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V. Rev. Canon Michael Leamy, PP, VFCanon Michael Leamy,

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Confessions:

  • Monday 30th March -   Confessions 7:30pm to 9pm - Parish Church
  • Tuesday 31st March -   Confessions 10:30am to 11am - Parish Church
  • Wednesday 1st April - Confessions 10:30am to 11am - Parish Church

Wednesday 1st April – Chrism Mass – St. Colman’s Cathedral - 7:30pm

Perpetual Adoration closes on Wednesday, 1st April at 6pm and resumes again after the 11:30am Mass on Easter Sunday, 5th April.

Masses during the week in the Parish Church 30th March to 4th April:

  • Monday 30th March to Wednesday 1st April - Mass: 10am

Holy Thursday - 2nd April:

  • Mass of the Lord’s Supper                   7:30pm – Parish Church
  • Adoration of the Lord at the Altar of Repose after Ceremony until 11pm.

All Eucharistic Ministers are asked to be present at the Mass of the Lord’s Supper on Holy Thursday to renew their Commitment.

Trócaire Boxes can be handed in at the Church Door on Holy Thursday & will be presented at the Offertory of the Mass.

Good Friday – 3rd April:

A Day of Fast & Abstinence (We are to abstain from eating meat and to fast in honour of the Lord’s Suffering).

  • Stations of the Cross:                                                             12noon–Killacluig           12noon - Ballygiblin    
  • Celebration of the Lord’s Passion & Holy Communion:     3pm – Parish Church

The Annual Collection for the Christian Shrines in the Holy Land will be taken up. We ask for your support.

  • Stations of the Cross:                           7:30pm – Parish Church

Holy Saturday – 4th April:

  • Easter Vigil Mass:       9pm – Parish Church (candles will be provided)

Please note that there will be no 7:30pm Mass on Holy Saturday Evening.

Easter Sunday – 5th April:

                   8:30am           -   Mass       -   Parish Church  
                   10am              -   Mass       -   Ballygiblin
                   10am              -   Mass       -   Killacluig
                   11:30am         -   Mass       -   Parish Church. 

Easter Offerings for the Priests of the Parish will be taken up on Holy Saturday night and on Easter Sunday. Your support and generosity is very much appreciated.

Easter Monday, 6th April:

Bank Holiday – Morning Mass at 11am only

Masses during the week in the Parish Church 7th to 10th April:

  • Tuesday 7th – Friday 10th April Mass at 10am.

Masses during the week in the Parish Church 13th to 17th April:

  • Monday 13th – Friday 17th April Mass at 10am.

Parish Office CLOSED Thursday 2nd  April to Friday 10th April inclusive

What’s the right thing to do?

    The easy thing for Jesus to do on Palm Sunday is to let the people make him their king. It’s clearly what they want, but not God’s purpose. They dreamt of a political take-over, but his kingdom was not of this world. They refused the easy thing. Instead he did the right thing, allowing his enemies to crucify him.

    People struggling over a decision, agonise and say, ’What’s the right thing to do? In most situations, you will find that there is the easy thing to do, and the right thing to do. Usually the hardest and most painful option is the right thing. Many will urge the easy option. But you’re alone in doing the right thing!

   

A Human HeartPalm Sunday

Today the use of crucifixes, even as personal jewellery blinds us to the awful form of Roman execution that it was. All the more strange, that, when Christians were finally delivered out of the underground tombs of Rome, the symbol they adopted was not the palm branch of coronation, but the cross. That must have made Jesus smile, for they understood.

    In your present situation and predicament, you know what is the easy and what is the right thing to do. Do the right thing.

     

 (Donal Neary SJ)

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