Newsletter 14th January 2024

Holy Cross Parish Mass Times

Holy Cross Tramore

Saturday 10am &
7.30pm (Vigil)
Sunday
8.30am, 10.30am and
12 noon
Monday – Thursday 10.00am
Friday 7.30am & 10.00am

 

CONFESSIONS
Saturday 10.30am & 7pm and upon Request

NOVENA OUR LADY OF PERPETUAL HELP
Mondays after 10am Mass

HOLY FACE DEVOTION
Tuesday after 10am Mass

THE DIVINE MERCY PRAYER GROUP
Wednesday at 3pm.

EXPOSITION OF THE BLESSED SACRAMENT
Thursday after 10am Mass until 5pm
Church closes at 4pm Monday – Wednesday and Friday & 5pm Thursday

Our Lady’s Church Carbally
Sunday at 11.00am

Church of the Immaculate Conception Fenor
Saturday Vigil at 6pm
Tuesday & Wednesday at 9am

Sacred Heart Church Dunhill
Sunday at 9.30am
Thursday & Friday at 9am

 

Holy Cross Church-Live Streaming

Live Streaming facility is in operation, where you may join us for Tramore Parish Services online from Holy Cross Church.
Log in to the parish website www.tramoreparish.ie Click on “Live Stream” on the homepage when the services are on.

 

Tramore Parish Radio

Services are broadcast from Holy Cross Church, Tramore at 10.am from Monday to Sat,7.30pm Sat evening, 8.30am, 10.30am & 12 noon on Sunday on your radio 105.4FM. (It may be tuned in only when service is on.

 

CCTV/Live Stream

Please be aware that for the protection and security of all, CCTV Cameras are in operation in Holy Cross Church. All Masses are live streamed and broadcast over the internet.

 

Parish Face book Page

We would like to welcome you to the our Parish Facebook page-
Parish of Tramore & Carbally You may also access on parish website:www.tramoreparish.ie
This will allow us to share Parish information, news, prayers and reflections with you all. Please LIKE and SHARE with your family and friends.

 

COVID-19

We strongly recommended, that parishioners continue to sanitize their hands upon entry and leaving the church.

 

Donate Facility

We have an online donate facility on our parish website: www.tramoreparish.ie, where you can make your Sunday offering to the parish.
Please quote your envelope number, if applicable, when you make your donation. All contributions are gratefully received, and we thank you in advance for your generosity.

 

PRIEST ON DUTY
086-6004384

 

Holy Hour for Vocations

Holy Family Mission, Glencomeragh House, Kilsheelan, Co. Tipperary.
Third Thursday of every month. 7.30 – 8.30pm.
Scripture, Meditations, Rosary, Adoration, Music and Silent prayer. All welcome

 

Men’s Prayer Group (Home of the Mother)

St Saviour’s Church, Bridge Street, Waterford City. Every Wednesday evening, starts at 7pm: Exposition, Benediction, Faith Formation and Group Sharing. Led by the Servant Priests of the Home of the Mother

 

HEALING SERVICE – Holy Family Church

 

Last Saturday of every month in Holy Family Church, Luke Wadding Street, Waterford. Begins at 11am. Eucharistic Adoration, Anointing and Benediction. Individual Prayer offered by Parish Prayer Team.

 

Home of the Mother FORMATION EVENINGS FOR ADULTS

Every Tuesday at 7:00 pm, in St. Saviour’s Church, Bridge Street, Waterford City led by the Servant Priests and Brothers and Servant Sisters. Adoration at 6.30pm.
Each week we will reflect and chat about different topics that will help us deepen our knowledge of the Catholic faith and live our Christian lives to the full!
All are welcome.

 

“St. Ignatian Spiritual Exercises for Men –

Led by Fr Stephen Kennedy, IVE, Fri Feb 2nd to Mon Feb 5th (bank holiday) in De La Salle retreat centre, Castletown, Laois, R32N6D8. Cost €200 – includes all meals and en-suite single rooms. Call Sr. Constancy 089 – 2152307 or c.puertadelaauroral@gmail.com“

 

ST. ANTHONY’S NOVENA Waterford

Novena and Blessing with the Relic of St. Anthony will be held on Tuesdays in the Cathedral after10.30am Mass.

 

MONTHLY HEALING CEREMONY (with Sacrament of the Sick)

Cathedral of the Most Holy Trinity on the Second Saturday of every month, beginning at 3pm and will include the Anointing of the Sick, Confession, and time for individual prayer and blessing.

