st. patrick’s church, ballyhaunis
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PARISH NEWSLETTER 1st AUGUST 2021
Parish Priest: Fr. Stephen Farragher, 094-9630006 / 087-9210305
Email: [email protected] Parish Office: 094-9630006
PARISH WEBSITE: http://www.ballyhaunisparish.ie
PARISH RADIO: 105.2FM Newsletter on line: Parish website & www.mcnmedia.tv Web-cam: http://www.ballyhaunisparish.ie or www.mcnmedia.tv
Local Safeguarding Representative (LSR) Jacinta Flynn, (contact the parish office)
Emergency numbers:
Knock: 094-9388100
Fr. Feeney, Ballinlough: 094-9640155
Fr. McGuinness, Bekan: 094-9313937
Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday, Friday 10.00am. Saturday 7.30pm. ********************************
Jimmie Flanagan & decd. Ballindrehid
Ann O’Brien (née Connell), Beech Park, & Patrick O’Connell, Gurraune
Kevin & Sean Finn, Hazelhill
Catherine & William Lynskey & decd. of the Lynskey & Freeley families, Gurteen
Mary & Edward Brennan, Lily & Noreen Brennan, Kiltaboe
Joe Webb, Devlis
Michael A. & Nora Keane, Annagh
Margaret Keane, Coventry & Annagh
John, Nora & Sean Hopkins, Knock
Reuben Sykes, Leeds & Cave
Declan Shields, Devlis, & decd. of the Shields family, Galway & the Ryan family, Castlebar
Doris & Eddie Duddy & decd. Manchester
Kate, John, J.J. & Patrick Goulding, Ballinlough
Ellie & Tom Donnelley & decd. of the Roddy family Manchester
Michael, Catherine & Bertie Curley, Clare St.
Michael & Mary Webb & decd. Main St.
Decd. of the Meath family, Clare St.
Dolores Jordan, Annagh
Kate, Mercy & Mary Flatley & Betty Dunne, Sydney & formerly Main St.
Patrick, Sarah & Michael Waldron, Cave
Brendan & Tommy Hopkins, Castlebar & Larganboy, & John Larkin, Cork
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Sunday 10.00am. First Anniversary: Donal Rogers, Ballybeg
All weekday and weekend Masses, and the daily rosary at 9.00pm
continue to be broadcast on parish radio 105.2FM and streamed on
the parish webcam: https://www.mcnmedia.tv/camera/st-patricks-
church-ballyhaunis
The 10 o’clock Mass will be broadcast on Mid West Radio on 1st,
8th, 15th & 29th August.
Copies of the Irish Catholic newspaper are available at the back of the church. Cost €2.50
please place the money in the coinbox of the nearby candelabra.
MASSES:
Monday, Tuesday,
Wednesday, Friday 10.00am.
Saturday Evening Vigil: 7.30pm
Sunday: 10.00am. 12.00 noon
CONFESSIONS:
Before Saturday Vigil Mass
EUCHARISTIC
ADORATION
Friday: 10.30am. - 1.00pm.
BAPTISMS
Saturdays & Sundays 11.00am.
Minimum of two weeks’
notice required. Contact the
parish office, 094-9630006,
for updates due to ongoing
Covid-19 restrictions.
ANNIVERSARY MASSES 2nd - 8th AUGUST 2021
ST. PATRICK’S CHURCH, BALLYHAUNIS
2nd - 8th AUGUST READERS MINISTERS OF THE EUCHARIST
Monday Jarlath Fahey Daniela Balbino Romao, Fionnuala Nolan
Tuesday Tommy Caulfield Teresa Healy, Lorraine Waldron
Wednesday Martin Fitzmaurice Eileen Jordan, Eileen Lynch
Friday Christina Concannon Margaret Byrne, Willie Broderick
Saturday 7.30pm. Emer Gallagher Tim Byrne, Frances Mulhern
Sunday 10.00am. Mary Finan Miriam Judge, Aileen Burke
Sunday 12.00 Paula Donnellan Eileen Donnellan, Jana Jurakova
Offertory
Collection
25th July 2021
€1,455
RE-OPENING OF OUR CHURCH FOR MASSES: We ask that Mass-goers continue to observe the guidelines
regarding physical distancing and hand sanitising in church.
Please co-operate with the ushers and avoid confrontation.
You are obliged to wear some form of face covering while in
church - even if you have received the vaccine.
Please use the lighters for lighting candles as the hand
sanitiser is highly flammable.
While the church building and ancillary buildings (toilets and
sacristy) are sanitised before and after each Mass or ceremony,
we want to stress that if you manifest any of the symptoms of
Covid-19, if you have any underlying health issues, or feel that
you might be endangering your health by entering a church
building, then we encourage you to continue to join us on parish
radio 105.2FM or on the parish webcam:
www.ballyhaunisparish.ie/webcam
WEEKLY ENVELOPES: Sincere thanks to all who are return-
ing their weekly contributions either by envelope or by direct
debit. Envelopes can be returned at any of the daily Masses or
otherwise can be dropped in the letter box of the Parochial
House. If you wish to set up a direct debit, the account details
are as follows: Ballyhaunis Parish Church. BIC: ULSB IE 2D
IBAN: IE69 ULSB 9852 7005 5200 31
ST. VINCENT DE PAUL - Ballyhaunis Conference: Help is available with Back to School and College expenses.
