Feasts For This Week:
Sunday: Pentecost Sundays

Please pray for the repose of the souls of:
Peggy Murray, St. Mary’s Park & Silverlawn
Sr Vianney Minchin RSM, St. Joseph’s Mercy Convent
May Lenihan, Ballyagran, Co Limerick
Patrick Sheridan, Virginia, Co Cavan
Joseph O’Connor, Terenure, Dublin
Marian Kiernan, Duleek
Michael Lynch, Coventry

The parish welcomes the following newly baptised children:
Jamie Aaron O’Neill, Balreask Village
Aoife Mary Mooney, Tara Court Park
Leah Annette McKeever, Beechmount Vale
Paul Brendan Patrick Brady, Canterbrook
Conor Gerard Owens, The Paddocks
Oisin Garrett Gibney, St. Patrick’s Tce

Congratulations To:
Des Mulvihill, Ballymahon and Aíne McCabe, Moatlands
James Brady, Blackcastle Est & Heidi Marstatt, Germany
Declan Jordan, Hazel Drive and Caragh Gavin, Hazel Drive; Beaufort Place
Gary Hughes, Gainstown and Hannah Womersley, Gainstown
on their recent Weddings

Confirmation: We extend our congratulations and good wishes to the 310 young people who received the Sacrament of Confirmation yesterday. Please remember them and their families in your prayers.

Pope Benedict XVI took possession of the Basilica of St. John Lateran last week, his Cathedral church as Bishop of Rome. In his homily, he pointed out that the task of all Successors of St. Peter was “to be the guide in the profession of faith in Christ, the Son of the Living God.. The power conferred by Christ on Peter and his Successors is, in an absolute sense, a mandate to serve. The authority to teach, in the Church, entails a commitment to the service of obedience to the faith. The Pope is not an absolute monarch, whose thought and will are law. On the contrary, the Pope’s ministry is guarantee of obedience to Christ and to his word. He must not proclaim his own ideas, but constantly bind himself and the Church to obedience to the word of God, in face of attempts to adapt and water down, as well as of all opportunism … The Pope is conscious of being, in his important decisions, bound to the great community of faith of all times, to the binding interpretations developed through the Church’s journey of pilgrimage.” The Diocese of Rome comprises five patriarchal basilicas, 58 minor basilicas, 330 parishes and 279 non parish churches.

Children’s Mass on Sunday next in St. Oliver’s at 12.30pm. Practice in St. Oliver’s on Wednesday next at 7pm.

The 6pm Vigil Mass on Saturday, 28th May, Feast of Corpus Christi, will be celebrated by Fr. Tom Stack, Milltown, Dublin. Mass will be followed by a Vigil of Prayer before the Blessed Sacrament lasting until midnight.

St. Mary’s Choir: Vacancies exist for tenors and basses. Please contact the Choir chairperson, Tom Calt.

As the month of May is dedicated to the Blessed Virgin Mary, we encourage you to set up May altars in your homes and to recite the Rosary or some other daily prayer in honour of Our Lady during this month.

Divine Mercy Mass and Rosary in St. Mary’s Church on Thursday next at 10am. Pilgrimage to Medjugorje will take place from 24th to 31st July. Contact: 046-9021512.

A meeting of all Readers of the Word in both St. Mary’s Church and St. Oliver’s Church will take place in St. Mary’s Church on Tuesday, 31st May at 8pm. All Readers are requested to attend.

Ministers of the Eucharist are asked to return parish pyxes to the Sacristies as soon as possible.

Cemetery Dates:
St. Mary’s: Sunday, 3rd July at 7.30pm
Cannistown: Friday, 17th June at 8pm
St. Finian’s: Wednesday, 29th June at 7.30pm
Donaghmore: Tuesday, 5th July at 8pm
Athlumney: Wednesday, 6th July at 8pm

Meath Diocesan Choir: New members welcome. Rehearsals in Dalgan Park tomorrow Monday. Contact Phil 01-6286931 or Marguerite 01-8251009 after 7pm.

Lough Derg: One Day Retreat (no fasting or bare feet) on Sunday 29th May. Bus will leave Fair Green at 7am . All-in-Fare €38 includes bus, boat, light lunch and Retreat. Booking with full fare to Tom Fitzsimons, 9 Mellows Tce at 046-9027272.

Rotary Club of Ireland Car Treasure Hunt: on Sunday, 29th May from Fair Green, 2pm – 3.30pm. Proceeds in aid of Meals-on-Wheels Service and other local charities. Fee: €15 per car.

