Priest on Call Fr. Tom Seymour
EUCHARISTIC MINISTERS Weekdays 2
EUCHARISTIC MINISTERS Next weekend 1
Readers for St. Mary’s Christmas Eve: 7pm Robert Hayes& Kathleen O’ Meara, Midnight Mass Readers Provided 8am John Cullen & Sister Christine, 10am Sean O’ Gara & Maura Mc Kenna, 12 noon Noel Tomlinson & Marie Nagle
Readers for St. Johh’s Vigil 9pm Readers provided 11am Mass Readers provided
Readers St. Mary’s Sunday: Vigil Liam Gleeson 8 am Helena O’Gorman 10 am Tess O'Kennedy & Gerry Slevin
12 Noon Conor Delaney Adrian Brennan
St. John’s Sunday: Vigil A. Walsh 9am D. Mackey 11 am K. Costelloe
Financial Matters:
Offertory collection €4069.00
Christmas Priests Collection will be taken up at all Masses on Christmas Eve and Christmas day. The appropriate envelope in your yearly pack of envelopes. Also envelopes available at the church doors today.
St. Mary’s Restoration Notice
Contractors with experience of Repair
And conservation of
Cast Iron
Lime Pointing and Grouting
Leadwork
Roof Repair and general
building conservation
Should contact Southgate Associates at 9, Dean Street, Cork,
Tel: 021-4570717—with respect to tender for works at St. Mary’s of the Rosary Roman Catholic Church, Nenagh,
Christmas 2009
Penance Service with visiting Confessors.
This Sunday December 20th at 5 pm St. Mary’s of the Rosary
Christmas Masses
Christmas Eve Thursday 24th: St. Marys 7.00 pm & 12.00 midnight
St. Johns: 9.00 pm
Christmas Day: St. Marys 8.00 am; 10.00 am & 12.00 noon
St. Johns: 11.00 am (No 9.00 am Christmas day)
Confessions:
Christmas Eve all day from after 10am Mass until 5.00pm.
Christmas Week
No 8.00 am or 6.15 pm Mass from Christmas Eve until Thursday Dec. 31st
Friday First Friday( New Years day). Masses St. Mary’s 8.00am; 10.00 am & 7pm.
No 6.15pm in St. John’s.
Oratory will be closed from Christmas Eve until Monday January 4th
Nollaig Shona to all our Parishioners. Parish Team
CHRISTMAS TREES
Wrap a little match box and put some string on it, and hang it on the tree in St. John’s
or St. Mary’s to remember someone we care about who may be away at
Christmas or someone we are praying for or remembering.
Anniversary Masses
21st December - 27th December
St Mary’s
Monday 10am Bill & Catherine Cleary (A) Paddy & Gracie Brett (A)
Tuesday 10am Thomas Cummins (A) & Michael and Mary Comerford & Angela Clancy (A’s)
Wednesday 8am Jack & Mary Molomphy & Family (A’s)
Wednesday 10am William Hogan (A) Nora Harty (A) John Woods (A)
Sunday 8am Deceased members of the Keenan & Roche Families (A)
Sunday 10 am Ned Murphy (A)
Sunday 12noon Christy Byrnes and his father Chris (A) Bill O’Brien (A) Tom Higginston and his son Thomas (A)
St John’s
Monday 6.15 pm Peggy & Martin Morrissey (A’s)
Tuesday 6.15 pm Nora Harty (A) also Tommy Harty and Neddie, Timmy, and Danny and Michael O’Donoghue (A)
Wednesday 6.15 pm Tommy and Lizzie Treacy (A’s) Aaron Gleeson (A)
Sunday 9 am John and Margaret McGinty (A) and Bridget and John McNulty (A’s)
Sunday 11am Eileen Ryan (A) Anthony Gleeson (A)
Suaimhneas Síoraí Tabhair Dóibh a Thiarna
Baptisms
Bridget Breda Marie Casey
Mya McGrath
Fayth Muldowney
Welcome to the Christian Community
Have you a baby for Baptism
Next meeting to prepare for the Sacrament of Baptism will be held in the Pastoral Centre on Monday night 4th January please bring a photocopy of your Baby’s Birth Certificate on the night. Thank you for your co-operation.
