Covid is still with us. Let us continue to look after each other.
Year of St Brigid – 1500
Month of May – dedicated to Our Lady – Hail Mary every day – May Altar at home
The Most Holy Trinity
Saturday 25th St Malachy’s Church, Ballymacilroy 7pm
Patrick, Brigid, Sean McCrystal, Paddy & Rita McGuire
Sunday 26th St Mary’s Church, Dunmoyle 11am
Francie McCrory Month Mind, Bridie O’Sullivan
Friday 31st St Malachy’s Church 7pm
Francis Owens First Anniversary – Fr Michael McCaughey
The Most Holy Body and Blood of Christ – Corpus Christi
Saturday1st June Church of the Immaculate Conception, Ballygawley 7pm*
Francis & Margaret Flanagan, Francis, Mary Ellen Pat McCone, Frank & May Kelly
Sunday 2nd St Mary’s Church, Dunmoyle 11am
Tuesday 4th Church of the Immaculate Conception 7pm*
Sheila Higgins
Wednesday 5th St Mary’s Church 10am
Thursday 6th St Malachy’s Church 7pm
Friday 7th Church of the Immaculate Conception 10am*
World Day of Prayer for Priests
Friday 7th Church of the Immaculate Conception 7pm*
Una Mulligan Month Mind
Saturday 8th St Malachy’s Church 11am
Julija Quinn Month Mind
Tenth Sunday in Ordinary Time
Saturday 8th St Mary’s Church, Dunmoyle 5pm
Gerard McCann
Saturday 8th St Malachy’s Church, Ballymacilroy 7pm
Maureen & Peter Joe Mallon
Sunday 9th Church of the Immaculate Conception 12noon
Sacrament of Confirmation
Trocaire money contributions to date: £3114.11, cheques £650, 29.34Euro. thank you.
Lately deceased: Julija Quinn, Una Mulligan, Maureen Meegan, Robert Harper, Maggie Farrell.
Sacrament of Baptism: we welcome into the Errigal Ciaran Parish faith community Maggie Mary Quinn and Caolan Patrick McGorman who were Baptised recently.
St Matthew’s Church: work will begin 27th May. The Church will reopen at the beginning of December – hopefully!
The Sunday morning Mass usually celebrated at St Matthew’s will move to St Mary’s Church during this time. And the Friday morning Mass will move to Church of the Immaculate Conception, Ballygawley.
First Communion – we had lovely celebrations over the past weeks. Congratulations to all the girls and boys who received their First Communion. You are invited to come to Mass over Corpus Christi 1st/2nd June to give thanks to God.
Sacrament of Confirmation – keep our young people in your prayers as they begin their final preparations for Sunday 9th June.
Blessing of Graves – thankfully God was good regarding the weather for our gatherings at Ballymacilroy and Garvaghey. Great crowds and prayerful gatherings for Mass and remembering those gone before us. Dunmoyle Blessing of Graves Sunday 7th July at 10am followed by walk to Altar Glen for Mass at 11am.
Old Errigal Sunday 8th September at 2pm.
Parishioner financial contributions for April: Sunday envelopes over 4 weekends amounted to £10,969.30 and 73 Standing orders amounted to £2918 and donations amounted to £1000. Thank you for your generosity.
First Friday visits: for June – Tuesday 4th visiting Ballymacilroy, Garvaghy; Wednesday 5th Dunmoyle; Thursday 6th Ballygawley.
St Vincent de Paul Ballygawley – covering the Parishes of Errigal Ciaran, Clogher and Aughnacloy are in urgent need of volunteers especially those with IT skills. We are a voluntary charity which provides direct support to those in need. If you could please spare some time and would like to make a difference in your community, please contact the Conference phone number 07752403625 as local knowledge is essential for SVP to work effectively.
Sharon Dunne from the Diocesan Pastoral Office will be speaking at Masses again in a few weeks’ time about Parish Pastoral Council and how Parishioners may get involved in the mission/work of the Parish.
St Patrick’s Missionary Society – mission appeal – Fr Tomas O’Connor will visit the Parish this weekend and speak at Masses.
Continuous Rosary in Ireland for Peace and Charity – Our Parish of Errigal Ciaran has been allocated Sunday 2nd June, surname A-L 11.24pm -11.42pm; surname M-Z 11.42pm-12midnight. Pray well!
Cleaning rota for May: St Malachy’s Church Briege Tierney, Finola Canavan; St Mary’s Church Rose, Eithne, Teresa, Rosemary McCann.
Legion of Mary meet at 8pm on Thursdays in Upper Room, Church of the Immaculate Conception. They would welcome new members to assist with spread of this holy devotion.
A famous clergyman once told his congregation, ‘Every blade of grass is a sermon’. A few days later a Parishioner was passing his house and saw him mowing his lawn. ‘That’s right, Father’, the man said, ‘it’s good to see you’re cutting your sermon short’.
Bingo: St Ciaran’s Hall Wednesdays 9pm. All welcome. Lotto continues as usual.
Bulletin – next publications on 9th & 23rd June. Deadline for notices 4th & 18th June.
Prayer for Exams: God, stay close to me today, guide my study and light my way. Ease my nerves and comfort me with peace and love so tenderly. May I remember the things I need and understand all I study and read. may I strive to give my best and do myself justice in each test. May the topics I know and like appear on the exam paper to lessen my fear. And during the moments I may feel stressed I’ll try to remember the ways I’m blessed. And if there are times that I feel at sea, help me to trust that you’re there with me. Amen.