Parish Groups and Ministries
Find Support When You Need It. Give Support When You Can.
ACTIVE RETIREMENT
ALTAR SERVERS
BETHANY BEREAVEMENT SUPPORT GROUP
BOOKSHOP
CHOIRS
CHURCH CLEANERS
CHURCH GROUNDS MAINTENANCE
CITIZENS INFORMATION CENTRE
COFFEE DOCK
EUCHARISTIC MINISTERS
MINISTRY OF THE WORD
PADRE PIO PRAYER GROUP
PARISH BAPTISM TEAM
PARISH COMMUNITY CENTRE
PIONEERS
SOCIETY OF ST. VINCENT DE PAUL
SOCIETY OF SIMON OF CYRENE
Active Retirement
This group started in 1989, with the aim of encouraging senior citizens to enjoy an active retirement. The Group holds a meeting every second Monday in the Parish Centre. Many outings and activities are organised, including the theatre, visits to places of interest and holidays. There are up to 70 members, who elect a Committee every year. The group is self-supporting. Members pay an annual membership fee and also pay for their own outings and activities.
For further information, please contact the Parish Office on 01 288 4009.
Altar Servers
Our altar servers serve at all the ceremonies, which take place in our Church. They are recruited every year in October. It is open to both boys and girls who have made their First Holy Communion. Training is given before anyone starts to serve.
For further information or to volunteer for this group, please contact the Parish Office on 01 288 4009.
Bethany Bereavement Support Group
This group was established in the Parish in 1997 and is a voluntary parish-based Ministry, which aims to help the bereaved and grieving by offering support and a listening ear. They offer one-to-one appointments by arrangement. A group meeting is held on the last Wednesday of each month at 8.00 p.m. in the Parish Centre.
For further information or to volunteer for this group, please contact the Parish Office on 01 288 4009.
Bookshop
The bookshop is positioned in the Parish Office and is open during Parish Office opening hours. The Bookshop offers a selection of seasonal books for adults, Children’s books and bibles, Mass Cards, Greeting Cards, Baptismal Candles, Prayer Books, Rosary Beads, etc.
For further information please contact the Parish Office on 01 288 4009.
Choirs
Kilmacud Parish has two choirs:
The Sunday 11.30 a.m. Choir who practice on Sunday mornings from 10.30 a.m.
The Saturday 6 p.m. Youth Choir who practice from 5.00 p.m. on Saturdays.
Read more about the Youth Choir here.
For further information or to volunteer for these groups, please contact the Parish Office on 01 288 4009.
Church Cleaners
This group is made up of volunteers who assist in the general care of the Church on a weekly basis. They meet on a Wednesday morning at 9.00 a.m. for one hour approximately. Offers of new help are always welcome.
For further information or to volunteer for this group, please contact the Parish Office on 01 288 4009.
Church Grounds Maintenance
This group meet at 10.00 a.m. on a Tuesday morning and they keep the grounds by mowing the grass, weeding the flowerbeds, cutting the hedges and keeping the area clean.
For further information or to volunteer for this group, please contact the Parish Office 01 288 4009.
Citizens Information Centre
This is a Free and Confidential Service offering information on Social Welfare Entitlements, Consumer Issues, Health, Housing Family Matters, Disability Services, Employment Rights, Local Information and we also have a Tax Advice Clinic (by appointment). It is located in the Parish Centre and is open on Monday and Thursday afternoons from 2.00 p.m. – 4.30 p.m. and on Tuesday, Wednesday and Friday mornings from 10.00 a.m. to 1.00 p.m.
For further information, please call 076 107 7440.
Coffee Dock
The Coffee Dock is situated in the Parish Centre and is open every morning after Mass. It is manned by volunteers and new help is always very welcome.
For further information or to volunteer for this group, please contact the Parish Office on 01 288 4009.
