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
Pilgrimage to our Lady’s Island Wexford
Closing Ceremony Sunday 8 September bus will leave The Square @3.45pm.
contact Mary, 0876619545
Last Week’s Family Envelope Collection:€292
Share Collection: €370
Thank you very much
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Please Pray for:
Recently Deceased
This Week’s Anniversaries :
Saturday 7.00pm
Jack Davoren
Sunday 10.00am
Alice Kearns
Knock Weekend: August 30th to Sept 1st 2019
Theme: ‘’ This is my son my chosen one Listen to him ‘’ Luke 9:35
Details www.mcpg.net contact Peter 087 2251124, AnneMarie 086 72517720, Josephine 087 9318514
Pope at Angelus: Be ready for the final encounter with the Lord 12/8/2019
The lamp of faith needs to be nourished continuously, with a heart to heart encounter with Jesus in prayer, and in listening to His Word. True faith opens the heart to one’s neighbour and spurs us on to concrete communion with our brothers and sisters, especially with those in need.
In Luke’s Gospel, Jesus describes the servants awaiting the return of their master as an example of remaining vigilant. We need to be ready for the final and definitive encounter with the Lord. Blessed are those servants whom the master finds vigilant on his arrival. With these words, the Lord reminds us that life is a journey towards eternity. “Every moment becomes precious, so we must live and act on this earth having a longing for Heaven in our hearts.
If we live in harmony with the Gospel and God’s commandments He will allow us to share in His eternal happiness. Although we cannot really understand what this supreme joy will be like Jesus offers us an image of the master who, finding his servants still awake on his return, will have them recline at table, and proceed to wait on them. It is as though everything in Heaven will be reversed. It will no longer be the servants, namely, us, who will serve God, but God will put Himself at our service.
May the thought of the final encounter with the Father “fill us with hope. May it stimulate us to a constant commitment to becoming holy, and to building a more just and fraternal world.