Christmas 2011

  Parish Christmas Cards

now on sale

€1 each

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Afternoon of Reflection

[Mini Retreat]

Will be held in Rialto Parish Centre (opposite Church) on Sunday December 11th at 2.30pm.

Everyone is welcome

Please come along and join us in a relaxing afternoon of prayer before Christmas

 

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2010

Parish Christmas Cards

now on sale

€1 each or 6 for €5

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Christmas Schedule

PENITENTIAL SERVICE: 

Saturday 18th After the 6.30 pm Mass in Rialto

Also Wednesday 22nd after the 10 oc Mass in Rialto

Tuesday 21st   December after the 10 am in Dolphins Barn

     CONFESSIONS

 After 10 oc Mass each morning of Christmas week

 

MASS TIMES

 CHRISTMAS EVE: 10am and

Vigil Masses for Christmas 9 pm

 preceded by Carols at 8.30 pm

CHRISTMAS DAY: (Sat) , 10 (children's)  & 11.30am

No evening mass

 

 The Holy Family ( & St. Stephens Day)-26th - 

Sunday Masses 10 & 11.30 pm

Monday 27th until Sat morning 1st January

Mass at 11 am

 

 

 


Congratulations

Our Church is 60 years open

Blessed and dedicated on Sunday Feb 5th 1950


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Monday February 1st

Feast of St. Brigid

(one of Ireland's Patron Saints)

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HAITI EARTHQUAKE

 

Special Collection

at all Masses on Sat 6th and Sunday 7th

February

Monday February 1st

Feast of St. Brigid

(one of Ireland's Patron Saints)

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 HAITI EARTHQUAKE

 Special Collection

at all Masses on Sat 6th and Sunday 7th

February

 

 

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FATIMA PILGRIMAGE 2009

 

 Rialto and Dolphin's Barn Parishes

Pilgrimage

to

FATIMA.

 Departs May 7th,

7 nights F/B En suite at  Hotel Recinto.

Guided tours, €750 plus €25 insurance

Spiritual Director travelling with the group

for details contact the sacristy

or


Tel; 453 8750

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Parish Christmas Cards

now on sale

€ 1.20 each or 6 for  €6.50


Nov 25th 2007
Important Dates for the Children of

Rialto and Dolphins Barn

The following are the dates for meetings and liturgies

associated with CONFIRMATION

Meeting for PARENTS in the school- Monday

December 3rd at 7.30pm

ENROLMENT MASS SUNDAY

December 16th 10.00am Rialto Church.

Service of light in Dolphins Barn Church on

Tuesday April 15th 2008

at 7.30pm

Confirmation Retreat 14th & 15th May 2008

The Sacrament of Confirmation at

11.00am on Friday May 23rd 2008

in Dolphins Barn Parish  Church


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Welcome to our new Christians

November 2007

Welcome,

Luke, Patrick Richard Cleary.

Niamh, Elizabeth Berney.

and

Jake, Michael Byrne.



Who join our community through the waters of Baptism .
  May they continue to grow strong in body,
mind and spirit in the years ahead.

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Active Retirement Group AGM.

This will take place in St. Andrews

Community Centre on

Wed Nov 21st

at 10.45am.

New Members always welcome


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Nov 24th

Saturday evening Mass for

The ddeceased members of the

Rialto Football Club.


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Dolphins Barn Parish.

Following the 6pm Mass on Sat Nov 24th.

The Cenacalo Community

 will give a presentation.

Canacalo is an International Organisiation based

on Catholic principles which combats

addictions to drugs, alchol etc.

Its success rate is very, very high.


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Thursday Nov 1st 2007

Feast of All Saints

[Holy day of Obligation]

Vigil Mass on Wed at 6.30pm.

Feast Day Mass at


10.00am
No evening Mass.


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You are invited to

a
Bereavement and Remembrance

Mass

  Saturday 3rd November 2007


the 6.30pm Mass
We will remember all our relatives and

friends who have gone to the Lord

as well as praying for the bereaved,


particularly if you have lost loved

ones in the past few years.


Tree of Remembrance

If you wish to have loved ones


remembered during the month of

November please write their names in

the book which is left in the center

of the Church. All names will then

be written on leaves and placed on


the remembrance tree in the Church.


New Cardinal

Oct 18th 2007




Archbishop Diarmuid Martin expressed his congratulations to
 
Archbishop Sean Brady on the announcement that Pope Benedict

XVI will create him Cardinal at a Consistory on 24th November.

