TAX RELIEF ON DONATIONS TO PARISH 2023
Please return your signed form to the Parish in the enclosed SAE
as soon as you can. Thank you to everyone who has returned their form.
CHRISTMAS LEAFLET VOLUNTEERS
The Christmas leaflet will be ready shortly. We’d be grateful if our usual
volunteers would offer their services once more. We will also be looking for new
recruits for our ever expanding parish. The leaflet is an outreach to be
inclusive to all parishioners and contains Mass details for Christmas, a
Christmas Newsletter, etc. If available, please leave your name, contact no.
and email address in the Sacristy after any Mass or in the Parish Office
during office hours. Thank you for your continued support.
FESTIVE AFTERNOON TEA
St. Mochta’s Parish is hosting a Festive Afternoon Tea in our Pastoral
Centre on Saturday 7th December beginning with Mass at 12 noon.
Our Parish Partners Laurel Lodge and Castleknock are very welcome
to join us. Tickets are limited and are available from the Sacristy in
St. Mochta’s after any Mass or from the Parish Office in St. Mochta’s
during office hours at €10 each.
CHRISTMAS WARMTH CONCERT
On Sunday 15th December at 6pm a Christmas Concert will take place
in St. Mochta’s Church featuring our own Church Choir and Mary Flynn
and Friends combining what in previous years was our “Carol Service”
and “Songs for a Winter’s Evening”. As well as the warm ‘glow’ provided
by the music and song of these combined talents on the day, the proceeds
will be used to provide a warm glow from the church heating over the
Christmas Season. Please come along and enjoy the afternoon which will
include refreshments in the Parish Centre afterwards.
Tickets €10 per adult / Family Ticket €20 on sale from the Sacristy
in St. Mochta’s Church after any Mass or from St. Mochta’s Parish Office
during office hours.
PARISH LOTTO RESULT…€20 won by Colm. Colm has been notified
The 3rd Sunday of Lent, tells the story of the Cleansing of the Temple. When Jesus arrived the temple looked like a market place. Not only were animals being sold, but also money was being exchanged. Jesus was unhappy seeing how the Temple was being used and he told everyone to leave that it should be a place of prayer. While expaining his actions, Jesus was not talking about the Temple they were standing in, He was talking about the temple of His own body in which the Holy Spirit lived. Jesus declared that the temple would be destroyed and that He would rebuild it in three days. The Jews were thinking of the temple of stone, but Jesus was referring to His body. Listen to the story and learn more about the temple of the Holy Spirit.