Sunday Morning Cup of Tea

There is an invitation to everybody attending the 11.00 am. Masses on Sunday to join us for a cup of tea or coffee afterwards in Cafe Bell.
There is always a warm welcome and an opportunity to meet fellow worshippers.

We need volunteers to enable us to continue this. If you would like to help
please hand in your name and phone number at the Sacristy or Repository.

Exposition of the Blessed Sacrament
( in the St. John of the Cross Oratory)

Monday to Friday 6.15 pm – 7.00 pm
Sundays 12.00 pm - 1.00 pm.

All Welcome
Oratory is located in the courtyard of St Teresa's Church
Clarendon Street entrance (opposite Brown Thomas Carpark).

Bereavement Support Group

A new Bethany Support Group meets every Tuesday at 11.00am -12.00pm in the Edith Stein Room.

This group will break for the summer and will re-sume meetings on Tuesday 14th September 2010

 The name Bethany recalls the visit of Jesus to Mary and Martha on the death of their brother Lazarus.

In to-day's world, people tend to be unaware of the grief associated with bereavement. It is not widely understood that the grieving process may be long and severe. Understanding the stages of grief can be helpful and reassuring.

Although grieving is a natural process which can be helped by the sympathy and understanding of friends, sometimes one may need support to work through it in a positive way. Friends don't always know how to help; they may feel embarrassed by one's grief; they may even avoid meeting one in a mistaken belief that a meeting may increase distress.

It is quite normal to feel anger, guilt, fear and depression as well as the awful pain of loss. These feelings need to be expressed rather than repressed, to be talked out, cried over and put in some sort of perspective.

It helps the healing process to talk with a trained listener and confront the very strong feelings associated with grief. Many Bethany members have themselves been bereaved. They are trained to listen with understanding. They accept those suffering loss as they are, and support them through the grieving process.

For further information contact: Fr. David Donnelly or Mary at 01-6718466 or by email stteresa@ocd.ie

Prayer Groups at St Teresa's
( St. John of the Cross Oratory)

Monday: Elijah Fellowship 7.00 pm

Wednesday: Dignity of Life Holy Hour 7.00 pm

First Friday of the Month

Penitential service is at 11.30 to 12.00.  Exposition of the
Blessed Sacrament will begin after the 12.00 Mass until 5.00pm.

Lectio Divina

Two Lectio Divina Groups meet at St. Teresa's during the week. A group meet on Thursday morning at 11.30 in the St. John of the Cross Oratory  (beside Café Bell). Another group meet on Saturday evenings at 7.15 in the St. John of the Cross Oratory. All are welcome.

Come & Pray !

Pope John Paul II invited the Church to pray more, saying:

‘Prayer develops that conversation with Christ which makes us his intimate friends: “Abide in me and I in you”… Wrought in us by the Holy Spirit, this …opens us, through Christ and in Christ, to contemplation of the Father’s face. Learning this Trinitarian shape of Christian prayer and living it fully,
above all in the liturgy, the summit and source of the Church’s life, but also in personal experience, is the secret of a truly vital Christianity…’

If you would like to develop a more vital prayer life, you are invited to join in some of the prayer that surrounds the 11.30 Mass every Sunday in the St John of the Cross Oratory, which is at the back of the Church, under the organ loft, or off the courtyard beside Café Bell.

10.00 Praise and worship (St John of the Cross Oratory)
11.00 Mass (Main Church)
12.00 Eucharistic Adoration (until 1.00) (St John of the Cross Oratory)

This is for all ages, young and old, and all are welcome to come for all or for part of the time;
you might like to drop in after you have had some coffee in Café Bell.

Extraordinary Ministers of The Holy Communion
& The Ministry of Readers

We are looking for new members as Readers and Eucharistic ministers at St. Teresa’s
especially for the weekday Masses. Are you already a Minister of the Eucharist or Reader
and would you like to offer your services?
Would you like to present yourself for training as a Minister of the Eucharist or Reader?
If you are interested in becoming a lay minister in our Church,
please contact Fr. Prior or Mary at (01) 671 8466.
Email stteresa@ocd.ie

Active Retirement Association

The St. Teresa’s Active Retirement Association meets weekly in
St. Teresa's Pastoral Centre (above Cafe Bell)
on Wednesday from 10.30 am - 12.45 pm.
New members welcome.
For further information phone (01) 4978202 after 7pm.