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Date Church Time
Saturday 31st Oct Ardaghey 10:00am Holy Mass followed by Confession 10:30 – 11am Ardaghey 6:00pm Jack Jordan Annie Maguire Joanna and Francis McGroarty Drimarone 7:30pm Patsy Keeney
Sunday 1st November All Saints Frosses 10:00am Novena Mass Mountcharles 11:30am Novena Mass
Monday 2nd Nov All Souls Mountcharles 10:00am Novena Mass Ardaghey 10:00am Novena Mass Frosses 7:00pm Novena Mass Drimarone 7:30pm Novena Mass
Tuesday 3rd Nov Frosses 10:00am Novena Mass
Wednesday 4th Nov Ardaghey 10:00am Novena Mass
Thursday 5th Nov Drimarone 10:00am Novena Mass
Friday 6th Nov Frosses 10:00am Novena Mass Mountcharles 3:00pm Adoration, Confession and Benediction
Saturday 7th Nov Ardaghey 10:00am Holy Mass followed by Confession 10:30 – 11am Frosses 11:00am Funeral Mass of Catherine Tully Ardaghey 3:00pm Baptism Ardaghey 6:00pm Novena Mass Drimarone 7:30pm Novena Mass
Sunday 8th Nov Frosses 10:00am Novena Mass Mountcharles 11:30am Novena Mass Mountcharles 3:00pm Baptism EUCHARISTIC ADORATION Tuesdays Frosses 10:30am –11:30am Thursdays Ardaghey 7:00pm – 8:00pm Fridays Mountcharles 3:00pm – 4:00pm THE ST VINCENT DE PAUL SOCIETY : Frosses and Inver Area: CONFIDENTIAL NUMBER 087 7020601
Mountcharles and Drimarone Area : CONFIDENTIAL NUMBER 086 1690524
Naomh Naille GAA & LGFA SLOTTO . https://member.clubspot.app/club/st-nauls-gaa/fundraisers Data; 25 Deireadh Fómhair Torthaí Slotto na seachtaine, ní raibh buaiteoir ar bith ar an Phota Óir . Is iad na h-uimhreacha: 2-6-4-5-3-7-1 Duais aitheantais €80.00 Comhgairdeas le Claire McInaw Don’t forget to get your ticket for next week: Londis Mountcharles, Cassidy’s of Inver or from our online platform through St Naul's Club A pp. Thank you for your continued support. €12,8 80 in this week’s pot!
Our U21 Team were successful in their first 2 championship games . They now play Gaeil Fanad at home on
Saturday 7th November at 1pm. CHURCH COLLECTIONS : Thank you for your support Ardaghey: €792 Additional Mission Sunday €50 Mountcharles : €699 Additional Mission Sunday € 66 Building Fund € 135 Frosses : €1000 Mission Sunday € 300 The Bluestack Centre Drimarone F94 C9YN ,
www.donegalbluestacks.ie Music & Moves returns on
Monday 2nd November at 11am. Everyone is welcome.
Physio Eireann chair exercise class continues every Tuesday.
New members welcome. From 12:00 to 1:00pm. Indoor Bowls every Tuesday night at 8.00pm. New members welcome.
Bingo on Wednesday night, November 4th at 8.30pm. Total prize money: €2150. Jackpot €1150 on 52 numbers or less.
Everyone is welcome. Thursday Night Ceili dancing : 8:00pm to 9:15pm. Everyone is welcome.
Save the date : Christmas Fayre, Sunday, November 29th, 11:00am to 4:30pm. Inver Community Centre 0749736166
Mobile: 0873567931
invercommunitycentre@gmail.com Magic Minds with Susan and her team: Every weekday, bringing fun, learning, creativity and plenty of smiles to the Centre.
Monday: Pilates with Physio Eireann: 8pm –9pm. Tuesday: Active Age: 11am –2pm. Keep Fit: 6:30pm –8:30pm. Wednesday: Stronger Her with Physio Eireann: 10am –11am. Patchwork with Marion McGinley: 7pm onwards.
Line Dancing: from 7:30pm –10pm. Thursday: Keep Fit: 6:30pm –8:30pm. Saturday: Art Classes with Ana Stromberg: 11:30am onwards.
Everyone is welcome SOLT CHRISTMAS CARDS: A novena of 9 Masses will be said by Fr Morty beginning on Christmas Day.
If you would like to enrol someone in this novena and send that person a corresponding Christmas card, please pick one up from Cassidy’s Shop, Inver and drop off the name of the person to be included.
