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FINAL preparations for the parish mission are underway in Ballyna- cally and Lissycasey.
Services will commence Saturday May 12 in Ballycorick Church and Lissycasey Church.
It is the fist time in four years the mission is being held and it is hoped that people new to area will get in- volved. Fr Tony Flannery, Fr Jimmy Buckley, will celebrate masses. In a new departure for the mission a lay- person – Anne O’Toole – will assist with the service.
The population in the area has ris- en to 2,000 and organisers hope that newcomers will come along over the
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Pastoral council member Mary Hestor said there was an open invita- tion to everyone in the parish.
She also hopes the mission will of- fer solace to those people whose lives have been touched by tragedy.
“We hope to appeal to newcomers who might have moved to the par- ish in recent years and those who are living on the periphery. We hope that the mission will also bring sol- ace and healing to those who are bereaved and especially those who have lost young people in the prime of their life since the last mission. We also would like to remember the aged, the housebound and the lonely and those who feel isolated in the
community.”
There will be morning masses in both churches at 7am and 10am. The missionaries will preach at all mass- es on May 12-13.
Mass will take place at Ballycorick church on Sunday, Monday, Tues- day and Wednesday at 7pm and on Thursday, Friday and Saturday at 8.30pm
Mass will take place at Lissycasey church on Sunday, Monday, Tues- day and Wednesday at 8.30pm and on Thursday, Friday and Saturday at 8.30pm.
A series of different services will be celebrated over the week. Mon- day; Christ the healer, Tuesday; social gospel, Wednesday; right of
conciliation; Thursday; youth night; Friday; remembering the dead.
The council is also looking for young people in their mid-teens or early twenties to present the mission on Wednesday night. Names should be submitted by Sunday May 13.