Masses for the week in Ballymore: Monday Tuesday Thursday & Friday 10am. Saturday 7pm Sunday 10am.
Pilgrimage to Medjugorie
29 August to 5 September (€675).
Contact: Teresa Kane 046 9486983/087 9657299
Ash Wednesday 6 March 2019
Ashes will be blessed and distributed at 10am Mass.
Trocaire Lenten Campaign
Trocaire Boxes are available in the Church porches for households who would like to support the work of Trocaire during Lent. The focus this Lent is to help families in Lebanon, Uganda & Guatemala
Last Week’s Family Envelope Collection:€302.50
Share Collection: €255
Thank you very much
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Please Pray for:
Recently Deceased
James Nolan (Late of Elverstown)
Nora Daly (Sister of Kay Nolan)
This Week’s Anniversaries :
Saturday 7.00pm
Ann Holland (Months Mind)
Alice Cullen (Months Mind)
Liam Kelly (1st Ann)
John & William Murphy (Father & Son)
Late of Bawnogue)
John Lewis
Sunday 10.00am
Ann Holland (Months Mind)
Liam Kelly (1st Ann)
Pope Francis Advice for Lent 26/2/2019
The Pope reflected on the importance of fasting, prayer and almsgiving, saying: “Lent is a sacramental sign of this conversion. It invites Christians to embody the paschal mystery more deeply and concretely in their personal, family and social lives.”
“Fasting,” refers to “learning to change our attitude towards others and all of creation, turning away from the temptation to “devour” everything to satisfy our voracity and being ready to suffer for love, which can fill the emptiness of our hearts.”
“Prayer,” he added, “teaches us to abandon idolatry and the self-sufficiency of our ego, and to acknowledge our need of the Lord and his mercy.”
“Almsgiving,” he continued, refers to when “we escape from the insanity of hoarding everything for ourselves in the illusory belief that we can secure a future that does not belong to us.”
In this way, we can “rediscover the joy of God’s plan for creation and for each of us, which is to love him, our brothers and sisters, and the entire world, and to find in this love our true happiness.”
The Pope also expressed his hope that God help us set out on a path of true conversion.
“Let us leave behind our selfishness and self-absorption, and turn to Jesus’ Pasch. Let us stand beside our brothers and sisters in need, sharing our spiritual and material goods with them.”
“In this way, by concretely welcoming Christ’s victory over sin and death into our lives, we will also radiate its transforming power to all of creation.”