Parish of The Assumption and Sts. Columbanus & Gall, Milltown The Baptism of The Lord – January 8th 2023
Parish of The Assumption and Sts. Columbanus & Gall, Milltown
The Baptism of The Lord – January 8th 2023
“This is my Son, the Beloved; my favour rests on him”. Matt. 3
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Parish Contact Details: Fr. Peter Briscoe: 2196600
Parish Office: 2196740
Parish Centre: 2680041
Parish Email Address:
milltownparishcentre@gmail.com
Parish Web Site: www.milltownparish.ie
Registered Charity Number: RCN 20016166
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MASS TIMES
Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday & Friday 10am.
Vigil Mass on Saturday – 6pm
Sunday Mass – 10am and 11.30am.
Thursday – Prayer and Communion Service 10am
All Masses and Prayer Services in Milltown Parish will be available online.
These can be viewed at:
http://www.mcnmedia.tv/camera/milltown-parish
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Letter of condolences received from The Revd. Canon Sonia Gyles, Sandford Parish Ranelagh
May I, on behalf of St Philip’s Milltown Parish, offer our condolences to you and the parishioners of Milltown on the death of Pope Emeritus Benedict XVI. We will remember you in our prayers at our service tomorrow morning.
31/12/2022
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We offer our condolences to the family and friends of Mary McElhatton whose funeral took place here on Friday.
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CLOSING TIME OF CHURCH – Please note that the church closes at 4.30pm, with the exception of Saturday evening when it is closed after the 6pm Vigil Mass.
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Thank you for your donations to last Sunday’s Collections. The Offertory Collection amounted to €920 and the Share Collection amounted to €500.
We thank those of you who have already returned your Christmas Dues. Dues envelopes may be placed in the collection boxes at Mass or handed into the Sacristy or the Parish Office.
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The January meeting of the Parish Pastoral Council will take place on this Tuesday evening, January 10th in the Parish Pastoral Centre.
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Students from Alexandra College will be having an outdoor collection after all of next weekend’s Masses. Eighteen students will be travelling to Kolkata, India for one week to volunteer for the Hope Foundation. They will visit HOPE projects, where they will interact with children and adolescents who are in HOPE supported projects, and immersing themselves in Indian culture.
Donations to this collection will be donated to HOPE Projects.
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Next Sunday evening, January 15th at 7.30 pm a classical music concert by Ukrainian concert musicians will be held in Holy Trinity Church of Ireland in Upper Rathmines to benefit music schools in Ukraine impacted by the conflict. Tickets are free (available via https:// eventbrite.ie/e/483766196717 SOUTH, D6) but donations are gratefully accepted.
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The 2023 Church Unity Octave is from January 18th to 25th.
The theme for this year’s week of prayer is for unity amidst injustice, focusing on discrimination particularly racial discrimination.
It is our Parish’s turn to host the Ecumenical Service and a reception afterwards on Sunday January 22th at 3.00 P.M.
Parishioners from our neighboring churches of Sandford, St. Philips, Beechwood and the Methodist Centenary Church in Lesson Park have been invited to join with us for this ecumenical service.
We need volunteers to help in the Parish Centre on the day and to do some home baking for the reception.
Please contact the Parish Office at 2196740 / 2680041 if you are available to volunteer .Your help would be greatly appreciated.
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Effective 2023 we will be in a Parish Partnership with Donnybrook, Merrion Road and Booterstown.
Each parish will retain its identity, particular sense of community and its financial independence.
However, the Partnership will be a more formal collaborative arrangement and will focus on the development of a Partnership Council with representatives from all four parishes, reviewing Mass scheduling, setting up Funeral Ministries and extending and supporting Lay Ministries in each parish.
Parishioners will be kept informed of progress.
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REMINDER: Closure of our account in Ulster Bank is rapidly approaching.
Our accounts in Ulster Bank are being closed in early January. We would kindly request donors to complete their new Standing Order Forms and return the confirmation slips. If you are not already a donor to the Family Offering we would ask you to consider doing so. Bank Standing Order Forms for donations to the new Family Offering Account are available at the church doors.
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Additional volunteers are required for our Eucharistic Ministry Group.
If you are interested in becoming a Eucharistic Minister here in our parish please contact Geraldine at 0879933719 or leave your contact details into the Sacristy or the Parish Office.
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During the month of November the tap and go machines in the church collected €1460 from 153 transactions. This is split 60% to the Common Fund and 40% to Share.
