Parish Office:
Opening Hours: Monday, Tuesday, Thursday and Friday from 9.45am to 1.30pm. Items for the weekly newsletter should be emailed to the Secretary no later than 12 noon on Thursday.
Parish Website: A new parish website has been designed. In order to access please log on to www.moycarkeyborris.ie.
Weekday Masses:
Moycarkey Church: Monday to Friday at 9a.m.
Littleton Church: Monday to Friday at 9a.m.
Two-Mile-Borris Church: Wednesday & Friday at 10.00a.m.
Happy Easter to everyone
Our thanks to all who took part in the Holy Week and Easter ceremonies, especially to all who took special responsibilities – to our sacristans and helpers, the choir leaders, organists, the choir members and the folk group; those who helped in the preparation and decoration of the Churches; the flower arrangers, and all who carried out their special ministries to enhance the liturgies.
Adoration of the Blessed Sacrament:
Moycarkey: Wednesday after 9.00am Mass to 4.00p.m. & 6p.m. to 9p.m.
Two-Mile-Borris: Wednesday after 10a.m. Mass.
Littleton: Thursday after 9.00am Mass to 10.30am & 8.00pm to 9.00pm. A Holy Hour will be held in Littleton Church on Tuesdays from 7 – 8 pm.
Trócaire: Please change the contents into notes or €1/€2 coins. Use the special envelope from the Trócaire pack.
Sacrament of Baptism: The next information session will be held in the Parish Office on Monday May 13th from 7.30-8.15pm. Please contact the Parish Office in advance to confirm your place on the course. Parish Office (0504 – 60018).
Training Course for Readers: Will be held in Littleton Church on Wednesday 24th April at 7.30p.m. All readers are requested to attend.
Easter Collection: Is being held again at the Masses this weekend. We thank all who contributed last weekend and we ask everyone to contribute.
Easter Water: Continue the custom of bringing the Easter Water home, and ask God’s blessing on the home and the springtime work.
Rosary at the Grottos: Each day in May 2019, thousands of people from all around Ireland will gather at their local Grottos to recite the Rosary for Faith and Life in Ireland. To sign up your local Grotto, text/call 087 2786552 or at www.coastalrosaryireland.ie
Vocations Retreat: Come & See! A look into the life of Priesthood. Saturday 18th & Sunday 19th May 2019, St. Patrick’s College – Maynooth. For further information please email: info@vocations.ie or your diocesan vocations director.
Irish Cancer Society ‘Be a dancer for Cancer’ fundraiser: Jive & Set Dancing beginners taster classes being held in Múintir Ná Tíre hall, Littleton on Tuesday April 30th from 8 – 10pm. €8 entry including refreshments. Promises to be a great night!
Youth Pilgrimage to Lourdes: Four students from the parish have been selected to go as helpers to Lourdes next June. In order to help defray expenses a Clothes Collection will be held on Saturday, April 27th in the GAA Club House, Littleton between 12 & 2 p.m. Further information may be obtained from Chris Coffey (086-6061644) or Helen Dowling (086-3403371).
Recent Death:
Tina O’Dwyer (née Mullaney), Fanning Park, Two-Mile-Borris.
Month’s Mind Masses:
Pat Ryan (Ger), Ballybeg in Littleton Church this Sunday at 12.00.
Helen Hayes, Middlepiece in Two-Mile-Borris Church this Sunday at 10.30am.
Mary Martin (née Donnelly), Ballybeg in Littleton Church next Saturday 27th April 2019 at 7.30pm.
Margaret McCullagh (née Shanahan), Cloncleigh in Two-Mile-Borris Church next Sunday 28th April at 10.30am.
Anniversaries:
Moycarkey Church: This Sunday at 9.00am: Margaret Gooney, Hillview, Ballytarsna; Next Saturday at 6.30pm: Deceased members of the Boilson family, Kylenoe; Tom O’Regan, Coolkennedy; Eddie McCormack, Clougher.
Littleton Church: This Sunday at 12.00: Thomas & Mary Wright, Derrynaflan Road; Patrick Ivors, Derrynaflan.
Two-Mile-Borris Church: Next Wednesday at 10.00am: Therese Power, Cloncleigh; Next Sunday at 10.30am: John Kelly & his son’s P.J. & Laurence.