Dingle Parish
Fr Michael Moynihan PP
Tel (066) 9151208/087-6551902
December 15th, 2024
dingle@dioceseofkerry.ie
www.dingleparish.ie
Third Sunday of Advent
Gaudete Sunday
St Mary’s Church, Dingle.
Sat 14ú 6.15pm 1. Tim and Kitty O’Connor, Holyground. 2. Seán Costello, Dublin and Dingle. 3. Peter and Mary Leonard, Dykegate Lane. 4. Thomas Kelliher, Baile an Bhonnaigh. 5. Philomena and Eugene O’Connor, Conor Pass Road.
Sun 15ú 11.30am Deceased members of the Dillon and O’Connor Families.
Monday 16ú 10.00am Sa Díseart.
Tues 17ú 10.00am Intinn Speisialta.
Wed 18ú 10.00am Pat and Sheila Keating.
Thurs 19ú 10.00am Paróisteánaigh.
Fri 20ú 6.15pm Ita, Danny and Noreen McCarthy, Upper Main Street.
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.
- Joyce Martin, Holyground.
Sun ú 11.30am Deceased members of the Barrett Family, Ballybowler.
Confessions: Friday after the 6.15pm Mass.
Saturday 21st: 2.30pm – 4.00pm.
Rotas: Next Week: St Mary’s: Euch.
Mins: 6.15pm Elaine O’Connor, Gobnait Uí Chonchúir and Tracey Sheehy. 11:30am Ann Curran and James Devane. Readers: 6.15pm: Micheál Ó Conchúir. 11.30am: Tommy McCarthy. Cleaners Team 2.
Naomh Eoin Baiste, Lios Póil
Sun 15ú 10.00am Seán Brosnan, Doonties.
Naomh Caitlín, Fionn Trá
Sat 21ú 7.30in Páidí Ó Sé, Ard a’ Bhóthair.
Rota: Next Week: Min Eoc: Joan Uí Shé. Léitheoir: Muintir Uí Shé.
Thought for the day: “What then should we do?” is both obvious and pertinent. In the maelstrom of life, it is good to stand back and discern what is being asked of me in the many contexts of life: family member, spouse, parent, disciple, leader, pastor, evangeliser and so forth. In these different roles, how should I be, what should I do so as to enable others too to fulfil their own callings, as family member, spouse etc. As in the teaching of John the Baptism, our responses are authentic only if they are practical, down-to-earth and real.
Prayer: Help me, Lord, to recognise in the everyday what you desire of me. Help me to see what are the practical steps I can take from today onwards so as to be a better disciple of your son, Jesus, the coming one, whom John proclaims today to all who would listen.
Pope Francis on X: Many wars, driven by insatiable greed for raw materials and money, fuel a weaponized economy that thrives on instability and corruption. What a scandal and hypocrisy: people are killed while the commerce that causes this violence and death continues to flourish!
Dingle New Music Choir and Orchestra will have their Christmas concert in St Mary’s Church, Friday, December 20th at 8.00pm. Tickets €15 from Walsh’s and Grogan’s Pharmacies.
The theme of this year’s Irish Catholic Bishops Conference Digital Advent Calendar is ‘Hope’. The digital Advent calendar reflects on the hope that Christ brings to the world, while also preparing for the upcoming Holy Jubilee Year in 2025. www.catholicbishops.ie/adventcalendar/
Offertory Collection: €1,127.00.
Priest on duty this Sunday:
Fr Eoghan Ó Cadhla 087-6951318
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: 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 Cards, packs of 6 (€5) and Christmas Mass Bouquet Cards and Mass Cards are now available from the Parish Office.
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. 2 students from Pobalscoil Corcha Dhuibhne, will be going to Kenya in February to work in an Orphanage.
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.
Munster Dioceses “Seeds of Hope” Conference. An initiative of the dioceses of Kerry, Limerick, Killaloe, Cashel and Emily. This biodiversity conference will take place on Saturday 25th Jan 2025 in Springfort Hotel, Mallow. Further details from your parish office, and www.dioceseofkerry.ie
Pobalscoil Chorca Dhuibhne
Teagascóirí Aos Oideachais ag teastáil
Adult Education Tutors required. Déan teagmháil ar 087-7951743 nó sf@pcd07.ie
Folúntas/Vacancy – Scéim Sóisialta Tuaithe Corca Dhuibhne. Tá saoiste á lorg ag Údarás na Gaeltachta don Scéim Sóisialta Tuaithe i gCorca Dhuibhne (Rural Social Scheme Supervisor Vacancy). Gach eolas ar https://www.pobal.ie/programmes/rural-social-scheme. Seol d’iarratais, mar aon le CV go dtí foluntais@udaras.ie, roimh 5.00in, Déardaoin, 20ú Nollaig 2024.