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This Week’s Feast Days
Thursday 13thth: St. Hilary, bishop and doctor of the Church
Saturday 15th: St. Ita, virgin
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Weekly Quote from Laudato Si
“Responsibility for God’s earth means that human beings, endowed with intelligence, must respect the laws of nature and the delicate equilibria existing between creatures of this world.” (LS 68)
Laudato Si is a worldwide wake up call to help humanity understand the destruction that man is rendering to the environment and his fellow man.
Laudato Si can be downloaded from the laudatosi.va website.
Copies of the encyclical are available from Veritas for € 4.99.
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Rathmines & Rathgar Bethany Bereavement Support Service (incl. Milltown & Ranelagh
The Bethany service is confidential, non-judgmental and open to all who have suffered bereavement or other significant loss and who need to speak in a supportive setting. Our trained listeners are here to help.
Individual meetings can be arranged at Milltown: please phone 087 2243787.
This is a free service. For further information please phone: 087 2841276 (Siobhán) or 086 3282151 (Marie). We wish all of you who are grieving a peaceful Christmas.
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An Information sheet on the activities in the Parish Pastoral Centre is available on the tables at the back of the church.
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COINS – CHANGE FOR GOOD
Help save children’s lives by donating your non euro coins to this voluntary organisation. They upcycle these coins in order to provide a pediatric MRI scanner that will save lives into the future. For further information please see our notice boards and the koinsforkids website.
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Joint Church Community Project CLG
Milltown Parish has a Vacancy for a Project Worker / Caretaker
Community Employment Ref: CES: 2220302
Duties to include:
Routine setting up of facilities for service users.
Reception – Meet and Greet Visitors
Operation of Coffee Dock – Prepare and Serve Refreshments
General Cleaning Duties
Sale of Mass Cards
Light Gardening Duties
Other Ad hoc duties as required.
Applicants must supply suitable character references and be prepared to complete Garda vetting application form.
Apply to DEASP Employment Services / Intreo office to make an application.
Eligibility to participate on CE is generally linked to those who are 21 years of age or over and in receipt of an Irish Social Welfare payment for 1 year or more.
For further information please call Milltown Parish Office at 2196740/2680041 or email milltownparishcentre@gmail.com.
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For your information:
For security reasons we have our CCTV cameras back in action in our parish church.
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Copies of our Child Safeguarding Policy Statement are on display in the Church porches and in the Parish Pastoral Centre.
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In April, Archbishop Dermot Farrell established a Task Force called Building Hope. The Task Force was asked to assess the needs of the people of the Archdiocese emerging from Covid-19 and to work to support parish communities as they undertake a radical renewal, looking to the future with creativity. 3,000 people, mostly lay faithful, responded to the invitation to share their views. The Task Force report is now available on the Diocesan Website.
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If you are interested in starting a Rosary/Divine Mercy Group in the parish please contact Mary at 0872959518
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The Legion of Mary has resumed its meetings in Bird Avenue Church, Clonskeagh. They meet in St. Joseph’s Oratory every Wednesday at 7.30p.m. New members and visitors are always welcome. For further information please contact Una 087 2253845
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MILLTOWN PARISH ACTIVE RETIREMENT GROUP continues their GENTLE EXERCISE TO MUSIC CLASSES In the Parish Pastoral Centre on Thursday at 11am.
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The Dodder Action is an umbrella group of volunteers who want to maximise the potential of the River Dodder as an amenity for the people of Dublin.
They organise working groups to regularly go out and clean the river banks with equipment from Dublin City Council, Dun Laoghaire Rathdown County Council and Dublin South County Council.
More information on this group can be found on the Dodder Action website.
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Home from Home Dodder Area Community Sponsorship Group
Community Sponsorship for refugee resettlement: Can you help?
Community Sponsorship is an alternative model to state-led resettlement under which local groups of volunteer’s source accommodation for a family and provide a ready-made network of support and friendship when the families come to Ireland.
Outcomes for both resettled families, sponsors and local communities have been demonstrated time and again to be extremely positive.
A local Community Sponsorship group was formed in this area in late 2021 and we hope to welcome a family during 2022.
To do this we need to find accommodation and raise sufficient funds to provide the required support over a two-year period.
Please consider how you might be able to help.
For more information or to donate, see https://www.homefromhomedodder.com/
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Diocesan Synodal Pathway Prayer
We stand before You, Holy Spirit, as we gather together in Your name.
With You alone to guide us, make Yourself at home in our hearts;
Teach us the way we must go and how we are to pursue it.
We are weak and sinful; do not let us promote disorder.
Do not let ignorance lead us down the wrong path nor partiality influence our actions.
