Masses for the week in Ballymore: Monday Tuesday Thursday & Friday 10am. Saturday 7pm Sunday 10am.
Christmas Fair 22nd & 23rd December 2018
The Church Finance committee would like to express their gratitude to all who contributed in any way to the success of the Christmas Fair. The Amount lodged was €1330. Thanks to the bakers sponsors of hampers and donations of money etc. Thanks to everyone who helped out with teas and tickets etc. Your support is very much appreciated. Hamper Winners: Brendan Nolan, Mary Campbell, Mary Murphy, Myles Byrne, Richard Cowley, Lilly Kelly & Kay Kavanagh.
Anam Cara South Dublin: The organisation that supports bereaved parents is holding a Parent Evening on Monday 14th of January @ 7.20pm in the Maldron Hotel, Tallaght Dublin 24. This event is free and open to all bereaved parents. Contact No 01 4045378
Last Week’s Family Envelope Collection:€208
Share Collection: €275
Thank you very much
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Please Pray for:
Recently Deceased
This Week’s Anniversaries :
Saturday 7.00pm
Margaret Donaghy
Sunday 10.00am
Margaret Donaghy
Richard (Dick) Brown (2nd Ann)
Patricia Dujic (Doyle)
Pope at Audience on 2/1/2019
Pope Francis began by saying how St. Matthew’s Gospel places the Our Father “at the centre of the Sermon on the Mount, which begins with the Beatitudes”.
In the Beatitudes, Jesus awards the gift of happiness to people who in His time, and our own, “were not very highly regarded”, “the poor, the meek, the merciful, the humble of heart”. The peacemakers who, until then, were on the margins of history become “builders of the Kingdom of God”.
“The Gospel challenges us”, said the Pope, “the Gospel is revolutionary”.
Love has no boundaries. This is the “great secret” behind the Sermon on the Mount. God asks us to invoke Him with the name of “Father”, to let ourselves be renewed by His power, “to reflect a ray of His goodness for a world thirsting for good news”. Jesus invites us to love our enemies, because “love has no boundaries”.
Before giving us the “Our Father”, Jesus warns us of two obstacles to prayer: the hypocrites and the pagans. We do not pray in order to be “admired by others”.
Christian prayer has “no credible witness other that its own conscience”. It is a continuous “dialogue with Father”.
The pagans pray with formality and wordiness, presenting their petitions without a spirit of quiet openness to God’s will. Pope Francis suggested that silent prayer is often enough, placing oneself “under the gaze of God, remembering His love as a Father”. Jesus tells us to pray like children to a Father “who knows what we need before we even ask”.
“It is beautiful to think that our God does not need sacrifices to win His favour”. “Our God needs nothing in prayer. He asks only that we keep open a channel of communication with Him so we can recognize we are always His beloved children.