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Catholic School’s Week begins Sunday 26th January with different events to mark the gift of faith in the life of our schools. The theme this year is “Catholic Schools – Living in harmony with God’s Creation”. Here in Ballygall one big feature is Grandparents Day normally celebrated on Wednesday when grandparents are invited to the school to visit their grandchildren and share their memories of their time in school and see the differences in today’s classrooms.

Laudate Festival, with children’s choirs from 50 schools throughout the diocese, takes part in different venues throughout the diocese. Here in our sister parish, Our Lady of Victories, Ballymun Road local children are invited to take part on Tuesday 28th beginning at 7pm. All are welcome to listen and join in this festival of prayer, praise and song. This is an event for children, their parents and all parishioners to celebrate the gift of faith.

By now most people are aware that the masses in our grouping are being reduced from 1st January 2020. Weekend Masses are as follows:

Ballygall: Sat (Vigil) 6.30, Sunday 10 & 11.30

Ballymun Rd: No Sat vigil, Sunday: 10, 12 & 6pm

Glasnevin: No Sat vigil, Sunday: 9.30 (Irish), 11 & 6.30pm

Drumcondra: Sat (Vigil) 6pm, Sunday 10.30

Iona Rd: Sat (Vigil) 6pm, Sunday 11am

Each of the 5 churches also has a reduction in Weekday Masses.

Ballygall: Mon – Fri 7.25; Tue – Sat 10am (No Monday 10am Mass)

Ballymun Rd: Mon – Thurs & Sat 10am (No Friday 10am Mass)

Glasnevin: Mon – Wed, Fri & Sat 1am (No Thursday 10am Mass)

Drumcondra: Mon, Tue, Thur & Fri 10am (No Wednesday & Saturday 10am Mass)

Iona Rd: Mon, Wed – Fri 9.45am (No Tue & Saturday 9.45 Mass in church)

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Christmas Greetings from Ballygall to family members of parishioners living abroad and to our internet followers overseas

McCleane, Carroll, Stapleton, Robinson, Connaughton, Henshaw Families, all in Adelaide South Australia.

Pauline Geoghegan in Melbourne

The O Brien Family in Canada

The Vavasour Family in Sydney New South Wales.

The Seery Family in Perth

John McDonald in Sydney)

Greeting to Niall & Aisling in Sydney and Colm Aileen, Noah and Max in Singapore from Liam & Marie O’Connell.

Thomas Conlon, Milwaukee, Wisconsin USA, from Breda and family.

John McDonald, in Sydney, Australia.

Mary Killalee Schubert, Virgin Islands, sends greetings to all her friends here in Ballygall.

To my sister Geraldine and family in Jordan, greetings from Sarah, & Charlie

June Poole and John in New South Wales.

Fiona Bristow in Toulouse

Darragh, Emily, Finn & Eoghan in Toronto Canada,

Shay & Barbara Marmion, Long Island, New York.

The O Hanlon Family in Connecticut and the Reid Family in Cambridge, UK

Paddy and Monica and the Gregory family in Scotland.

The Priests, PPC and Liturgy Groups of the Glasnevin Grouping of Parishes have been working together over the past few months in relation to the schedule of masses in our grouping. Due to the reduction in the number of priests we now have serving in our grouping, it was necessary to carry out a full revision of the mass timetable across all five parishes.  The new schedule will commence here on the 1^st January 2020. A schedule of Mass times in the other Grouping parishes will follow.

Saturday Vigil: 6.30pm

Sunday 10.00am & 11.30am Masses.

Monday to Friday 7.25am daily (no change)

Tuesday to Saturday 10.00am daily (no 10.00am Mass on Mondays).

November is Month of the Holy Souls.

By now most people in the parish will have got their “Altar List of the Dead” envelopes. These can be brought back to the church and our loved ones will be remembered in a special way during November and on the First Fridays throughout the year.

Also, if you would like to place a photo or a memorial card of your family and friends who are deceased, we will be organising our Remembrance Wall this week, photos can be left into the parish office and will be held safely.

November is a month when we remember all our dead.  A mass for all the deceased parishioners will be held at 7.30pm on Friday 8^th November. All are welcome. The Altar List of the Dead envelopes are ready to be delivered, if you are available to help distribute them, please enquire in the sacristy.

Now that the summer holidays have ended Mass times will be back to normal here in Ballygall. 10.30am Mass has resumed this weekend and Tuesday mornings will resume on 3^rd. However, with Fr Paddy Jones retiring in Iona Road, this means that there will be a reduced Mass service in the grouping of parishes. The representatives of the 5 PPC’s met recently and a number of suggestions were put out for consideration by the different PPC’s. Our own PPC meet on Wednesday and this will be high on our agenda.

Booking time is now upon us. Friday 9th August is deadline with deposit of 950 euro required.

Contact MAP travel direct to book this once in a life-time trip. Our grouping of parishes is organising this trip with a visit to Salzburg for three nights and the high point the Passion play in Oberammergau on the last evening. See poster for full details of the proposed itinerary.

Oberammergau 2020 itinerary