Sunday, 3 October 2021

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Your prayers are requested for the soul of May Taite recently deceased and for Kathleen (Chick) McGowan, Ashling Fowley and Bernadette Kennedy whose anniversaries occur around this time.

 

MAY THEIR SOULS AND THE SOULS OF ALL THE FAITHFUL DEPARTED THROUGH THE MERCY OF GOD REST IN PEACE. AMEN.

 

MASS TIMES AND INTENTIONS

Saturday 2

10 am       

Celebrant’s intentions

3 pm

Confirmation HFNS 2021

4.30 pm       

Celebrant’s intentions

6 pm             

Mary + Andy Hudson, Anniversary

Patrick + Bridget Lynch, Anniversary

Joni Person, Recently Deceased

Joan + Pat Moloney, Anniversary

Sunday 3

9.00 am   

Anthony Owens, Recently Deceased

Sean Gately, R.I.P.

10.30 am 

Eugennie + Laurence, R.I.P.

Jack O’Reilly, R.I.P.

Anthony Ball, Anniversary + Deceased members of Murphy Family

Sean Murray, Recently Deceased

Paddy Breslin, R.I.P.

12 noon        

Parishioners’ Intentions

Monday 4

10 am            

Breda Ryan + Yvonne Linehan, Anniversary

Noel Gannon, Recently Deceased

Tuesday 5

10 am       

Daragh Murphy, Anniversary

Máire Doyle + Sean Doyle, Anniversary

Paddy Gannon, Recently Deceased

Wednesday 6

10 am

Kathreeba + Lonappab Pallippatt, Anniversary

Shona Ryan, R.I.P.

Peter Manning, Recently Deceased

Thursday 7

10 am

Altar List of the Dead

Friday 8

10 am

Ann (Nan) Colgan, Anniversary

Special Intention

 

 

SACRAMENT OF CONFIRMATION 2021

Congratulations to those young people who have received the Sacrament of Confirmation of the 17 and 18 September 2021.  Archbishop Farrell has addressed the delays in celebrating the Sacraments of Confirmation at Holy Family Church on Friday and Saturday 1 and 2 October.  A word of thanks is also due to their parents, catechists, teachers, and mentors as well as all who supported and encouraged them towards their reception of the sacrament.

MISSION APPEAL COLLECTION 25 / 26 SEPTEMBER

Sr. Bride Counihan, The Little Sisters of the Assumption, gratefully acknowledged receipt of the sum of €2791 through contributors’ generosity at the Mission Appeal (Church Door) collection in support of the Little Sisters of the Assumption Missionary Work last weekend.  Sister Bride, thank you.

 

COMMEMORATION OF THOSE WHOSE FUNERALS WERE HELD AT THE HOLY FAMILY CHURCH FROM LATE OCTOBER 2020 UP TO LATE OCTOBER 2021.

The annual Mass for those whose funerals were held at the Holy Family Parish Church from late October 2020 up to late October 2021 will be celebrated at 7.30 pm on Monday 8 November at Holy Family Church.  Members of the deceased family are invited to attend, complying with whatever anti-Covid19 restrictions that may be enforced at that particular time and date.

 

A letter will be sent by post to the next of kin (as per the parish records) giving details of the time of the Mass.

 

THE ARCHBISHOP LETTER – “THE CRY OF THE EARTH”

This letter is now available from Margaret in the bookshop at €2.50 per copy.  “Faith and science are not opponents; in a truly Christian view, faith and reason go hand in hand”.

ARCHBISHOP FARRELL - Please buy this booklet and read it closely, it deals with the ongoing climate crisis which affects the whole world’s and all humanity’s future quality of life.

 

ALTAR LIST OF THE DEAD ENVELOPE

November is the month of the Holy Souls when we remember our Loved Ones and include their names on the Altar List of the Dead. Mass celebrated in this church on the First Friday and same other days of every month is offered for all those whose names have been placed on the Altar List of the Dead.  Envelopes for this purpose are available from the tables near the church entrance and may be returned to a collection bucket or to the Parish Office, in the Resource Centre.

 

TWENTY-SEVENTH SUNDAY IN ORDINARY TIME-FOLLOWING THE MESSIAH

Readings:

 

Readings:

Genesis 2:18-24

Psalm 128:1-6

Hebrews 2:9-11

Mark 10:2-16

 

In today’s Gospel, the Pharisees try to trap Jesus with a trick question.

The “lawfulness” of divorce in Israel was never an issue. Moses had long ago allowed it (see Dueteronomy 24:1-4). But Jesus points His enemies back before Moses, to “the beginning,” interpreting the text we hear in today’s First Reading.

Divorce violates the order of creation, He says. Moses permitted it only as a concession to the people’s “hardness of heart”—their inability to live by God’s covenant Law. But Jesus comes to fulfill the Law, to reveal its true meaning and purpose, and to give people the grace to keep God’s commands.

Marriage, He reveals, is a sacrament, a divine, life-giving sign. Through the union of husband and wife, God intended to bestow His blessings on the human family—making it fruitful, multiplying it until it filled the earth (see Genesis 1:28).

That’s why today’s Gospel moves so easily from a debate about marriage to Jesus’ blessing of children. Children are blessings the Father bestows on couples who walk in His ways, as we sing in today’s Psalm.

Marriage also is a sign of God’s new covenant. As today’s Epistle hints, Jesus is the new Adam—made a little lower than the angels, born of a human family (ses Romans 5:14; Psalm 8:5-7).  The Church is the new Eve, the “woman” born of Christ’s pierced side as He hung in the sleep of death on the Cross (see John 19:34; Revelation 12:1-17).

Through the union of Christ and the Church as “one flesh,” God’s plan for the world is fulfilled (see Ephesians 5;21-32). Eve was “mother of all the living” (see Genesis 3:20).  And in Baptism, we are made sons and daughters of the Church, children of the Father, heirs of the eternal glory He intended for the human family in the beginning.

The challenge for us is to live as children of the kingdom, growing up ever more faithful in our love and devotion to the ways of Christ and the teachings of His Church.