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
The Iona Institute
Anti–Catholicism in Ireland, a talk given by David Quinn,
Davenport Hotel, 8-10 Merrion Street Lr.
Wednesday 24 April 2019 at 8pm.
Admission Free.
Last Week’s Family Envelope Collection:€348
Share Collection: €260
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Please Pray for:
Recently Deceased
This Week’s Anniversaries :
Saturday 9.00pm
Bridget Creighton
Sunday 10.00am
Oliver Daly
James Brophy (Late of Morganstown)
‘Seeing Is Believing’
The Apostle Thomas’ said that if he were to believe in the Resurrection of Jesus Christ he would have to see the evidence. (John 20:24-29).
Jesus responded that blessed are those who have not seen but yet believe.
True faith is based on what is gifted to the heart and soul not to the senses.
“To know Jesus is a gift of the Father; it is He who enables us to know Jesus. It is a work of the Holy Spirit.”(Pope Francis Homily at morning Mass 20 02 2014)
The Apostles Peter and John, at the instigation of Mary of Magdala, arrived on Easter morning at the empty tomb where the Body of Jesus had been laid. What they saw was a used but now empty tomb. St. John tells us that, it was in the empty tomb that he came to believe.
St. Columbanus (AD 540-615) who, in his lifetime, founded monasteries throughout Europe said as stand before the empty tomb on this Easter Day.
“seek the highest knowledge by faith, which proceeds from purity and simplicity of heart. If you seek God by means of argument, he will be further from you than he was before; if you seek by faith, wisdom will be in her proper place at the gateway to knowledge, and you will see God there, at least in part. Wisdom is in a certain sense attained when you believe in the invisible without first demanding to understand it. God must be believed in as he is, that is, as being invisible.