Parish of the Assumption

Area Code: 057 Tel: 93 21587 - 93 22415 Fax: 93 51510
www.tullamoreparish.ie 
E-mail Parish Secretary:  This e-mail address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it

7th May 2023  ~  Sunday

Fr. Joseph Gallagher, P.P., V.G.
Rt Rev Sean Heaney, P.E.
Fr. Joe Campbell, C.C.,
Fr. Fergal Cummins, C.C.
Fr. Damian Budau, C.C
Sr. Margaret Burke.

GET IN TOUCH

St Mary’s Parish Centre, Benburb St, Tullamore, 

Office Hours:  Mon-Thurs, 9.30-1; 1.30-5pm.  

Phone: 0579321587 
Email:  This e-mail address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it

Web: www.tullamoreparish.ie

Reception service Friday, 9.30-5.  

Priest available for emergencies 24 hours daily.

Meeting Rooms available: Contact Administrator for details of availability, rates, etc.Teas after 10.00am Mass Tuesday, Thursday & Friday

Bereavement Listening Support:  Ph 0579326604.

WEEKEND MASSES

Church of the Assumption:(Vigil) 6.30pm

Sunday 8.30am, 10.00am, 11.30am & 1.00pm

Durrow:  Sunday 11.30am

WEEKDAY MASSES

Monday-Friday 7.45am, 10.00am

Saturday 10.00am 

First Friday 7.45am & 10.00am

JOIN US ON PARISH WEBCAMS ON PARISH WEBSITE.

CONFESSIONS - Saturday 2.00-3.00pm in the Day Chapel.

TROUBLED HEARTS

Jesus assures the troubled disciples that they can trust Him to keep them safe.  He tells us the same.  If we only know Him by hearsay that might not give us reassurance but if, as Pope Benedict said, “someone becomes a YOU that can uphold you and promise indestructible love”, that is security indeed.  A personal relationship makes all the difference.

He then tells the disciples that He is the Way, the Truth, and the Life.  He is the Way home to the Father’s house.  He has made the journey before us with all its difficulties and limitations, so He will lead, guide and support us on the journey.  If we are helpless and know it He will carry us like lambs in His arms.

He is the Truth: the Truth in Person.  So He is the only one who really knows us.  For Him each one of us is unique and irreplaceable and worth laying down His life for...

He is the Life.  Not a life that ends but Life in all fullness. However here and now we have to stretch our selfish hearts and learn to love our neighbour as ourselves.  He will count it as being done for Himself.  Then when the time is right He will come and take us to Himself, that where He is we also will be ... at home with Him in our Father’s house.

 1ST COMMUNION & CONFIRMATION 2024

The Parish runs a preparation programme for pupils who are not attending one of our Catholic Schools and who wish to receive the sacraments of First Confession, First Communion and Confirmation in 2024.  Places are limited and early registration is essential.  Registration forms are available from the Parish Centre.  The closing date for receipt of applications is Friday May 19th.

FIRST COMMUNION

Congratulations to the children from Scoil Mhuire, Scoil Bhríde and Offaly School of Special Education who received the Eucharist for the first time this weekend.  We wish God’s blessing on them, their families, friends and teachers and all who helped them on their faith journey to this special time.

FAMILY MASS

10.00am Mass on Sundays is Family Mass with a special liturgy for children in the Day Chapel.  

HOSPITAL MASS

Mass in the Hospital will resume at 9.00am each Sunday, commencing on May 14.

SEEING YOUR LIFE THROUGH THE LENS OF THE GOSPEL

John 14:1-12

‘Do not let your hearts be troubled.  Believe in God.  Believe also in me.’  Trust in another person can help us in difficult times.  Remember and give thanks for the people you were able to trust in difficult moments.  Remember also when your faith in God helped you through anxious moments.

Thomas struggled with the desire, which is in all of us, to know exactly the destination before we set out.  Jesus invites us to make an act of faith and to take one step at a time.  Can you recall times when it helped you to take that trusting attitude to life?

Jesus proposed himself to Thomas as the way, the truth, and the life.  In what ways – either by his teaching or his example – as Jesus been the way, the truth and the life for you on your journey?

Philip wanted Jesus to give him a glimpse of God and got the surprising answer, ‘whoever has seen me has seen the Father’.  Jesus put a human face on the love of God.  He gives us a glimpse of the divine.  We are Jesus people in the world today, called to follow Jesus and to put a human face on the love of God for those who meet us.  Who are the people whose love has helped you to believe in the love of God?  To whom have you given an occasional glimpse of the divine?

John Byrne osa Intercom May 2023

SACRAMENT OF BAPTISM

Baptisms take place monthly on the first Sunday in Tullamore, second Sunday in Durrow, third and fourth Saturday in Tullamore.  Pre-Baptism Meetings are on the third Wednesday monthly.  Contact the Parish Secretary.

