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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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. The Ascension, 4th May 2008
Msgr. Seán Heaney, P. P.
Fr. Padraig Corcoran C.C.
Fr. Shane Crombie C.C.
Fr. Seamus O'Conner C.C.
Sr. Genny Hassey
Sr. Margaret Burke
Mass TimesWeekend 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
“I AM WITH YOU ALWAYS”With that reassurance He leaves them on the mountain: by word, sight, taste and touch He has confirmed their faith in His Resurrection and in the fact that He is the same Jesus they knew and lived with. Yes, they saw and heard Him, touched His wounds and tasted the breakfast He cooked for them. But now - a cloud is taking Him from their sight. They are bereft of their secure sensory experience. It is belief without seeing. In this experience of bereavement and weakness He tells them to continue His mission. They are to rely on the Spirit He will send. In, through and with their weaknesses His Spirit will continue to convert them, enabling them to show the compassionate love of the Father for all people. Have we ourselves faith when our feelings desert us, and we think we can’t pray; to trust that Jesus is calling us to a deeper level of intimacy with Himself, so that we too may better reveal His Father’s love whatever the time, place or circumstances in which we find ourselvs ?
Generosity is not in giving me that which I need more than you do,
but it is in giving me that which you need more than I do.
Kahill Gibran
LITURGY GROUPMeeting Tuesday 6th, 6.30pm, Parochial House.
FIRST COMMUNION DATES11th May St Joseph’s & Ballinamere
18th May Scoil Mhuire
25th May Scoil Bhride
8th June Gaelscoil Eiscir Riada
9th June Durrow
All First Communions will take place at 10.00am in Tullamore & Durrow Churches and in Ballinamere Community Centre.
Seats will be reserved for the families of First Communicants.
Time is too slow for those who wait, too swift for those who fear, too long for those who grieve, too short for those who rejoice, but for those who love, time is eternity.
THREE LITTLE WORDSSunday’s Gospel (Matt 28:16-20) puts me in mind of a tongue-in-cheek Irish invention: an inflatable dartboard! For if ever an author seems to score an own goal it is Matthew today. To believe in life after death is difficult enough. To believe that a specific man rose from the dead, lived among us afterwards, then ascended into heaven is gobsmacking. At least, it should be. Therefore, you’d think that Matthew would help us to believe in Jesus’ resurrection. But no! Au contraire! He sneaks in three little words: ‘but some doubted’. Now, how could anyone - knowing that Jesus had died on a cross, yet seeing him before their very eyes - possibly doubt? What did they doubt: their own eyes, that the man before them was Jesus, that he had truly died, or what? Matthew doesn’t say.
Interestingly, these doubters don’t go away. Jesus commissions them too, it seems. Doubt isn’t an obstacle to the mission of making disciples of all nations. And what a relief that is!
You don’t now it all. You don’t have to be rock-hard certain of everything. You can doubt and follow, perhaps even lead. Your doubting can make you seek out Jesus, until you find him.
Matthew’s own-goal is actually his winning strike.
Thank you, Matthew, for those three little words. (Fr Tom Cahill, Intercom May 08)
DEATHS:
We offer our sympathy to the families of
Kieran Robbins,
Margaret (Peg) Brazil
& Esther Lawlor.If you would like support or comfort in your grieving please phone 9326604.
MASS INTENTIONS Tues 6:
7.45 Vera Downes (nee Cosgrove) Mon Mem
10.00 Gretta McAuliffe
Wed 7:
10.00 Sean Pender, Ballydaly
Thurs 8:
10.00 John, Lucy & Luke Bracken
Fri 9:
10.00 Julie Hogan, Frank, Annie, June & Michael Martin
Sat 10:
10.00 Marie Brennan
7.30 John Wrafter
Sun 11:
8.30 Michael & Elizabeth O’Brien, 29 Clontarf Rd
10.00 Molly Hackett McLoughlin & Tommy Hackett
11.30 Martin O’Brien, Mon Mem
1.00 John Connolly, Pearse Park, 1st Ann Durrow
Sun 11
Joe, Kitty & Jim Daly SHARED MASSES: Shared Masses on Saturday 17th May & Saturday 14th June are now booked up. The next available Shared Mass is on Saturday 19th July. You are reminded that these Masses are for the anniversaries of deaths only and are limited to forty intentions.
COLLECTIONS Tullamore €4490; Durrow €275
Envelopes €3179 Thank you for your continued support
WEDDING BELLS Congratulations to
Elizabeth Kerrigan & Martin Ward.
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 http://www.accord.ie/
NEW ARRIVALS Baptisms take place in Tullamore on the 1st Sunday & 3rd Saturday of every month and in Durrow on the 2nd Sunday of every month. All parents who wish to have their child baptised must attend a pre-baptism meeting. To book in for meeting and baptism, please contact the parish secretary at the Parochial House.
COMMUNITY GROUPSPERPETUAL EUCHARISTIC ADORATION Hospital Chapel: “He who loves us so much is there waiting for us. Why do we not love Him in return.” St John Vianney. Ph 9321232.
READY: Social night, Wed 7, Pitch & Putt Club. Bus from Day Care 9pm.
CHILDREN OF MARY: Meeting Tues 6, 8pm.
SECULAR FRANCISCANS: Meeting Tues 6, 7pm, Mercy Convent. New members welcome.
PIONEERS: Meeting, Wed 7, 8pm, Parochial House. Current and new members welcome.
QUEEN OF PEACE GROUP: Monthly Mass for Healing & Peace, Thurs 8, 7.30pm, Day Chapel.
“ALICE IN WONDERLAND” Thurs 8 & Fri 9 7.45pm; Sat 10 4pm, St Mary’s Youth Centre.
COFFEE MORNING: Sat 10, Presbyterian Church Hall, 10.30am-12.30pm in aid of Christian Aid & Amnesty International work in Zimbabwe. Please support.
WOMEN’S GROUP: Meet first Tues monthly, 7-8pm, Parochial House. New members welcome. Ph 0871215960.
PADRE PIO MASS Rochfortbridge, Wed 8, 7.30pm. 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. Offaly Domestic Violence Support Service: 9351886 Mon-Fri, 10am-12; 2-4pm. Community Drugs Scheme: HSE helpline 1850241850.
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by Tuesday evening
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