32nd Sunday in Ordinary Time
Parish Phone Nos. (021) 4871180.
Emergency No: 087 0956190
Monsignor Kevin O’Callaghan: (021) 7336053
Parish Centre/Sacristy: (021) 4289768
Ring for bookings: Baptisms & Marriages etc
WEEKEND MASSES
Ovens:
Vigil: 7.30pm.
Sunday: 11.30am.
Farran:
Vigil: 6pm. Sunday: 9.30am.
MASSES THIS WEEK
NOVENA FOR THE DEAD CONTINUES UNTIL WEDS, 10TH NOV.
Farran:
9.30am: Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday.
No 9.30am Mass on Thursday.
Ovens:
7.30pm: Monday, Tuesday & Wednesday, 8th – 10th November.
9.30am: Friday.
Anniversaries for weekend 13th/14th November
Farran: 6pm. Denis Cooper, Knockshanavee.
9.30am. Denis Cullinane Senior & Denis Cullinane Junior, Roovesbeg.
Ovens:
7.30pm: Ellen O’Callaghan, Aglish.
11.30am: Claire O’Sullivan, Ballygroman (6th Anniversary).
SECOND COLLECTION
A Second Collection will be taken up in both Churches next weekend, 13th/14th November for Marriage Support.
MINISTERS OF WORD & EUCHARIST, FARRAN
Some more Ministers of Word & Eucharist required for Farran Church.
Please contact Fr. Liam at your earliest convenience, but before the 27th November.
Sincere thanks to all our Ministers of Word and Eucharist for your dedicated service & ministry.
AUTUMN DUES
The Autumn Dues envelopes are being prepared & delivered to the Station Areas at the moment. Please return at your convenience.
Thanks to those of you who have already done so.
NOVEMBER
In November we celebrate three important Feasts, the Feast of all Saints on the 1st November, Feast of All Souls on the 2nd November and this Saturday, 6th November is the Feast of all the Saints of Ireland.
During the papacy of Pope Benedict XV the Feast of All the Saints of Ireland was instituted in 1921.
Only Four canonised Saints.
Only four Saints, St. Malachy, St. Lawrence O’Toole, St. Oliver Plunkett and St. Charles of Mount Argus have been officially canonised. All the other Irish Saints, such as Ss. Patrick, Brigid & Colmcille, are saints, as it were, by acclamation of the local Church, before the official Canonisation process was established. Recently we have quite a few beatifications.
This Feast, of course, also includes those who had a reputation for holiness and whose causes for Canonisation have not yet been completed. But it also includes those whose lives of sanctity were known only to their families, friends or members of their parish diocese or religious community.
CEMETERY SUNDAY
This Sunday is Cemetery Sunday. It comes during our Novena for the Dead in the month of November, which is the special month of Remembrance of our Dead. Our cemeteries are very special places, because it is in them our dead lie and await the Resurrection.
In our parish of Ovens/Farran we visit our four cemeteries, Athnowen, Aglish, Kilcrea & Ovens, we visit and pray. But we are also too fully aware of our dead who lie in other cemeteries nearby and faraway.
John O’Donoghue’s beautiful prayer/poem speaks to us:
ON PASSING A GRAVEYARD
May perpetual light shine upon the faces of all who rest here.
May the lives they lived unfold further in spirit.
May all their past travail find ease in the kindness of clay.
May the remembering earth mind every memory they brought.
May the rains from the heavens fall gently upon them.
May the wildflowers and grasses whisper their wishes into light.
May we reverence the village of presence in the stillness of this silent field.
CEMETERY PRAYERS
Aglish: After 9.30am Farran Mass.
Ovens: After 11.30am Ovens Mass.
Athnowen: 12.45pm Approx.
Kilcrea: 3.00pm.
POPE FRANCIS PRAYER FOR NOVEMBER
In his Prayer Intention for November the Pope invites everyone to pray for and be near those who suffer from exhaustion, burn-out and depression.
“Overwork & work-related stress cause many people to experience extreme exhaustion, mental, emotional, affective & physical exhaustion. Sadness, apathy and spiritual tiredness end up dominating people’s lives, who are overloaded due to the rhythm of life today”, the Pope said.
Pope Francis encouraged everyone to reach out to those around us who are without hope. He advised against comforting others with too many words. “Often”, he said “we should just simply listen in silence”.
Jesus words can help us and others to find solace “Come to me, all who labour and are heavy laden, and I will give you rest”.
RECENT BAPTISMS
Culann Bartholomew John McCarthy, Ballinphellic
Eimear Kate Brien, Roovesbeg
Rory James O’Connell, Grange Manor
Cúan Michael Lynch, Grange Manor
Tom Patrick Russell, Blackrock
Mia Goulding, Garryhesta
We congratulate them and their parents and we welcome them to the Parish Family.
ÁR DTEANGA FÉIN
Níl Luibh ná Leigheas in aghaidh an Bháis
There’s no avoiding death. Literally, there isn’t a herb (luibh) or a cure (leigheas) in the face of death.
Nuair a thiocfaidh an bás ní imeoidh sé folamh. (When death comes, it won’t leave empty).
LADIES FOOTBALL
Cork Co. Senior Football Final.
Éire Óg V Mourneabbey.
Friday next, 12th November @ 7.45pm in Páirc Uí Chaoimh.
PARISH OFFICE OPENING HOURS
Tuesday: 6.30pm to 7.30pm.
Thursday: 9.30am to 10.30am.
Phone No. 021 4289768.
IRISH SUICIDE BEREAVEMENT SURVEY
The National Suicide Research Foundation (NSRF) and Healing Untold Grief Groups (HUGG) have launched the first national study of adults bereaved or affected by suicide in Ireland.
You can find out more and access the survey by visiting
www.hugg.ie/suicide-bereavement-survey
The Irish Suicide Bereavement Survey was launched on Tuesday 5th October. The aim of this survey is to examine the experiences of people who have been bereaved by suicide in Ireland. We are seeking to hear from a range of people who have experienced loss to suicide. This includes people close to the person such as friends and family, as well as other people who were affected by the death, such as emergency service staff, professionals caring for the person, a passer-by who witnessed the death, neighbours or other members of the community.