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, January 4/5, 2025
Today we celebrate The Second Sunday of Christmas, Year C. Welcome and welcome to everyone who joins us by radio on 98.5FM.
Look: An activity page for children based on today’s gospel is available in the side porch and in the church. It has activities, a short summary of today’s gospel and a prayer.
Eucharistic Adoration on Thursdays will resume on Thursday next, 9th January at the end of the 9.30am Mass.
Pope Francis began Holy Year 2025, the Jubilee of Hope on Christmas Eve. Holy doors have been opened in the 4 main Roman Basilicas. Information and prayer cards about the Jubilee are available at the Jubilee banner, in the church and porches.
The Alpha programme will be held in the Gold Coast Hotel for 9 Thursday evenings from 6.30pm – 8.00pm, beginning next Thursday, 9th January 2025. See noticeboards for more details.
9.30am weekday Mass resumes on Tuesday next, 7th January 2025.
Please continue to return the Christmas collection envelopes for the support of the priests of the parish.
2025 Parish Calendars are available in the church and in the porches. Overleaf is the schedule of Mass times in the six churches of the three parishes which we administer.
This Monday, 6th January, The Epiphany of the Lord is a Holyday of Obligation. Masses here on Monday at 11.00am and 7.30pm. No Vigil Mass. Mass in the Friary on Monday at 10.00am only. No Vigil Mass in the Friary.
(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 06/01/2025
Eucharistic Adoration in St. Mary’s
Eucharistic Adoration on Thursdays resumes this Thursday, 9th January at the end of the 9.30am Mass until 4.00pm.
Alpha
The Alpha programme will be held in the Gold Coast Hotel for 9 Thursday evenings from 6.30pm – 8pm, beginning next Thursday, 9th January 2025. See church noticeboards for more details.
2025 Parish Calendars
These calendars are available in the church and in the porches. Overleaf is the schedule of Mass times in the six churches of the three parishes – Dungarvan, Kilgobinet, Colligan Kilbrien, An Rinn agus Sean Phobal.
Jubilee of Hope 2025
‘Throughout this year, the Catholic Church celebrates the Jubilee, an event that fills hearts with hope. The “jubilee” recalls an ancient Jewish practice, when, every forty-ninth year, the sound of a ram’s horn (in Hebrew, jobel) would proclaim a year of forgiveness and freedom for the entire people (cf. Lev 25:10). This solemn proclamation was meant to echo throughout the land (cf. Lev 25:9) and to restore God’s justice in every aspect of life: in the use of the land, in the possession of goods and in relationships with others, above all the poor and the dispossessed. The blowing of the horn reminded the entire people, rich and poor alike, that no one comes into this world doomed to oppression: all of us are brothers and sisters, sons and daughters of the same Father, born to live in freedom, in accordance with the Lord’s will (cf. Lev 25:17, 25, 43, 46, 55)’. Pope Francis, 1/1/2025.
Sundays and Weekdays in Ordinary Time/Of the Year
Next Monday, January 13th we begin ‘Ordinary Time or ‘Of the Year’ – for example, next Sunday is the 2nd Sunday in Ordinary Time, Year C. Ordinary Time continues until Tuesday, March 4th, Tuesday of the 8th week on Ordinary Time, Shrove Tuesday, the day before Ash Wednesday, the beginning of Lent. Lent is followed by Easter and the weeks of Easter until Pentecost (8th June). On the day after Pentecost, we resume Ordinary Time with Monday of the 10th Week in Ordinary Time/Of the Year, which continues until the First Sunday of Advent (30th November 2025). Green vestments are worn in ordinary time, as a sign of growth.
Parish of Kilgobinet – Colligan – Kilbrien
The Vigil Mass on Saturday, 11th Jan. will also be celebrated in Colligan 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.