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PENTECOST SUNDAY
Sometimes our faith can be like a car spinning wheels in mud. We have the wheels turning, the engine is in good shape, the tyres and brakes are good. The car has been recently serviced. And still, we cannot get traction. The wheels keep spinning, we can get nowhere. Today’s feast day, our celebration of God’s gift of his Holy Spirit, is the day when the wheels of our Christian journey get traction, and we can begin to follow Christ in a tangible way in our own lives.
The Holy Spirit is the ultimate teacher. This teacher does not merely have us learn off the doctrines and moral code of the Church by rote. No, this Catechist, following on all we have already learned, draws out from inside us, the faith and the vocation that is particular to each individual. This Catechist echoes the words of Christ, the Word of God. In hearing the Word in a spiritual way, we come to know God in a real and intimate fashion. God becomes the ultimate reality by means of the Spirit poured out in us.
God’s loves comes alive in us by means of the Spirit, and we can hear and proclaim his Word in a new and dynamic way. |
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Readings
You
can access the daily readings on the
parish website:
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CEMETERY
SUNDAY
St Joseph’s, Hannahstown, Sunday 30th May at 3pm.
Prayers for the Dead and Blessing of graves at:
Tullyrusk, Sunday 6th June at 2pm
The Rock, Sunday 6th June at 3pm
Carnmoney Cemetery, Sunday 13th June at 3pm.
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Festival of Praise
On Thursday 27th May at 7.30 pm a ‘Songs of Praise’ evening will be held in Holy Family Church. One combined choir made up of choirs from Fortwilliam & Macrory, Rosemary Presbyterian, St Paul & St Barnabas, York Street, Cavehill Methodist, St Gerard’s, St Peter’s, Antrim Road and our own five choirs from Holy Family Parish. Come and support what promises to be an uplifting evening.
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Precious Life Ministries: Pro-Life Prayer Vigil
Thursday 27th May at 10am 0utside the High Court in Belfast when a Judicial Review of abortion guidelines will be heard. We also ask you to offer up three Days of Prayer and Fasting - beginning on Tuesday 25th May – imploring heaven that the abortion guidelines will be withdrawn and our unborn children protected.
For further information please contact:
Precious Life 028 9027 8484
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PARISH SACRAMENTAL PROGRAMME
First Holy Communion
Congratulations to the P4 Children who received the Sacrament of First Holy Communion on Saturday 15th May.
As this is an important milestone in your journey into friendship with Jesus, we encourage you and your parents to be faithful to your attendance at Sunday Mass in the coming weeks, months and years ahead. |
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Trócaire Third World Run 2010
Third
World Run on Sunday 23rd May
at the Ozone Complex, Ormeau Park,
Belfast at 3.00pm.
Sign up for 10k, 3K or family fun
walk.
To register log onto www.thirdworldrun.org
It is fun day for everyone and really
does make a difference. |
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Attention All
Parish Volunteers!
If you have
an email address please inform the
Parish Office Tel: 9061 8180, Mon
- Fri 9am - 5pm
of it so we can keep all contact details
up to date.
Thank you. |
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St Oliver Plunkett/St
Matthew’s Ecumenical Group
Shirley
Bowers, Arise Ministries, will
give a talk to the Ecumenical
Group on Monday 24th May at 7.30pm.
She will speak about how God has
brought healing into her life
and led her to seek to bring reconciliation
for the deep wounds caused by
Oliver Cromwell to Ireland and
the Irish people.
If you
would like to join us at this
meeting please phone the Parish
Office, Tel: 9061 8180 during
the office hours of
Mon - Fri 9am - 5pm before Friday
21st May.
Everyone
welcome.
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Altar Servers’ Training
The next Altar Sever training
will be on Monday 24th May at
4pm. It will be led by Kate Coogan
and Winnie Dougherty both of whom
have been fully vetted by Access
NI and have received training
in Child Protection.
If
your child is interested in becoming
an altar server please contact
the Parish Office, Tel: 9061 8180
during the office hours of Mon
- Fri 9am - 5pm.
Parents please note: a Parental
Permission and Agreement Form
must be completed before any training
can begin.
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Lough Derg Three
Day Pilgrimage
A coach will
leave the Catholic Chaplaincy
on Friday 11th June at 8.30am and
return
on Sunday 13th June at approximately
12.30pm.
An opportunity to spend some quiet
time
and experience Lough Derg.
For further
details contact: Tony on 9081 3272
or 9081 2712 or Rosaleen atSt Brigid’s,
9066 5409 as soon as possible.
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Child Protection:
Invitation to Parish Information
Session
A number
of volunteers will receive, within
the next few days, an invitation
to attend a Parish Information Session
on Tuesday 8th June in St Teresa’s
Parish Centre, Glen Road.
It
is very important that all these
volunteers attend this event;
otherwise they must stand down from
their parish duties as they will
not be covered by Diocesan Insurance.
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Please Note!
Mass Intentions,
Anniversary Masses, Baptisms, and
Marriages are to be arranged through
the Parish Office
on Tel: 9061 8180 during the office
hours
of 9am - 5pm Monday - Friday
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Bible Alive
June’s
edition is now available to buy from
the Sacrsity,
price £1.95
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Catholic Singles
An organization which helps single, widowed, separated and divorced Catholics of all ages (over 18 years) meet, either one to one or through social events.
For more information phone 0161 941 3498,
visit www.catholicsingles.org.uk
or email info@catholicsingles.org.uk
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Hanging Baskets
CBS Greenhouse now has a wide range of wicker and wire baskets, tubs and window boxes.
Contact CBS, Glen Road, 9080 8050 for more information. Prices start from as little as £1.75.
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Mass Times
Saturday
Vigil 6.30pm
Sunday 10.00am and 12 Noon
Monday-Thursday 10.00am
Friday 7.30pm
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| Baptisms
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Next available date for baptism is Sunday 6th June 2010 at 1.30pm. The next pre-Baptism instruction will be on Thursday 10th June 2010 at 8pm in the convent.
It is necessary to attend pre-Baptism preparation before asking to have your child baptised. To arrange a Baptism and to book a place on the pre-Baptism instruction course please contact the parish office 9061 8180 Monday to Friday 9.00am - 5.00pm.
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Newly Baptised
We welcome into our parish family
Casey Marie Caldwell Doonan
James Matthews
who were recently baptised.
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| We
Loved Them In Life
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We offer
our prayerful support to the family of those
who died recently:
| Clare Magee, Glenveagh Drive |
We
pray for the happy repose of those whose
anniversaries occur around this time:
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Fr Terence Beagon
John and Catherine Dineen
Geraldine Kelly
Rosa and Frank Black
Josephine and George Mackel
Patricia Dewart
Seamus O’Donnell
Patrick Dunlop
David King
Marie Moore
Pat Johnston
Seamus Fox
Agnes Devlin
Margaret Donaghy (Month’s Mind)
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| Collections
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The amount from last week’s collections will be in next week’s Bulletin
A special collection will be taken up today for the 50th International Eucharistic Congress, Ireland 2012.
Offertory
Envelopes
Please return late envelopes to the parish
office between 9am - 5pm Monday - Friday.
Thanks to all
those who gave to the Parish collections.
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