Nenagh Country Market are now taking orders for Christmas,
turkeys, ducks, geese, Christmas cakes, pudding, Christmas Wreaths, and flower arrangements. Hampers filled with a wide variety of home made food. We also have buns, tarts, cheesecakes, mince pies, cakes and savouries so come along to the New Institute, Friar Street from 8.30 am—1.30 pm and you wont be disappointed. Wed 23rd December Market opened 8.30 am - 1.30 pm for customers to collect their orders.
Book of Expression
We wish to acknowledge the comments of all who wrote in the Book of Expression in St. Mary’s regarding the recent Murphy Report. Also we acknowledge those who wrote letters. The book will remain in St. Mary’s into the New Year. We invite people to read and add comments.
Parish team.
Morning prayer of the Church continues for Advent at 9.45 weekday mornings in St. Mary’s .
Sunday 20th December Pharmacy openings—as per shop.
Christmas Morning Run: A fun run in aid of Áras Mhuire Day Care Centre, will take place on Christmas morning, at 11.00a.m, starting at the CBS, and following the Dromin route. All are welcome.
The staff of North Tipperary Community Services wish all our volunteers, friends and families every good wish for Christmas and may the New Year bring peace. We particularly extend best wishes to those who are alone, ill, unemployed or missing a loved one this Christmas. Loreto House will be closed from Wed 23rd PM and reopens on Monday 4th January.
Nenagh Special Summer Camp are one of the recipients of the Christmas Day Youghal Swim. We would gladly appreciate your support.
Art being displayed by all Primary Schools in Nenagh at St. Mary’s of the Rosary for the Christmas Season
St. Mary’s Church of Ireland Nenagh invites you to a “big sing” at The Carol Service Sunday 20th of December 2009 at 8pm. All are welcome
Folk Choir will sing carols before and after Mass on Christmas Eve at 7pm Mass
St. Mary’s of the Rosary Church Restoration Fund
December Draw
1st Prize €2000 Mary Gleeson C/o Revenue
2nd Prize €1000 Pat Hogan, Gortlandroe
3rd Prize €500 Pat Kelly 62 Ormond St
4th Prize €100 Maura Hoctor, Melrose, Nenagh
5th Prize €100 Anne & Kevin Mc Enteggart, Dundalk
6th Prize €100 Fr, Pat Malone, Church Road, Nenagh
7th Prize €100 Tom & Breda Kirby, Ballymackey
Promoter €100 Joan Mc Carthy
Next draw is 13th January 2010 Pastoral Centre, Church Road
All welcome to attend draw at 8pm.
You can still join the draw by calling to Parish Office, Church Rd.
Thanks to everyone who has supported the Draw
The Christmas 10 Commandments
Thou shalt give thy heart to Christ. Let Him be at the top of thy Christmas list.
Thou shalt prepare thy soul for Christmas. Spend not so much on gifts that thy soul is forgotten.
Thou shalt not let Santa Claus replace Christ, thus robbing the day of its spiritual reality.
Thou shalt not burden the shop girl, the mailman, and the merchant with compliments and demands.
Thou shalt give thyself with thy gift. This will increase its value a hundred fold, and he who receiveth it will treasure it forever
Thou shalt not value gifts received by their cost. Even the least expensive may signify love, and that is more priceless than silver and gold.
Thou shalt not neglect he needy. Share thy blessings with many who will go hungry and cold unless thou are generous.
Thou shalt not, neglect thy church. Its services highlight the true meaning of the season
Thou shalt be as a little child. Not until thou has become in spirit as a little one art thou ready to enter into the kingdom of Heaven
Thou shall not forget to share your joy, peace and faith with those around you.