Recommended donation per card is €3 which will support the SOLT sisters’ missions and seminarian training fund. (SOLT is Fr Morty’s religious order.
Other intentions can be included in the novena too.
The Friends of Letterkenny University Hospital would like to thank all those who supported our annual church gate collection held recently at Church of the Holy Redeemer, Drimarone . A sum of €227.00 was collected PARISH OF INVER
Saturday 31st Oct –
Sunday 1st November 2026 ~ 31ST SUNDAY IN ORDINARY TIME – ALL SAINTS ~ Year A Fr Liam Boyle, PP, Parochial House, Frosses
074 9736006 – In case of emergency only ring 089 9712498
Fr Morty O’Shea SOLT, CC, Parochial House, Ardaghey
inverparish@gmail.com Website: www.inverparish.com St Naul’s Ardaghey Choir practice Thursdays at 8 o'clock in St. Naul's Church.
If anyone interested in singing and would like to join do please come along, be delighted to welcome new members.
If God gave you the gift of a singing voice, what better way to useit, so please come along and lend your help, thank you.
FROSSES MISSION SALE It has not been possible to hold Sale in Hall this year.
However the fund remains open to help the clinic in Kenya founded by the late Sr Brigd, Sr Elieen’s mission in Cape Town, The SMA Fathers and many others.
Donated items will be on sale at my Mission Stall at the Christmas Craft Fair.
Donations, enquiries to Helen Meehan [Coolum] 0749735125
POPE LEO: GOD WANTS A PERSONAL RELATIONSHIP WITH US; KNOWING ABOUT HIM IS NOT ENOUGH: The human heart will find fulfilment in communion with the Lord, Who “seeks a personal relationship with us,” Pope Leo XIV said during his Oct. 25 Angelus address.
He encouraged responding to God’s love with one’s whole heart, soul, and mind, as Jesus said . Visit tiny.cc/PL14GPRS .
Bernard Ward , Mountcharles Bernard (Brian) Gillespie , Kilkenny and Drimarone November Novena Masses for the Faithful Departed will be offered in the Parish this year, starting on Sunday, 1st November.
Lists and envelopes are available in the Churches.
We thank you for the generosity that is shown each year.
It is important to know that this is in no way obligatory.
Regardless of where your envelopes are placed the Novena Masses will be offered for all the enrolled in the parish.
There will be a mass in Christ The King Church, Gortahork, on
Sunday 15/11/2026 at 11.00 a.m. for families who have lost someone or people in road accidents.
Send an email to tpcr1906@gmail.com to add their name to the prayer list before
Friday 30/10/2026. SUPPORTING YOUR CHURCH Please consider making your contributions by online banking, standing order/direct debit when supporting your Church.
Please include your name as the reference . Thank you for supporting your Church.
Bank details for each Church as follows: Frosses : Inver Parish Account IBAN: IE75 BOFI 9048 3556 8662 33
Frosses Development Fund Account: IBAN IE92 DTCU 9921 3010 1932 56 (Building Fund) Ardaghey : St Nauls Ardaghey IBAN: IE79 BOFI 9048 3556 8661 61
Mountcharles : Mountcharles Church Account IBAN: IE08 BOFI 9048 3556 8660 81
Drimarone : Drimarone Church Account IBAN: IE22 BOFI 9048 3556 8662 17
SAVE THE DATE Annual Frosses Hall Bazaar will be held on
Sunday 22nd Nov. More details to follow.
Fr Gallagher’s Holy Well, Ballymacahill, Frosses Holy Souls Rosary is continuing at Fr Gallagher's Holy Well every Sunday at 4:00pm for the month of November . PRO LIFE WITNESS at the roundabout near Letterkenny Hospital this
Friday 6th Nov 1-2pm. See Fr Morty. Mountcharles Eucharistic Ministers for November: Dan McMonagle and John Carr Donegal Town Credit Union 4 x €1500 Gifts to Student Members – List of winners: Tara Connolly, Donegal Odhran Meehan, Inver Anna Foster McDaid, Barnesmore Turlagh McDevitt , Inver Student Bursary is how we give back to our Members and Community and is available for any student member to apply In August-October.
FROSSES ENROLMENT 2027 Anyone wishing to apply to have their child enrolled in Frosses in September 2027 should contact the school for an Application Form as soon as possible.
There are After School Facilities available in Frosses National School.
