ST PETER’S PARISH, DROGHEDA
19 July 2026 Altar Notices 16th Sunday in Ordinary Time

1. The collection last Sunday amounted to €3,254. The Sunday Collection is taken up in the church porches on entry to and exit from Mass. If you did not get a chance to contribute on the way in, please do so on the way out. Many thanks
for your great generosity and your use of the parish envelope. A user-friendlyTap to Donate card machine is available  at the entrances of both churches.

2. Low-gluten Communion hosts may be received at all Sunday and weekday Masses. Coeliacs should please go the priest to receive.

3. As usual, no 8.30am St Peter’s Church weekday Mass for the months of July and August. Otherwise, weekly and Sunday schedule in both churches as normal.

4. Altar Society Church Gate collection takes place at all Masses next weekend, 25 – 26 July in both churches. Many thanks to the Altar Societies for their great work.

5. Welcome to Fr. Tommy Faherty, SMA, who will visit St Peter’s Church on 25 – 26 July, and Our Lady of  Lourdes Church on 1 – 2 August. He will leave Mission Awareness envelopes on the pews and at the end of his homily refer to them and to the ‘African Missionary’ magazines on display at the back of the church. He will ask
people to take the magazines and envelopes home with them and, if they wish, they can return the envelopes the following week to give a donation to the SMA missionary work.

6. If you are not taking the Missalette / Newsletter home, please leave at the back of the church on your exit. Also see church noticeboards, parish website, Facebook and Instagram.