23rd Sunday in Ordinary Time

The internationally recognized Marian Shrine of Knock, Co Mayo some 1.5 million people visit every year.

The story of Knock began on 21st August 1879 when Our Lady, St. Joseph and St. John the Evangelist, an altar with a cross and a lamb with adoring angels appeared at the south gable of Knock Parish Church. The apparition was witnessed by fifteen people, young and old.

For the deaf community who go on pilgrimage here, Knock has a special significance, as it was a silent apparition. No voice, no message, just the apparition. It is enough, for we live in a deafening world. The noise of machines is sometimes hard to bear, but far more deafening is the insistence of the human voice. It is almost impossible to escape from it. Every age, no doubt, talked its full; but we having ways of storing, multiplying, amplifying, broadcasting the voice now till it fills every crevice in our lives. How will the word of God penetrate our noise? It is not just to that unnamed man of the gospel that Jesus sighs heavenward and says ‘Be opened.’ In what and where have we shut him out?

Copyright Intercom Fr. T. Cox

CELEBRATING 30 YEARS OF ST OLIVER PLUNKETT PARISH

1976-2006

Cloona Oasis Centre
30 – 31 Colin Road
Teeling Roundabout
Poleglass
are holding an open day on
Monday 12th September
from 10am – 2pm
for anyone interested in enrolling
in one the various classes they have on offer.
Telephone 90 624 923

Blood Transfusion

Coming to St. Michael’s Parish Centre on Friday 15th September 2006 between 2pm-4.30pm & 5.45pm-8pm.

New Donors needed

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Belfast Beginning Experience

Belfast Beginning Experience provides support for those who are widowed, separated or divorced. Weekly meetings will be held each Wednesday evening from 8pm – 10pm, running for 10 weeks, in St. Brigid’s Parochial Hall, Derryvolgie Avenue, starting Wednesday 20th September. Further information 9048 3033.

The Vision Programme

The Vision Programme is coming soon. Centred on the beatitudes, it is a great opportunity to see yourself and your life in a new light. It gives you the power to move from scarcity to abundance, from ‘it’s hard’ to ‘it’s an opportunity’, from ‘I can’t to ‘I can’.

Venue: Parish Centre, Church Grounds, Lagmore
on
Saturday 23 September
10am—6pm, enrol 9.30.
Monday 25 September
7.30pm—9.30pm.
Cost: £25.00.

PHOTOGRAPH APPEAL

As part of the 30th Anniversary of St Oliver Plunkett Parish celebrations in October, the organising committee would like to put together a display of photographs depicting Sacramental life in our Parish over the last 30 years. Photographs of Baptism, First Communions, Confirmations and Marriages, would be most welcome and anyone willing to lend a photograph will have them returned.

Photographs should be left into the Parish Office before the end of September with your name and address written on the back of them to ensure their safe return.

We thank you most sincerely in anticipation of your contribution to this event.

Baptisms

Next baptisms will take place on Sunday 17th September 2006 at 2.00pm. Please note the next date available for Baptism is Sunday 15th October 2006. The next pre-Baptism instruction will be on Thursday 21st September 2006 at 8pm in the convent.
To register for pre-Baptism preparation please contact the parish office 9061 8180 Mon & Wed 2pm-5pm Tue & Fri 10am-2pm & Thurs 10am-1pm. Newly Baptised We welcome into our parish family Dakota Theresa Fissel Odran Anthony Jennings Aoideann Marie & Rioghnach Bernadette Boyle Eoin Daniel Nolan who were recently baptised.

We Loved Them In Life

Collections

Last week's offertory collection amounted to ££1154.59 The monthly stipend amounted to £1061.00 We thank you for your on going support. There will be a second collection on Sunday 17th September – Autumn Collection