Sunday 16th March 2025

Published on November 12, 2023

ST PETER’S PARISH, DROGHEDA

16 March 2025                          Altar Notices                 Second Sunday of Lent

                                                                                        

  1. The collection last Sunday amounted to €3,826. The Sunday Collection is taken up in the church porches on entry to and exit from Mass.  Many thanks for your great generosity and your use of the parish envelope.  A user-friendly Tap to Donate card machine is available at the entrances of both churches.

  1. Stations of the Cross in Our Lady of Lourdes Church each Sunday during Lent at 5.00pm.

  1. Tomorrow, Monday, 17 March, is St Patrick’s Day, a holyday of obligation.

Mass times as follows:

          Our Lady of Lourdes Church:  9.00am, 10.30am, 7.00pm

St Peter’s Church:  8.00am, 11.00am. 11.00am Mass in St Peter’s will be bilingual – Irish and English.

  1. There is a special envelope in your weekly envelope box for St Patrick’s Day to support the pastoral care of Irish emigrants abroad. The Emigrants Collection is aimed at creating an awareness of the plight of the Irish abroad. Since 1957, the Irish Church continues to identify projects and offers essential support to provide pastoral and practical outreach to the most marginalised and vulnerable groups of Irish emigrants in Britain, Americia, Australia and elsewhere, where many struggle greatly.

  1. Triduum of prayer for vocations from St Patrick’s Day to the Solemnity of St Joseph, Husband of the Blessed Virgin Mary, 20 March. Prayer for vocations of St Joseph’s Young Priests’ Society, in union with the Society branch in St Peter’s Parish, will be recited at all Masses.

  1. Parishioners are invited to a Pastoral Area Consultation on themes and priorities, in preparation for the October 2025 National Pre-Synodal Assembly and the Armagh Diocesan Synodal Congress on Youth, Family and Faith in March 2026. This will be held in the Barbican Centre, William Street, on Monday 24th March at 7.30pm. All are welcome.

  1. Position of Sacristan in Our Lady of Lourdes Church, Saturday and Sunday, is available. Please see Parish Newsletter.

  1. Trócaire boxes are available at the back of the churches.

  2. The St Oliver Plunkett 400 Commemorative Book and lapel pin badge are available in St Peter’s Church shop and both church sacristies, each retailing at €5 each. These also will be made available after Masses next weekend.

  3. The priests of the parish are grateful for your support and thank you for the Spring Dues which are being collected from now to St Patrick’s weekend. Many thanks to our loyal Dues Collectors.  Dues envelopes also available in both churches.

  4. Newsletter is available at the back of the church. Also see parish website, Facebook, X and Instagram.