 

EUCHARISTIC ADORATION IN THE DIOCESE

Spend time in the True Presence of Jesus. For a list of locations and times for Eucharistic Adoration in the Diocese check out https://waterfordlismore.ie/eucharistic-adoration/

 

MEDJUGORJE EVENING at Glencomeragh House

Beginning with the Holy Rosary at 8pm during which confessions will be available, followed by Holy Mass, Adoration and prayers for healing.
Second Thursday of each month.

 

Pope’s Monthly Intention for January

For The Gift of Diversity in the Church
Let us pray that the Holy Spirit helps us recognize the gift of different charismas within the Christian community, and to discover the richness of different ritual traditions in the heart of the Catholic Church.

A WINTER MORNING

It’s a wonderful thing to think of the roots and the bulbs waiting their hour under all of this whiteness. Underneath the snow the earth is already pregnant with potential life. Beneath the winding sheet of the snow lies all the glory of summer: the blue steeples of the delphiniums, the crimson peonies, the lupins of May and the roses of June. It is no shroud of death that wraps the silent garden, but a warm feathery eiderdown, devised by Nature for her own secret purposes
From ‘The Glory of the Garden’

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Parish Office

The Parish office will reopen on January 3rd 2024.

 

Next week’s opening Times:
Monday-Thursday 9.30am-4.00pm
Fri: 9.30am – 3.30pm

 

Mass Booking

The Mass Book for April 2024 is open at open at the Parish Office.
The next book to open will be for May which will open on Thursday February 1st at the Parish Office from 9.30am.
Phone bookings taken after 10am. 051-386477

 

Baptism Booking

Please contact the office for further details 051-386477

 

Wedding- Church Booking

Please contact the office 051-386477

 

Lost property

If you have lost reading glasses or sunglasses gloves recently or in the past number of months please call to the parish office where we have numerous items that we would like to unite with their owners.

Set of Keys found in the graveyard Please contact Fr Richard. 051-356336

 

Recent Deaths

Please remember those who died recently: Catherine O’Donnell née Hogan, Valerie (Val) Skehan née Todd, Finola Mary Douglas née Taheny, Raymond (Ray) Quinlan

We remember the months mind for:  Jim O’Neill, Christy Herbert, Jack Dreelan, Geraldine Cleere née Grant

We pray for: Bella Yerina née O Connor & O’Connor family, Maura & Michael Power & daughter Carmel Foley, Laura Rogers (1st Ann), Maureen O’Leary, Jimmy Morrissey, Davy Kiely, Tom Dineen, Michael Power, Bernard, Winifred, Michael & John Paul McDonagh, John O’Brien, Jim Walsh, Hannah O’Shea, Michael O’Shea, John & Mary Mackey, Margaret & John Doyle, John McEneaney Snr whose anniversaries occur about this time.

 

Lord,
We pray for those who mourn, immerse them in your love and lead them through this darkness into your arms and light.
For those who comfort, be in both the words they use and all that’s left unspoken;
Fill each heart with love.

 

 

Reflection for 2nd Sunday in Ordinary Time

Good things take time
We need time for the best things in life to come to fruition. Love grows in marriage, friendship and family over many years. It has significant moments but often it cannot be rushed. Jesus’ disciples were invited to stay with him the rest of that day to get to know him; it would not happen immediately at the river. ‘Rest of the day’ would mean a very long time.
How well do I know Jesus? How much do I know about him? These are two different types of knowledge, like I can know everything about a person and not know the person.
What do I find out in this reading about Jesus? He is one who does not force himself on people – he asks ‘what do you want?’ He likes an honest answer. He looks into people and sees more to them, like he did with Peter and gave him a new name. He saw faithfulness in Peter even though others would see weakness.
When we read a gospel story, we can pause here and there and ask, what is new in this story about Jesus? Or what is new about myself? The gospel is always new. It is a treasure chest to bring out new aspects of the truth of Jesus each time we read it.
In prayer he has time for each of us. They stayed with him for a long time and he does not seem to hurry them. The Lord is not in a hurry with us in any way except to love us.
Let the words, ‘Come and see’
echo in your mind and heart today and all this week.
Lord, thank you for calling me to the Eucharist;
and for calling me into prayer.
Donal Neary SJ