Important Notices regarding Masses, Announcements at Weekend Masses & Parish Notes

St. Mary’s Parish Church Dungarvan

PLEASE NOTE: The Parish Church is open for the celebration of public Masses and Masses continue to be broadcast on 98.5FM.

Mass Times

Monday to Friday – 9.30am Mass, with the exception below;

*One morning Mass at 11.00am only on the occasion of funerals.

Saturday – 7.30pm Vigil Mass (Please note: There will be no 11.00am Mass on Saturday mornings)

Sunday – 10.00am & 12.00 noon Mass

All Masses broadcast on 98.5FM

Other Notices:

Please use hand sanitizers on entering and exiting the Church.

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The Parish Office

The Parish Office is open each day from 9.00 am – 1.00 pm and 2.00 pm – 4.30 p.m.

For Information on Baptisms please contact the Parish Office.

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Announcements at this Weekend’s Masses, November 16/17, 2024

Today we celebrate The Thirty-Third Sunday in Ordinary Time, Year B. Welcome and welcome to everyone who joins us by radio on 98.5FM.

The November 2024 Newsletter is available in the church and porches.

Retreat and Ministry of Healing, St. Mary’s Parish Church, Irishtown, Clonmel, Saturday, 30th November and Sunday, 1st December. See noticeboards for full programmes of events.

Each year the papal charity Aid to the Church in Need (ACN) Ireland – which supports some 6,000 communities in 140 countries – highlights their plight during this ‘Week of Witness’ (Nov. 17 – 24). Red Wednesday (Nov. 20) is the highlight of the week, and Catholics are urged to keep the suffering Church in their prayers in a special way.

Vigil for World Peace, Friday next, 22nd November in St. Augustine’s Church, Abbeyside. Opening Mass, 7.00pm. Confessions. Eucharistic Adoration throughout the night. Closing Mass, 7.00am on Saturday, 23rd November. See noticeboard for further details.

Next Sunday, 24th November is the Feast of Christ the King, the last Sunday of this Church year. The following Sunday, 1st December is the First Sunday of Advent, Year C.

Dungarvan Youth Group. Explore the Joy of our Catholic Faith. For ages from 13 to 17. Faith, Fun, Friendships, Games and Outings. The group will meet next Friday, 22nd November in the Parish Pastoral Room in the building next to the Déise Day Centre – X35 DE98. More information on our notice boards or its own email address: youthclubdungarvanparish@hotmail.com

The Holy Souls Novena, 22nd – 30th November. The nine Masses for the souls of the faithful departed, will be celebrated here in St. Mary’s Parish Church on the last nine days of the month, beginning on Friday next, November 22nd until Saturday, November 30th inclusive. The times of the Masses on those days is printed on page 4 of the November newsletter. Please make a special effort to be here for the novena.

(12noon Mass Only) You are reminded that the main churchyard gates and the CBS Primary School gates are locked immediately after this Mass.

These announcements may be read on the parish website: www.dungarvanparish.ie

Parish notes are included each week in the two local newspapers.

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Newspaper Notes, 18th November 2024

Vigil for World Peace

This vigil will be held this Friday, 22nd November in St. Augustine’s Church, Abbeyside. Opening Mass, 7.00pm. Confessions. Eucharistic Adoration throughout the night. Closing Mass, 7.00am on Saturday, 23rd November. See noticeboard for further details.

Novena for the Holy Souls, 22nd – 30th November.

The 9 Masses will be celebrated as follows:

Friday, 22nd November: 9.30am; Saturday, 23rd November: 7.30pm.

Sunday, 24th November: 10.00am; Monday, 25th November – Thursday, 28th November: 9.30am.

Friday, 29th November: 7.30pm; Saturday, 30th November: 7.30pm.

At the 7.30pm Mass on Friday, 29th November, the names of those whose funerals and/or burials took place in St. Mary’s Parish in the past year, that is, 1st November 2023 – 31st October 2024 will be read out. Please note that we may not have contact details for relatives of all of those or of others whose funerals took place elsewhere. Please contact the parish office and give the required details 058-42374.

Each year the papal charity Aid to the Church in Need (ACN) Ireland – which supports some 6,000 communities in 140 countries – highlights their plight during this ‘Week of Witness’ (Nov. 17th – 24th). Red Wednesday (Nov. 20th) is the highlight of the week, and Catholics are urged to keep the suffering Church in their prayers in a special way.

Next Sunday, 24th November is the Feast of Christ the King, the last Sunday of this Church year. The following Sunday, 1st December is the First Sunday of Advent, Year C.

Retreat and Ministry of Healing, St. Mary’s Parish Church, Irishtown, Clonmel, Saturday, 30th November and Sunday, 1st December. See noticeboards for full programmes of events.

Parish of Kilgobinet – Colligan – Kilbrien

The Vigil Mass next Saturday, 23rd November 2024 will be celebrated in Kilbrien Church at 7.30pm.

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Dungarvan Youth Club

More information on our notice boards or at the email address: youthclubdungarvanparish@hotmail.com

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Prayers

Pope Francis’ Prayer to Our Lady
O Mary,
You shine continuously on our journey
as a sign of salvation and hope.
We entrust ourselves to you, Health of the Sick,
who, at the foot of the cross,
were united with Jesus’ suffering,
and persevered in your faith.
“Protectress of the Roman people”,
you know our needs,
and we know that you will provide,
so that, as at Cana in Galilee,
joy and celebration may return
after this time of trial.
Help us, Mother of Divine Love,
to conform ourselves to the will of the Father
and to do what Jesus tells us.
For he took upon himself our suffering,
and burdened himself with our sorrows
to bring us, through the cross,
to the joy of the Resurrection. Amen.
We fly to your protection, O Holy Mother of God;
Do not despise our petitions in our necessities, but deliver us always
from every danger, O Glorious and Blessed Virgin.