074 97 36514 or email to frossesschool@gmail.com Adoration in Church of the Sacred Heart, Mountcharles . Fr. Boyle would be open to ideas regarding the time of Adoration in Mountcharles.
The following options could be considered: 10:30am-11:30am on Mondays (after Monday morning Mass) or the current time of 3pm- 4pm on Friday or Friday evenings 7:30pm-8:30pm. The Annual Raphoe Diocesan Society Mass will take place on
Tuesday 17th November in St Columba’s Church, Glenswilly at 7.30pm. Celebrant Most Rev Niall Coll, Bishop of Raphoe.
All welcome. To enrol a person in the Raphoe Diocesan Society, contact Fr Liam . The enrolment fee is €15 per person living or deceased.
Notices of community/non-commercial nature are always welcome for our newsletter.
Email inverparish@gmail.com , deadline 12noon on Thursday.
PAROCHIALHOUSETEL . NO’S: Frosses: 074 9736006 | Ardaghey 074 9736007
Killymard: 074 9721929 | Donegal Town: 074 9721026 | Killybegs: 074 9731013 80s Extravaganza for Donegal Hospice at the Abbey Hotel, Donegal Town on
Saturday 28th November. 6 DJs and The Stephen Bennet Band.
Paul Harvey and The Carr, Hughes and Furey families have come together to raise funds for Donegal Hospice in memory of loved ones.
Tickets https://backtothe80sforhospice.eventbrite.com/ or from The Abbey Hotel Inver Rowing Club are holding a Quiz Night on
Saturday 21st November 2026 at 9.30pm in The Rising Tide Bar, Inver. Everyone welcome! Inver https://www.inverparish.com/parish-newsletter.html
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WE EXTEND OUR DEEP EST SYMPATHY to the families of Seamus Mulhern, Michael D. Doherty (Raphoe) , Rose Margaret Toland , Bridie Gallagher & Fr Brian Logue (Kincasslagh & Motherwell Diocese) who died recently.
May they rest in peace. CONFESSIONS: 12noon - 1pm and after the 6.30pm Mass on Saturday each week.
PLEASE THE DOORS of the church after you enter or exit in order to keep the church warm as we enter into the colder weather.
Thank you. ABIDE WOMEN'S CON FEREN CE, 20–22 November.
Join hundreds of women at the Great Northern Hotel, Bundoran, Co. Donegal for our third Abide Women's Conference! . Speakers include Sarah Swafford, Danielle Noonan, Kimberlee Woo Ling, Fr Oisín Martin CFR, Fr Barry Braum, the Nashville Dominican Sisters, Fr David Nugent and Fr Mark Wharton, with Holy Mass celebrated by Bishop Fintan Gavin.
Register now: https://abideinhislove.eventbrite.com/ A beautiful weekend of faith, celebration, healing and joy!
Register on Eventbrite: Abide in His Love.
A REMEMB RANCE SERVICE FOR THE DEA Dwill be held here in the Church today,
Sunday 1st November at 7.00pm. All are welcome to come and pray for their deceased loved ones . FIRST FRIDA Y: Fr Ciaran & Fr Dominic will visit the sick and housebound of the parish on
Thursday 5th &
Friday 6th November. AID TO THE CHURCH IN NEED WEEK OF WITNES S, 15th – 22nd November . 220 million Christians live in countries where they are directly exposed to persecution for their faith, while 413 million Christians live in countries where religious free dom is severely violated.
Join us in standing with them in prayerful solidarity, especially on RED WEDNE SDAY, 18th November, where we invite you to wear something red, light a red candle in your window and pray for their welfare.
For more in formation go to acnireland.org.
MEN’S ROSARY,
Saturday 7th of November at 1.00pm at the Market Square, Letterkenny . Please bring a friend or two.
THE FRIEN DS OF LUH wish to thank all those who supported our recent annual church gate collection.
A sum of €956 was collected. CARMEL ITE OPEN DAY: A Day of Prayer, Reflection and sharing with the Carmelite Friars and Nuns, for men and women, aged: 18-40 will take place on
Saturday 21st November from 10.30am - 4.30pm in the Avila Retreat Centre, Donnybrook, Dublin. Registration by 15th November. Please
opendayavila@gmail.com . ADORA TION OF THE MOST BLESSED SACRA MEN Ttakes place here in the Irish Martyrs every Wednesday from 10am to 9.00pm and also on the first Saturday of every month (for the protection of life) from 7.30pm to 9.30am on Sunday.
We need more people to commit to spending an hour with the Lord during these times.
