Fifth Sunday of Lent
Saturday 21st Church of the Immaculate Conception, Ballygawley 7pm*
Sunday 22nd St Matthew’s Church, Garvaghey 11am
Briege Buckley First Anniversary
Tuesday 24th St Mary’s Church 10am
First Confession St Mary’s PS
Tuesday 24th Church of the Immaculate Conception 7pm
John McKenna First Anniversary
Wednesday 25th St Mary’s Church 10am
Mary & Hugh Herron, Patrick & Roseanne Tierney
Thursday 26th St Malachy’s Church 7pm
Friday 27th St Matthew’s Church 10am
Saturday 28th Church of the Immaculate Conception, Beragh – wedding
Palm Sunday of the Lord’s Passion
Saturday 28th St Malachy’s Church, Ballymacilroy 7pm
Sean Somerville, Frank McAnenly, Joe & Mary Gavin, Kathleen McKay, Eamon Kelly, Michael, Alice, Margaret Early & Dec Fam.
Sunday 29th St Mary’s Church, Dunmoyle 11am
Gormley Family
Sunday 29th Holy Trinity Church Cookstown 12noon Sean Mullin First Anniversary
Holy Tuesday 31st Church of the Immaculate Conception 7pm
Shane Colhoun First Anniversary
Spy Wednesday 1st April St Mary’s Church 10am
Chrism Mass on Wednesday, 1st April 7p.m. in St Patrick’s Cathedral, Armagh
Easter Triduum will be celebrated in the Church of the Immaculate Conception*
Holy Thursday Mass of the Lord’s Supper 7pm
Good Friday Solemn Passion 3pm
Good Friday Stations of the Cross 7pm
Easter Vigil of the Lord’s Resurrection 7pm
The Lord is Risen. Alleluia! Alleluia! Alleluia!
Easter Sunday Mass of the Resurrection 11am Altar Glen
Readers and Eucharistic Ministers for Triduum – please contact Fr M to sign up.
Trocaire money can be left in Churches during Holy Week – only when a liturgy is being celebrated.
If possible, please convert coins to notes! Thank you.
Sacrament of Reconciliation: every Saturday 21st/28th evening during Lent after Mass. Also, on Palm Sunday evening 7pm in Beragh – Church of the Immaculate Conception.
Lately deceased: Rose Douglas, James & Emmett Grimes, Fr PJ Gormley (SMA, St Ciaran’s College Peregrini), Anna Mary Flanagan, Shane McEvoy
St Patrick’s Day Mass Monday – thank you to the Parish Pastoral Council for organising the Irish Dancers, Readers, Gift Carriers, Offertory Procession – it was a great celebration! Hail glorious St Patrick!
Sacrament of Baptism: we welcome into the Errigal Ciaran faith community Rían Pascal Donnelly
who was Baptised recently.
Parish Finance Committee meeting Monday23rd March.
Spring Clean around the Churches organised by Parish Pastoral Council – all help welcome next Saturday 28th March.
Life in the Spirit Seminars in Sacred Heart Church, Omagh Thursday 26th at 7.30pm. Growth & Transformation with Fr Owen Gorman. All welcome.
Contributing to the Parish financially: new envelopes available.
Standing order bank details: Errigal Ciaran Parish; sort code 950224; account number 71001701 Danske Bank. Standing order contributors – please collect box of envelopes for special collections.
First Friday visits: for April – Tuesday 31st Ballymacilroy, Garvaghy, Ballygawley; Wednesday 1st Dunmoyle.
Continuous Rosary in Ireland for Peace and Charity – Our Parish of Errigal Ciaran has been allocated Thursday 2nd April, surname A-L 11.24pm -11.42pm; surname M-Z 11.42pm-midnight. Pray well!
Cleaning rota for April: St Malachy’s Church Niamh & Eimear Boyle; St Mary’s Church Mary Donnelly, Melissa McGirr, Aideen McGirr; St Matthew’s Church Regina Boucher, Bernie O’Hanlon.
Legion of Mary – meet on Thursday evening in the Upper Room, Church of the Immaculate Conception.
Congratulations to St Ciaran’s College – team and management – who won the All Ireland Post Primary Schools Dr Eamonn O’Sullivan Cup.
Fr. Hughes – buried at St Mary’s Church, Dunmoyle – on Sunday, March 22nd, his birthday 1846, the Rosary at his grave will be prayed at 4p.m. to ask for his spiritual intervention in the struggle against the evils of abortion.
Pilgrimage to Knock – Errigal Ciaran, Killeeshil and Aghaloo Pilgrimage Wednesday 1st July. To book contact Clare Boyle 07733377866 or Pauline Ball 07989950250.
Ballygawley Local History Group meeting Monday 23rd March at St Ciaran’s College 7.30pm – Jonathon Gray, Events in Ballygawley Area 1918-1926. All welcome.
A minister once asked an elderly man who had moved into the Parish if he participated in any exercise. To the astonishment of the minister, he replied: ‘No, my parents won’t let me’. ‘Your parents?’ questioned the minister. ‘Yes’, he replied, ‘Mother Nature and Father Time.’
Parish Bingo continues every Wednesday night @ 8.30pm. Lotto continues every week.
Bulletin – next publications on Easter Sunday & 19th April. Deadline for notices 31st March & 14th April. Notices can be written and left with Mod or written for copy and paste sent via email (preferable).