2nd Sunday after Christmas
(Eucharistic Adoration every Tuesday evening from 5.30pm to 7.30pm)
R.I.P Dermot (Der) O Connor, Ballinoe. Joan Ferris,Glencullare.
Jude Gilbert, Dublin, Maurice Holly, Dublin
Day/Date / Time / IntentionSaturday 2nd / 6pm / Eddie Holly, Tarmons Hill
Sunday 3rd / 11.30am / Lynch Family, Shanaway.
Tuesday5th / 6pm / Kitty Lavery Hynes & John Hynes, New Ross
Wednesday 6th
Epiphany / 11.30am / O’Brien Family,Shanaway
Thursday 7th / 10am / Irene & Tommy Brassil, Shanaway.
Friday 8th / 10am / Maurice O Connor, Tarbert
Saturday 9th / 6pm / Diana Lyons, Chapel St
Sunday 10th / 11.30am / Kit & Jim Stackpoole, Tarmons
Priest on Duty this Weekend: FrDeclan O Connor, 0870908949
EUCHARISTIC MINISTERS:
Week Start 4/1/16Vigil 6.pm: Patricia Griffin, Nora O Connell, Naoimh Wall.
11.30am: Patricia McNamara, Gabriel McNamara, Maureen Considine.
Readers
Date / Saturday Vigil 6 pm / Sunday 11.30 amJanuary 2nd/3rd / Laura Lavery / Joan Kiely
January 5th /6th’
Church Holiday / Tuesday Vigil 6 pm
Laura Lavery / Wednesday 11.30 am
Joan Kiely
January 9th/10th / Linda O Doherty / Anna Coolahan
January 16th/ 17th / Linda O Doherty / Patricia (Anglim) O Connor
January 23rd/24th / First communicant parent / Maeve Holly
January 30th/31st / Patrick Lynch / Michelle Egan
The Rota for the Readers for Jan/Feb is on the notice board at the back of the Church.
DIOCESAN COLLECTION next weekend Saturday 9th & Sunday 10th January for the Needs of the Holy Land.
A Prayer for the New Year
As we begin a new year, we wonder what it holds for us.
Let us put our hand in the hand of Christ, our Brother;
that will be better than a light,
and safer than a known way.
Lord, give us the kind of faith
that will enable us to live out joyfully
the mystery of our fragile human condition,
which sees us suspended between earth and heaven,
between time and eternity,
between nothingness and infinity.
Our wish for 2016
May the Lord keep your feet from stumbling and your heart from straying .
May the Lord turn the darkness into light before you, and rough places into level ground.
May the Lord guard your coming and going both now and for ever.
Epiphany Reflection
We cannot see the stars in the bright light of day,
but only in the darkness of night.
The Magi saw the star only because
they were not afraid to travel in the dark.
In a sense, all of us are night-time travellers.
However, we need no longer fear the darkness,
because with the coming of Christ
alight has come into the world,
a light that shines in the dark,
a light that no darkness can overpower.
Community Notices
TARBERT THEATRE PLAYERS - The cast are almost ready to bring ‘Diarmy’ to the stage in the Community Centre Tarbert, on January 29th, 30th & 31st. To Book your seat, please ring 087 4484924. Pre- Booking essential.
ANAM CARAis holding its monthly Parent Evening on Tuesday 12th of January 2016 from 19:30 to 21:00 in Recovery Haven 5 Haigs Terrace, Killerisk, Tralee, Co. Kerry (weather dependent). All Anam Cara Services are available free of charge to bereaved parents.
MINISTERS OF THE WORD ROTA - Tarbert parish now has a rota of Ministers of the Word, who will read the Scriptures at weekend and other celebrations of the Eucharist. Should a family member wish to do all readings they must contact the designated reader.
DANCING– Will resume in Tarbert Community Centre on Friday,January 15th from 7 to 9pm. €5. Everyone welcome.
TARBERT 2016 CALENDARSare on sale at usual outlets. Proceeds from Calendar sales will go towards funding projects which will be undertaken by Development Association and Historical and Heritage Society in 2016.
Words to the Wise
“Do all the good you can,
at all the times you can,
to all the people you can,
as long as ever you can,
-John Wesley
Inscription on the wall plaque in Church Street Commemorating the Wesleyan Chapel (1830)
The Ideal New Year Resolution for 2016.