If you can commit to an hour, please contact Robert for the Wednesday Adoration on 086 2285800 and Siobhan, for the first Saturday Adoration on 086 374862 7. Alternatively, leave your name and number in the office and we will pass it along.
VOLUNTEERS REQU IRED for Cara House FRC befriending service – visiting elderly people in their home to prevent loneliness . Good English and own transport required.
Contact Katie at 083 863 8315 or befriending@carahouse.ie . SAFEFOO D’S APPETI TE FOR CHANGE exhibition will be in Letterkenny library from 29 October – 10 November 2026. Come and see people’s vision for a healthier food environment.
THE ANNUAL RAPHOE DIOCESAN SOCIETY MASS for deceased members of the society, will take place on Tuesday the 17th of November 2026 in St Columba’s Church, Glenswilly at 7.30pm. Main celebrant Bishop Niall Coll.
To enrol a person in the RDS (Living or Deceased), please talk to one of the priests , call to the office or
rds@raphoediocese.ie . Enrolment fee is €15 per person living or deceased.
Church of the Irish Martyrs Fr Ciaran Harkin P. P./Fr Dominic Thoomkuzhy Ballyraine, Letterkenny. 074 91 27600 ; irishmartyrschurch@gmail.com Newsletter 1st November 2026 31st October Saturday Vigil Mass 9.30am 6.30pm Jose Antony RIP Private Intention 1st November
Sunday 9.30am 11.30am 5.00pm 7.00pm For the intentions of all parishioners Seán Ó’h Aodha RIP Mass for Syro Malabar Community Service for the Deceased 2nd November
Monday 9.30am Mass for the Holy Souls in Purgatory 3rd November
Tuesday 9.30am Mass for the Holy Souls in Purgatory 4th November
Wednesday 9.30am Mass for the Holy Souls in Purgatory 5th November
Thursday 9.30am Mass for the Holy Souls in Purgatory 6th November
Friday 9.30am 7.00pm Mass for the Holy Souls in Purgatory Peter Patton RIP, 1st anniversary 7th November Saturday Vigil Mass 9.30am 6.30pm Mass for the Holy Souls in Purgatory Sabina Fuery RIP 8th November
Sunday 9.30am 11.30am 7.00pm For the intentions of all parishioners Danny Bennis RIP Service for the deceased If you wish to donate to the Church online, you can do so by scanning the QR Code to the left and following the Instructions on the online form.
Thank you. Irish Martyrs https://drive.google.com/file/d/1m6sOGz3dECWvbbpXCnRGdHG77yWiLXxR/view
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ALL SAINTS 01.11.20: St. Patrick's Church
Saturday 31*t 10 am Paddy Brennan, Ernedale Heights 6.15pm | John McGee, Bonahill Michael John & Josephine Doogan, Kildoney Pauline Kane, Ernedale Heights Marie McGrory, Belleek & Cluain Barron Bridget Quinn, Mullins Eamon & Audrey Sheerin, Cloghore
Sunday 1st November 9.00am Populo liam Margaret Gallagher, Coolcholl
Monday 2"¢ 9.30am | Novena for the Dead 6.15 All Souls
Tuesday 34 19.30 am | Novena for the Dead Wednesday 4t | Novena for the Dead
Thursday 5th [9.30.am | Novena for the Dead Friday 6t" [9-30am | Novena for the Dead
Saturday 7 All Souls Eamon Hodgins, Saimer Drive Patricia Dolan John Larkin, Assaroe View James, Mae & Liam Hoey, Donegal Road Frank McCurtin, The Mall
Sunday 8th 9.00am | Pro Populo / All Souls McCafferty, Lisahull St. Mary”s, Cashelard
Sunday 1st November [10am —[Priest's Intention Sunday 8t* [10am _Priest’s Intention Minister of the Word Training evening for current Ministers of the Word with Jennifer Breslin on Tuesday, November 10" from 6.30pm - 7.30 pm in the Pastoral Centre.
Any new members interested in becoming a Minister invited to come along. back i NIRDARKKUN Bos PARISH [est V BALLYSHANNON Johnny Moore
Sunil Joseph
089 4519740-arish Office 98 51295-arish
ballyshannon@raphoediocese.ie cp
i Died Recently Jim McGarrigle, Coolcholly (Funeral on Sunday at | 1am in St. Patrick's) Ronan Treanor, formerly Ballyshannon Jenevieve Tinney, Ashbrook Drive Molly Reynolds, Creevy James Gormley, Ernedale Heights John Reynolds, Knather First Anniversary Margaret Gallagher, Inbhera na Mara and formerly Coolcholly Eternal Rest Grant unto.
