Masses for the week in Ballymore: Monday Tuesday Thursday & Friday 10am. Saturday 7pm Sunday 10am.
Enrolment Week: Enrolment for September 2019 for Scoil Mhuire Ballymore Eustace will take place from 4th to 8th February. Please call to the school office between 9.00am-12.00pm and bring a photocopy of your child’s birth certificate.
West Wicklow Cancer Support: Drop in meeting is on Thursday 31st January @ 7.30pm in the Coimin Centre, Main Street Blessington. An evening of meditation, relaxation and reflection. All welcome and feel free to bring a friend.
Pilgrimage to Medjugorie
29 August to 5 September (€675).
Contact: Teresa Kane 046 9486983/087 9657299
Last Week’s Family Envelope Collection:€314
Share Collection: €400
Thank you very much
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Please Pray for:
Recently Deceased
This Week’s Anniversaries :
Saturday 7.00pm
John & Margaret Murray
Johnny & Kit Murray
Mossy Murray
Maurice Murray
Moggy Murray
Jimmy McLoughlin (1st Ann Late of Boleybeg)
Paddy (Patrick) Murphy (Late of Bawnoge)
James Browne
Edward Gordon (38th Ann)
John Gordon (2nd Ann)
Willie Ryan (1st Ann Late of London & Barrack Street)
Sunday 10.00am
Paddy (Patrick) Murphy (Late of Bawnoge)
Denis McGee (Birthday Remembrance)
James Dunworth
Willie Ryan (Late London & Barrack St.)
Jason McDonald (6th Ann)
In Pope Benedict XVI’s encyclical, Caritas in Veritate, (Truth in Charity), the Holy Father addresses clearly the dignity of and respect for human life:
Openness to life is at the centre of true development… When a society moves toward the denial or suppression of life, it ends up no longer finding the necessary motivation and energy to strive for man’s true good. If personal and social sensitivity toward the acceptance of a new life is lost, then other forms of acceptance that are valuable for society also wither away.
More starkly Pope Francis has said:”Each child who is unborn, but is unjustly condemned to be aborted, bears the face of Jesus Christ.”
“…a human being is always sacred and inviolable, in any situation and at every stage of development. Human beings are ends in themselves and never a means of resolving other problems. Once this conviction disappears, so do solid and lasting foundations for the defence of human rights which would always be subject to the passing whims of the powers that be”.