Contact 086-2640969 or write to SVP at the Friary House.
ACCORD CATHOLIC MARRIAGE CARE SERVICE CLG is currently recruiting volunteers to train as marriage preparation
programme facilitators.
Accord is seeking registration of interest from those who have a
positive attitude towards marriage in the Catholic Church and the
enthusiasm to be part of a team supporting couples who are pre-
paring for the Sacrament of Marriage.
Successful applicants will receive professional training and will
be part of a team delivering marriage preparation programmes
locally in accordance with best practice.
Contact Aisling on 01 505 3112 or by email to [email protected]
The closing date for receipt of registration of interest forms to be
included in selections for this year is Friday 27th August.
Additional information is available on www.accord.ie
ACCORD MARRIAGE PREPARATION COURSES 2021
Castlebar: Friday 10th/Saturday 11th September, Friday 8th/
Saturday 9th October.
Tuam: Friday 27th/Saturday 28th August. Friday 3rd/Saturday
4th December. Bookings: www.accord.ie or tel: 094-9022214.
BALLYHAUNIS ACTIVE RETIREMENT ASSOCIATION Meetings will recommence on Wednesday 11th August 2021 at
3.00pm. in the Communal Hall, Clare Court. Don’t forget to
wear your masks please!
WESTERN CARE ASSOCIATION: Have you an interest in
working with people with a learning disability and / or autism??
Western Care Association are recruiting Relief Staff to work in
their Services based across Co. Mayo. For further information
please visit the website at www.westerncare.com or
email: [email protected]
The prophet Joel once promised: “Your old men
shall dream dreams, and your young men will have
visions” (3:1). The future of the world depends on
this covenant between young and old. Who, if not the young, can
take the dreams of the elderly and make them come true? Yet for
this to happen, it is necessary that we continue to dream.
Our dreams of justice, of peace, of solidarity can make it possible
for our young people to have new visions; in this way, together,
we can build the future. You need to show that it is possible to
emerge renewed from an experience of hardship. I am sure that
you have had more than one such experience: in your life you have
faced any number of troubles and yet were able to pull through.
Use those experiences to learn how to pull through now.
Dreams are thus intertwined with memory. I think of the painful
memory of war, and its importance for helping the young to learn
the value of peace. Those among you who experienced the suffer-
ing of war must pass on this message. Keeping memory alive is a
true mission for every elderly person: keeping memory alive and
sharing it with others. Edith Bruck, who survived the horror of the
Shoah, has said that “even illuminating a single conscience is
worth the effort and pain of keeping alive the memory of what has
been.” She went on to say: “For me, memory is life.”
I also think of my own grandparents, and those among you who
had to emigrate and know how hard it is to leave everything be-
hind, as so many people continue to do today, in hope of a future.
Some of those people may even now be at our side, caring for us.
These kinds of memory can help to build a more humane and wel-
coming world. Without memory, however, we will never be able
to build; without a foundation, we can never build a house. Never.
And the foundation of life is memory.
Finally, prayer. As my predecessor, Pope Benedict, himself a
saintly elderly person who continues to pray and work for the
Church once said: “the prayer of the elderly can protect the world,
helping it perhaps more effectively than the frenetic activity of
many others.” He spoke those words in 2012, towards the end of
his pontificate. There is something beautiful here. Your prayer is a
very precious resource: a deep breath that the Church and the
world urgently need (cf. Evangelii Gaudium, 262). Especially in
these difficult times for our human family, as we continue to sail in
the same boat across the stormy sea of the pandemic, your inter-
cession for the world and for the Church has great value: it inspires
in everyone the serene trust that we will soon come to shore.
Dear grandmothers, dear grandfathers, dear elderly friends, in
concluding this Message to you, I would also like to mention the
example of Blessed (and soon Saint) Charles de Foucauld. He
lived as a hermit in Algeria and there testified to “his desire to feel
himself a brother to all” (Fratelli Tutti, 287). The story of his life
shows how it is possible, even in the solitude of one’s own desert,
to intercede for the poor of the whole world and to become, in
truth, a universal brother or sister.
I ask the Lord that, also through his example, all of us may open
our hearts in sensitivity to the sufferings of the poor and intercede
for their needs. May each of us learn to repeat to all, and especially
to the young, the words of consolation we have heard spoken to us
today: “I am with you always”! Keep moving forward! May the
Lord grant you his blessing.
MESSAGE OF HIS HOLINESS POPE FRANCIS FOR THE FIRST WORLD DAY FOR GRANDPARENTS AND THE ELDERLY, July
25th, 2021 (contd.)