Parish of the Assumption

Area Code: 057
Tel: 93 21587/93 51510/93 22244/93 22415 Fax: 93 51510   
 www.tullamoreparish.ie    
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E-Mail website : webmaster
Parish Office Hours: 9.30am - 5.00pm Monday – Friday

To book Masses, Baptisms and Weddings, or
to arrange an appointment to see a priest
please call within these times where possible.
A receptionist and phone service is available
up to 10pm each day.

  Easter Sunday - 23rd March 2008

Msgr. Seán Heaney, P. P.
Fr. Padraig Corcoran C.C.
Fr. Shane Crombie C.C.
Fr. Seamus O'Conner C.C.
Father Paul Trairong Multree
Sr. Genny Hassey
Sr. Margaret Burke

Mass Times

Weekend Masses
Church of The Assumption
Saturday (Vigil): 7.30pm
Sunday: 8.30am, 10.00am, 11.30am & 1.00pm

St. Colmcille’s Church Durrow
Sunday: 11.30am

Holy Days
Church of The Assumption
Vigil: 7.30pm
Feast: 7.45am, 10.00am, 1.10pm & 7.30pm

St. Colmcille’s Church Durrow
Feast: 8.00pm

Weekday Masses
Monday – Friday: 7.45am & 10.00am
Saturday: 10.00am
First Friday: 7.45am, 10.00am & 7.30pm

Confessions
Saturday: 12noon – 1.00pm & 3.00pm – 4.00pm
Eve of First Friday: After 10.00am Mass

  ALLELUIA

 Our Easter Liturgy tells us to exult and rejoice because death is vanquished forever. 
He is Risen.

Jesus said that He in Himself is Life and Resurrection and that He came that we too might have life - life in all its fulness.  So, if we are in a relationship with Him, who is Life itself - then we too live.

The refrain from an old hymn says: “Because He lives, I can face tomorrow....because I know He holds the future all fear is gone.”  Meaninglessness has gone too because we have the assurance of a future to hope for - a place waiting for us in our Father’s house.

Wishing all our parishioners a very happy Easter.

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HOLY WEEK & EASTER

Good Friday: 
Morning Prayer 10.00am. 
Inter-Church Way of the Cross 12noon from Town Park and finishing in O’Connor Sq. 
Ceremonies 3.00 & 7.30pm, Tullamore.

Holy Saturday: 
Morning Prayer 10.00am;
Easter Vigil 9.00pm. 
Confessions 2.00-6.00pm.

Easter Sunday:
Masses 8.30am, 10.00am (Family Mass), 11.30am & 1.00pm. 
Durrow 11.30am.

Monday 24th, is a Bank Holiday and Mass will be at 11.00am. 

From Tuesday 25th to Friday 28th there will be one Mass only at 10.00am.

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THANKS TO VOLUNTEERS

Sincere thanks to all volunteers who helped out during the Holy Week and Easter ceremonies.

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TROCAIRE

This week you have the opportunity to bring your Trocaire boxes back to either the Sacristy or the Parochial House.  This is our opportunity to take the Easter message of joy and hope and spread it to all the parts of the world.  By doing this we are showing solidarity with our neighbours all across the globe and spreading the real message of Christ, which will result in resurrection for these communities at this Easter time.  The offertory collection next weekend is to go Trocaire.

Pictures of events during Holy Week, on the web :: www.tullamoreparish.ie log on today.   

“In my Father’s house there are many rooms”.

Lent is over, and it is time to be joyful.  So we tend to think, as the mood of the liturgy moves to a joyful mode.  The real fruit of Lent should be a greater sense of closeness to Christ that comes from our reflections and our penances during that period.  Now it is important that we rejoice in our renewed sense of God’s presence and God’s closeness to us.  It is also important not to fragment our understanding of the Church’s year.  We don’t “do” Lent and then relax at Easter and slowly drift away from our sense of God’s closeness until we come to celebrate Christmas.  Then we prepare for the joy of Christmas, and proceed to drift again until Lent comes around.  Rather the year is one continuum with high points at Christmas and Easter.  Always we keep on even keel as one season flows into another, and we always keep our focus on the presence of God in our lives.  Easter and Resurrection is of course the highlight of our year, and our celebration is so organised that we can gain from it, great comfort and great hope for times of darkness and disappointment in our lives.  The Resurrection of Jesus remains the single most important event in human history.  Through our faith, and through our celebration of the Resurrection, let Easter be a time of real joy flowing from our honest effort to observe Lent and our new sense of God’s closeness to us.
Easter is above all a feast of hope as we reflect on the place that Jesus has promised us in his kingdom:
“In my Father’s house there are many rooms”.

DIVINE MERCY SUNDAY

Divine Mercy Novena commences on Good Friday and concludes on Divine Mercy Sunday (March 30th). 
The special Novena prayers will be incorporated into each Mass on the weekend of March 29/30. 
There will therefore be no special Divine Mercy Mass on Sunday March 30th.

