Fourth Sunday In Ordinary Time
Year of Vocation is to raise awareness of the common vocation that we all share through baptism as expressed through witness, love and service.
The theme for February is – a focusing on religious life.
Tomorrow Monday 2nd February is the feast of The Presentation of the Lord it is also the day for Consecrated Religious in the year of vocation. During that day we pray especially for the religious sisters who live in our parish. Sr. Claire, Sr. Emmanuel and Sr. Frances. We pray also for religious men and women who were born or lived in this parish and who are working in other parts of the Church.
Year of Vocation prayer
Lord Jesus,
You said to your disciples:
‘The harvest indeed is great
but the labourers are few.’
We ask that we may know
and follow the vocation
to which you have called us.
We pray for those called to serve:
those whom you have called,
those you are calling now,
and those you will call in the future.
May they be open and responsive
to the call of serving your people.
Amen. |
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| Daily
Readings
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Catholic Schools Week 2009
This weekend concludes the first ever ‘Catholic Schools Week’ held in Ireland. This is a celebration much more familiar in countries where the Catholic Church and Catholic Schools are in the minority. Ironically, we have not dedicated a week of celebration and awareness to our Catholic Schools because traditionally, nearly all schools in Ireland were either Catholic or at least religious run schools. Times are changing and we now live in a country where alternative styles of education are increasingly being provided for our pluralist and multicultural society. This is new territory for Ireland and the Catholic Church here. Among the questions these developments raise are: What exactly is Catholic School? How is it unique? Why would we want our children educated in a Catholic School? What do we celebrate when we celebrate ‘Catholic Schools Week? To answer these questions we could look at today’s gospel. Mark presents us with an image of Jesus as teacher, He is a teacher who teaches with authority. His teaching made a deep impression on them but his authority is not just expressed in words, he follows up with action, which shows compassion, care and capacity for healing. A Catholic school is a place where students come to know that they are made from love, to love and be loved. A place where students are educated for life not just to make a living, a place that they learn an eternal destiny in the presence of God who loves and care for them uncontrollably. When we celebrate Catholic Schools Week we must first celebrate and give thanks for the teachers who – past, present and future dedicate themselves to doing what Jesus did in today’s gospel; teach with authority, make a deep impression on the lives of their students, show compassion to those in their care and bring healing where lives are fractured and broken. Down through the years in Ireland the strength of our Catholic schools has not just been the quality of teaching but the powerful witness, to the best of what it is to be a Catholic Christian, in the lives of the vast majority of our teachers. Long may it continue to be so!
Fr. Martin Delaney
Priest of the Diocese of Ossory
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Farewell Mass for Fr Devlin
There will be a Mass for Fr. Devlin on this Tuesday 3rd February at 7.30pm. The Mass is in thanksgiving for all his work he did in the parish and to say farewell. Anyone wishing to make a donation please put it in an envelope marked ‘Fr. Devlin’ and place it in the collection basket or leave in the parish house. |
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Feast of St Blaise
This Tuesday 3rd February is the Feast of St Blaise.
There will be blessing of the throats after the 10am Mass.
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St Joseph’s Young Priest Society
The St Joseph’s Young Priest Society is meeting
this Friday 6th February after the 7.30pm Mass,
to pray for vocations.
All are welcome to attend. |
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Church Shop
From next weekend, 7/8 February,
there will be a small shop at the rear porch
after each Mass selling mass cards, medals, rosaries, etc. |
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Latin Mass
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(The
Mass according to the 1962 Missal)
is scheduled in St Paul's Falls Road at 1.00pm on Saturday February 7th 2009
"What earlier generations held as sacred, remains sacred and great for us too …." Benedict XVI
www.latinmassireland.org
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St Oliver Plunkett Nursery School
St Oliver Plunkett Nursery is still accepting application forms for the School Year 2009/10. Call to the Nursery School to complete an application form (please bring child’s birth certificate with you). |
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BBC Decision on DEC Appeal
For anyone who wants to express his/her disagreement with the BBC decision not to screen the Disasters Emergency Committee’s (DEC) for the suffering people of Gaza, please email mark.thompson@bbc.co.uk
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Horn Drive Community Centre
Horn Drive Senior Citizen Club is looking for volunteers to help every Wednesday with lunch from 10.30am – 12noon. Contact 9060 4860. Any Senior Citizen interested in attending the club just show up on Wednesday 12noon -2pm.
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| Baptisms
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Baptisms today at 2pm. Next baptisms will take place on Sunday 15th February 2009 at 1.30pm. Please note the next date available for Baptism is Sunday 1st March 2009. The next pre-Baptism instruction will be on Thursday 5th February 2009 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:
Patricia Sheils
We
pray for
the happy repose of those whose anniversaries
occur around this time:
Caoimhin Martin
Sheila & Joseph Devlin
May & Harrry Harvey
Nancy O’Connor
Joseph Hughes
Joe Hill, Molly Stafford
Colette Whinnery
John Morris
Margaret & Patrick O’Hare
Sally Heaney
Jim Conlon
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| Collections
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The Offertory collection
for
amounted to £1,112.00
There will be a second collection today - the Monthly Stipend
Thank you
all for your generous support.
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