Dingle Parish
Fr Michael Moynihan PP
Tel (066) 9151208/087-6551902
December 22nd, 2024
dingle@dioceseofkerry.ie
www.dingleparish.ie
Fourth Sunday of Advent
Pray for: Paddy Kennedy, Baile Móir. Suaimhneas síoraí dá anam.
St Mary’s Church, Dingle.
Sat 21ú 6.15pm 1. Thomas O’Sullivan, Flemingstown. 2. The Rowe Family, Portlaoise, The O’Connor Family, Baile na Buaile, The Cotter Family, Macroom, The Lovett Family, Garraí na dTor and Bridgie and Br Cyril O’Sullivan, Glen Minard.
3. Joyce Martin, Holyground. 4. Maurice, Agnes, Lawrence and Hannah Kavanagh, Boherbrack. 5. Special Intention.
Sun 22ú 11.30am Deceased members of the Barrett Family, Ballybowler.
Monday 23ú 10.00am Sa Díseart.
Tues 24ú 6.30pm Oíche Nollag
Wed 25ú 11.30am Lá Nollag
Thurs 26ú 12.00 noon. Paróisteanaigh.
Fri 27ú 6.15pm Michael and Ellie Curran and their son Michael, Green Street.
Sat 28ú 6.15pm 1. Ann Moriarty (née Long) Salthill, Galway and Farranredmond 1ú CB. 2. Martin O’Sullivan, Reenbee MM. 3. Michael Brosnan, Garrynadur and deceased members of the Brosnan Family, Garrynadur and Foherough. 4. Kathleen, Tom, Mary Theresa and Cian Bric, Ceathrúin a’ Phúca. 5. Eibhlín agus Maidhc Ó Móráin, Baile Riabhach, Kathleen Sheehy agus a muintir atá ar shlí na fírinne.
Sun 29ú 11.30am Hannah Kelliher, John St
Confessions: Friday after the 6.15pm Mass.
Rotas: St Mary’s: 24th/25th: Euch Mins: 6.30pm Theresa Ashe, Marie Moriarty, Blandina O’Connor, Elaine O’Connor, Máire Uí Chonchúir and Ann Moriarty O’Connor. 11:30am Ann Begley, Ann Curran, James Devane, Tracey Sheehy and Ann O’Connor Readers: 6.30pm: Gearóidín Farrell and Noel O’Neill. 11.30am: Ann Lundon.
28th/29th: Euch Mins: 6.15pm Maura Flahive, Joan Rohan and Micheál Ó Conchúir. 11:30am Kitty O’Flaherty and Ann O’Connor. Readers: 6.30pm: Marian O’Sullivan. 11.30am: Maurice O’Connor. Cleaners Team 3.
Naomh Caitlín, Fionn Trá
Sat 21ú 7.30i.n Páidí Ó Sé, Ard a’ Bhóthair.
Máirt 24ú 5.00i.n. Oíche Nollag
Rota: Oíche Nollag: Min Eoc: Máirín Uí Shé. Léitheoir: Cáit Ní Chatháin.
Naomh Eoin Baiste, Lios Póil
Máirt 24ú 8.00pm Oíche Nollag
Céadaoin 25ú 10.00am Lá Nollag
Domh 29ú 10.00am Deceased members of the Ferriter Family and Michael O’Connor, Ballinasare, the Keane Family, Deerpark.
Rota: 24ú: Min Eoc: Máire Uí Chinneide agus Máiréad Uí Ghairbhí. Léitheoirí: Pádraig Ó hAinifein agus Hannah Ní Dhubháin. 25ú: Min Eoc: Bridget Prendiville. Léitheoir: Máiréad Ní Dhufaigh agus Aisling Ní Dhufaigh.
28ú: Min Eoc: Marie Uí Ghrifín. Léitheoir: Pádraig Ó Conchúir.
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 Francis on X: Prayer purifies our heart and clears our vision, allowing us to perceive reality from a different point of view.
Offertory Collection: €1,535.00.
Samaritans Church gate collection will be held on Christmas Eve and Christmas Day.
Priest on duty this Sunday:
Fr Michael Moynihan 087-6551902.
Christmas Masses in the Parish
Christmas Eve: Tuesday 24th
5.00pm: Séipéal N. Caitlín, Fionn Trá,
6.30pm: St Mary’s Church, Dingle
8.00pm Séipéal N. Eoin Baiste, Lios Póil
Christmas Day: Wednesday 25th
10.00am. Séipéal N. Eoin Baiste, Lios Póil 11.30am. St Mary’s Church, Dingle.
(Please note Vigil Mass times have changed)
2025 Parish Envelopes, Calendar and Christmas Dues Envelopes will be distributed to households in the coming week. A second collection for Christmas Dues will be taken up at Masses on Christmas Eve and Christmas Day Masses for your personal contribution to the Parish Priest. Envelopes can also be placed in the Building Fund Boxes at the back of the 3 churches. NB: If paying by cheque, please make cheque payable to Teach na Sagart for Dues and Dingle Parish for Parish. Míle buíochas for your continued support of the Parish and its Priest.
2025, A Jubilee Year in the Church
A Jubilee Year is held every twenty-five years. Pope Francis will officially open the year by opening a Holy Door in St Peter’s Basilica, Rome on Christmas Eve.
The beginning will be celebrated worldwide on the following Sunday, 29th December Feast Day of the Holy Family in every diocese worldwide, and thus at all our Masses that weekend. 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.
Parish Office at the Presbytery, Dingle. Office Hours: Tuesday: 9.30am-12.30pm.
Wednesday: Thursday: Closed until Jan
Parish Office: Tel.:066 9151208.
A range of new religious books are on the bookstand of St Mary’s Church.
Míle buíochas to all who have put up the Cribs in our three Parish Churches. 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.
Thought for the day: Even in its resolutely secular form, the Christmas celebration has positive sides to it. People do try very hard to get together with close family and friends. It might help to react in advance on this seasonal intensity of encounter. What do I hope for? What do I bring? How can I/we be so that we are not simply in the same physical space but truly meet each other and are the better for it? There should be some leap of joy, so that at the end of the festivities, we are glad we made the effort. Prayer: God of all loving, bless all our encounters this Christmas. Help us to be both kind and joyful, so that all whom we meet will be the better for it. Inspire us to know when a word of witness will lift the celebration and enable family and friends to get to the heart of it all.
May God bless each one of us this Christmas. May all darkness in our lives
be removed by the light of Christ.
May our hearts be filled with the Joy of Christ’s birth. Nollaig Shona