BCL Newsletter Week 7
A heart filled with love has no room for hate.
6th Sunday of the Year
Fr. Eamonn O’Gorman 0872236145
Fr. Pat O’Farrell 0872353520
Fr. Willie Hennessy 087 6737405
Anniversaries Occurring at This Time
Eileen (Mother) Thornton, Moate Rd. 1st anniversary
Anthony (Anton) Kilkenny, Moate Rd.
John & Maura Holohan, Grennan
Michael (Mick) Melody, Oldtown
Patrick Callinan, Moate Rd.
Sean Dowling, High St.
Choir Practice Resumes
Choir Practice begins again this coming Wednesday evening, 16th February at 7.30 p.m. in the Canon Malone Hall.
New members are welcome.
2nd Anniversary Mass For Canon Percy Grant
We invite you to join with Canon Grant’s family to celebrate his 2nd anniversary mass at
10.30 a.m. on St Patrick’s Day
with refreshments afterwards in the CYMS Hall.
First Holy Communion and Confirmation
Remembering candidates and families in our Prayer of those preparing for the celebration:
Confirmation
Saturday, 26th March at 11.00 a.m. Ballyragget
First Holy Communion
Saturday, 14th at 11.00 a.m. Ballyragget
Dorothy Day
Dorothy Day, great pioneer of the Catholic Worker movement, was once accosted by a fellow Catholic who was of the opinion that Day’s radical stance of living for and with the poor was a bit over the top. Day replied to him, “Go home and read the four gospels. Then we can talk.” Can we talk frankly about the demands of the Beatitudes and Woes as presented this week in Luke 6:20-30?
First we have to take the nice music away – you know, the kind that makes the beatitudes feel smooth and lovely. Then we have to get out our brushes and brooms and whisk away the glitter, and then question the notion that these words are sweet and silky to “taste and see.” Quite frankly, Luke’s beatitudes are harder to hear and harder to chew than those in Matthew’s Sermon on the Mount.
At the end of the O Lumen, we sing to our brother Dominic, “Preacher of grace, unite us with the blessed.” Suppose those blessed ones aren’t just those who dwell in heavenly splendour. What if the blessed are the poor, the hungry, those crushed by sorrow, the unwashed and the unlovable. What if Jesus’ intent wasn’t that we try to spiritualize our way into the company of the blessed, but that we get the ice bucket emptied on us? That we’re shocked regularly by the hugeness and contrariness of God’s point of view, and wonder, as did the disciples elsewhere in the Gospel, “Then who can be saved?” Which side are we on? These are difficult questions, and undoubtedly what Dorothy Day was engaged in as she strove to join herself with the “blessed.” But we don’t earn the kingdom. It is God’s to give, and Jesus made it very clear that God’s great desire is to gather us all – not just there and then, but here and now.
St. Mary’s Cathedral Monthly Draw 2021 – 2022
Cathedral Draw
beginning
Wednesday evening
29th September 2021
for twelve monthly draws.
Dooley’s Garage, Georges Tree,
John McGrath, News and Chews,
Ms. Sheila Walshe and Sr. Mary Freeman
As you are aware, the St. Mary’s Cathedral Restoration Fund Draw has for the past number of years been a most welcome support of the Cathedral and a great aid in works undertaken therein. As I have noted before, I am taken by its beauty each time I come to celebrate Mass in your fine Cathedral. I want to thank the generosity of all of you in the parishes who do so much each year to support and encourage the draw. This draw in these past six years raised nearly €600,000. If you are in a position to support the draw this year beginning with the first of twelve draws on Wednesday 29th September 2021. Your support, as always, is much appreciated.
Bishop Denis Nulty, Apostolic Administrator, Ossory.
If you have a Safeguarding Concern Contact
The Diocesan Designated Liaison Person:
Ms. Kathleen Sherry 085 8021633 dlp@ossory.ie
Parish Reps:
Ms. Maire Gannon and Mr. Pat O’Neill
Ms. Eileen Gunner and Mr. Sean Malone
