Dingle Parish
Fr Michael Moynihan PP
Tel (066) 9151208/087-6551902
March 23rd, 2025
dingle@dioceseofkerry.ie
www.dingleparish.ie
Third Sunday of Lent
Pray for: Bríd Uí Ghearailt, Ní Mhathúna, Cill Colmán. Suaimhneas síoraí dá h-anam.
St Mary’s Church, Dingle.
Sat 22ú 6.15pm 1. Mossie and Mary O’Shea, Baile Móir. 2. Séamus Devane, Ballyeightra. 3. Pat O’Connor, Cnoc na hAbha and John Joe Griffey, Kilmaley, Co. Clare. 4. Michael, Phil and Margaret O’Connor, Main Street and Clooshmore, and Br Thomas O’Connor, Cnoc na hAbha and Dublin. 5. Nora and Paddy Curran, Main Street.
Sun 23ú 11.30am Micheál Ó Móráin, Baile Riabhach MM.
Mon 24ú 10.00am Sa Díseart.
Tues 25ú 10.00am Bridie, Tommie, and John Kennedy, Cladán.
Wed 26ú 10.00am Mary and Tom Moriarty, Baile na hAbha.
Thurs 27ú 10.00am Paróisteánaigh.
Fri 28ú 6.15pm Mary Donegan, The Wood.
Sat 29ú 6.15pm 1. Margaret Galvin (Née Cotter), Doonties 1ú CB. 2. Máire Páid Manning, Killelane. 3. Peg and Jim McKenna, Cooleen. 4. Luarena McQuaid, Ard na Mara. 5. Noreen and Pattie Moriarty, The Grove.
Sun 30ú 11.30am James O’Donoghue, Luton and late of Glens North, who died recently.
Confessions: Friday after the 6.15pm Mass.
Rotas: Next Weekend: Euch Mins: 6.15pm: Marie Moriarty, Ann Moriarty O’Connor and Elaine O’Connor. 11:30am Patricia Williams and Ann O’Connor. Readers: 6.15pm: Des McQuaid. 11.30am:
Tommy McCarthy. Cleaners Team 4.
Naomh Eoin Baiste, Lios Póil
Domh 23ú 10.00am 1. Máirín Uí Shúilleabháin, Garraí na dTor. 2. Eileen Galvin, Doonties, her parents Hannie and Johnny and deceased members of the Galvin and Ashe Families.
Naomh Caitlín, Fionn Trá
Sat 29ú 7.30in Intinn Príobháideach.
Rota: Min Eoc: Máirín Uí Shé. Léitheoir: Dan Ó Ciobháin.
Offertory Collection: March: 15th/16th: €1,737.00. Lá ‘le Pádraig: €1,915.00.
Diocesan Collection in aid of Emigrant Services €1,029.00. Míle buíochas.
Thought for the day: We are all aware of the fleeting nature of time and we all have experience of the missed opportunity, the moment of grace, however secular, overlooked. At the same time, we know that our God is the God of second chances and that it is never truly over. Like Augustine, we hear the insistent murmur, “if not now, when?” That future moment of grace will be just like this one, ordinary, nothing special, fleeting and yet it is the only moment that exists, the “now” of our everyday.
Prayer: Patient and insistent God, knock again on the door of our hearts. We are never really ready, a sign perhaps of our everyday need of you. Help us undertake again to dig around and manure, so that under your grace, we may bear fruit, fruit that will last. Amen. (Fr Kieran O’Mahony)
Pope Francis on ‘X’: I would like to invite you, today, to join me in praising the Lord, who never abandons us and who, in times of sorrow, places people beside us who reflect a ray of His love. I thank you all for your prayers, and I thank those who assist me with such dedication.
Tap to Donate terminals, at the back of St Mary’s Church, are programmed to donate €5 to the Parish each time they are used.
Priest on duty this Sunday:
Fr Eamon Mulvihill 066-7139145.
The Spring and Easter Dues Envelopes and Trócaire Boxes have now been distributed. Buíochas to the Contact People who distribute them on behalf of the Parish. The Spring Priest’s Envelope can be returned in the offertory collection baskets or placed in the Building Fund Boxes at the back of the Churches. There will be a separate collection at the Easter Masses for the Easter Dues. Spare envelopes and Trócaire Boxes will be available at the back of the three Parish Churches. NB: If paying by cheque please make it payable to Teach na Sagart for the Dues and Dingle Parish for Trócaire.
If you received CHY3 form recently we ask you to please return the form as soon as possible in the stamped addressed envelope. Many thanks to all for your generosity.
West Kerry Pilgrimage to Lourdes: September 14th – 19th. The Parishes of Dingle, Baile an Fheirtéaraigh, Annascaul and Castlegregory are organising a Pilgrimage to Lourdes. Spiritual director Fr Michael Moynihan PP, Dingle. Cost €969. Tá cúpla suíochán fágtha fós, má tá spéis agat dul glaoigh ar Cathy nó Eibhlín Thigh an tSagairt 066-9151208.
Pilgrimage to Pietrelcina, San Giovanni Rotondo Assisi. The pilgrimage will depart from Cork Airport going to Assisi and San Giovanni, June 19th to 26th 2025. Further information from Ann Fehan 087-2738103 or Tigh na Sagart, Baile an Fheirtéaraigh on 066-9156131.
Evangelium Young Adult Catholic Apologetics Conference will take place, Saturday, April 26th between 9.00am – 8.00pm in St. Patrick’s College, Maynooth. Cost €45 including lunch. More information evangeliumireland@gmail.com. Tickets from evangelium.eventbrite.com.
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.
Ceann de na bagairtí is mó atá romhainn ná an athrú aeráide. Ach tarlaíonn sé go minic, gurb iad na daoine is lú a chuireann leis an ngéarchéim na daoine is mó atá buailte ag na hiarmhairtí millteanacha. Tá Boscaí Trócaire ar fáil ins na séipéil. Cabhraigh leo más féidir. Breis eolais trocaire.org.
Accord Catholic Marriage Care Service CLG is recruiting experienced practitioners to train in the specialism of Couple Counselling/Therapy. Successful applicants will follow an 18-day in-person Certificate Programme. For information and to obtain an application form email: info@accord.ie. Closing date for applications 30/04/2025.
Gluten free hosts are available from the Priest at Communion time.
Easter Date: At the Council of Nicaea in 325, the date for Easter was fixed as the Sunday after the full moon after the spring equinox. Sunday, April 20th is the feast of Easter this year. Eastern Christians calculate the date of Easter according to the Julian Calendar, the Calendar in general use before the Gregorian reform of 1582. One of the reforms was the removal of ten days from the Calendar and this discrepancy, now thirteen days, between the Julian and Gregorian Calendars results often in a difference in the date for Easter in East and West as they follow the two Calendars. But in 2025 both Calendars have the same date for Easter: April 20th.
Lent: Pray, Fast, Give