Anniversaries
Bob O’Donovan, John Troy, Martin Troy, Patrick Hickey, John Lane, John Walsh, Geraldine McCarthy (nee Holmes)
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Feast Days during the week
Monday 24th, The Blessed Virgin Mary, Mother of the Church: This feast day was introduced by Pope Francis and is to be celebrated every year on the day after Pentecost Sunday. Mary was present with the disciples at Pentecost, praying…
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Day of Prayer for the Church in China – Our Lady of Sheshan (24 May)
In a letter written to the faithful of the Catholic Church in China in May 2007, Pope Benedict XVI expressed the hope that the 24th May, the memorial of Our Lady Help of Christians who is venerated with such devotion…
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Pope’s Intentions for May
Universal Intention —- The World of Finance. “Let us pray that those who are in charge of finance will work with governments to regulate the financial sphere and protect citizens from its dangers.”
Answers to last week’s questions
1. Purple Dye trade. 2. Thursday. 3. 10th May. 4. Five. 5. Reconciliation and Anointing of the Sick.
Liturgical Information due to guidelines that are in place
Attendances at Weekday and Sunday Masses can be 100 if the ‘two hub’ system is put in place. If it is not, the number is 50. Implementing the system entails the hub in the top half of the Church being…
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Quote of the Week
“If you are guided by the Spirit you will be in no danger of yielding to self-indulgence, since self-indulgence is the opposite of the Spirit, the Spirit is totally against such a thing, and it is precisely because the two…
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Mass Times
Saturday Vigil 6.10pm Sunday 8am, 10am and Noon. Weekdays: Monday to Friday 8am and 10am; Saturday 10am.
Exposition of the Blessed Sacrament
Exposition of the Blessed Sacrament will take place from after 10am Mass on Wednesdays and Fridays unless there is a funeral when it will begin after the funeral. The Blessed Sacrament will be reposed at 7pm. Church closes at 7pm.
Anniversaries
Penny Conroy, Patrick (Pat) Sheehan, Ger & Rita Stack, Annette Thiney, Mary O’Brien
Pope’s Intentions for May
Universal Intention — The World of Finance. “Let us pray that those who are in charge of finance will work with governments to regulate the financial sphere and protect citizens from its dangers.”
Feast Days during the week
Tuesday 18th, Pope St. John I. He was the first Bishop of Rome to visit Constantinople. He spent a lot of his time as Pope dealing with people who were promoting heresies. He was imprisoned in Ravenna where he died…
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Quote of the Week
As he travelled around Italy preaching St. Bernardine came to the conclusion that — “It is not possible to reform the Church in general but in particular.”
Questions and Answers
Questions this week In one of the weekday Masses during the week, in the first reading taken from the Acts of the Apostles a woman named Lydia was mentioned. What trade did she work at? Before being moved to Sunday,…
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The Virtue of Hope
In this week’s second reading St. Paul addresses the Ephesians. This sentence is contained in it: “There is one Body, one Spirit, just as you were all called into one and the same hope when you were called.” It caught…
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