Servers Ardrahan Dec 7th St Clare 8th St Nicholas 14th St Colman

15th St Tiernan 21st St Brendan 22nd St Flannan 28th St Kevin

Castledaly Dec St Attracta

Kilchreest Dec Our Lady & St Colman

Ministers of the Eucharist

Ardrahan Sat Tom O’Doherty & Pat Murphy

Sun Annette Nelly & John Andrews

Castledaly Dec Michael Nash & Evelyn Shevlin

Kilchreest Dec Martin Fahy

Readers Ardrahan Dec 7th Mary Roche 14th Raymond Connolly

Sun Eadaoin Gardiner 15th Helena Tarpey

Castledaly Dec Gerry Mulkern & Tony Flaherty

Kilchreest Dec Mary Davidson

Altar Society

Castledaly Dec Lilly Connors & Anne Burke

kilchreest Dec Rita Geraghty & Maria Geraghty

Collectors Castledaly Dec Tommy Fahy & Sean Connors

The Parish of Ardrahan The Parish of Kilchreest

Facebook—Ardrahan Kilchreest www.ardrahan-kilchreest.com

Items for newsletter to be in by 12.00 noon on Friday

Web Site -

www.ardrahan-kilchreest.com

email: kaparishes@gmail.com

Fr. Joseph Roche PP 091-840859/635164, 087-9822156 Masses for the Parish of Kilchreest

Castledaly - Sat 7.30pm

Kilchreest - Sun 12.00noon Masses for the Parish of Ardrahan :

Saturday 6.00pm / Sunday 10.30am Weekday Mass Ardrahan

9.00am Mon-Tue - Thur - Fri Fr. Joe will be off on Wednesday

Phone 635164/840859

at these times for Baptism,

Anniversaries Weddings

Baptism To be held on the 1st and 3rd weekend

in Ardrahan 2nd & 4th weekend in

Kilchreest \Castledaly

No Mass may be offered after 4.30pm

on Saturday other then the Saturday

Vigil at 6pm/7.30pm.

No extra Masses on Sunday with the

exception of a funeral.

Anniversaries

8th December 2019 2nd of Advent

Office Hours Monday 10.00am—3pm

Friday 10.00am—3pm

Weekly Offerings

Ardrahan € Kilchreest € Dev €Thank You

Ardrahan Sat 7th Dec 06.00pm

John, James & Josephine Kelleher

Mary & PJ Murray

Anne & Michael Donohue

Castledaly 7th Dec 7.30pm

John & Imelda Clarke

Padraig Daly

Yvonne Cocks & Patrick Cocks

Martin Flaherty

John Murray & Deceased Family

Ardrahan Sun 8th Dec 10.30am

John & Anna Brennan

Robert Manto

Fr Brendan Helly

Peadar Bermingham

Kilchreest Sun 8th Dec 12noon

Betty Forde

Ardrahan Sat 14th Dec 06.00pm John Joe Glynn Annie & Jack Whiriskey Castledaly 15th Dec 7.30pm

Oliver Roland & Family Kitty & Joe Burke Castleboy

Ardrahan Sun 15th Dec 10.30am

Stephen & Nora Healy

Tommy & Margaret Carrby

Kilchreest Sun 15th Dec 12noon

Still available

Ardrahan Sat 21st Dec 06.00pm

Patrick Stankard

Weekly collection: Ardrahan €995

Kilchreest\Castledaly €510 Thank you

FIRST FRIDAY CALLS

on the

20th Dec for

Kilchreest and Ardrahan for

Christmas

no calls in January

If there is anyone in Hospital

please let Fr Joe KNOW

26, 31, 23, 16.

Jackpot: €2,400

No Winner

Match 3's: None

Promoter: Vinny Mooney

Next Week’s Jackpot:

€2,500

Venue: Yeats Lodge

Saints of the Week 7th Dec St Ambrose Bishop and Doctor of the Church. He was governor of Milan and in 374 the laity insisted that he become Bishop, though he was still not baptised. He was baptised and ordained in the following week. He defended orthodoxy with his preaching skills. Patron of Milan Dec. 11th St. Damasus I,

Pope, b.c. 304, died 11th Dec. 384, pope 366-384. He commissioned St. Jerome to pre-pare the Vulgate version of the Bible. Dec 12th St. Finnian, Bishop, settled in Clonard, Co. Meath, around 520, where he established a famous school. His pupils, among whom were Canice, Columba and Brendan, were the initiatiors of a great monastic expansion in Ireland. Dec. 13th St. Lucy, Virgin and martyr was a wealthy Sicilian who refused marriage because of her desire to be

consecrated to Christ alone, gave her wealth to the poor and was accused by a suitor to the persecuting authority. Lucy was killed by a sword. She is invoked for eye trouble.

8,12,15,28 Match 3: Martin Brennan & John

O'Sullivan Sellers Prize:

Eamon Higgins Jackpot Winner: None

Next Week in Bradley's €9500

• . Kilchreest/Castledaly Christmas bazaar on in

St.Thomas' clubhouse on Sun 8th Dec from 1pm to 4pm. Santa will be

arriving at 2pm. We will have bake sale, raffle, tea/coffee, face & nail

painting, bric a brac, choir and local produce for sale

• The annual Gort Christmas Fair will take place in Sullivan's

Hotel Gort on Sat Dec 7th from 6pm-9pm. There are lots of local

traders and artisan producers showcasing on the night. Items on sale

include Christmas Gifts and Wreaths, Jewellery, Art, Hand-made

candles and soaps, Home Baking and much more. Go along and pick up

a Christmas gift - for yourself or others!

• Open Afternoon - Gort Further Education and Training Centre - all are welcome to join students for the launch of their

Magazine 'No Barriers', followed by an Open Afternoon at the centre

(the old Vocational School) on Tuesday 10th December 12 - 3pm. All are invited for refreshments and mince pies and to find out about free courses starting January 2020. For more information on courses visit our Facebook page or see www.fetchcourses.ie

• 5th ANNUAL MEMORIAL CHRISTMAS TREE All proceeds go to

The Galway Hospice! Cards are still available! Contact: 0872433470

• Our annual mass remembering all babies who have died on or around the time of birth (stillbirth, neonatal, miscarriage} will be

held on the 15th December at 6 O Clock in the Chapel of Columbanus, NUI Galway ( University Chapel), Parents, Grandparents, Siblings,

family and friends are all warmly invited to this special mass. Contact Roisin 083 032 2262 • Galway Baroque Singers concert - 'Let There Be Light' - Friday 13th December, 8pm, St. Joseph's Church, Presentation Road.

Music to lift, lighten and heal the heart from Mozart, Haydn, Corelli, Pergolesi. With Luminosa String Orchestra, Aisling Kenny (Soprano), Ramin Haghjoo (Organist). Conductor, Audrey Corbett. Tickets €20, under 13s free, available

from Charlie Byrne's Bookshop and online via Eventbrite.ie

Ardrahan

05.00pm and 09.00 pm on Christmas Eve

the 24th Dec

10.30 am on Christmas Day

the 25th Dec

Kilchreest -

07.00pm on Christmas Eve the 24th Dec

Castledaly -

12 noon on Christmas Day the 25th Dec

Please make cheques for the Dues payable to Ardrahan Parish A/C No 2 or Kilchreest Parish A/C No 2.

If you are making payments to the envelopes or plate

collection please make payable to Ardrahan Parish A/C No 1 or Kilchreest Parish A/c No 1.

Ardrahan. Please drop envelopes during non mass times into the Parochial House, that is Sunday after mass at 10.30am until the

following Saturday evening at 6.00pm.Thank You