Parish Office
T 3752 2813
Cathedral
T 3752 2638
St Malachy’s T 3751 0516
SVP Help Line T 07733 482604
Parish Safeguarding The contact persons for
the Parish are Aileen or Maura:
[email protected] or
07895 460797. Any visitor to the sacristy of any
church must sign the visitors book.
Cathedral Shop Mon-Sat 10.30am - 4.00pm &
Sun 12 noon -5.30pm. First Holy Communion
and Confirmation items now in stock.
Pearse Og News: Sunday 29th March
Traditional music session from 7pm
Taylor/Scallon School of Irish Dance continues
on Tuesdays from 5pm. Beginners welcome.
FREE Irish Language classes every Thursday
8.30pm-9.30pm in our Social Club, open to all
members, local community and parents of
children attending Irish Medium schools.
Abbey Lotto: 4, 9, 13, 18. 2 matched 3. Next
week’s Jackpot £2250. Membership now due.
Eugene Quinn Handball Lotto: 1, 19, 20 no
winner. Next week’s jackpot £450.
ACCORD Marriage Preparation Course on
3 Thursday evenings 16th, 23rd and 30th April,
contact 02838334781
The Legion of Mary Acies (Consecration to
Our Lady) takes place in St Malachy’s on 23rd
March at 7.30pm Mass, Rosary at 7pm.
ArmaghTheatre Group's present"God of
Carnage" Abbey Lane Theatre from 26th - 28th
March. Tickets at Music World, Abbey Lane.
Armagh Cricket Club presents a Fashion &
Beauty Show on Thur 26th March in the
Pavillion on the Mall at 7.30pm. Tickets £10,
call 02837524526, Proceeds to marie Curie and
Armagh Cricket Club.
Pamper Afternoon to raise funds for Little
Buds Playgroup at Mt St Catherine’s Primary
School on Sunday 29th March 3-5pm. Beauty,
Crafts, treatments etc. All welcome.
Table Quiz in Lislea Community Cenrtre
Friday 27th March. Adm £5 All welcome.
Action on Hearing Loss hearing aid support clinic takes place in Armagh City Library on
Monday, March 23rd between 10am and 12 noon. We can advise how to clean and maintain
hearing aids as well as providing information on other services available. These clinics can be
particularly useful for those people who have hearing aids but are not using them or only
occasionally wearing them.
St Joseph’s Young Priest’s Society, Armagh Branch is hosting an afternoon of Prayer in the
Synod Hall on Sunday 22nd March at 2pm led by Fr Michaal Bingham S.J. Please come and
pray for vocations.
Padre Pio One Day Retreat in Ryandale, Moy on 29 March, 10am- 4pm, £20, contact Nuala on
02837548382.
Annual Service of Thanksgiving and Remembrance for all babies and children who have died
in Craigavon Area Hospital on Sunday 26th April 2015 at 3pm in the Medical Education Centre,
Craigavon Area Hospital (main hospital site).
The SVP have been operating an Oil Stamp Scheme in Armagh since 2003.This scheme has
grown considerably and has enabled many people to save for fuel to keep warm over the long
winter months. Armagh City & District Council have agreed to take over the scheme under New
Cosy Homes from the 1st April 2015. All SVP stamps currently saved/purchased are redeemable
as usual through the same oil distributors. The Armagh City, Craigavon and Banbridge Council
oil stamps will be sold in the same outlets as SVP under Cosy Homes. Please continue saving
your stamps as usual. Lenten Food Appeal 2015 SVP continue to collect ‘non-perishable’ food
during Lent. All food collected will be distributed to people in need.
Lenten Concert by one of the Province's top choral groups, the Priory Singers, on Friday 27th
March at 8.00 pm in St Patrick's C of I Cathedral.The retiring collection will go to Charles
Wood Festival funds. All welcome.
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22nd March 2015 - Fifth Sunday of Lent
Mass & Confession times (Lent)
Cathedral Church of St Patrick:
Church of St Malachy :
Sunday Vigil (Sat) 7pm, 9am, 11am, 5.30pm
Sunday 8am, 10am, 12 noon
Monday-Saturday 10am
Mon -Fri 7am, 7.30pm
Confessions Saturday 6.30pm
Confessions Saturday 12.00-12.30pm
Church of the Immaculate Conception, Tullysaran: Vigil (Sat) 7.30pm, Sunday 10am
Church of St Colmcille, Knockaconey: Sunday 11am
Reflection
As Holy Week looms on the horizon, we enter with increasing intensity into the mystery of Jesus
dying and rising. While he knows that his hour has come and the whole direction of his life has
been leading up to this moment, his focus is firmly fixed on his passion.
