Parish Newsletter 20/12/2020

 Offertory Collection: €1,195.00. Second Collection €100.00 Mile Buíochas.

Adoration: There will be no Adoration Tues. 22nd Dec. or Tues. 29th Dec. but it will recommence on Tue Jan. 5th.

Confessions will take place after both masses this weekend 19th/20th Dec.

The annual collection for the Kerry Samaritans Branch will be taken up at the Masses on Christmas Eve & Christmas day. Your support is greatly appreciated.

Christmas Masses: We thank you for your patience and understanding during these difficult times and in the interest of Health & Safety we would appreciate if people without tickets do not turn up for Masses on Christmas Eve & Christmas Day. However, you do not require a ticket for Masses on Sat 26th or Sun 27th and these Masses also fulfil your Christmas obligation. All Masses will be live streamed on our Parish Webcam. Please pass the word to family & friends at home & abroad. Masses are on Christmas Eve at 6.30pm, 8.30pm & Christmas Day 9.30am, 11.30am.

Christmas Dues: Please make cheques payable to Kilcummin Parish. Thank you.

Appreciation: It has been an extraordinary year. When we joined hands on New Year’s Day none of us could have anticipated what lay ahead. But we have adapted and made the best of it, and while it has been difficult there has been blessings too, a general slowing down, making contact with long lost friends, and seeing life in general from a more wholesome perspective. Christmas is a time for a thank you and appreciation, especially this year. We would like to thank all our dedicated parishioners involved in our church ministries. The ministers of the Eucharist, readers, singers, musicians, altar servers, collectors, counters, altar society, liturgy group, parish Council. Thank you to our new team of ushers who are doing a great job at keeping us all safe. Thank you to the people that decorate and maintain the church, inside and out. Also to Siobhan Mc Sweeney in the Parish office, Mike and Mary O’Connor who open and close our church faithfully every day. To John and staff of the Rural Development Office and the teachers, students, pupils and boards of management of our schools. A special word of thanks to Sandra O’Connor who donated our beautiful Christmas tree and the Fleming family for putting it up. Míle, Míle Buíochas.

Kilcummin Pastoral Council: On behalf of all Kilcummin Parishioners we would like to thank Fr. Kieran and all the priests of the Killarney Pastoral Area for all the work they do in our Parish attending to all our needs; Funerals, Weddings, Baptisms, Confirmation, Holy Communion, Masses in our Church, School Visits, Meetings, Sick Calls and preparing for the Sacraments especially during these very challenging times. It is very much appreciated and we wish you all A very Happy, Holy and Safe Christmas and New Year. Míle, Míle Buíochas.

Our Prayers & Good Wishes to the children from Anabla, Coolick and Kilcummin National Schools who celebrated their Confirmation in our Parish last weekend; Kyle, Cathal, Gearóid, Bryan, Ryan, Neveen, Robyn, Áine, Ellie, Rebecca, Siobhan, Ava, Amalie, Doireann, Ava, Ria, Anna-Lee, Dylan, Evan, Cormac, Bobby, Aaron, Aoibhe, Blaíthin, Brian, Caoimhe, Colm, Emma, Eve, Jolie, Lea, Luke, Mary Ellen, Micaela, Michael, Odhrán, Roisin, Ronan, Sean C., Sean M., Tara.

Kilcummin Comhaltas would like to take this opportunity to wish all our members and supporters a very safe and Happy Christmas. We are all hopeful that 2021 will bring renewed opportunities for us to perform music, song and dance as we have always known and to that end we wish all a Happy New Year.

The Moriarty School of Music and Dance would like to wish all our members and their families a very Happy Christmas and peaceful New Year. After a difficult year for everybody we hope that we can all get back to playing music and dancing again during 2021 le Cúnamh Dé.

Kilcummin Rural Dev. Office will close for Christmas on Wed Dec. 23rd and reopen on Mon Jan. 4th. We would like to wish all parishioners a Holy & Safe Christmas.