Fr. Michael Connolly 091- 552290 / 086 - 0722253 oughterparish@gmail.com (general matters) oughterpriest@gmail.com (private matters)

Baptisms 1

st and 3

rd Sundays 12:30

Confessions 15 min before or after Saturday vigil mass Eucharistic Adoration Thursdays 5:30-6:30 pm

MASS TIMES AND INTENTIONS September 30

rd – October 13th

Sat 7 7:00pm Jackie Geoghegan, wife Nora, g'son Sean and extended family {Glengowla} (A)

Michael & Margaret Molloy, son Pa {Baurisheen} & dec'd family Sun 8 8:30am Glann 10:15am 11:30am Helen Nolan {Glebe} (A) Jack Glynn {USA} (A) Mon 9 7:30pm Nan Kavanagh (nee Joyce) {Portacarron, Belfast} (40th A) Tue 10 10:00am Thu 12 6:30pm Fri 13 10:00am Special Intention Sat 14 7:00pm Michael Waters, parents John & Margaret Waters {Aughnanure} Sun 15 8:30am John & Annie Tierney {Bridge St} (A) Glann 10:15am John, Catherine & Mae Canavan (A) Paul M OBrien (A) 11:30am Maura Walsh {Raha} (A) & dec'd Walsh & McDonagh families Patrick Connelly (A) & g'daughter Marie Higgins Mon 16 7:30pm Dick Lyons {Camp st.} (1st A) & intentions of friends&family Tue 17 10:00am Thu 19 6:30pm Matty & Sarah Ann Healy {Tullycath} & dec'd family, & Martin

King Fri 20 10:00am Please pray for Stephen (aka Bunt) Lambert,, formerly of Old chapel Oughterard ,Kildare and Pennsylvania U.S.A. passed away 29th of September 2017, age of 81 years. May he rest in peace.

Collections: Oughterard €965 Glann €120

Readers for Weekend Masses (7:00 pm, 8.30 am, 11:30 am) 7-8 - Amy Higgins: Larry McDonagh: Margo Delapp 14-15 - June Threlfall : Marie Watts: John Fahy Eucharistic Ministers (7:00 pm, 8.30 am, 11:30 am) 7-8 - David Martin, Mary Darcy: Bernie Joyce, sub: Josephine O'Donoghue, Joe Feeney, sub 14-15 - Bridie Boyce , Rosaleen Lydon: Patrick Gillespe, Tessie Maloney: MaryAnn Tierney , Margaret Stewart, Teresa Butler

Cleaning team: TEAM B for October

Parish of Kilcummin Oughterard, Glann, Collinamuck

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Parish Office open Tuesday 10:30-12:30 and Thursday 3.00 – 5.00. Mass bookings etc. can be made through oughterparish@gmail.com or during above hours at 552290. Notices for the newsletter by 12pm on Tuesday, emailed or letterbox of parish office. Please leave notices into the parish office for display. Mass Cards available in office.

* The parish welcomes next week fr Brendan Payne, Kiltegan fathers, who will promote their mission work at all masses the 7-8th October 2017. He is available for confessions, please avail in preparation for the novena for the faithful departed in November. * Contempo String Quartet will give a free lunch-time concert in the Courthouse from 1 to 2 p.m on Wednesday 11

th October. Not to be missed!

* Mission Sunday is the 21st

-22nd

October, there will be a second collection to support the work of missionaries. * Our 1

st Holy Communion children and their families will make their commitment to the

preparation programme on the 22nd

October at 11:30 am. There will be a social gathering afterwards for the families involved. PARENTS MUST PUT THEMSELVES FORWARD TO HELP BY EMAILING ME (FR MICHAEL) AT THE ABOVE ADDRESS. 1

st prep meeting Mon 16

th Oct 8 pm,

parish offices. * Beginning Experience Weekend Programme Esker Retreat Centre, Athenry, 13-15 October for people who are grieving the loss a spouse through death, divorce, or separation, Further Details Maureen 0876646896 or Gerry 0863855090 * Anam Cara supports bereaved parents. Bereavement Information Evening on Wednesday 4th October at 7:30pm in the Ballybane Enterprise Centre, Galway. 085 2888 888 * The Galway Diocesan Apostolic Mission Work Association will hold its Annual Exhibition of work for the Missions on Sunday 22 October, 10am-5pm, in Salerno Secondary School, Threadneedle Road, Salthill, Galway. * A Life in the Spirit Seminar will be held in the Abbey Hall, Newtownsmith, Galway, starting on Wednesday, 11

th October, at 8pm, for 8 consecutive weeks until 29

th November. This is being

organized by the Secular Franciscan Order. Marie Beirne, former national chairperson of Charismatic renewal in Ireland, Dr. Jessie Rogers and Mr Pat Cregg. Please bring a Bible with you. Enquiries to Franciscan Abbey Galway 091 562518.

WMF2018: “The weakening of faith and religious practice in some societies has an effect on families, leaving them more isolated amid their difficulties. The Synod Fathers noted that “one symptom of great poverty of contemporary culture is loneliness, arising from the absence of God in a person’s life and the fragility of relationships” Chapter 2 p.43