Them Ó Lord Adoration of Blessed Sacrament in St. Barron’s Oratory Wednesdays 10 am — 1 pm & 6 - 9pm Visitation of the Sick The Parish Clergy will make their house calls to th sick and housebound during this coming week.
Sacrament of Baptism We welcome to our parish faith family the following who were baptised recently Derek Dinu, St. Benildus Avenue Francis Edward Branley and Cillian James Branley, Clontyseer Your Contribution to the Parish
Sunday 25th October: €1,851 Many thanks for your continued support can To (®@)Churchservices.tv/stpatricksballyshannon 6 www.kilbarronparish.ie 4 Jonate f Kilbarron Parish Ballyshannon Charity No: CHY 7373 RCN 20015916 3
From Father's Desh Tom Father's Desk i All Saints’ Day: Called to Holiness The Commemoration of All the Faithful Departed On November 1, the Church celebrates the (All Souls’ Day) I Solemnity of All Saints - a joyful feast honouring all On November 2, the Church remembers all the those who have entered the glory of heaven, faithful departed and entrusts them to the loving including the many saints known only to God. mercy of God.
We pray especially for those who The saints remind us that holiness is not reserved have died in God’s grace but still need purification for a select few.
Through God $ grace, every before entering the fullness of heaven.
The Christian is called to become more like Christ Catechism teaches that these souls are assured of . in faith, hope, charity, and service. eternal salvation, yet undergo purification “soas.
Jesus gives us the pattern of holiness in the to achieve the holiness necessary to enter the joy of Beatitudes: humility, gentleness, hunger for heaven” (CCC 1030). | righteousness, mercy, purity of heart, peacemaking, | Our prayers for the dead are an expression of faith and perseverance amid suffering (Mt 5:3—12). in the Communion of Saints—the spiritual unity of These virtues express the self-giving love that leads | the Church on earth, the souls being purified, and | us toward the Kingdom of Heaven. the saints in heaven.
Scripture presents prayer and | The saints are not distant from us.
They belong with sacrifi ce for the dead as a holy and hopeful us to the Communion of Saints, the one Mystical || practice (2 Mac 12:41-46), and St. Paul prays that | Body of Christ. Their example inspires us, and their the Lord may show mercoy. to thie deceased prayers draw us closer to Christ, the source of Onesiphorus “on that day” (2 Tim 1:16-18) every grace.2 As St. Paul teaches, “If one member | At every Mass, the Church prays for “our brothers suffers, all suffer together; if one member is & sisters who have fallen asleep in the hope of the honoured, all rejoice together” (1 Cor 12:26). resurrection” and asks God to welcome them “into This feast also points us toward our eternal destiny, | he light of [his] face.” We can unite ourselves to Heaven is the kingdom of love, joy, beauty, and this prayer by offering Masses, praying. for our communion - a universal family gathered around deceased loved ones, visiting their graves, and God and united in Christ. Let us ask the saints to performing works of charity in their memory. pray for us and renew our commitment to holiness | All Souls’ Day is not a day without hope.
Because in the ordinary circumstances of daily life: at home, |. Christ has conquered death, we believe that death at work, in our parish, and through service to those does not have the final word.
Jesus’ promise is id in need. eternal life in the Kingdom of God - a conmunion & All you holy men and women, pray Íorus! of love, joy, & peace with God & all the redeemed.
Eternal rest grant unto them, O Lord, Novena for the Dead and let piete light shine upon them. 2 Starts Monday, 2" November and continues May the souls of all the faithful departed, bá on the 3rd, 4th.
Sth , 6th (at 9.30 am) 7" (at 10 am) through the mercy of God, rest in peace.
Amen. ig 8" (at 9 am) 9" and 10" (at 9.30 am Mass 2 ( aimel at A Scoll Chaitriona Fundraisar 2 I Fair 9 Prediction aise — 8 Franciscan Friary, Rossnowlagh —'Suweeks in the game, €500 prize!
Every €10 | & Healing Service entry card buys vital sensory eguipment for the & This Sunday, 1“ November starting with Rosary at school’s new Autism Class.
Cards can be bought | 8 2.45pm and followed by Mass/Anointing at 3pm. —from Finn McCools, Finnegan’s Shop (any | 8 Confessions before & after Mass.
All are welcome. staff member) or parent.
Please return by Nov. 6"
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