Nevertheless, the cross is something that he does not relish. Facing the reality of his agony fills
him with extreme horror. We see him acknowledging the dread of the hour in the anguished
prayer: “Father, my soul is troubled”. In the loneliness of his agony, his troubled heart finds it
difficult to do his Father’s will and even hovers on the brink of indecision as we witness his
words: “Father, save me from this hour”. However, he knows that only by embracing the cross
and losing his life can he lead the way to eternal life. One of the great lessons of Christ’s passion,
which is borne out in all our lives, is that love and suffering are intertwined. As we grow older
and experience parents dying and friends slipping away, we become aware of how powerless we
are in the midst of partings, suffering and death.
In the midst of our own suffering and loss, it’s difficult to imagine what good can emerge from
the pain. Sometimes the pain can reduce us to silence, so that we become preoccupied with our
own affliction. Few of us can see any point to pain at the time – often the pain is the fact that it all
seems pointless. The early Christian community needed time to make sense of the death of Jesus;
they needed help to see that their immense loss was more than a terrible accident. We too need
time and help. Only then can we look back, like the Gospel does, and cherish what good has
emerged from the loss.
Dying you destroyed our death, rising you restored our life; come Lord Jesus.
Life in the Spirit Seminars continue on Tuesday evening in Mount St Catherine’s Primary
School at 8pm. The speakers this week will be Raymond and Roisin Glackin and they will speak
on the theme of Growth. All welcome.
The Do this in memory programme continues next Sunday morning for all Primary Four pupils
and their parents in St Patrick’s Cathedral at 9am.
The Parish Penitential Service in preparation for Easter will take place in St Malachy’s Church
on Monday 30 March at 7.30pm
The Sisters of the Sacred Heart will share a Lenten Reflection before Mass on Monday evening
and the theme this week will be Conversion.
RECENTLY DECEASED
Sean Duggan, Sr Josefa McKiernan MMM, Francie Dillon, Melie Anderson
Months Mind: Julia Magill 22 March, Vincent Turley 25 March, Tony Kelly 25 March,
Dympna Oliver 26 March, Paddy John Conlon 26 March,
Weekly collection amounted to £6271.80 & €93.83. Thank You.
All requests for prayers and Masses are to be arranged through the Parish Office. All
Anniversaries and Month’s Minds must be left in the Parish Office by 12 noon on the Thursday
of the week prior to the intention being remembered.
Counters required for Cathedral. Contact Caroline at the Parish Office 02837522813
Envelope Distributors: Please note envelopes will be ready for collection at the Parish Office
from next Thursday 26th March.
IMMACULATE CONCEPTION, TULLYSARAN
Vigil Mass on Monday evening at 7.30pm
Tullysaran Lotto 1-3-7-20 , no winners, next week jackpot £1150
Tullysaran SVP Helpline 07738838035
Community Centre: Spin on Mon at 6.30pm - text to book your bike on 07779098543; NI Blood
Transfusion will be back in the Centre on Wed 25 March from 2.30-4pm and then 5.15-8pm.
ST COLMCILLES, KNOCKACONEY
St Colmcilles GAC lotto 3 -8-9– 24 , 2 matched 3. Next week's Jackpot £2950
ZUMBA every Tuesday night in Grange Club from 7.15 - 8.15 @ £3 Everyone welcome.
Armagh City and District Good Relations unit would like to invite you to participate in an
introduction project called ‘Know Your History’. The group will meet in Dobbin Street
Community Centre on Wed 1st of April at 7pm to 9pm. There will be a 2 day visit to Dublin on
the 11th -12th April (staying in Dublin one night). There is no cost to this project just your time
commitment. There are a limited number of places. To register your interest, please contact Pat
Prunty at Armagh City & District Council 028 37529600 or [email protected]
Pilgrimage to Shrines of Italy, 15th – 22nd September 2015 Visiting the cities of Venice and
Verona, the beautiful city of Padua - famous for its Franciscan monk, St Anthony, the medieval
town of Assisi - the birthplace of Saints Francis and Clare and the site of the Holy House of the
Holy Family in the hill town of Loreto. £739 (Single Supplement £210) inc flights, transfers,
taxes, insurance, pilgrimage representative, four nights half board in Lido de Jesolo and three
nights half board in Cattolica. Spiritual Director: Fr Peter McAnenly. More info and booking at
Parish Office (028 37522813)
St. Catherine’s College invites you to An Evening of Taize in music and prayer on Tuesday
31st March at 7.30pm in St Patrick’s Cathedral.
