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Gerry Boyle PP. 046 9054138


Thanks to the compliance of people, Covid cases have come down.
Please keep safe and follow the guidelines. Please plan for family gatherings around Christmas that will be safe for all.
Please include in your prayers those making important decisions affecting us all during this coming week.
We hope to return to public Mass during the first week in December, but in the meantime the churches remain open for private prayer. Thanks to our sacristans who make this possible.

Masses this week
I offer Mass along with the Mass on RTÉ News Now at 10.30am each weekday morning. 

Monday       John and Rita Corrigan
Wednesday  Pat Devin and deceased members of his family

November
November is the month when we remember and pray for the dead. We are particularly conscious of families and communities who could not mark the death of loved ones in the usual ways in recent months.
The plenary indulgence available from visiting a cemetery and praying for the deceased, normally available in the first week of November, is extended this year for the whole month of November, and for this year only can be availed of by praying for the dead at home.
A page of special prayers for a visit to the cemetery, or to be said at home, is available from the back of the churches.
Lists of the dead can be returned to the Parochial House. Masses are offered, for those on the list, on the First Friday of every month.


Give rest, O Christ, to your servants,
with your Saints where pain and sorrow are no more,
but life everlasting.

You only are immortal, our Creator and Maker;

and we are mortal,
formed of the earth, and to the earth we shall return.
For you did ordain when you created me,
saying, ‘You are dust, and to dust you shall return.'
All of us go down to the dust;
yet even at the grave we make our song:
‘Alleluia, Alleluia, Alleluia.'

Give rest, O Christ, to your servants,

with your Saints where sorrow and pain are no more,
but life everlasting.                               
                                                    Maggie Ross. The Tablet

Advent
Advent begins next Saturday evening. It begins a new Church year and invites us to welcome Jesus among us now, at the end of time and at his coming on the first Christmas. It will be different this year, but Christ is always with us.

The Prayer Trust 
 Online donations can now be made to parish and diocesan collections via the Diocesan website.

 Please read the note from the Bishop, attached below.

           Note from the Bishop:

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