MASS INTENTIONS

Mon 29: 7.30 Mary Duffy, Mon Mem

Sun 30: 8.30 Richard Geoghegan & Finola Reynolds
10.00 Anne Doyle, Pearse Park
11.30 Mary Fallon, Mon Mem
1.00 Carmel Freer, 1st Ann

Durrow Sun 30 Sean & Ollie McDermott & McDermott Family

DEATHS:  We offer our sympathy to the families of

Sean Quinn & Jimmy Dunne.

If you would like support or comfort in your grieving please phone  9326604.
  

SHARED MASSES: 
Shared Masses on Saturday 19th April & Saturday 17th May are now booked up. 

The next available shared Mass is on Saturday 14th June,10.00am.  You are reminded that this Mass is for the anniversary of deaths only and is limited to 40 intentions.

COLLECTIONS

Tullamore €4944,
Durrow €367
Envelopes €3790
Thank you for your continued support.

WEDDING BELLS

All couples who wish to get married must give at least six months notice to the Church and three months notice to the State.

Pre-Marriage courses can be booked on line at www.accord.ie

COMMUNITY GROUPS

PERPETUAL EUCHARISTIC ADORATION
Hospital Chapel: “Any time spent before the Eucharistic presence, be it long or short, is the best spent time of our lives.” St Catherine of Genoa.  Ph 9321232.

PARISH PILGRIMAGES: 
Fatima 12 June, with Fr John Nally; Lourdes 18 Aug with Fr Shane Crombie.  Ph 9351309 for details.

FR LORENZO’S PILGRIMAGE TO LOURDES July 29.  Ph 0876630231.

KNOCK with Fr Joseph K Bill, 6-12 April. Ph Anne at  0866175162

OFFALY NETWORK PEOPLE WITH DISABILITIES IN IRELAND:  Information evening, Tullamore Court Hotel, Thursday 27th, 7pm.  Focus on technology for disabled people in the working place.

BUSINESS & PROFESSIONAL WOMEN’S GROUP:  Meeting, Wednesday 26th, 7.30pm, Days Hotel.  Speakers from Rape Crisis Centre and Women in Crisis.

DIVINE MERCY at Emanuel House, Clonfert, Sunday 30th.  Bus from Henry St, 11.30am. 
Ph 935291.

PRAYER MEETING 8-9PM,Thursdays, Mercy Convent.

 Please continue to pray for Fiona Pender, our parishioner
who has been missing since 22nd August, 1996.

SUPPORT GROUPS

Parish Support Services confidential phoneline (057) 93 26604 Mon-Fri 10am-1pm and 6-8pm

Life Pregnancy Care 7B Cormac St, Drop in service every Saturday 10am-1pm, 057 93 41110  http://www.lifemidlands.ie

ACCORD Marriage & Relationship counselling, Mon-Fri, 9.30am-1pm, 2.00-4.00pm 9341831,      http://www.accord.ie

AA Mon/Wed/Thurs/Sat, Mercy Convent 8.15pm; Wed 1-2 & Sun 12-1pm, Youth Centre. 01-4538998 or 1890412412 after 5pm

Al-Anon Thurs 8.30pm, Parochial House, 018732699

MS Offaly Austin 0863760257;Mary 9323946.  Helpline 1850233233

Grow Thurs 7.30pm, Day Care Arden Rd, 9351124

Aware Mon 8.45pm Community Mental Health Centre 1890303302

Sexual Abuse & Rape Counselling Mon-Fri 9.30am-2.30pm; 1800323232, www.tullamorercc.ie

Women in Crisis Esker House, Patrick St, Mon-Fri 9am-1pm, 9351796; Helpline 9351886, 9am-5pm Mon-Fri; 24 hour cover at weekends.

MABS Free & confidential debt advice, 9323211

Vincent de Paul 9322072

Dochas - Cancer Info & Support Mon-Fri 10am-2pm, Offaly St 9328268

Meditation Mondays, 7.00pm, Marian Hostel

Lucia Counselling Service for those with mental illness, 18900621631

Suicide Bereavement Support - group sessions - Rita 0868157320

Citizens Information Service Mon-Fri 9.15am-1pm; 2pm -4pm; Thurs 2-6pm.  9352204

Epilepsy Assoc Mon-Fri, 9am-3pm 9328631

La Leche League Breastfeeding Support Group 3rd Thurs, 8pm, Health Centre, 9355061

Fibromyalgia Group Last Tues of month, 8pm, Day Care Centre.
1800201068 Tues 10am-12

Anew women with alcohol problems, Ofalia House Edenderry, 0861024743

Alzheimers Society Carers last Monday of month, 9328244

Adult Educational Guidance Service 9327104

ISARC (Sarcoidosis Support Group) Health Centre 1st Wed every month, 7.30pm, 0870648070 www.isarc.ie

Diabetes Assoc (Offaly) 1st Mon of month, Bridge House, 8pm.  Ph 9321211 after 6pm.

Newsletter Notices to be in the Parochial House
by Tuesday evening
Charitable / Non-profit organisations only