(back of) newsletter 24th Jan 2016

RESPONSORIAL PSALM: Your words are spirit, Lord,

                                               And they are life.

 

IMPULSES FOR PRAYER: Ps 17;   Is 58:6-12;   Mk 6:1-6

MEDITATION:

‘The Coming’ by RS Thomas:

And God held in his hand

A small globe. Look, he said.

The son looked. Far off,

As though through water, he saw

A scorched land of fierce

Colour. The light burned

There; crusted buildings

Cast their shadows; a bright

Serpent, a river

Uncoiled itself, radiant

With slime.

 On a bare

Hill a tree saddened

The sky. Many people

Held out their thin arms

To it, as though waiting

For a vanished April

To return to its crossed

Boughs. The son watched

Them. Let me go there, he said.

MASS INTENTIONS

Saturday 23rd January, 6pm: Sean Curtin, RIP

Sunday 24th January, 10am: Peter Joyce            11.30am: Mary Alice Dastous

Tuesday 26th January, Ss Timothy & Titus,10am: Paul Murphy, RIP

Wednesday 27^th January, 10am:

Thursday 28th January, St Thomas Aquinas, 10am: 

Friday 29th January, 10am: Lilian Stroud, RIP                                       

Saturday 29th January, 10am: Paddy O’Brien, RIP

If you would like a Mass to be offered for an intention or for a deceased family member or friend, just go to the presbytery after any Mass to book a Mass.

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UNWANTED CHRISTMAS GIFTS

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CHARISMATIC PRAYER GROUP

meets on Tuesday evenings from 8pm till 9pm in the Day Chapel in the presbytery.

All are warmly welcome