Author Archive: Bulletin Editor 2

Anniversaries

Anniversaries: David Kennedy, Phyllis Duggan, Tom Dunne, Jimmy & Nellie Glavin, Maura Daly, Tadgh Donegan.

Feast Days during the week

Friday 13th, St. Hilary of Poitiers, bishop and doctor of the Church. c.315 — c.367. He was elected (c.353) bishop of Poitiers and distinguished himself by his stand against heresy. In exile (356-359) by order of Emperor Constanius, he used…
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Pope’s Intentions for January

Pope’s Intentions for January: For Educators: “We pray that educators may be credible witnesses, teaching fraternity rather than competition and helping the youngest and most vulnerable above all.

Quote for the Week

“For he is the best student who does not read his thoughts into the book, but lets it reveal its own; who draws from it its sense, and does not import his own into it, nor force upon its word…
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The Baptism of the Lord

The Baptism of the Lord (from the liturgical calendar for the feast day). “Jesus is anointed with the Spirit and his power. He is proclaimed Messiah. He now goes about doing good, working the signs that make him known as…
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Pope Benedict XVI

Pope Benedict died on New Year’s Eve at 9.34am. 95 years old, virtually his whole life was dedicated to God. Joseph Ratzinger entered the ‘minor seminary’ when he was 12 and from then was linked in some way with God…
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Mass Times

Vigil Mass 6.10pm; Sunday 8am, 10am and 12 Noon. Weekday Masses, Monday 2nd to Thursday 5th January, 8am and 10am. Friday 6th, The Epiphany of the Lord, 10am, Noon and 7.30pm. Saturday 7th, 10am Confessions: Saturday Noon to 1pm in…
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Feast Days during the week

Monday 2nd January 2023, Ss. Basil the Great and Gregory Nazianzen, bishops and doctors of the Church. St Basil, 330-379, Bishop of Caesarea, lived an ascetic life establishing norms for monastic life. He was a theologian of distinction. St Gregory,…
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Pope’s Intentions for January

For Educators: “We pray that educators may be credible witnesses, teaching fraternity rather than competition and helping the youngest and most vulnerable above all.

Quote for the Week

“They who sow courtesy reap friendship, and they who plant kindness gather love.” St. Basil the Great

Feast Days during the week

Monday, 26th December, St Stephen, the first Christian martyr, was one of those in charge of the poor and needy. He is outstanding for his forgiveness of his enemies. Patron of deacons, stonemasons and bricklayers. Tuesday, 27th December, St John,…
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Quote for the week

“This is the revelation of God’s love for us, that God sent his only Son into the world that we might have life through him” 1 John 4: 9