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Eighteenth
Sunday In Ordinary Time
Notice in parish newsletter ‘Lost a black leather wallet containing precious family photos, personal ID documents and eight hundred and seventy-five pounds. Finder can keep the photos and Id, but please return the cash for sentimental reasons.’ It didn’t happen of course but the sentiment is closer to us than we care to admit. It is a bitter-sweet truth that we will do anything for money and precious little for God at times. We have all seen that quarrels over inheritance can provoke bitterness and enmity in the closet of families.
Wisely, Jesus in today’s Gospel refuses to take sides in case and points out what often lies at the root of a quarrel – greed for gain, the love of money. We still have to learn the wisdom of the psalm where the ‘shortness of our life…gains us wisdom of heart’. Pension plans may offer a financial carpet for a more secure future. But what is it that assures life? It’s not abundant reserves of grain storehouses. ‘To be rich in the sight of God,’ is to give and to share, to seek life where life is to be found. Go figure.
Copyright: Fr. Tom Cox (Intercom)
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| Daily
Readings
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can access the daily readings on the
parish website:
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| Feast Days
of the Week
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6th – |
The Transfiguration of the Lord. Recorded in the gospels as a key moment in the life of Jesus and of his apostles, this event is among those named Mysteries of Light – added to the Mysteries of the Rosary by the last Pope John Paul II.
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St. Sixtus II Pope and Companions, Martyrs.
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| Wednesday
8th – |
St. Dominic, founder of the Order of preachers (Dominicans).
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| Thursday
9th – |
St Teresa Benedicta of the Cross (Edith Stein), born 1891 into Jewish family at Breslaw in Poland, she became a Catholic in 1922 and later a Carmelite nun. Both Jewish and Catholic, she fled to Holland during the Nazi persecution but was captured and sent to Auschwitz, where she died in the gas chambers on 9 August 1942. Declared patron of Europe in the year 2000.
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| Friday
10th – |
St. Lawrence, Deacon and Martyr (d.258). One of the seven Deacons of the Roman Church, who died a cruel death by burning on a gridiron.
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| Saturday
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St Clare of Assisi (1193 – 1253). She followed the Franciscan way of life and founded the Poor Clare Order of nuns. Patron of television. |
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Mass
times during July & August
Monday, Tuesday, Thursday, Friday:
10am
Wednesday: 10am & 7.30pm
Novena
Saturday: 10am & 6.30pm
Vigil
Sunday: 10am, 11.30am & 1pm
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4th
St Oliver Plunkett Annual Lecture
Dr
Martin Mansergh T.D., member of the Church
of Ireland
and major player in
the Peace
Process will be giving a talk
entitled
‘
Tolerance
or Militancy?
Attitudes regarding the role
of religion
in State and Society in the early
21st Century’
on Sunday 12th August
at 7.30pm,
in St. Oliver Plunkett Church. |
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Hannahstown Indoor Bowling Club
Hannahstown Indoor Bowling club will re-open tomorrow Monday 6th August at 7.30pm in Hannahstown Community Hall. New members welcome.
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Living Rosary
The next meeting for the Living Rosary
will be held on
Saturday 11th August after 10am Mass.
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SAINT OLIVER PLUNKETT PARISH
PRE-SCHOOL PLAYGROUP
There are 4 free Pre-school Expansion Programme places (PEGS) available in our playgroup (hours 9am – 1pm).
ONLY if your child was 3 before 1st July 2007
will they be eligible for these places.
If interested please contact the parish secretary
9061 8180 as soon as possible.
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| Baptisms
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Baptisms today at 2pm. Next baptisms will take place on Sunday 19th August 2007 at 2.00pm. Please note the next date available for Baptism is Sunday 16th September. The next pre-Baptism instruction will be on Thursday 9th August 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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| We
Loved Them In Life
| We
offer our sympathy and prayerful support
to the families of those parishioners who
died recently:
We
pray for the happy repose of those whose
anniversaries occur around this time:
Malachy Donaghy
Agnes & Jim Dwyer
Sarah Gribben
Isabella, Charles & Sean Hayes
Denis Kennedy
Tony, Anthony and Kathleen Kerr
David King
John Montgomery
Con Murphy
Gerard McCann
George McConkey
Josephine O’Neill
Rosena Overend
Thomas Sterrett
Teresa Tracey
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| Collections
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Last
week’s offertory collection
amounted to £1159.42
We
thank you for your on going support
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 house. |
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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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