New Years Resolutions

 Here are a few suggestions to think about for New Years Resolutions as a Family - Make 2022 on noted for celebrating, supporting and encouraging those we love!!

You can download and print this by clicking HERE

Family Friendly Ways of Praying

 On this feast of the Holy Family here's a little booklet of Family Friendly ways of praying - Enjoy

You can download it by clicking here - Family Friendly Ways of Praying

Happy Christmas

 Wishing all our parishioners, volunteers and visitors to our parishes a blessed and joyful Christmas - Have a great one!!

Donate to your local SVP Conference

Finally here is the long awaited link for the local conference of SVP. 

To help and support the valuable work the St Vincent de Paul do in our local area please give generously on

https://www.idonate.ie/event/3300_st--vincent-de-paul-holy-family-conference.html

Christmas Mass times

Masses are not ticketed - It will done on a first come basis so please come early

 

Advent Reconciliation service

 Date for your diary - this Saturday we are having our grouping Advent Reconciliation service in Rathcoole at 10:30am - All are welcome

A little gift to you

 This weekend (and next), in all the churches in our area, please be sure to pick up our little Christmas gift to you and your family - Our Family Christmas Prayer Card - It has a few seasonal prayers for you to use at home over Christmas. Take one for a friend, for family members or send them overseas!! Just our small way of saying ‘Thanks’ and wishing you and yours every blessing of the season.

A letter from Fr John to Parents of children celebrating the Sacraments of First Reconciliation, First Communion and Confirmation in our area next year...

 

Feast of the Immaculate Conception - 8th Dec

On Wednesday, 8th of December, we celebrate the Feast of the Immaculate Conception - a holy day of Obligation - Here is details of the mass times in the area - 

Also on that day in Saggart Parish there will be a special blessing for Expectant Parents at the 11am mass - So please share & spread the invite.

Bereavement Self Help Information Booklet

In this month of remembrance and with the recent announcements on restrictions, this has been a difficult

time for everyone but especially those who have experienced the loss of a loved one in these abnormal circumstances. Working with a few of the community groups we have produced this short self-help information resource for those who have experienced bereavement and loss in their lives during these recent times. You may find it useful, you may know someone who may find it useful

Please share, download or forward onto someone you think may find it helpful.

Remembering Our Loved Ones

         See HERE for those who died during the year,    November 2020 to October 2021.

Your views, please, on this website!

We are asking for your help & input as to how we improve, grow and tweak this valuable resource in service and support all our parishioners.

This website has been in operation since 2009. A report on the first five years was presented to the Parish Pastoral Council on 17 May 2016 by Donal McMahon, the webmaster at the time and still so today. Having reached the ten-year-plus milestone, the parish is now undertaking a second review, this time a public one. A questionnaire, both paper and online, has been made out by Frank Brown, Parish Pastoral Worker. Please communicate your views on this important topic, more important than ever before, as we saw during lock-down when so much interaction took place online. 

The questionnaire can be filled in online or on paper. The online version is HERE.  When you complete it, it goes automatically to the PPW who devised the form -- you don't need to email it. 

Paper copies have been left at the bottom of the churches and can be returned to the Parish Office. All returns should arrive by Thursday, 28th October.  

For any further information contact Frank.Brown@dublindiocese.ie. 

Walking the Synodal Pathway Together

Read HERE about the journey which the Church both local and universal is embarking on from today.

MAD (Make a Difference) Sunday - Little acts of Kindness 31st Oct 2021

After the last 2 years that we have had we realize more that the simple acts of kindness we do for each other make a huge difference. We are all connected, what we do and how we do it affects those around us – We MAKE A DIFFERENCE.

Make a Difference (MAD) Sunday

is an open invitation to everyone – seriously everyone, anywhere, any age, any background, and any religion. This beautifully simple initiative hopes to encourage ALL people make a conscious effort to do one simple thing to help another & share it to help, inspire, give hope & encourage others!

Sunday 31st Oct 

It’s a day on which we are encouraging young and not so young, groups or individuals, parents & children, clubs & societies, families & friends, politicians & teachers… to look out for others and make a small difference in their home, community, school, parish, etc. To consciously do at least one simple act of kindness and then share it.

It’s good to share a bit of Good news!!You can come together as a group to plan & do something or do something on your own. Big or small – it’s up to you! Be creative, get involved, do something and share it with us/everyone!! #MADSunday

We're taking part, will you? Please share and make it global!! Don't underestimate the inspiration you are!! We have made a load of resources for families, schools, groups, parishes, etc. available for you to take, use, lose, adapt, adopt or share 

Just click the link to download - Click Here

Please share on and encourage others to take part and be involved!!

Rest in peace, Mike Flynn, in the hope of the resurrection

Photo from rip.ie

The photo (published by kind permission of his family) shows very well the kind of person Mike was, outgoing, interested, welcoming, sharing . . . and we could go on. He belonged to the 'good old stock' of Saggart village, his forebears having worked in the paper mill. Born on 29 May 1930, he grew up in one of those thatched cottages down from the church in Main Street that you see in the old photographs. He went to the two-storey primary school on the Boherboy road now converted into apartments. He worked abroad (England, America) and, later on, back in Ireland, in Peamount Hospital, doing very good work wherever he went. He lived in Clondalkin with Anne and raised a fine family there. From time to time he and Anne came to Mass in Saggart. That is where the writer, a blow-in of 1995, first met him. He extended a warm welcome to new parishioners like my wife and myself from the Citywest area. May the angels welcome him into Paradise as warmly. 

He died aged 91 in Tallaght Hospital (see rip.ie). His funeral took place in Clondalkin on Tuesday, 28th September and he was buried afterwards in Saggart, his grandsons bearing him on their shoulders to his final place of rest.

 Photo : Donal McMahon, by kind permission of the Flynn family

Welcome, Frank, Our New Parish Pastoral Worker

 

We welcome Frank Brown to our Pastoral Area as our new Parish Pastoral Worker. He comes to us from Clondalkin where he worked for six good years. He succeeds Breda Carroll who stepped down last June after five years' good work here. You can read here his farewell address as published in the Clondalkin parish newsletter, the beginning of which is given above.