Dingle Parish
Fr Michael Moynihan PP
Tel (066) 9151208/087-6551902
January 5th, 2025
dingle@dioceseofkerry.ie
www.dingleparish.ie
The Second Sunday
of Christmas
Pray for Doris Prior, (Née Murthwaite)Spa Road and Annascaul; Frances Brogan, (née Mulleady), Navan, Co. Meath. Suaimhneas síoraí dá n-anamacha.
St Mary’s Church, Dingle.
Sat 4ú 6.15pm 1. John, Maurice and Kathleen Curran and Denis Curran, Knockavrogeen. 2. James Dowd, Garfinny.
Sun 5ú 11.30am Michael O’Sullivan, Glen Minard, 1ú CB.
Monday 6ú 11.30am Johnny and Kathleen Kennedy, Garfiney.
(No Mass Sa Díseart today)
Tues 7ú 10.00am Special Intention
Wed 8ú 12.00 noon No Mass.
Thurs 9ú 10.00am No Mass.
Fri 10ú 6.15pm Mary and Thomas O’Connor, 2 Spa Road.
Sat 11ú 6.15pm 1. Timmy and Stevie Kelliher, Milltown. 2. Bridget Grandfield, Ballinaboula and Farranflaherty and deceased members of the Grandfield and Griffin families.
Sun 12ú 11.30am James Griffin, 1ú CB and his wife Peig, Baile na nÁth and deceased members of the Kelliher and Griffin families
Confessions: Friday after the 6.15pm Mass.
Rotas: Next Weekend: Euch Mins: 6.15pm Maura Flahive, Marian O’Sullivan and Elaine O’Connor. 11:30am Ann Curran and Ann O’Connor Readers: 6.30pm: Barbara Prendergast. 11.30am: Tommy McCarthy. Cleaners Team 1.
Naomh Caitlín, Fionn Trá
Sat 4ú 7.30i.n Eugene Ó Sé, Clochán, CM.
Naomh Eoin Baiste, Lios Póil
Domh 12ú 10.00am Cait Ashe, Glen Minard.
Rota: Min Eoc: Máire Uí Chinnéide. Léitheoir: Marie Uí Ghrifín.
Thought for the day: We are at the start of the new year and beginning again is an invitation to look in two directions. What happened for me in the last year, both in my ordinary life and in my life as a believer, a person of faith? For what do I ask forgiveness? For what do I give thanks? We also look forward and the new beginning gives us a chance to start again on the Way of discipleship. Both thanksgiving and renewal are to be found in today’s readings. The Gospel is in invitation to wake up, to keep watch, to live fully the present moment under God, in whom we live and move and have our being. Prayer: Wake us up, O God, at the start of a new year and rouse us from the slumber of the everyday that we may recognise you in every moment and in every person every day of our lives. Through Christ our Lord. Amen.
Pope Francis on X: The hope of the world lies in fraternity! And the hope of a fraternal world is Christ, the incarnate Son, sent by the Father so that we may all become what we are, that is, children of the Father who is in heaven, and therefore brothers and sisters among ourselves.
2025, A Jubilee Year in the Church
Pope Francis has chosen the Jubilee theme “Pilgrims of Hope”. We are asked to treat the year ahead as a year-long pilgrimage seeking together to become more aware that truly Jesus Christ Our Saviour is with us each day, – as our help, strength and guide. When we speak of ‘Hope’ we mean ‘Hope in Jesus Christ’, Hope in our God, Father, Son and Spirit.
Offertory Collection: Dec 24th/25th: €5,704.00. Dec 28th/29th: €2,101.
Míle buíochas.
Priest on duty this Sunday:
Fr Eoghan Ó Cadhla: 087-6951318.
January 6th, Feast of the Epiphany is a holy day of obligation, Masses as follows:
St Mary’s, Dingle: 11.30am.
Sacred Heart, Annascaul: 7.30pm.
Christmas Dues – Focal Buíochais
Fr Michael would like to thank all who have handed in their Christmas Dues Envelopes. These can still be handed in over the next while by placing them in the Building Fund Boxes at the back of the Churches or in the baskets at the offertory collection. Your support of your Parish Priest is greatly appreciated. NB: If paying by cheque, please make cheque payable to Teach na Sagart. Míle buíochas for your great generosity and support throughout the year.
Diocesan Collection for the Needs of The Holy Land will be taken up next weekend, January 11th/12th as a second collection, after communion.
Pilgrimage to Lourdes/Oilithreacht na Gaeltachta Sept 14th – 19th 2025. 5 nights from Cork Airport. Costas: €969pps. Deposit €350. Booking forms are available at the back of the Churches. Please return with your deposit to the Parish Office.
Pope’s Intention for January
For the Right to an Education: Let us pray for migrants, refugees and those affected by war, that their right to an education, which is necessary to build a better world, might always be respected.
Songs of Praise with Michael Fitzgerald and others, St Mary’s Church, Monday, January 6th 6.00pm – 7.00pm. Fáilte roimh chách/All Welcome.
Tap to Donate terminals are located at the back of St Mary’s Church. Machines are programmed to donate €5 to the Parish each time they are used.
Parish Office at the Presbytery, Dingle. Office Hours: Tuesday: 9.30am-12.30pm.
Wednesday: 9.30am-12.30pm.
Thursday: 9.30am-12.30pm.
Parish Office: Tel.:066 9151208.
A range of new religious books are on the bookstand of St Mary’s Church.
Christmas Crib Appeal 2024 – This year your Crib donations will go to the Cara Project in Kenya. Two students from Pobalscoil Chorca Dhuibhne, will be going to Kenya in February to work in an Orphanage there. Received to date: €685.
A Prayer for the New Year
As we begin a new year,
we wonder what it holds for us.
Let us put our hand in the hand of Christ, our Brother;
that will be better than a light,
and safer than a known way.
Lord, give us the kind of faith
that will enable us to live out joyfully
the mystery of our fragile human condition, which sees us suspended
between earth and heaven,
between time and eternity,
between nothingness and infinity
Prayer: Mayyou hitch your wagon to a star, a star of hope, the star of Bethlehem. May you not be afraid of the darkness of the world because Jesus is the light of the world. And when your earthly journey is over, may Christ welcome you into his heavenly kingdom.
Wishing all a very Happy, Joyful and Peaceful New Year. Áthbliain faoi shéan is faoi mhaise daoibh go léir.