PARISH NOTICES

The Parish Office - The Parish Office is open from 9.00 am to 5.00 pm Monday to Thursday and from 9.00 am to 3.00 pm on Fridays. Contact us at 01-2822704 or email us at This e-mail address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it .

Morning Prayer - This is said in St. Anne's Church at 9.20 am from Monday to Saturday each week and is followed by the Rosary. Everyone is welcome.

Exposition of the Blessed Sacrament - In the Adoration Chapel Monday to Friday from 10.30am to 1.30pm and 5.30pm to 7.30pm

First Fridays - This Friday is the First Friday of the Month and If you have or know of an elderly or infirm family or neighbours who would welcome a call on the First Friday of the month, please leave their contact details in the Parish Office. The Adoration Chapel will be open from 10.30 am to 7.30 pm

Confessions - Confessions take place after the 10.00 am Mass on Saturdays

Baptisms - Baptisms take place at 12.45 pm on the first Sunday of the month and at 5.00 pm on the second, third and fourth Saturdays of the month. A month's notice is required. Please note that when visiting the Parish office to arrange a baptism, the child's birth certificate should be brought as it necessary to photocopy it for the parish records but it will be returned immediately.

Baptism / Confirmation Certificates can be obtained from the Parish office during office hours. Certificates usually take a day or so to process.

Miraculous Medal Devotions take place at the Monday 10.00 am Mass.

Family Mass - Children are always welcome at Mass, but especially at the 10.30am Mass on Sundays.

Parish Radios - Parish radios are available in the Resource Centre. The special portable radios link into the parish radio-link system which allows them hear Mass each Sunday and weekday, as well as other liturgical celebrations.If anyone would like to sponsor a radio for an elderly or housebound person, their donation would be very welcome. The cost of a radio is €35.00.

Blessings - If you would like a priest to call by and bless your home, Fr. Michael O'Dwyer will be available to do so. To arrange, please call the Parish office at 2822277.

Volunteers - Volunteers are needed as Readers and Collectors at all the Masses. If you would like to take a more active part in the Mass, either as a reader or collector, you are asked to contact the Parish Office or the Sacristy and put your name down. Training will be given to new Ministers of the Word.

Parish Pilgrimage - The 2010 Parish Pilgrimage to Lourdes departs from Shankill on August 11 for 5 nights at the Hotel Jeanne d'Arc. The cost is €719 and Fr. Rory will accompany the pilgrimage as Spiritual Director.

Church Gates - For security reasons we have put gates at the entrance to the car park. The gates will be closed each evening when parish activites have ended in the church or Resource Centre and will be opened each morning before activites begin.

Evening Mass Arrangements for the Summer - There will be no evening masses from Monday to Friday during the months of July and August.