm , 5 including refreshments.
Music in the Liturgy February 25th 2017 10.30am to 3.30pm. Booking essential 12 including light lunch.
Lectio Divina: Reflections on the Sunday Gospels Every Wednesday night from 15th February to 26th April at 7.30pm. Cost 5. All take place at:St. John’s Pastoral Centre, John’s Hill Waterford
Married Recently in Peter and Pauls :
James Buck and Deborah Smith .
Day of Prayer for Temperance
All of us, ordinary and flawed, have at heart a seemingly boundless longing for fulfilment. On this Day of Prayer for Temperance, we consider Matt Talbot, who had only seven people at his funeral in 1925, but whom hundreds of thousands came to see as a beacon of hope that reflects the struggles addiction can impose on someones life. He relied on a higher power that affirmed and accepted him, without preconditions. He made an extraordinary journey from the darkness of excessive addiction to wholeness and the light of holiness. Amidst the anxieties and personal anguishes of his own pain-filled days and nights, he shows us the answer to one of the seven questions that Jesus asks in the Gospel today: Can any of you, for all his worrying, add one single cubit to his span of life?Matt Talbot could identify with the words of todays Psalm: In God is my safety and glory, trust him at all times, pour out your hearts before him. He imbibed the refreshing waters of grace and renewed his life as a heroic witness of the power and presence of God at work within him.
Fr John Cullen