“Ask and you shall receive” (Mt 7:7): Have you a friend or family member who is sick at this time? Someone you know who needs a prayer? Why not remember their intentions in a special way by offering an Hour of Adoration for them in the Blessed Sacrament Chapel. This is the Year of the Eucharist. The Lord invites you to come and see his love for each of us in the Eucharist. You will not be disappointed! Special cards are now available in the Parish Bookshop. These cards can be signed and sent to a friend after you have completed a Holy Hour for them. Remember, all Jesus asks is for you to look for his help!

Pontifical University St. Patrick’s College, Maynooth: Higher Diploma in Theological Studies One Year part-time evening course. For information contact The Admissions Office, Pontifical University, St. Patrick’s College, Maynooth, Co Kildare. Telephone: 01-7084772 Fax: 01-7083441 or email: mary.tansy@may.ie or theology.office@may.ie Web site: www.maynoothcollege.ie

Navan Red Cross Friendship Club meeting on Sunday next at 3pm in Community Centre.

We wish to thank Navan Choral Festival for €151 for Meals-on-Wheels.

Irish Cancer Society: Giving up smoking? The Irish Cancer Society will be in Teach na Daoine, 96 Claremont, and also in Oaklawns Community Hall, every Monday until 5pm and every Wednesday from 2pm until 9pm. Telephone: 085-1206336 or 085-1206338 for information.

Clonfert (Eddie Stones): Bus leaving St. Oliver’s Church at 7.30am & Fair Green at 7.35am on Saturday 28th May Telephone 086-2338971.

Theatrical Camp: 7 – 13 years olds; 4th – 8th or 11th – 15th July in the Community Centre. Contact Denise or Deirdre on 086-0715309 or 085-7242481.

Walk the Boyne Way for An Tobar on Saturday next. Meeting point at 11am at the Bridge in Slane. Telephone 046-9078973.

Senior Citizens Club: Wednesday & Thursday. Bingo from 2.30 – 5pm.

Weight Watchers: Wednesday mornings in St. Anne’s Resource Centre at 9.30am.

Bingo in O’Mahony’s on Tuesday night at 8.45pm.

Bingo Monday night in Navan Community Centre. Bingo at 8.45pm. Snowball – €10,000. €650 if not won. €65 a line. Panel prizes of €130 and €260. Up to €650 extra if you check on the lucky number. Prizes totalling €12,500.

MASS INTENTIONS FOR THIS WEEK

MONDAY: First Anniversary for Christopher Connor, Navan & Swindon at 10am.
TUESDAY: Month’s Mind for Sean Doyle, The Orchard, Athlumney at 10am.
FRIDAY: First Anniversary for Barbara Connolly, Boyne Road at 8pm.
SATURDAY: First Anniversary for Ann Mackarel, Kells at 10am.

ANNIVERSARY MASSES:
Thomas Keenan, Eamonn Crosbie, Maggie Mockler, Anthony Rogers, Patrick Smyth, John & Margaret Farrelly, Bill & Annie Anderson, Dennis Miller, Deceased members of the Clarke Family, Kieran Foley, Peter & Mary Conaty, Jim Fahy, Ann Mulcahy, Margo Brennan, Stephen Kane, Julianna O’Neill, Julia Tormey, Jack & Bridget Kenny, Maura Coldrick, Mary Conaty, Tommy & Sarah A. Earley, Gerald & Catherine Doyle, John & Kathleen Foley, Frank Foley, Ned & Rita Farrelly & Lorraine Donnelly, Jimmy Flood, Christina Rowe.

MASSES:
Oliver Rennicks, Kane Family, Peter Conaty, John & Sarah Lennon, Una Cullinane, req. of Residents of Dean Cogan Place (19), Thomas Geraghty, Josephine Geraghty.

Thanks to our sponsor of the Sunday Message

DAVID MOORE/DM PHOTO STUDIES
7 Market St. Trim Telephone: 046-9437979

Thank You: A Special Word of thanks to everybody who contributed to the Church Collections.

COLLECTIONS: OFFERTORY: €4902 DEVELOPMENT FUND: €3730

PRIEST ON DUTY:FR. DWAYNE GAVIN TELEPHONE 9027518/FAX 9071774

PARISH OFFICE HOURS: MONDAY-FRIDAY: 9.30 -1 & 2 - 5pm
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