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DROMANTINE SUMMER CAMP
DROMANTINE SUMMER CAMP is returning in 2024 and we are hoping you could encourage the youth of your Parish to get involved. For more information about camp and how to register please visit our website at www.dromantinesummercamp.co.uk.
2024 Camp dates are as follows:
Boys week 1: 7th-12th July. Boys week 2: 14th-19th July.
Girls’ week 1: 21st-26th July. Girls’ week 2: 28th July -02nd August.
SMA DROMANTINE
Lenten Reflection Days, Saturday 9th & 16th March, 10am-5pm. An opportunity for time aside to reflect on the Season of Lent and to open our minds and hearts afresh to celebrate Holy Week and Easter. Cost (incl. lunch) £38.
Holy Week Retreat, Wednesday 27th March (5pm) – Sunday 31st March (9am). The SMA Community invites you to join them in reflectively celebrating the Easter Triduum, beginning with a Seder Meal. Let us choose time aside to celebrate the Passion, Death and Resurrection of Christ and so taste and savour the New Life being offered to us all. Coast £370. Phone: 028 3082 1224 Email: sma.dromantine@sma.ie
DOWN & CONNOR PILGRIMAGE TO LOURDES 2024
DOWN & CONNOR PILGRIMAGE TO LOURDES 2024: 10 – 15th/17th July. 5- & 7-Night options available.
Please visit www.downandconnor.org/lourdes for more information or call the Pilgrimage Office on (028) 9077 0162 or email lourdes@downandconnor.org
We can continue to offer a pilgrimage for pilgrims requiring medical and nursing or personal care, accommodated in the Accueil Notre Dame, cared for by our dedicated team of volunteers.
YOUTH TEAM (10-17TH JULY): applications now open, online only. Link: https://forms.office.com/r/QsQujTcwrQ
LAY LED FUNERAL MINISTRY TRAINING
LAY LED FUNERAL MINISTRY TRAINING is currently being offered by Pathways to the Future. If interested please contact Parish Office.
OUR LADY OF CONSOLATION BEREAVEMENT MINISTRY
OUR LADY OF CONSOLATION BEREAVEMENT MINISTRY
Meeting of Bereavement Ministers in Parochial House Monday 26th February at 7.30pm.
FOSTERING WITHIN THE CATHOLIC CHURCH
RE: FOSTERING WITHIN THE CATHOLIC CHURCH. A word of thanks: ‘I just wanted to get in touch to say a big thank you to yourselves and the whole parish for all of your support, help and hospitality with the fostering promotion on Sunday. You really went above and beyond with the organising and promotion of it – very much appreciated. Sunday all went as planned and we had a few people who came to chat as well giving out over 100 fliers so hopefully we are getting the word out. Please feel pass on my thanks to Fr Dermot and let everyone who stopped to chat or took a leaflet know that it was appreciated.’ Craig.Douglas@setrust.hscni.net
PILGRIMAGE TO LOURDES VOLUNTEERS
THE DOWN AND CONNOR DIOCESAN PILGRIMAGE TO LOURDES is seeking volunteer doctors and registered nurses for our pilgrimage from 10th – 15th July 2024. Working with other volunteer doctors and nurses in a specially designed care setting, you will be part of a very special and faith filled community. For more information, please email your contact details to lourdes@downandconnor.org
LENTEN TROCAIRE BOXES
LENTEN TROCAIRE BOXES are available for collection in church porch. Please take one home.
UPCOMING EVENTS
ST. PATRICK’S PASTORAL CENTRE UPCOMING EVENTS
Abba Sensations – 24th February. Tickets £16
Big Love Fleetwood Mac Tribute – 23rd March, Tickets £15
Rollerworld Bay City Rollers Tribute – 25th May. Tickets £16
All Star Tribute (Davy Bell). Tickets £15.
Contact Damian in the Pastoral Centre for tickets and more information – 028 92 607110.
Ask and you will receive
“Ask and you will receive, that your joy may overflow” (Jn 16:24)
Lord Jesus, forgive me for anything in my life, anything on my conscience, that has blocked out your joy. If I feel unworthy to be joyful, please send your Spirit to heal my sense of unworthiness.
If I feel a sense of failure which brings me low, send your Spirit to fill my sense of failure.
For when things go wrong and my days are disrupted by countless cares, Joy seems far away. Pour your Spirit on me so that I may know the joy that abides,
Not a fleeting superficial joy that changes with my moods But the precious joy in knowing that you love me always. Amen.
(The Prayer Trust).
Recently Deceased
Phyllis McCaugherty: Michael McPoland, formerly Lisburn.
Months Mind
Joan Connaghan: Peggy Agnew: Eileen Dornan: Coleen Rooney
Anniversaries
Malachy Loughran: Alex O'Brien: John Morrow: Lily Neeson: Kathleen Dennison: Gerald Catney
May they rest in peace.