Vigil Mass Saturday : 4:30 pm
Sunday Mass : 9.30 am

Weekdays Masses:  Tuesday 12.00 Noon;  Wednesday  12.00 Noon;  Friday 12.00 Noon.
Note: There is Mass on Thursdays  12.00 Noon  at Loretto Convent on Abbey Road.
Holy Days of Obligation: 12.00 Noon and 7.00 Pm Mass in the parish.

RECONCILIATION (CONFESSION)    –  Saturdays at 10.00  – 10.30 am. Alternatively, you can ring the presbytery and arrange or a private confession. You may also send an email seeking an appointment for confession.

Exposition and Rosary:  Saturdays 10 – 10.30 am. This usually ends with Benediction at 10.30 am- ish. 

ACCESSIBILITY of the Church

The Church is open for private prayers from 10.00 am to 6.00 pm daily.   The church has a loop system for the hard-of-hearing. Bulletins are available including aids to prayer, help yourself with copies displayed in the porch. Please leave a donation of any amount  if you can afford it.

There is wheel chair access in Church.

 

MASS  INTENTIONS

To arrange for a Mass to be said for a particular intention contact the parish office, send email, deliver by hand or drop your intention and offering at the sacristy. See details in the newsletter.

One part of Catholic culture that is sometimes hard to understand and very often misunderstood is the custom of offering Mass intentions.

When a priest celebrates Mass each day, he offers each celebration of the Eucharist for a particular person, or intention. By doing so he applies special graces from God upon that person or intention.

Similar to how we are able to intercede for others by our personal prayers, the Church is able to intercede for us through the celebration of the Mass. However, since the Eucharist is the “source and summit of the Christian life” the Mass possess a power that our personal prayers do not. The practice of offering Mass for particular intentions is an ancient one, dating back to the early Church. The Canon Law is very clear on this: “In accord with the approved practice of the Church, any priest celebrating or concelebrating is permitted to receive an offering to apply the Mass for a specific intention” (Can. 945 §1).”  Furthermore, it continues by saying, “The Christian faithful who give an offering to apply the Mass for their intention contribute to the good of the Church and by that offering share its concern to support its ministers and works” (945 §2).

 

Prayers

CONFIRMATION PRAYER
Spirit of God, grant me:
The gift of wisdom
To see the world through your eyes,
The gift of counsel
To make difficult decisions,
The gifts of knowledge and understanding
To use my mind to know you and to love you,
The gift of fortitude
To have the courage to live in the faith
Despite the difficulties and disappointments,
The gift of piety
To be able to express my special love
And commitment to you,
And the right kind of awesome fear
That makes me pause to wonder and revere
God’s Love.
Amen.

A DAILY PRAYER FOR YOUR CONFIRMATION
O God, I pray that you give me a right heart,
that I may come to know you in Jesus.
Lead me to know the sinfulness of my own heart,
and your great love for me,
in Christ Jesus.
Help those who teach me,
to give me the teaching I need.
Grant that, on my Confirmation Day,
I may be ready to give myself to be your faithful
soldier
and servant to my life’s end;
Through Jesus Christ our Lord.
Amen.

LORD’S PRAYER
Our Father who art in Heaven,
Hallowed be thy name;
Thy kingdom come
Thy will be done
On earth as it is in heaven.
Give us this day our daily bread;
And forgive us our trespasses
As we forgive those who trespass against us;
And lead us not into temptation,
But deliver us from evil. Amen

HAIL MARY
Hail Mary, full of grace, the LORD is with thee,
blessed are you among all women and blessed is
the fruit of your womb, Jesus, Holy Mary, mother
of God, pray for us sinners now and in the hour of
our death.

HAIL HOLY QUEEN
Hail, holy Queen, Mother of mercy, hail, our life,
our sweetness and our hope. To thee do we cry,
poor banished children of Eve: to thee do we send
up our sighs, mourning and weeping in this vale of
tears. Turn then, most gracious Advocate, thine
eyes of mercy toward us, and after this our exile,
show unto us the blessed fruit of thy womb, Jesus,
O merciful, O loving, O sweet Virgin Mary! Amen.

GLORY BE
Glory be to the Father, and to the Son, and to the
Holy Spirit, as it was in the beginning, is now, and
ever shall be, world without end. Amen.

APOSTLES CREED
I believe in God the Father Almighty, Creator of
Heaven and earth,
and in Jesus Christ, His only Son, our Lord, Who
was conceived by
the Holy Spirit, born of the Virgin Mary, suffered
under Pontius Pilate,
was crucified, died, and was buried.
He descended into Hell; the third day He arose
again from the dead;
He ascended into Heaven and is seated at the
right hand of God
the Father Almighty, from thence He shall come
to judge the living and the dead.
I believe in the Holy Spirit, the Holy Catholic
Church,
the Communion of Saints, the forgiveness of sins,
the resurrection of the body, and life everlasting.
Amen.

FATIMA PRAYER
O my Jesus, forgive us our sins.
Save us from the fires of hell,
lead all souls to heaven
especially those
in most need of thy mercy.