Mission Statement: Our Parish is a Christ-centred community. In Baptism we are 

challenged by the Spirit to live and share the Gospel message. Through proclaiming the Gospel message to all, Growth in Faith, Liturgy, Justice Issues and Ecumenism we extend our love and care to all people providing support in renewing and deepening our faith. We value the gifts and talents of each of our Parishioners and invite them to use these in responding to Christ’s invitation to all of us to follow Him and spread the Good News to the whole world.

 

Saturday   7 p.m.

Sunday      8.30 & 11.30 a.m.

Sunday    10 a.m.

Monday 10a.m. 

Tuesday - Friday 7p.m.

Tuesday - Saturday  10 a.m.

Monday 7p.m. (Novena - Miraculous Medal)

Adoration of the Blessed Sacrament Thursdays in St. John the Baptist Church from 8a.m to 6.55 p.m.

Devotions 1st & 2nd Sunday -October - June

Saturday - 12.30 - 1.15 p.m.

Saturday - 6.15 - 6.45 p.m.

Every Saturday, 5 p.m.

At least three months notice must be given to the Priests of the Parish.

Fr. O’Dwyer 38350610

Fr. Sheehan 38332218

Parish Mobile - Emergency No. 07841101850

Mass for Hope for the People who live in the Holy Lands of Palestine, Gaza, Israel on Thursday 24th July in St. John the  Baptist Church at 7 p.m.  All welcome.

Vigil Miriam Loftus, Margaret Mallon, Theresa McCaffrey, Colm McCann.

8.30 a.m. Eddie McVeigh, Dylan Murphy, Patsy Hanratty.  

10 a.m. Denis McKeever, Seamus McCaffrey, Winnie Breen.  

11.30 a.m. John Marley, Kate Guy, Declan McAtarsney, Bronagh Hagan.

St. Francis - Jackie McKeown

Rosemount - Margaret Marley

St. John the Baptist week beginning 21st - John Geary. 

Vigil Denis McCourt.  

8.30 a.m. David Greer.  

10a.m. Ann Hamill.  

11.30 a.m. SHYNE.  

Week beginning 21st - 10 a.m. Denis McKeever.   7 p.m. Ursula Barlow.

Feasts: Monday 21st St. Lawrence of Brindisi; Tuesday 22nd St. Mary Magdalene; Wednesday 23rd St. Bridget of Sweden; Thursday 24th St. Sharbel,  St. Declan; Friday 25th St. James; Saturday 26th Ss Joachim & Anne.

Rosemount Care Home - Mass will be celebrated in the home for residents on Thursday 24th at 2.15pm.

Website - www.armaghpriest.com - Priesthood in the   Archdiocese of Armagh.  Check it out.

Eucharistic Adoration:  If you have not signed up for this weekly hour before the Blessed Sacrament and wish to participate, please call either of the two numbers listed 028 38334245 or 028 38337753.

Catholics who are coeliacs can receive Holy Communion from the Chalice. To arrange this come into the sacristry before Mass. During the Novena Mass (Monday) Holy Communion can be received under both species. 

Pastoral Centre Sept. 2014 - April 2016.  For bookings and more information contact Armagh Diocesan Pastoral    Centre, The Magnet, Dundalk.  Tel. 003533429336649 or

email: This e-mail address is being protected from spam bots, you need JavaScript enabled to view it  Open to all adults over the age of 18.  The organisers and past participants of the course will speak at all Masses next weekend.

Sacred Silence, as part of the Celebration of Mass, is to be observed at the designated times. Its nature, however, depends on the moment when it occurs in the different part of the celebration. For in the Penitential Rite and again after the invitation to pray, individuals recollect themselves; whereas after a reading or after the homily, all meditate briefly on what they have heard; then after Communion, they praise God in their hearts and pray to him. Even before the celebration itself, it is a praiseworthy practice for silence to be observed in the Church, in the sacristry, in the vesting room, and in adjacent areas, so that all may dispose themselves to carry out the sacred  celebration in a devout and fitting manner.