Soundworld of Venice comes to Armagh Claudio Monteverdi’s Vespers of 1610 on Fri 10
April at 8pm in St Patrick’s Cathedral. Tickets at Armagh Visitor Information Centre.
Garment of Suffering During Holy Week, we will commemorate the passion and crucifixion of
Jesus and we will be brought face to face with the mystery of pain and the cruelty of death. Each
of us has some form of suffering or discomfort in our lives. In some cases, it dates from the past,
in others and it is present right now. The Garment of Suffering symbolises the hurt that is
contained in our lives and in our communities. Up and until Wednesday of this week, people
might like to bring to St Malachy’s Church a piece of cloth (any colour and it must be six
inches square) and leave it in the basket or box that has been provided. Pieces of cloth will
not be accepted after this date. Your piece of cloth can represent the pain, grief or hurt in
your life. In the days leading up to Easter, the pieces of cloth will be sewn together by members
of the Apostolic Workers into one complete garment. On Good Friday, the garment will be
draped over the Cross and left there throughout Easter. What’s unique about this ritual is that you
will be able to recognise your own piece of cloth, your own particular suffering, and yet
understand that so many others share your sufferings and concerns.
Armagh Parish Draw takes off!
Further to our first parish draw on St Patrick’s Day, I write to thank all who have worked so hard
ensure its success over the last number of weeks and I thank all for what has been achieved. I
thank the draw committee who put in such work over the last number of months.....Gerry
Davidson, Pearse Dynes, Art O’Hagan, James Clifford, Caroline Caherty and Eleanor Mckenna. I
thank the draw sponsors who sponsored the prize money and I also thank all the draw
coordinators and ticket sellers and all who bought tickets or who helped to support the draw in
any way. The good will of so many people in this fundraising initiative is to be highly
commended and may God reward all who have been involved for their generosity and support.
Tickets for the draw can still be purchased at Armagh Parish Office and the next draw is
scheduled to take place in the Parish Office on Friday 17 th April at 1pm.
Fr Peter McAnenly Adm
Early bird draw winners were as follows.
1st Prize: £2000: Kieran & Nicola McGeough
2nd Prize: £1000: Seamus & Mildred Curran
3rd Prize: £1000: Kevin McCoy
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4 Prize: £500: Conor McCluskey
5th Prize: £500: James Morgan
March draw winners were as follows.
1st Prize: £1000: St Patrick’s Primary School
2nd Prize: £500: Mary McGuigan
3rd Prize: £100: Vera Nugent
4th Prize: £100: Clare Morgan
5th Prize: £100: Philip Brady
6th Prize: £100: Donal Mackle
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7 Prize: £100: Kathleen & Marie McArdle
Summary of 4th February’s PPC Meeting Work has already begun on compiling a list of
religious from and living in Armagh with the aim to do something to celebrate them closer to
the summer. The Liturgy sub group has undertaken to organise the 24 Hours For The Lord
event 13/14 March in St Malachy’s church; the Adult Faith Group is launching the first of
the seven Life in the Spirit Seminars in Mount St Catherine’s school on 17 February and five
members of the PPC agreed to attend the Marriage and Family meeting in Keady to discuss
the Lineamenta as Pope Francis had requested. It was pointed out that all parishioners had
been invited to discuss this questionnaire on the family through notices in the Bulletin and on
the website. The Witness and Outreach group continues to develop ideas on reaching out to
the Youth and acknowledged the positive influence of our local JOY group.
There was again a packed agenda. It is recognised that there is a lot going on in the parish for
which we thanked the Holy Spirit.
Loughgall Parish Jailbreak in aid of Parish funds SINGLES NIGHT The Ryandale Moy Friday
10th April 2015 @ 8pm-late Adm £10 . Also Car Boot Sale on Sat 11th April in Maghery chapel
carpark from 8am-1pm.Tea and coffee available in community hall. For further details, contact
Mairead 07840668982.
A Mass of Thanksgiving for those who studied in St Mary’s and St Joseph’s Colleges from
1971 to 1975 will be held in St Mary’s University College on Friday 27th March at 6.00pm.
Anam Cara is holding its monthly Parent Evening on Wednesday 25th of March 2015 from 7:30
to 9pm in the County Armagh Golf Club, Newry Road, Armagh . All Anam Cara Services are
available free of charge to bereaved parents.