PARISH NEWS…
WEEKLY OFFERTORY PROMISE The collection amounted to £1752.00 Thank you for your generous financial support. You can make your envelope contribution via the donate button on the Parish website home page also at www.stagnesbelfast.com
SPECIAL THANKS To all who volunteer in our Parish throughout the year. Thank you for your dedication and hard work it is greatly appreciated. We wish you and your families a Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year.
OFFICE HOLIDAYS The Parish office will be closed from Tuesday 23rd Dec and will re-open on Mon 5th Jan. There will be no parish bulletin on the weekend of 27th & 28th December. We would like to wish you all a very Happy Christmas and a Happy and Healthy 2026 and thank you for your continued support to our wonderful parish.
PARISH HALL The Seniors Tea Morning will recommence on Wed 7th Jan 2026
LIVE STREAMING If you would like to view the 5pm & 8pm Vigil or any other Masses over Christmas and New Year please go to www.stagnesbelfast.com
ST AGNES’ CHRISTMAS CARD is now available at the entrances of the church. The card contains all Christmas and New Year Mass times. Parishioners are invited to take one for their home. We extend our congratulations to Bella Sajil P6A who designed this year’s Christmas card.
Fr Raymond would like to wish you and your family
Christmas Joy and a Peaceful New Year.
MASS INTENTIONS
Sat 20 (6.30pm): Eamonn Friel, Margaret Hernan Eileen, Michael, Mairead & Martin
Darragh, Annie Simpson, Vera Mc Elroy, Martin Morgan jnr,
Paul Mc Keever.
Sun 21(9.30am): George Mc Crory
Sun 21(12.30pm) John Carberry, Helen Smyth, Thomas Alan Mc Cartney, Tom Anderson, Patricia Cairns, Doreen Clarke, Joseph Rogers, Raymond Crossey
Mon 22(10am): Priest’s intention
Tue 23: (10am) : Priest’s intention
Christmas Eve (10am): Special intention
Vigil: (5pm) : Priest’s intention
(8pm) : Priest’s intention
Christmas Day: (9.30am): Priest’s intention
(12noon): Priest’s intention
Fri 26(10am): Mary Hynes, Seamus Kennedy
Sat 27(1pm): Mass for deceased children & their families
their families
Sun 28( 9.30am & 12.30pm): Feast of the Holy Family
NB: In the event of a funeral, the assigned intention will be offered privately by the priest at his first available mass.
REMEMBER IN PRAYER
Recently Deceased: Patrick Mc Carthy RIP
Anniversaries: Eileen, Cornelius, Mary & Mary Ann Small, Grace Kemp, Patrick Pettigrew, Maura Mc Cartan, Ellen Frances Kelly, Mary King & Robinson family deceased, Margaret Kelly, George & Peggy O’ Donnell,
Gerard O’ Neill, Eugene Toner, Christopher Murphy, Mary Ellen Hanrahan, Ellen Smith, Colm & Brian Canning, Brendan Barber, Larry & Rose Mc Cahey, Gerry Mc Allister.
WHAT’S ON…
St Michael the Archangel 21st December @ 7.00pm Celtic Carols at Christmas
Presented by Davey Music
Free Admission with retiring collection in aid of Mary’s Meals.
Refreshments afterwards in St Michael’s Parish Hall
OPEN DAYS AND NIGHTS
ST LOUISE’S COLLEGE Open night Thurs 8th Jan 2026. Principals’ Address 4pm and 6.30pm
ST GENEVIEVE’S HIGH SCHOOL OPEN DAY. Thursday 8th Jan 2026
1-3pm Principal’s Address 1pm.
ST MARY’S CBGS OPEN NIGHTS Wed 14th & Thurs 15th Jan 2026 at 7pm.
ST DOMINIC’S OPEN DAY Saturday 10th Jan 2026. 9am-1pm. Principal’s Address 9.30am and 11am. Primary 6 and 7 pupils are welcome.
RATHMORE GRAMMER SCHOOL Open Day Saturday 17 January 2026. 9.30 am to 1.00 pm. Principal’s Address at 9..30 am & 11.15 am
Christmas Eve Vigil Mass Times In Our Pastoral Community.
St Teresa’s 8pm
Holy Spirit –5pm (family Mass)
St Matthias’-Christmas Day 10am
St Oliver Plunkett –5pm & 9pm
Hannahstown – 6pm
St Michael’s – 5pm & 7pm
CHRISTMAS DAY VIGIL FOR GAZA 11am on Christmas Morning outside Belfast City Hall organized by Christians for Palestine and Gaels against Genocide. Come along and stand for half an hour in support of peace and justice in Palestine carol singing will be led by members of the Sing for Justice Choir.
ST OLIVER PLUNKETT PARISH Come and bring in the New year with the Lord. Celebrate the end of 2025 & welcome 2026 with the celebration of Mass at 11pm. followed by a toast to 2026 afterwards in the Parish Hall. All welcome!
Bishop Alan McGuckian will celebrate the Rite of the Closing of the Jubilee Year with Mass at 3.00pm in St Peter’s Cathedral, Belfast on Sunday 4th January 2026. He would like to invite as many as possible, from across the Diocese, to join him for the Mass and some refreshments afterwards in St Comgall’s Centre. While the Jubilee Year of Hope will formally close, the task ahead will be to carry it’s Message of Hope with us into the New Year 2026.
CRIB OF HOPE Help deliver a Baby in Bethlehem this Christmas. Just 800 metres from the birthplace of Jesus there is one door that is always open to poor and destitute expectant mothers without descriminiation. All crib donations go directly to the Order of Malta Holy Family Hospital in Bethlehem, bringing hope, care, and new life to mothers and babies in need. Thank you for your kind donation
First Saturday Devotions will take place in St. Matthias’s Church, Glen Road on
Saturday,3rd January 2026
3pm Adoration of the Blessed Sacrament, Confessions. 4pm Holy Sacrifice of the Mass. Please come and bring a friend.
Act of Consecration
4.00 p.m. Holy Sacrifice of the Mass
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