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St Oliver Plunkett
Parish Bulletin for Sunday 16th March 2008

 

 

Palm Sunday

We prefer happy endings, but today we are led from the joy of welcoming Jesus into Jerusalem, up to the crucifixion and burial of Jesus in the tomb. Not pretty but pretty real.

Palm Sunday marks the beginning of Holy Week, the intentional journey we take as a community to enter into not only the passion of Jesus, but to enter into our own stories of passion, betrayal by fickle friends, sorrow, agony and even death – so that we might experience resurrection.

Please do not let the secular world rob you of the graces of this week. In times past the world seemed to slow down and it was easier on a certain level to make this week holy. Now, it clearly has to be a personal commitment that each one of us makes. We have to choose to pause from our normal, busy routine and to give this week to God. We have to choose to pray, to meditate upon what Christ did for us, and to take part in the beautiful liturgies prepared for us. The moods created are as mixed as our lives. We have some days of glorious happiness, of success and joy and also sad days of contradiction and failure. Let this week speak to you and truly be a ’holy week’.

Copyright: Fr. Tom Cox (Intercom)




Daily Readings

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Holy Week

PALM SUNDAY
Confessions after 10am, 11.30am & 1pm Masses
TUESDAY
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
HOLY THURSDAY
Morning Mass No Morning Mass in the parish
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 9.30pm. 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
GOOD FRIDAY
Morning Mass 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
HOLY SATURDAY
Confessions 12 noon -1pm and 6pm-6.30pm
Easter Vigil & Mass of the Resurrection begins at 9pm. No other Mass in the church today
EASTER SUNDAY
Masses at 10am, 11.30 & 1pm






Good Friday - Falls/Shankill Prayer Walk

A Prayer Walk in faith and friendship to acknowledge together what Jesus of Nazareth, King of the Jews, did for us on this day.

The walk will start at 4.45pm in Clonard car park, encircle part of the Shankill/Falls Peace Line wall, and ending in the park at Springfield Road opposite Cornerstone Community at approx. 6pm. You may join or leave the walk at any point along the way. See poster in church porch.







Feast Of The Divine Mercy

 

The Feast of the Divine Mercy will be celebrated in St. Peter’s on Sunday 30th March at 2.30pm. The Rosary will be followed by the Divine Mercy Chaplet and Holy Mass. Confessions available. Attended car parking.

Divine Mercy Novena starts on Good Friday and finishes on Sunday 30th March.
Jesus






Blood Donation


Coming to St. Michael’s Parish Centre on
Friday 28th March 2008
between 2pm-4.30pm & 5.45pm-8pm
New Donors needed

 




Baptisms

Baptisms today at 2pm. Next baptisms will take place on Sunday 6th April 2008 at 2.00pm. Please note the next date available for Baptism is Sunday 20th April 2008. The next pre-Baptism instruction will be on Thursday 27th March 2008 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.




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:

Bertie Buchanan
John Byrne
John Joseph Clifford
Emily Doherty
Annie Dobbin
Michael Higgins
Hugh Kennedy
Mary Marlow
Sean McNally
John Monaghan
Henry O’Neill
Jean O’Neill
Elizabeth, Patrick, Joseph and Denis Powell
Gerard White



Collections


Last week’s offertory collection
amounted to
£1,199.91

There will be a second collection today for needy parishes

We thank you for your on going support


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St Oliver Plunkett Parish
27B Glenveagh Drive Belfast

BT11 9HX
Tel: 028 9061 8180
Fax: 028 9061 8282
E-mail: office@stolivers.org