Christmas Time in Mitchelstown Parish
Christmas Confession Times in Mitchelstown Parish
Christmas Mass Times in Mitchelstown Parish
EUCHARISTIC ADORATION
will close on Tuesday 24th December at 10.00am and resume after the 11am Mass on New Year’s Day, Wed 1st January.
Christmas Offerings for the Priests
You can use the Offering envelope supplied with this leaflet. The Priests wish to thank all the parishioners for their generosity to their collections.
Bambinelli Sunday
The tradition, called Bambinelli Sunday, was begun by Pope John Paul II, to take place on the third Sunday of Advent, or Gaudete Sunday. Following the Sunday Angelus address, the Holy Father blesses all the statues and figurines of Baby Jesus held up by the children in the crowd under the Holy Father’s window, which the children then take back to their homes to be placed under their Christmas Trees, waiting for Christmas Eve, when the Bambinelli can be placed in the Manger to mark the birth of the Baby Jesus. We invite the children of the Parish to bring their Baby Jesus to Mass on the 3 rd Sunday of Advent, 14th/15th December. After Mass we suggest that the Baby Jesus is wrapped up and placed under the Christmas Tree and on Christmas Day the youngest member of the Family places the Baby in the Crib.
Confession
Confession: It is important that we receive the Sacrament of Confession regularly; it keeps us in the Grace of God, as we face life’s difficulties and it prepares us for the day when the Lord will call us.