The Ascension of The Lord
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
Ovens:
9.30am: Mon, Weds & Friday (1st Friday)
Confessions before 9.30am Mass.
Farran:
9.30am: Tues & Thurs.
ANNIVERSARIES 4TH/5TH JUNE
Ovens:
7.30pm: Abby O’Donovan, Clashanafrin. (Month’s Mind).
11.30am: Jack Leahy, Apsley (4th Anniversary).
Farran:
6pm: No Anniversary Booked.
9.30am: Dan O’Regan, Roovesmore.
RECENTLY DECEASED
Con Murphy, Currahaly.
May he Rest in Peace.
CEMETERY MASS
Mass in Kilcrea Abbey on this Friday, 3rd June at 7.30pm.
You may bring a chair or stool if you wish.
All Welcome.
ASCENSION SUNDAY
This Sunday, 29th May we celebrate the Ascension of Jesus into Heaven in the presence of eleven of His Apostles. The Ascension took place 40 days after Easter. Up to some years ago the Ascension was celebrated on a Thursday and it was a Church Holiday.
In St. Luke’s Gospel 24-50: he tells us that Jesus led the eleven remaining disciples to Bethany, a village on the Mount of Olives and instructed them to remain in Jerusalem until the coming of the Holy Spirit: “and it came to pass, while He blessed them, He parted from them, and was carried up into heaven. And they worshipped Him and returned to Jerusalem with great joy”.
If You…………
If you woke up this morning with more health than illness, you are more blessed than the million who will not survive this week.
If you have never experienced the danger of battle, the loneliness of imprisonment, the agony of torture or the pangs of starvation, you are ahead of 500 million people in the world.
If you can attend a Church meeting without fear of harassment, arrest, torture or death, you are luckier than 3 billion people in the world.
If you have food in the refrigerator, clothes on your back, a roof over your head and a place to sleep, you are richer than 75% of the world.
If you have money in the bank, in your purse & spare change in a dish someplace, you are among the top 8% of the world’s wealthy.
EXAM MASS
On Saturday night next, 4th June the 7.30pm Vigil Mass in Ovens Church will be for all students, Ovens & Farran, who will sit their exams over the following weeks.
We will pray for the students and we invite as many of them as possible to attend.
ICE CREAM SALES
Please support the Parish Assembly Fundraising for Down Syndrome Ireland Ice Cream Sales after all Masses 11th/12th June at Ovens and Farran Churches.
Your generosity will be greatly appreciated.
All Ireland Rosary Rally in Knock, takes place on Saturday next, 4th June from 1.30pm. Holy Mass, Rosary, Stations of the Cross & a talk on the Rosary. Celebrant: Papal Nuncio. Homily: Bishop Michael Duignan. Talk: Fr. Marius O’Reilly.
A Reminder that Colm Murphy, Farran will be running the Cork City Marathon next weekend to raise money for the Bone Marrow for Leukaemia Trust.
Support if you can.
Justgiving.com/fundraising/colm-murphy0
CONGRATULATIONS
Congratulations to Conor O’Sullivan and Matthew Broderick, Ovens who played in the winning Corinthians Football Team in the FAI under 17P National Cup Final last weekend. Both scored in a 3-1 win V Corduff, Dublin. Match played at Home Farm F.C. Dublin.