| Eight Sunday in Ordinary Time > C Day of Prayer for Temperance 23rd February 2025 Parish Office: Mon-Thurs: 10am-2pm; Fri: 10am-1.30pm Contact: 062 52727 / secretary@stmichaelsparishtipperary.ie |
Recently Deceased:
- Michael Lyons, Glenview Square, Tipperary Town;
- Patrick (Patsy) O’Connell, Cappa Gates, Bansha;
Months mind:
- Eddie Tuohy, Fr. Matthew St, Tipperary Town;
- Marguerite O’Halloran nee O’Dwyer, Dillion Street, Tipperary Town;
- Fr. Thomas White, Mississippi, Late of Kilmoyler, Cahir;
Anniversaries: Breda Whelan; Bob Sweeney; Christy Hayes; John J. Kelly; Margaret Kiely; Paddy O’Donnell; Fr. James Power; Ann Greene; Zinda O’Callaghan; John Devereux; Joseph & Kathleen O’Halloran; Ned & Patsy Bourke; Shiela O’Ryan; Bill & Sarah McCormack; Tommy Power; Mary & Ned (Musk) Hennessey; Dec’d members of Hennessey family; James O’Halloran; Thomas Cronin; Nicholas (Nicky) Cooney; Alice Kenneally; D.J. Treacy; Phylis Oakley; Nora Butler; Mary Cremins; Patricia Hoey (nee Cartlidge); Eileen Ellard; Peggy Meehan; Maura Quirke & her sister Angie; Margaret O’Brien; David Hickey; Denis & Mary McCormack; Eddie & Helen O’Dwyer; Joan Quinn;
Thank You: the Weekly Envelope and Donations in the Collection Box for W/E February 23rd was €2,410. Thanks also to those who regularly contribute online at stmichaelsparishtipperary.ie.
Lotto Results: 26th February: 12, 15, 16, 27: No Jackpot winner. The €50 Lucky Dip Winner: Alice Cummins. The Jackpot is €5,000. Thanks to the many who continue to support the parish Lotto each week. New members are always welcome. To join: go to stmichaelsparishtipperary.ie and press the Lotto Button.
Ash Wednesday: 5th March – The beginning of Lent. Mass in St. Michael’s Church with blessing and distribution of Ashes at 10.15am & 7.00pm.
Trócaire Boxes: Trócaire’s annual appeal to help with the most disadvantaged of the world takes place during Lent. The Trocaire Boxes are available at the back of the church and it would be great to have one in every home during this holy season as a reminder to be generous to the needy.
Lenten Clergy Collection: at all masses next weekend 8th/9th March for the priests of the diocese. This is the first of five Clergy collections this year. The target for Tipperary Parish is €103,000. The envelope for this collection is in your Envelope Collection Box. Also envelopes will be available at the back of the church. Cheques to be made payable to St. Michael’s Church.
Holy Face Devotions: on Shrove Tuesday, March 4th @ 4pm in St. Michael’s Church. Booklets, beads & medals available.
Knockanrawley Resource Centre: Singing & Dancing every Wednesday from 12 noon – 2pm. All are welcome to attend.
Pro-Life: would like to thank everyone who contributed so generously to their collection.
Lentem Reflection: n the readings during Lent there is a great consciousness of our sinfulness, as we pray ‘Have mercy on us’, O Lord, for we have sinned’. There is also a sense that the time to repent and turn back is now. The Gospel tells us how to approach that renewal of our lives. It puts before us the remedy in prayer, fasting and almsgiving. These three strands of Lenten observance are as ancient as Christianity itself. There is no substitute for them. ‘Fasting is the soul of prayer, mercy is the lifeblood of fasting. If we have not all three together, we have nothing’. St. Peter Chrysologus.
Laudato Deum ‘…The reality is that a low, richer percentage of the planet contaminates more than the poorest 50% of the total world population, and that per capita emissions of the richer countries are far greater than those of the poorer ones…’ Pope Francis …. Laudato Deum#9