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Quote for the Week

“The specific aim of catechesis is to develop, with God’s help, an as yet initial faith, and to advance in fullness and to nourish day by day the Christian life of the faithful young and old.” – Pope Saint John…
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Mass Times

Sundays: Holy Rosary, Vigil 6.10pm Saturday evening; Morning 8am, 10am and Noon; Ballintotis, 10.30am Weekdays: Monday, being a bank holiday, 10am only; Tuesday to Friday 8am and 10am; Saturday 10am. Friday, being the first Friday, has an extra Mass: 7.30pm….
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Fratelli tutti

The last section of Chapter Seven deals with ‘War and the Death Penalty’. The Pope deals with these two issues in sixteen paragraphs (nn.255-270). N.255 gives a basic introduction to the section: “There are two extreme situations that may come…
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Feast Days during the week

Monday, 1st August, St Alphonsus Liguori, 1696-1787, founder of the Redemptorist Congregation, taught much on moral theology and the spiritual life. He is remembered as a popular preacher and influential writer of theology. Tuesday, 2nd August, St Eusebius of Vercelli,…
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Bible Corner

The first reading this weekend, taken from the book of Ecclesiastes, begins with a phrase that most of us would have heard. It is like a catchphrase — a well thought out statement to capture the attention and get people…
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Pope’s Intentions for August

For small businesses: We pray for small and medium businesses; in the midst of economic and social crisis, may they find ways to continue operating, and serving their communities.

Quote for the week

“I am thinking also of the wars waged by gossip and slanders. Speech can assassinate, a word can kill, but God educates us in the school of forgiveness.” Cardinal Robert Sarah “The Power of Silence” p.159

Mass Times

Sundays: Holy Rosary, Vigil 6.10pm Saturday evening; Morning 8am, 10am and Noon; Ballintotis, 10.30am Weekdays: Monday to Friday 8am and 10am; Saturday 10am. All Masses in Holy Rosary are televised on Saorview and streamed on the Internet. The Church is…
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Anniversaries

Anniversaries: John Cox, Patrick Cashman, Anne (Nan) O’Sullivan

Feast Days during the week

Monday 25th July, St. James, Apostle. Son of Zebedee and brother of John, called the Greater. He was put to death by Herod Agrippa about the year 44, being the first of the Apostles to die for Christ. His shrine…
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Pope’s Intentions for July

For the elderly. “We pray for the elderly, who represent the roots and memory of a people; may their experience and wisdom help young people to look towards the future with hope and responsibility.”

Bible Corner

This Sunday’s Gospel has Jesus praying and when he finishes, one of the disciples asks him to teach them how to pray. The result is the ‘Our Father’. It is prayed in every Mass. It is prayed in the morning…
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