SUNDAY 29th March,
2009
Sunday Mass Times
Vigil Saturday: 6pm
Sunday 9am and 11am
Weekday Masses
Monday –Wednesday 9.30am
Thursday– 8am and 9.30am
Friday 9.30am and Saturday 10am
Sunday Lenten Liturgy
Today and each Sunday of Lent in
St.Mary’s Church. Note today’s Liturgy
begins at 6pm. Today’s Theme: ‘With lives
wide open to the gift of life’.
Readers for Sunday 5th April,
2009
6pm Vigil: Reader: Charles Lafferty, Narrator: Don
Anderson, Other: Mary Murray
9am: Reader: Joan Lafferty, Narrator: John Lafferty,
Other: Dermott Chambers
11am: Reader: Maureen Boyle, Narrator: Rosemary Logue,
Other: Tom Frawley
Eucharistic Ministers for
April
6pm Vigil: George Brolly
Angela Brolly
9am: Joseph McColgan
11am: Charlie McDaid, Celine McDaid
Maureen O Kane
Deaths
Jimmy King (Scotland)
Brother-In-Law of McGinley Family, Tullymore Road
Anniversaries
Jack Ward, Nora Grimes, Francis Grieve
Michael Connor, Jim Martin, James Martin
Offertory Collection
Sunday 22nd March £1350
Our thanks for your continued generosity.
Offertory Envelopes Boxes:
The new boxes will be distributed by distributors
in your area in the next couple of weeks. If you have
not received a box last year and would like to begin
using the Offertory Envelope box towards Ardmore Parish
please contact Julie-Anne, Parish Secretary on Mon/Wed
Fri mornings of this week. Tel 71349490. Envelope
Boxes will not have Gift Aid marked on them this year
but your name and box number will be noted on the
Parish Computer and also the computer has a record
of names of all who are gift aiding towards the Parish.
So you will be gift aiding even if it does not say
so on the box you receive.
If you no longer pay tax and have signed up for Gift
Aid, please contact the Parish Office and let us know.
If you had the following Envelope No's during
April 2008 to March 2009, please contact the Parochial
House: , 261, 262, 263, 264, 271, 272, 273. Thanks
for your generosity.
Palm Sunday
Next Sunday we celebrate Palm Sunday of the Lord’s
Passion. At the 11am Mass only, The commemoration
of the Lord’s entrance into Jerusalem is celebrated
with a solemn procession which takes place in the
Pastoral Centre. The palms are blessed there and the
faithful carry the palms in procession into the Church.
The palms should be taken home and placed in a prominent
position as a reminder of Christ’s ultimate
victory.
Penitential Service
A penitential service will take place
on Palm Sunday at 6pm in preparation for Easter. This
will replace the Lenten Liturgy on that day.
Year for Priests
On 16th March, Pope Benedict announced that a Year
for Priests will begin on 19th June 2009 ending one
year later with a World Meeting of Priests in St Peter’s
Square, Vatican City. The year will highlight the
role and mission of clergy in the Church and modern
Society.
Episcopal Anniversaries this
week.
Bishop Seamus Hegarty– Episcopal Ordination
28th March 1982
Bishop Edward Daly- Episcopal Ordination 31st March
1974
Pastoral Council Meeting
Monday 31st march in Pastoral Centre at 7.30pm.
Ceili
There will be a Ceili on Sunday 29th March, 8pm–
11pm in the Pastoral Centre in aid of the Building
Fund. The Lifford Ceili Band will be playing. £5
includes tea. All are welcome.
Parents Helpline, Patrick
Street Volunteers Needed - Induction Sat
4 April 10-4, Sessions every Tues from 21 Apr to 16
June 10-1. 4 places remaining. Please contact the
office 71372006 for further information or email marie@pachelp.org
Ardmore GAA Lotto Results
Week 11, Jackpot £200. Numbers were 14-16-20
No Winner this week. £50 won by John Melaugh.
Next weeks Jackpot £300.
Sr Teresa’s Thanks
Sr Teresa has offered her thanks to all who made her
special day, (the celebration of her 90th Birthday),
a day in her life to cherish and remember with fondness.
Special thanks to those who provided the cake and
light refreshments and to all who came to her Mass
of Thanksgiving. Thanks to all those who sent her
birthday wishes and cards. She has remembered all
in her prayers.
The Alive Newspaper
The Alive Newspaper is FREE and is
available at the Church Porch after all Masses today.
Please take one for each family in the Parish.
Trocaire boxes are available at the
Church Porch after Mass, please take one and return
by end of Holy Week.
Parish Savings Scheme
All who were in the Parish Savings
Scheme and who received their cheques in early November
2008 are reminded that these cheques will expire after
6 months of the date the cheques were issued.
