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SVP CHRISTMAS CARDS will be on sale in church porches weekends 2nd & 3rd November and 9th & 10th November. £3 per pack of 10 cards. Thereafter they will be available from Parish Centre.

Merry Opera’s Dramatic Staging – 17th Revival Season.
Lisburn Cathedral, Saturday Nobember 23rd 2024 at 7.30pm.
Tickets £20. £10 under 16’s. Box Office www.merryopera.co.uk. Telephone 03336 664 466

CARING & SHARING – CHRISTMAS CRAFT FAIR 2024 IN ST. PATRICK’S PASTORAL CENTRE
Saturday 30th November: 10.00am – 4pm. Free entry.
Want to sell your handcrafted and artisan items? Secure your table with a deposit and become a part of our Christmas event. For more information and table bookings contact 07879 867733

ACCORD (NI). LET US HELP YOU SUPPORT YOUR MARRIAGE & RELATIONSHIP
If you feel your marriage or relationship is in crisis or need a little guidance and feel that you both could bene?t from Marriage & Relationship Counselling, either face to face or online, contact your local Centre. Every year we help thousands of couples rebuild and sustain healthy relationships. Call us on 02890 233002 – N. Ireland Regional O?ce, Belfast. Email: info@accordni.com or www.accordni.com

TRÓCAIRE SCHOOL VOLUNTEERS: Are you a retired teacher or someone who has experience presenting to groups of school children? Do you have a passion for making this world a better place, especially for the most vulnerable?

Trócaire is looking for volunteers to support our 2025 Lent Appeal in the Down & Connor Diocese. If you think you have the right skills and experience and will be available to help during school hours over Lent, then we would love to hear from you. Full training and ongoing support will be provided. For more information, please call Naomi Purnell on 028 9080 8033 or email naomi.purnell@trocaire.org.

Many people offer spiritual support to a relation who is struggling because of alcohol or an addiction problem. Parishioners who wish to take a short-term Pioneer Pledge for the month of the Holy Souls are invited to visit www.pioneers.ie/pray.
Pray daily: “I promise in honour of the Sacred Heart of Jesus, with the help of the Blessed Virgin Mary to abstain from all alcohol during the month of November”.

The most important thing about each of us is our capacity for goodness. We can be a source of light.

We have hands that can care, eyes that can see, ears that can hear, tongues that can speak, feet that can walk and above all hearts that can love.

Unfortunately, through laziness, selfishness, and cowardice our light can be dimmed, so that we become shadows of the people we could be. Lord, help us to believe in our goodness, and to let the light of goodness shine. On seeing this light others find their way, and you will be glorified. (Flor McCarthy SDB).

SPECIAL BELFAST PILGRIMAGE (LIMITED AVAILABILITY) TO FATIMA EX Dublin Easter 2025, Flying with TAP airlines, Also 13th June 2025 for Feast of Saint Anthony, 13th October 2025 for Miracle of Sun Contact James Treacy 00353 61921470 jamestreacyphotography@gmail.com Payment by installments acceptable LAST REMAINING SEATS

The November Dead Lists (envelopes provided) are available in porches. Returned lists and donations should be placed in envelope and returned to the Parish Office letterbox (right hand side of office door) or left in safe in right hand side alcove of church (beside Confession box). 10.00 am Mass will be celebrated each day during the month of November for all names included on lists.
PLEASE RETURN ALL LISTS BEFORE BEGINNING OF NOVEMBER IF POSSIBLE PLEASE.

November lists of the deceased are placed in the Sanctuary where they will remain for the Month of November.
Masses will be offered during November specifically for all those named on the lists.

OUR LADY OF CONSOLATION BEREAVEMENT MINISTRY
Meeting of Bereavement Ministers in Parochial House on Monday 14th October 2024 at 7.00pm.