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
St. Joseph of Cupertino Prayer for those sitting examinations
O Great St. Joseph of Cupertino who while on earth did obtain from God the grace to be asked at your examination only the questions you knew, obtain for me a like favour in the examinations for which I am now preparing.
In return I promise to make you known and cause you to be invoked. Through Christ our Lord.
St. Joseph of Cupertino, Pray for us. Amen.
Last Week’s Family Envelope Collection:€335
Share Collection: €170
Thank you very much
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Please Pray for:
Recently Deceased
Nicholas O Keefe
This Week’s Anniversaries :
Saturday 7.00pm
George McGuire (7th Ann)
Larry Kelly (1st Ann)
Crena McGee
Frank Gorman
Jack Stewart (10th Ann)
Kathleen & Myles O Reilly (Late of St Bridgets Park)
Sunday 10.00am
Christopher Dennison
Maire T Drohan
Alzheimers Fund Raiser
Tea / Coffee / Cake Sale / Raffle
Weekend 8-9 June after Masses
This venue will take place in the Resource Centre Ballymore Eustace
All proceeds to The Alzheimers Unit, St Vincents Hospital, Athy
Pope Francis “Yes to Life” conference 25/5/2019
Every child is a gift
The Pope said “no human being can ever be incompatible with life”. Every child is “a gift that needs to be welcomed, loved and cared for”.
Prenatal diagnosis
The Pope referred to prenatal diagnosis that can detect the early presence of malformations and diseases in pregnancy. Often the “mere suspicion of disease”, can “risk “throwing women and couples” into a state of “deep despair”. Yet, the Pope said, “the evolution of every disease is always subjective and often not even doctors know how it will manifest itself in the individual”.
Small patients
The Pope described children in the womb with pathological conditions, as “small patients”. Advances in medicine have reduced “the gap between diagnostic and therapeutic possibilities, which for years was one of the causes of voluntary abortion”.
The medical mission
The medical profession, he said, is “a mission”: and doctors should be “capable of “committing themselves to always finding solutions that respect the dignity of every human life”, especially children who are likely “to die immediately after childbirth”. Taking care of these children “helps parents to process mourning. That child will remain in their lives forever”.
Abortion never the answer
“Abortion”, said Pope Francis “is never the answer”. “Human life is sacred and inviolable and the use of prenatal diagnosis for selective purposes must be strongly discouraged. It deprives families of the possibility of welcoming, embracing and loving their weakest children”, he said
The Pope thanked those families, who have welcomed fragile lives. “Your witness of love”, he said, “is a gift to the world”.