Marriage Booking Form

Click here on Marriage form Enniskeane to supply the Parish with essential information about your proposed marriage in one of the churches of Enniskeane parish. (It’s a small PDF document which you can download and print and post.)

Fr. Tom Hayes publishes Photo Calendar for 2014

It was an idea that floated around for several years but now it’s finally a print. I have compiled, designed and had printed a photo calendar for 2014 which I am selling in support of two local worthy charitable causes.

The calendar mostly features images from Enniskeane and Desertserges Parish where I now minister. Sales of the calendar will aid the parish’s building fund (used to maintain the three churches and help pay off our building fund debt) and the local branch of the Society of St. Vincent de Paul – who today launched their 2014 appeal for help to aid families in the lead-in to Christmas. It will be their busiest ever.

The calendar sells for €5 from local retailers, the parish office or at one of the churches. It is also available by post at €6 incl. postage to anywhere. Chq or postal order payable to Fr. Tom Hayes. Or click the PayPal button below to order and pay for it securely with a credit card or PayPal account. (If you want it posted to someone else, please put their name and address in the special instructions box.) Thanks.

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Involving young people at Mass – an invitation

Enniskeane and Desertserges    ||||||   Family & Youth Group of the Parish Assembly
20th September, 2013

Dear Parents/Guardians,

The Prayers of the Faithful rota for young people in each of the three churches, which began last year, has been a great success. For the coming term, it is planned to organise both a rota for Prayers of the Faithful and for the Second Scripture Readings for weekend Masses in each of the three churches in the parish.
We invite parents and guardians to encourage young people to have an active part in our celebration of Sunday Mass. In turn, this will also help develop young people’s confidence and their appreciation of the Mass.

To encourage involvement of young people, our outline plan is to assign tasks to specific age-groups:

  • 2nd class: gift bearers (bringing up the bread and wine to the altar during Mass)
  • 3rd class: gift bearers
  • 4th: gift bearers / altar servers
  • 5th: altar servers / Prayer of the Faithful reader
  • 6th: altar servers / Prayer of F
  • 1st Year: Prayer of Faithful reader
  • 2nd Year: Prayer of F / Second Scripture Reading
  • 3rd Year: Second Scripture Reading
  • 4th Year & older: Second / First Scripture Reading / Collectors / Ministers of the Eucharist

Naturally, there will need to be a bit of flexibility with this. (Information about recruiting new altar servers will be distributed shortly through the schools.)

In relation to the Prayers of the Faithful, the plan is to have two young people for each Mass (Sat and Sun), each one reading two short intercessions. Texts will be forwarded in advance by email. The texts of the Second Scripture Reading for each week can be previewed at the parish website homepage .

A short training session will be held in Enniskeane Church on Thurs. Oct 3rd at 7pm.
An initial rota will be developed at these sessions. If your son or daughter would like to sign up for either rota, please complete the enclosed form and return it to either the school, to one of the churches or to a member of the Parish Assembly Family and Youth group.

Thanking you in advance,

Family & Youth Group

August 2013 Station Masses (updated)

Station Masses:

Friday Aug. 16th for Shanaway and Phale at the home of Mrs Joan Nyhan, An Gairdín Mór, at 7.30pm

Thursday Aug 22nd: for Ahiohill, Keel, Maulnarouga, Drombofinny, at the home of Ralph and Deirdre O’Regan at 12 noon.

(The Station Mass for Farnashisheree & Ardkitt at the home of Michael Pat and Margaret Crowley is in October.)