Archbishop Martin said that Archbishop Brady was an

exceptionally genuine human person, deeply marked by the

Christian message.

This personal authenticity, and his capacity as a caring listener,

 has enabled him to be a bridge-builder in many areas, especially

 in his relations with all the parties in the Northern Ireland peace

 process.

As President of the Irish Episcopal Conference Archbishop Brady

 has worked towards the building of effective consensus among

 bishops and has built up the effectiveness of the structures of

 the Conference.
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Sunday October 14th

Forty hours adoration of the Blessed Sacrament

Sat 13th October

Feast of Our Lady of Fatima




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Sister Lucia's Last Moments

Mother Superior Says Visionary Was Filled With Light

ROME, SEPT. 25, 2007 (Zenit.org).- When Cardinal Tarcisio Bertone's book

about the last Fatima visionary was presented, guests got a chance to watch a video

about Sister Lucia's final moments, related by her Mother Superior.

At Friday's presentation of "L'Ultima Veggente di Fatima"
 
(The Last Fatima Visionary), written by the Pope's secretary of state, those

 in attendance saw a video reporting on the Convent of Coimbra, in Portugal, where Sister

Lucia lived for the last 57 years of her life.



The visionary occupied the same cell during all those decades, and from there
 
"she flew to heaven," said the superior of the Carmelite community, Sister Maria

Celina of Jesus Crucified.


First impression

Recalling her first impressions of Sister Lucia, the superior said, "When I entered,

 it took me eight days to recognize Sister Lucia. When one of the sisters asked me:

 'Mother, should I bring you a piece of bread to eat tonight?' I said to myself

that this could not be Sister Lucia. And yet it was her."

Sister Maria Celina recalled how the visionary would stand at the end of the path

 leading to a statue of the Blessed Virgin, and scold her cousins who also witnessed

the apparitions, "You went to heaven and left me here alone."

The superior said that Sister Lucia always denied any talk of a "fourth secret of Fatima."

Sister Lucia would say of people who spread rumors of the alleged secret that

"they are never satisfied; that they should do what Our Lady asked, that this

 is the most important thing. When someone would say: 'Sister Lucia, they
 
say there is another secret' […] she would look at them ironically. 'If there is one,'

she would say, 'I wish they would tell it to me: I know of no other secrets.'"

Sister Maria Celina said that the visionary was never satisfied with the image made of Our Lady.

"The image of Our Lady was not how she wanted it," the superior said.

"Sometimes she seemed ugly to her because it did not correspond to her

exact memories; it was not what the artist derived from her description. It is somewhat

like what happened with St. Bernadette."

Joyous nun

Sister Maria Celina described Sister Lucia as a woman religious who "emanated joy."

"I lived with her for 28 years and I saw a person who, the older she got, the

 more she developed an evangelical childhood," she said. "She seemed again to
 

be the child who had the apparitions in the Cova de Ira. The heavier her body became,

 the lighter her spirit became."

Speaking of Sister Lucia's last hours, the superior said: "When she needed

assistance we placed her bed at the center of the cell and we were around her,

 together with the bishop of Leiria-Fatima. I was kneeling down next to her.
 
Sister Lucia looked at everyone and then looked at me at the end. It was a long look,
 
but in her eyes there was a deep light, which I carry in my soul.


"I pray to her always and I know she prays for us. There are things that have no

 need of words: A gesture or a thought is sufficient. Sister Lucia had a hearing problem.

Now she doesn't anymore. Now she understands everything without words."

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Oct 6th 2007

New Bishop for Diocese of Ossory

The Archbishop of Dublin, Dr Diarmuid Martin, welcomed the

appointment of the new Bishop of Ossory, Father Seamus Freeman

and has assured him of his prayers for his new ministry.

"I have known Father Freeman for many years. He is an exceptionally

warm and kind man who I am sure will quickly win the affection

of the diocese. His genuine humility hides a deep spirituality and the

breath of his pastoral experience.

Father Freeman has roots in the diocese of Ossory but has unique

experience in positions of international responsibility within the

Pallottine Order, in direct Parish ministry and in preaching retreats"

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We thank those who  supported Crosscare,

THE SOCIAL CARE AGENCY,

 last week-end.

 The amount collected was €433

Crosscare is in constant need of help in their work

 



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WEDDING BELLS

Congratulations

to

Nichola McGrath  & Brian Priestley

who were married in our

Parish Chursh

on

 Sat September 1st 2007.

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