SACRAMENT OF MARRIAGE

To book the Church for weddings, contact the Parish Secretary at least three months in advance.  All couples getting married must complete a pre-marriage course.  Contact ACCORD 0579341831 or www.accord.ie. 

ACCORD also provide couple and relationship counselling In-Person and Online in Tullamore.  Phone 057 9341831 or 0864669926 or email This e-mail address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it

NB:  NOTICES FOR THE BULLETIN MUST BE IN THE PARISH CENTRE BY 9.30AM WEDNESDAY.

Only notices from parish groups, non-profit making organizations & clubs included

PLEASE CONTINUE TO PRAY FOR FIONA PENDER, OUR PARISHONER WHO HAS BEEN MISSING SINCE 22nd AUGUST 1996

MASS INTENTIONS

Mon 8     .  7.45 Michelle Gannon

.............10.00 Kathleen Dunne, 97 O’Molloy St

.....................Annmarie Devlin

Tues 9  .     7.45 Eugene Hurst

Wed 10 ...10.00 Jamie Souter, Kealan Walsh & Sam Kilroe

Thurs 11 .10.00 Sandra Egan Saunders

Fri 12 .....10.00 Anne & John Brazel, Ballydaly

Sat 13     .  6.30 Vera Meehan, Mon Mem

....................Anne Leneghan, 1st Ann

Sun 14    .  8.30 Patrick, Molly, Noel & Brando

....................Cleary, Clavin & Cleary Families

............10.00 Evelyn Horan

.................... baby Hugo Colm James McDonald

            .  11.30 Margaret Horan, Mon Mem

.................... Aidan Marsden, 1st Ann

             .   1.00 Hugh Doyle, Mon Mem

.................... Margaret O’Toole, 1st Ann & her son Gabriel

Sat 13, 10am:  Mannion, Flanagan & Lynch Families & Johnny Cunningham; Johnny Deevy; Marcella McNamara, McHale & McNamara Families; Jack, Alice, Mick, Monnie & Mary Galvin, Mick & Nonie Power, Rody & Tommy O’Brien; Noel & Annie O’Connor & Paul & Mary Keogh; Willie Carroll; Kathleen & Mick Keane; Nellie Scully; Tom Kearney; Stephen McNeill; Jim Coyne; Geoghegan Family; Eileen  John Lewis; Kathleen & Paddy Morgan; Sean Larkin; Chris & Mary Donegan; Mick & Lily Geoghegan, Noel Fitzgerald & Drumm Family; Michael & Kathleen Clooney; Therese, Brendan & Declan Daly; Jim, Kitty & Paddy Fenning; Marie & John McCowan; Jim Bracken & Family; Ian Dunne, Sheila & Stephen Egan, Irene Flanagan, Declan Devlin & Sheila Smith Carr; Josephine Bracken.

BAPTISMS

Welcome to God’s family Polly Jennifer, Winter Bernadette & Hallie Grace Cahill who were baptised recently.

COLLECTIONS

Plate: Tullamore €2453; Durrow €144

Envelopes €2622; Vocations: €2067

Thank you for your continued support.

COMMUNITY NOTICES

ST PADRÉ PIO MASS Tues 9, 7.30pm, Tullamore Church.  All welcome.

ROSARY ON FEAST OF OUR LADY OF FATIMA Sat 13, 8.15pm, Alfie Lambe House, Arden Rd.  All are welcome.

ADORATION from 2pm only, Tullamore Church Sat 13.

CATHOLIC SCRIPTURE AND HEALING - Unlocking the Treasures of God's Holy Word with Brother Johnson, Sun 21, 1-7pm, Day Chapel.

READY:  Dinner dance, Town House, Sun 14, 7pm sharp.

AA:  Offaly House, Offaly St, Mon, Wed, Thurs, Sat 8.15pm; Tues, Wed, Fri 1pm; Sun 12noon & 8.15pm.

DOCHAS OFFALY CANCER SUPPORT GROUP: Mon–Fri, 9.30-5pm. Ph 0579328268. Email This e-mail address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it . 

OFFALY DOMESTIC VIOLENCE SUPPORT SERVICES:  Ph 0579351886 or 0860419154.  www.odvss.ie

ALONE support line for older people who have concerns or are facing difficulties.  Ph 0818 222 024, 8am-8pm.

TULLAMORE RAPE CRISIS CENTRE:  Mon-Fri 9.30am-5pm.  Ph 0579322500; Freephone 1800323232

DIOCESAN PIGRIMAGE TO LOURDES:  Departing 12 Sept. Ph 012410800 or email This e-mail address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it Local contact, Ann 0877914828.