Sunday 2nd November 2025

Published on November 12, 2023

ST PETER’S PARISH, DROGHEDA

2 November 2025                                     Altar Notices                                                  ALL SOULS

 

  1. The collection last Sunday amounted to € 3,181.  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.

  2. Rosary and Benediction for 2025 concluded last weekend in St Peter’s Church and will recommence in May 2025.

  3. For the winter months, Exposition of the Blessed Sacrament at St Peter’s Church, will end at 4.00pm, Monday to Friday, except for Tuesday, when exposition continues until 7.00pm.

  4. The rosary for all the faithful departed will be recited each day during November in St Peter’s Cemetery at 3.00pm, meeting at the Calvary memorial and then walking around the cemetery.

  5. November Parish List of the Dead envelopes are available in both churches. All Masses today, Sunday, 2 November, Commemoration of All Souls, will be offered for those whose names are on the 2025 List of the Dead, as well as Masses throughout November, monthly Masses in both St Peter’s and Our Lady of Lourdes Churches, and other dedicated Masses.  Pleased leave the envelopes in the secure box provided or put in Sunday collection basket.

  6. A St Oliver’s Pastoral Area preparatory consultation for the 2026 Armagh Diocesan Congress, Youth, Family and Faith, will take place in the Barbican, William St on Wednesday coming, 5th November at 7.30pm. The main discernment question will be: “What can we do together, in our schools, homes, parishes and in the Archdiocese of Armagh, to help young people and families to grow in faith and get to know Jesus in a real and personal way?” Please come along.

  7. Our parish celebration, November Remembrance of the Dead and Prayer for the Bereaved, will take place in Our Lady of Lourdes Church on Saturday coming, 8th November at the 7.00pm Vigil Mass. The names of all those whose funerals have taken place in the Parish, and/or who have been buried in the Parish, in the past twelve months, will be read out. A candle will be lit for each of the deceased.

  8. There is a second envelope next weekend for the Armagh Central Diocesan Fund.  This envelope goes towards the running of the Diocesan Curia in Armagh, its safeguarding and youth offices, and the Diocesan Pastoral Office and its initiatives, including the Synodal Way.

  9. God First, St. Peter’s Youth Group is back after the summer break.  Teens aged 13 – 17 are invited to come along on the 2nd and 4th Friday of each month, 6.00pm – 8.00pm in the Family Room in Our Lady of Lourdes Church.

  10. St Vincent de Paul monthly church collections this weekend. Local needs are great at this time.

  11. The Parish Newsletter is available at the back of the churches today and throughout the week. Also see parish website, Facebook, X and Instagram.