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2007
25th March 2007
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St
Oliver Plunkett
Parish Bulletin for Sunday 25th March 2007
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Fifth
Sunday in Lent
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live in a culture of blame, accountability
and compensation. A head may roll, but usually
it’s the wrong one.
In
a kind of mad mathematics we apply money
to relieve the human carnage wrought. It’s
not a perfect system – but it is something.
And we may feel infinitely better than the
lynch mob presented to stone a woman in
the Gospel. But underneath, are we so superior?
In
western Culture, we can talk about any topic,
but only in boringly politically correct
terms. So, while we are mostly nice to people,
respectful to colleagues, law-abiding, not
committing adultery, or using drugs, we
seem to only see ourselves as ‘cursing
and swearing.’ Look deeper to where
you harbour bitterness, hoard your time,
resent intrusion, where you’re vain
and self-obsessed, fretting of how others
see you. Is our act more spiritual than
we really are? Haven’t we all strayed
with our eyes and heart – if not our
body? We are all like the unnamed woman
in the Gospel, a mess in the dust, before
the baying hound that is our own conscience
or the judgement of others. Our only hope
is as that song might have put it, that
‘He will raise us up. There is a wideness
and wildness in God’s mercy and he
will raise us up to something infinitely
better.
Copyright: Fr. Tom Cox (Intercom)
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| Lent
- Daily Readings
You
can access the daily readings for
Lent on the parish website:
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HOLY
WEEK
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Confessions
after 10am, 11.30am & 1pm
Masses. |
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TUESDAY:
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Penitential
Service 7.30pm where we as a
community acknowledge our need
of forgiveness and celebrate
God’s mercy together.
In addition to priests of the
parish, a number of other priests
will be available for the sacrament
of reconciliation. |
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HOLY
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No
Morning Mass.
Chrism Mass in St. Peter’s
Cathedral at 11am. Solemn Mass
of the Lord’s Supper at
7.30pm followed by procession
of the Blessed Sacrament to
the Altar of Repose followed
by confessions. Exposition of
the Blessed Sacrament will then
take place until night prayer
at 10.00pm. St. John does not
speak of the Last Supper in
his Gospel, but only of the
‘Washing of the Feet’
that took place at the same
event. There is a deep link
between these two realities.
The washing of the feet like
the Eucharist is an intense
moment of Communion in the mind
of St. John. Do you accept the
invitation to have your feet
washed this Holy Thursday as
a sign of your willingness ‘to
do for others what Jesus has
done to you’ if so please
contact either Fr. Magill or
Fr. Devlin or parish sister. |
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GOOD
FRIDAY: |
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No
morning ceremonies.
The Solemn Commemoration of
the Lord’s Passion with
Veneration of the Cross and
Holy Communion at 3pm followed
by confessions. Stations of
the Cross at 7.30pm. |
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HOLY
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Confessions
12 noon -1pm and 6pm-6.30pm.
The Easter Vigil & Mass
of the Resurrection begins at
9pm. (No other Mass in the church
today). |
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EASTER
SUNDAY: |
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Masses
at 10am, 11.30 & 1pm. |
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Stations
of the Cross
There
will be Stations of the Cross this Friday
at 7pm for Lent. |
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Watch
and pray
An hour of prayer, music and reflection in preparation
for Easter in the
De La Salle Pastoral Centre, 141 Glen Road
on Thursday 29th March at 7pm.
All
very welcome. Tea/coffee afterwards
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Abortion?
– ‘Not in y Name’
In January the Department of Health
issued draft guideline on performing
abortions in N.Ireland. These guidelines
were not made available for public
consultation – but issued
to health professional only. You
have a right to express your concerns
that these guidelines will be used
to liberalise the law in N. Ireland
that protects unborn babies and
their mothers. Final guidelines
will be produces by the Department
after 20th April.
ACT NOW
to influence amendments to the guidelines:
Sign the submission –
‘Not in my Name’
(Explanatory
leaflets and Submission Forms in
Church porches now)
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Minister
of the Word and Eucharist
An evening of recollection including
Mass
for Ministers of the Word and
Eucharist
on Monday 2nd April 7pm-9pm
in St. Oliver Plunkett Church.
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Parish Retreat for Women
The annual retreat for women will take
place on
Sunday 6th May
at Drumalis Retreat Centre Larne.
Bus
will leave the Church at 8.30am and return on
Sunday evening. Due to renovation work at Drumalis
this years retreat will be none residential. The
cost of the retreat is to be confirmed depending
on numbers. For further information or to book
a place contact Kathleen Dineen on 02890 683277.
As
always the retreat promises to be a very life-giving
and spirituality uplifting experience for all
those that take part.
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Pastoral
Council
The Pastoral Council met on 20th March 2007.
The communication, Liturgy and Youth Group
reported on the work they are involved in.
the Parish will begin to see the results
of some this work with a Parish Newsletter,
recruitment of new Ministers of the Word
and Eucharist and a new Youth Organisation
which will come into being in the near future. |
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Baptisms
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baptisms will take place on Sunday
1st April 2007 at 2.00pm. Please
note the next date available for Baptism
is Sunday 15th April. The
next pre-Baptism instruction will be on
Thursday 26th April 2007
at 8pm in the convent.
It
is necessary to attend pre-Baptism preparation
before asking to have your child baptised.
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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Newly
Baptised
We welcome into our parish family
Evie
Grace Pyper
who
was recently baptised. |
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| We
Loved Them In Life
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offer our sympathy and prayerful support
to the families of those parishioners who
died recently:
PJ
Murtagh, formerly Horn Drive
We
pray for the happy repose of those whose
anniversaries occur around this time:
Paschal McWilliams
Emily Doherty
Jean Morran
Colette Ryan
Seamus Wylie
Ellen Lavery
Thomas
Fegan
Albert Beales
Fr. R. Cronin
Margaret-Anne & John Maginn
Teddy Mulholland
PJ & Pearse Collins
John McDermott
Francis Brady
Peter McShane
Tommy & Anthony Kerr
Cathrine Hastings
Thomas Sterrett
Fr. Ted McConville
Daniel Laird
Richie Crome
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Collections
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Last
week's offertory collection amounted to
£1018.33
The
collection for Needy Parishes
amounted to
£707.47.
We
thank you for your on going support
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Prayerful
Time
People are asked to keep silence in the
church before and after Mass to allow others
quiet for their prayer. |
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