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Sunday in Ordinary Time There
is that moment in things, where an occasion either
goes right or it turns horribly wrong. In the
case of a hometown return for Jesus, for a moment
or two it would appear that a warm celebration
of ‘hometown boy makes good’ is about
to erupt. But not so. What is about to happen
is rejection, the same kind of rejection that
would dog his trail all the way to Good Friday.
‘He could work no miracle there.’
It always seems that miracles do not evoke faith
so much as faith evokes miracles.
His
fellow Nazarenes couldn’t accept his humanity.
Neither could some early Christians who gave birth
to the first great heresy Docetism in the church.
It denied the humanity of Jesus. Enter the Nicene
Creed with it’s 'and was made man’
to counter it. We still say it every Sunday as
we still struggle with divine humanity. We want
a two-fisted God who comes up like thunder, and
we are offered by one who puts himself/herself
at our mercy and who now and then looks a lot
like our Uncle John. We can be blinded by familiarity
and worse paralyse others and reduce them to impotence,
by withdrawing our confidence.
How much energy have we suppressed or discouraged
? How much joy stifled All because ‘we knew
them’ or ‘it was tried before and
didn’t work.'
Copyright
Intercom Tom Cox |
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Feast
Days Of The Week
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11th |
St
Benedict, Abbot, patron
of Europe. He lived as a hermit before founding
a monastery at Monte Cassino
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| Thursday
13th |
St
Henry, Duke of Bavaria
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| Friday
14th |
St
Camillus de Lellis. Born
in Naples, he began life as a soldier and
set about caring for those wounded in battle
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| Saturday
15th |
St.
Bonaventure, Bishop and
Doctor of the Church. A Franciscan saint
and theologian of the thirteenth century |
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Goodbye
To Streetreach
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The
young people from Streetreach will be
with us for the 11.30am Mass. Since Wednesday
they have been with us in the parish community
painting out graffiti, litter picking,
brushing streets and alleyways and organising
games for children and directing a 5 aside
football competition for the teenagers.
Thanks
to them for everything they have done
and for the wonderful memories they have
left us.
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Apostolic
Work Society
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We
wish to thank all who supported
our sponsored walk
We raised £638.00
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First
Friday
This is the first Friday week the priests of the
parish will attend the sick & housebound as
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Living
Rosary
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The
next meeting for the
Living Rosary
will be held on
Saturday 8th July
after 10am Mass |
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St.
Anne’s Parish – Mass Changes
From 1st July 2006 Masses in St. Anne’s
Parish Church will be as follows:
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6.30pm
(Vigil); 10am & 12noon |
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Monday
at 7.30pm |
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Tuesday-Saturday
at 10am |
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The
3rd Francis McPeake International Summer School
2006
An inclusive week of Workshops, Recitals, Sessions,
Gigs, Musical Boat Tours, Ceilithe, Concerts
etc in Irish Traditional Music, Set Dancing
& Jazz Music For All Ages & All Levels.
Tutors for 2006 include Joe Burke, Donogh Hennessy,
Seamus Tansey, Jesse Smith BBC Best Jazz Award
Winner Ian Shaw, Martin Hayes & Denis Cahill
etc.
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Mother
and Toddler Group
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A
new Mother & Toddler
Group will be starting in
Hannahstown
Community Centre
on
Tuesday 12th September
For
further information contact Kathleen 9030
9795
between 10am - 12noon. |
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LIFE Pregnancy
Care Service
LIFE Pregnancy Care Service has vacancies for
volunteers in Pregnancy Care Centre Helpline Outreach.
Training provided, in effective communication
skills Course (OCN accredited) will start in September.
For further information contact LIFE 9043 8339. |
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Baptisms
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Baptisms today at
2pm. Next baptisms will take place on Sunday
16th July 2006 at 2.00pm.
The
next pre-Baptism instruction will be on
Thursday 6th July 2006 at 8pm in the convent.
It
is necessary to attend pre-Baptism preparation
before asking to have your child baptised.
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To
register for pre-Baptism preparation
please contact the parish office 9061 8180
Mon & Wed 2pm-5pm
Tue & Fri 10am-2pm &
Thurs 10am-1pm.
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We Loved
Them In Life
We
offer our sympathy and prayerful support
to the families of those parishioners who
died recently Eileen Gault, Damian Smyth,
Harry Dalton.
We pray for the happy repose of those whose
anniversaries occur around this time: Conor
Lynn, Brendan Gallagher, Joseph and Val
McCartney, Michael Brewster, Vera Mc Dermott,
John, Elisabeth and Mary Carey Bernard ONeill.
Frank and Neill Rooney, Sean, Isobella and
Bobby Hayse, Alice Turnball, Malachy Donaghy.
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Collections
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Last
week’s offertory collection amounted
to £1175.00
The
monthly stipend
amounted to £1168.03
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Bosnia
Orphanage Appeal
Mr Jim Murphy from St. Brigid’s parish is
collecting any unwanted foreign currency in aid
of an orphanage in Bosnia, if anyone has any and
wishes to donate it to this appeal please leave
it in the parish.
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