Let us find in You our unity so that we may journey together to eternal life and not stray from the way of truth and what is right.
All this we ask of You, who are at work in every place and time, in the communion of the Father and the Son, forever and ever.
Amen
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Archbishop Dermot Farrell has published a Pastoral Letter on Climate Crisis – ‘The Cry of the Earth – The Cry of the Poor’. Hard copies of this publication are available for sale on the Parish Book Stand. On line copies are on the Diocesan website. Archbishop Farrell’s introduction to this Pastoral Letter is available on this website.
Remarks by Archbishop Dermot Farrell at the launch of the Pastoral Letter, are available on our Parish Website.
A Prayer for Our Earth
All powerful God,
you are present in the universe
and in the smallest of your creatures.
You embrace with your tenderness all that exists.
Pour out upon us the power of your love,
that we may protect life and beauty.
Fill us with your peace, so that we may live as brothers and sisters, harming no one.
O God of the poor,
help us to rescue the abandoned
and forgotten of this earth,
so precious in your eyes.
Bring healing to our lives,
that we may protect the world and not prey on it,
that we may sow beauty,
not pollution and destruction.
Touch the hearts
of those who look only for gain
at the expense of the poor and the earth.
Teach us to discover the worth of each thing,
to be filled with awe and contemplation,
to recognize that we are profoundly united
with every creature
as we journey towards your infinite light.
We thank you for being with us each day.
Encourage us, we pray, in our struggle,
for justice, love and peace.
A Prayer for Our Earth was published in Pope Francis’ encyclical, Laudato Si’.
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Prayer for Spiritual Communion
My Jesus, I believe that you are present in the most Blessed Sacrament.
I love You above all things and I desire to receive You into my soul.
Since I cannot now receive You sacramentally,
Come to me Lord, come at least spiritually into my heart,
and unite my soul completely to You.
Never let me be separated from You.
Amen.
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Glenstal Abbey – Stations of the Cross
There is a recording of the Stations of the Cross available on the Glenstall Abbey website. You can access these Stations of the Cross on the video section of the Glenstall Abbey Website: https://www.glenstal.com/abbey
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Support Services
TOWARDS HEALING is a support service, funded by the Catholic Church for Survivors of Institutional, Clerical and Religious abuse. This service provides Helpline Support and Counselling.
The Freephone number is 1800 303 416 and the website address is: www.towardshealing.ie
ALONE manage a national support line and additional supports for older people who have concerns or are facing difficulties relating to COVID-19.
Professional staff are available to answer queries and give advice and reassurance where necessary.
The support line is open seven days a week, 8am – 8pm, by calling 0818 222 024
Generation Tech
Generation Tech is a free service and is run by volunteers. Volunteer run FREE HELPLINE to help older people in Ireland with tech issues.
Our volunteers are tech experts and work in shifts from 8am-8pm Monday to Friday. Support is provided over the phone.
If you need help with smartphones, tablets, social media, apps, PCs, printers, etc. CALL US on: 01-9633 288.
Aware – Support & Self Care Groups
If you, or those with whom you work wish to connect with people in relation to your mental wellbeing, please consider using the Phone In and Zoom Support & Self Care Groups, the Support Line or Support Mail, now and throughout the holiday season. These services provide support, coping skills and information – and most importantly help people who are in distress to know and feel that they are not alone in their experience. For more information about the groups https://www.aware.ie/support/support-groups/ and all of our services on www.aware.ie
Rathmines & Rathgar Bethany Bereavement Support Service (Including Milltown & Ranelagh) Offer a monthly listening sessions for those of you who have suffered a bereavement or another significant loss. For further information on this free service please contact: 087 2841276 (Siobhán) or 086 3602198 (Anne).
Individual meetings can be arranged at Milltown. Please phone 087 2243787 if you require this service.
The Irish Hospice Foundation Bereavement Support Line is 1800 80 70 77 and is open from 10am – 1pm from Monday to Friday (excluding bank holidays). If the line is busy when you call, they can call you back if you leave your contact details.
The Mary Aikenhead Centre in Donnybrook operate a ‘Meals on Wheels Service’ for our area. This service provides a healthy meal delivered direct to elderly and housebound person’s homes five days a week Monday to Friday. If you are an elderly person from this area and would like to avail of this service, please contact the Centre at 01 2698995.
Marian Pilgrimages have released their pilgrimage schedule for 2021 & 2022 to Lourdes, Medjugorje, Fatima, Italy & Holy Land. For more information or to register your interest please visit www.marian.ie or ring Marian Pilgrimages on (01) 878 8159.
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