Eucharistic Ministers
A team of Lay Ministers of the Eucharist assist with the distribution of Holy Communion during Mass. They also bring Holy Communion to the Housebound of the Parish. New Ministers attend a training course before they are commissioned and are commissioned for four years.
For further information or to volunteer for this group, please contact the Parish Office on 01 288 4009.
Ministry of the Word
We read at the weekend masses and as required at Christmas and Easter.
There is always a requirement for readers. We currently have a very committed group, many of whom have been reading for several years. New readers are always welcome. If you’re in a position to commit to even one Sunday a month your help would be greatly appreciated.
Currently we read twice or three times in a two monthly period.
For further information, please contact Mary MacGrory via the Parish Office on 01 288 4009.
Padre Pio Prayer Group
The purpose of the group is to encourage prayer through association with Saint Pio. The group meets on the fourth Wednesday of the month for the 10.00 a.m. Mass. A first class relic of the Saint is available to be brought, on request, to the sick.
For further information or to volunteer for this group, please contact the Parish Office on 01 288 4009.
Parish Baptism Team
The Parish Baptism team is a group of parishioners who help families prepare for the sacrament of Baptism.
Initial application for Baptism is made through the Parish Office who then pass on the family details to the Baptism team.
The Baptism team will:
Visit the family home in the week before the Baptism and talk you through all aspects of the ceremony.
Be present at the ceremony to assist the family and the priest.
Answer any questions you might have and give any assistance necessary.
To book a Baptism please contact the Parish office. Baptisms are held on the first Saturday and third Sunday of each month.
If you would like to be part of this team please contact Siobhan Harmon at kilmacudparishoffice@gmail.com. Volunteers work as part of a two-person team and usually involves, at most, three family visits in the week before the Baptism and occasional attendance at the Baptism ceremony. Volunteers are rostered for circa six Baptisms per year.
Parish Community Centre
For information on the Parish Centre, please contact Helen Horan on 01 283 1716.
Pioneers
The object of the Association is the promotion of sobriety. Those who join undertake to abstain from alcoholic drink, recite the Heroic Offering morning and night and wear the Pioneer Pin. The Kilmacud Branch was founded in 1917 and is now attached to the Parish Church.
For further information or to volunteer for this group, please contact the Parish Office on 01 288 4009.
Society of St. Vincent de Paul
The poor have always found a friend with the St. Vincent de Paul Society. The Conference in this parish meets twice a month. We do not discriminate against anybody regardless of age, sex, race etc. We help everyone. “No act of charity is foreign to the Society”. The essential work of the society is person-to-person contact. Home visitation is the cornerstone of our work. We offer tangible assistance to those in need. This aid may take the form of debt management and budgeting, food vouchers, money, help with educational costs, fuel and other home utilities. All this work is done while maintaining the confidentiality and dignity of those we help.
If you need help, it’s easy! Just call 087 163 9052 or 01 838 6990.
Society of Simon of Cyrene
A Parish-based visitation Ministry founded in 2000, in Kilmacud Parish. The Society aims to serve parishioners who are sick, elderly, living alone, housebound or in nursing homes through regular visits where we listen, we share, we hear and we care.
For further information, please contact the Parish Office on 01 288 4009.
Visitors
Volunteers from the Society will visit parishioners (our Simon Friends) at their request in their home, in hospitals and in nursing homes, over the short, medium and long term.
For further information, please contact the Parish Office on 01 288 4009.
Sacraments
The Society will also help in arranging for parishioners to receive the Sacraments.
For further information, please contact the Parish Office on 01 288 4009.
Visitor Information Forms
Visitor Information Forms outlining visiting and other services can be obtained in local chemist shops and in local doctors’ waiting rooms as well as at the bookshop.
To avail of any of the services, fill in the short form in the brochure and hand it to one of the Priests or leave it in to the Parish Office or Sacristy.
For further information or to volunteer for this group, please contact the Parish Office on 01 288 4009.