Lately Deceased:  Eva Hamill, Lily McConville, Joao Fernando Correia Belo, Owney Creaney, Angela Duffy, Mary Catherine McGrath

At This Time: Mary Ann McNeice, Jack McAtamney, Elizabeth Johnston, Hugh Boyle, Peter McKeever, 

Pedro Gomes, Bernadette Dos Santos, Jose Tavares Filipe, Ana Maria Xavier Do Rego    

Sunday 20th: M.M. Gretta Bell, M.M. Laurence Black, Sarah Grimes, John McShane, Roisin Cullen, Patrick McCann

Monday 21st: Rita Kelly, Gertrude Elliott, John McCooe

Tuesday 22nd:  M.M. Stella Hughes, Martin Carvill, Mary Catherine McCanney, Annie Atkinson, Annie Fee

Wednesday 23rd:  John Reid, Mary Campbell, Pat Connolly

Thursday 24th: Dessie Millsopp, Patrick Joseph Reilly, Eddie Cullen

Friday 25th:  M.M. James McDonald, Philip McVeigh, Colin Girvan, Molly Murray, Leo McDonald, James Atkinson, Kathleen Marley

Saturday 26th:  M.M. Betty McCann

URGENTLY REQUIRED!! Ladies, Men’s and Children’s Clothing. Furniture also needed - collection available.  Clothes shop phone 38393898. Furniture shop phone 38394219, Mayfair   Business Centre, Garvaghy Road.  Open Monday - Friday 10 a.m. - 3 p.m.  Saturday 10 a.m. - 1 p.m.         

          PRAMS, COTS, BUGGIES REQUIRED.

SELF HELP LINE - 38339639 - Response within 48 hours.

Week 2 - 18th - 22nd August.  

Greenhill Centre, Newcastle.  This is an adventure and faith 4 night residential for 12 - 14 yr olds.  For more details call 028/048 37523084

Summer Youth Pilgrimages -  Lourdes, France 16 - 30 yr. old, 

17 - 22 August Camino de Santiago, Spain 20 - 35 yr old, 23 - 30th August.  For more information email 

This e-mail address is being protected from spam bots, you need JavaScript enabled to view it  Places are limited.

Knock Shrine - Monday 11th August.  Sr. Breige McKenna (intercession for priests).  Coach £15.  Bring packed lunch.

Booking / details phone Gabrielle 028 87784964 / 07933521105 or Grace 028 87784942.  Marie 028 38851517.

Summer Scheme - 7th - 24th July                                             

Monday - Thursday 10 a.m. - 4 p.m.                                            

For ages 8 - 15 yrs.                                                      

Membership:  £3 individual/£5 family                                                                                            

Bannside Development Centre:  Homework Club Closed for summer, resumes in September.   Arts & Crafts and other activities Tuesday & Wednesday evenings 7 p.m. - 8 p.m £1 per session   Resumes August.  Computer Classes Thursday 10 a.m. - 12.15 p.m. £4 per session, resumes September.  Sarah’s Circle Women’s Spirituality Group 2nd Saturday of every month 11 a.m. - 12.30 p.m, resumes October   For further information contact Ann on 38339916.  

 

Bingo in Drumcree Pastoral Centre every Friday night 8.15 p.m. sharp.  All support welcome.  

U8 training every Sunday 1 p.m. - 2 p.m. at Seagoe Indoor 3G.  Free membership.  For more information contact Thomas 07821579451.

Tir Na nOg GFC - U6 training,  U8 training and U10 training now at Tir Na nOg pitch Fridays 6 - 7 p.m..   Bingo as usual Tuesday night.  The bigger the crowd the bigger the prizes.   

                                                                                          

Drumcree College: visit www.drumcreecollege.co.uk  Our School. Our Community. Our Future. Your Choice. Support Drumcree College.    

                                                   

Slimming World:  Pastoral Centre every Tuesday at 5.30 and      7.30 p.m.  New members welcome.

For young people aged 16 - 35.  An opportunity not to be missed to experience the Catholoic faith and meet many new people.  The festival is donation only.  Free buses available from towns throughout Ireland.  For more information and to book online see www.youth2000.ie or phone

0799598 876399 or facebook (youthtwothousandIreland).

There’s a bit of bad in the best of us

and a lot of good in the worst of us.

How true.

Like the farmer in the gospel looking at weeds and wheat in a field,

we look at the goodness and the sinfulness in our lives.

People’s strengths have their own

 weaknesses:

a generous person is often hot-tempered

and a placid person may seem cold or

 unfeeling

Weeds and wheat, weeds and 

flowers, all grew in the farmer’s field,

and God saw more of the colour and the growth than the weeds.

Same with you and me.

With God’s grace and our co-operation

the good can overcome the bad.

And when God looks at a life,

he sees the life totally,

and the bad is lost and forgiven in the good.

 

And the word of God is patience.

Let them both grow till harvest time,

he said,

otherwise, if you cut everything, you

will do violence to the field.

Lord, help me to be patient with myself,

let me know that you see the heart

and you see that behind every fault

and sin,

there is also the struggle to 

do good.