Due to Covid restrictions we will continue to upload Mass from the Parish on the YouTube channel at 10 am on Sunday.

Parishioners can go to the Parish website: www.sjparish.ie and scroll down to the bottom left- hand side of the screen.  Click into the YouTube channel.

This Sunday’s Mass will be offered for:

Freda Delany (MM)

Thomas, Eillen & Aidan Boylan and John & Eileen Stallard

Brother Peter Black

Louis & Eileen Courtney and deceased members of the Courtney family

Pegie Black

Mark Haran

Sean & Margaret Lynch, Bernadette & Eugene Doyle,

 Sheila Noone, Sean O’Connor and Joe Downey

William Lyons

Sunday, 18^th April – Next Weekend’s Mass will be offered for:

Imelda Clinton (MM)

James Curran

Maureen Brady

Mary Dowling

Edward & Teresa Calvey

RIP

Your prayers are requested for the repose of the souls of Gerard (Gerry) White whose funeral took place in Julianstown this week.  We remember the bereaved in our prayers.

Baptisms

Please contact the Parish Office by e-mail if you wish to have your child Baptised.  secretary@sjparish.ie

Trócaire:

• Trócaire collection – can be returned to Stamullen church – Cash only – please place in the Candle Shrines in the envelopes provided (or in an envelope marked Trócaire)

• Please do not leave Trócaire boxes in the Churches.

We would appreciate if you could keep Trócaire Boxes at home for the moment.  We will arrange a day and time (week beginning 19^th April) when we will be available for parishioners to drop the boxes to the Parish Centre and the Parish office.

Thanks

Thanks to all who have dropped donations, Easter Offerings and weekly envelopes to the church or Parochial House and by standing order and/or bank Transfer.  Thank you also to those who have donated through the parish website.

Act of Spiritual Communion

My Jesus, I believe that You are present in the Most Holy Sacrament. I love You above all things, and I desire to receive You into my soul. Since I cannot at this moment receive You sacramentally, come at least spiritually into my heart. I embrace You as if You were already there and unite myself wholly to You. Never permit me to be separated from You, Amen.

Envelopes

Thank you to all who continue to drop weekly envelopes to the church/parochial house.  Your support is very much appreciated.

• Cheques: If you prefer to send cheques – please make them payable to Stamullen Julianstown Parish.
• If you wish to contribute to the church by bank transfer, you can e-mail your request to the parish at secretary@sjparish.ie and we will contact you.
• Parishioners can also donate through the parish website sjparish.ie and click the give button in the red box.
• We would like to advise Parishioners, that should they wish to place envelopes in the Post box at the Parish House, please be assured this box is monitored and overlooked by a security camera so it is very safe.

We are grateful to all who support our Parish especially in these difficult times when there is no Offertory Collection at Mass.

Divine Mercy

The Divine Mercy of Jesus is for sinners and the more of a sinner you are, the more you have a right to it. This is what Jesus told Sister Faustina (during her spiritual visions of Jesus) in Poland back in the early 20th Century. Sister Faustina was a contemporary of Pope John Paul II in Poland, back when he was known as Karol Wojtyla. She died before WWII started but, thanks be to God, she wrote everything down that Jesus told her. If you are looking for a spiritual director, and can’t find one, it is highly recommended that you read her book.

This is great reading while you are doing your holy hour, or just when you have 5 or 10 minutes to spare. The words of Jesus are bolded so there is no question as to what He thinks is important in spiritual direction. For sure, no Catholic is obliged to believe in personal revelation (as opposed to public revelation in the Bible), but the Church has determined that Saint Faustina’s visions are worthy of belief and there is nothing in them that runs counter to what the Bible says. If you were to take all of the sins ever committed on earth, they wouldn’t amount to a grain of sand in comparison to the ocean of the Divine Mercy of Jesus Christ.

St. Patricks GFHC Lotto

Jackpot. €9,900.  No Jackpot Winner. Drawn on:  6^th April 2021.  Numbers Drawn:  2,7,20,23.

Lucky Dip Numbers:    2,7,23.  Lucky Dip Winner: (1) €50 – Veronica Crawford and (2) €50 – Fran Mooney Thank you to all our loyal supporters. Next Week’s Jackpot: €10,000.

Parish Office

The parish office remains closed.  You can contact Fr. Declan on 01-8412647.

Parishioners are also invited to e-mail requests or queries to the Parish Office:  secretary@sjparish.ie.  (We are checking e-mails regularly and will respond as quickly as possible, but please allow at least a week for replies).