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We talk about wearing ‘different hats’ or filling ‘different roles’ or even ‘multi-tasking’. Maybe today’s feast in honour of the Trinity is set aside for such hurried, harried souls. The more wisdom and years accumulate on our shoulders, the more we realize in our various relationships that you can’t know everything about a person; be they spouse, parent, sibling or friend. There is always that great unknown area. All our personal knowledge of another is just that – personal, from our own personal and limited viewpoint. Still, some approach the Trinity like it’s a crossword puzzle – something you can ultimately solve. However just like our ordinary loving relationships it’s a mystery not puzzle, a reality you ultimately stand in awe before.
One woman put it very well.
‘I am a daughter, a wife and a mother
– Three things, yet I am one totality.
To my parents, I would always be their child,
To my husband, a companion and a mate,
To my children, the one who gave them birth and nurtured them
till they reached adult state.
I seem to each of them a different person;
They each know a different kind of ‘me’,
But I am one, within myself a Trinity,
And each of them finds unity in me.’
Copyright Intercom Tom Cox
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Fr
Beagon's First Anniversary
Fr
Beagon's first anniversary occurs
on Friday 23rd May.
The 10.00am and 7.30pm Masses
on that day will be offered up for
him.
Click
here to read about Fr Beagon's
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| Daily
Readings
You
can access the daily readings on the
parish website:
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Silver Jubilee of Episcopal Ordination
of Bishop Walsh and Bishop Farquhar
‘Bishop Walsh and Bishop Farquhar will mark the Silver Jubilee of their ordination as Bishops with Mass presided over by Cardinal Daly, in the Cathedral today Sunday 18th May at 3pm. The Canons of the Diocese and the priests, Diocesan, Religious and Missionary, ordained in the Diocese since 1983 will concelebrate the Mass with the Bishops. Bishop Walsh and Bishop Farquhar extend a warm invitation to all parishioners to join them for this Mass.’ |
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Offertory Envelopes
The new offertory envelopes will be distributed this week. If you do not receive a box or would like to start using offertory envelopes they will be available in the church porches after all the Masses next weekend.
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Blood Donation
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Coming to St. Michael’s Parish Centre
on Friday 30th May 2008
between 2pm-4.30pm & 5.45pm-8pm.
New Donors needed.
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Diocese Of Down & Connor Annual Pilgrimage To Knock
The Diocesan Annual Pilgrimage to Knock will take place on Sunday 8 June. The Pilgrimage will be led by Bishop McKeown. For further details contact Rev. Colin Grant 9064 3939 or evening 9074 8285.
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Feast Days Of The Week
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St Bernadine of Siena, priest. St Bernadine was born in Siena in1380. He became a Franciscan and travelled through Italy, preaching with great success. He promoted devotion to the Holy Name and to St Joseph. He died in 1994. |
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Saints Christopher Magallanes priest, and companions, martyrs. These twenty five priests and laymen were executed in 1927 in Mexico. |
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St Rita of Cascia, religious. St Rita, 1386-1457, was married for eighteen years. Her husband, an ill-tempered and abusive man, was murdered. Later Rita entered the Augustinian convent in Cascia and spent forty years in prayer and charity and working for peace in the region. |
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First Communion
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Primary 4 children from our parish
school
will be celebrating
First Holy Communion
on Sunday 25th May at 2.30pm.
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Diocese of Down and Connor Annual
Pilgrimage to Knock
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The
Diocesan Annual Pilgrimage to Knock
will take place on Sunday 8th June.
The Pilgrimage will be led by Bishop
McKeown.
For
further details contact Rev. Colin
Grant 9064 3939 or evening 9074 8285.
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Cemetery Sunday
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Hannahstown – Sunday 25th May at 3pm Open Air Mass
Rock- Sunday 1st June at 2pm
Tullyrusk – Sunday 1st June at 3pm |
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| Baptisms
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Baptisms today at 2pm. Next baptisms will take place on Sunday 1st June 2008 at 2.00pm. Please note the next date available for Baptism is Sunday 15th June 2008. The next pre-Baptism instruction will be on Thursday 22nd May 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.
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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:
Frank & Rosa Black
Fr. Terence Beagon
Mary Dickey
Catherine Dinnen
Thomas Keenan snr & Thomas Keenan jnr
Geraldine Kelly
Agnes McCann
Mairead Mullarkey
Anne & Agnes Phillips
John Williamson
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| Collections
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Last
week’s offertory collection
amounted to £1,254.43
Second collection today is for the Education of Diocesan Students
We
thank you for your on going support
Planning for the Future
In response to the Planning for the Future campaign an amount of £2605.50 has been donated to the campaign. Thank you for your generous donation.
This now brings our total to £65,672.10 which means we are £1460.90 short of the target set for us of £67,133. If we reach our target, the parish will receive back 10% of it, in other words, £6,713 and if we exceed the target then we receive back 75% of the excess. Anyone wishing to make a standing order, please contact the parish office for a pledge form.
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