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Christmas Masses: Christmas Eve and Christmas Day

Christmas Eve — 4pm, 6.10pm and 9pm in Holy Rosary. 8pm Ballintotis Christmas Day — 8am, 10am and 12 Noon in Holy Rosary. 10.30am Ballintotis Christmas Week: Monday 26th to Saturday 31st — 10am Mass All Masses are televised on…
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Confessions

Penitential Service: Tuesday 20th @ 7.30pm. Confessions Christmas Eve morning after the 10am Mass.

Feast Days during the week

Tuesday 20th December, St Fachanan. Although little is known for certainty about Fachanan, a strong tradition from early times links his with Kilfenora and records that he founded a church or monastery there in the sixth century. He is venerated…
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Bible Corner

Next weekend there will be two ‘newsletters’ — one for the 4pm, 6.10pm and 9pm Masses in Holy Rosary and 8pm in Ballintotis on Christmas Eve and the second for 8am, 10am and Noon in Holy Rosary and the 10.30am…
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Dei Verbum

N. 3 of ‘Dei Verbum’ begins with reference to the creation: God, who through the Word creates all things (see John 1:3) and keeps them in existence, gives people an enduring witness to himself in created realities (see Rom. 1:19-20)….
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Quote for the Week

“There is only one fair and correct way to look down on a person: if you are offering them a hand up” Pope Francis, “A Gift of Joy and Hope” p.7.

Mass Times

Sundays: Holy Rosary, Vigil 6.10pm Saturday evening; Morning 8am, 10am and Noon; Ballintotis, 10.30am Weekdays: Monday to Friday, 8.00 am & 10.00am Saturday, 10am. All Masses in Holy Rosary are televised on Saorview and streamed on the Internet. The Church…
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Anniversary

Anniversary: Michael McCarthy, Donie Kennedy, Bea Cashman, Carla O’Connell, Tom O’Brien, Kitty Duggan (nee Daly), Florrie Molloy, Marie Hennessey, Johnny Ronayne, Michael Ronayne, Pat Ronayne.

New Parish Pastoral Council

Nomination forms for the new Parish Pastoral Council should be handed into the Parish Office, the Sacristy or to one of the priests’ houses by the 12th December.

Times and Dates during Advent and Christmas

On this Sunday (the 11th) there will be Evening Prayer @ 5pm in Holy Rosary. The Advent Carol Service will be on the 18th December, Fourth Sunday of Advent, in Holy Rosary Church beginning at 5pm. Penitential Service on Tuesday…
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Feast Days during the week

Monday 12th December: Our Lady of Guadalupe is patron of the Americas. This memorial recalls the apparitions in December 1531to Juan Diego Cuauhtlatoatzin on Tepeyac hill, near Mexico City. St. Finnian: studied in Co. Carlow and later in Wales. He…
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