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PLEASE TAKE HOME A COPY OF THIS NEWSLETTER
MASS INTENTIONS
Mon 22nd April 10.00am John Howard (Anv)
Christina Wallace (Anv) Tues 23rd April 10.00am Christina Wallace (Anv) Wed 24th April 10.00am Kay Lenehan (Anv) Sat 27th April 10.00am Ramon Buggy (Months Mind)
Recently Deceased
Padraig O Fathaigh( Fahy)
(Meadow Vale)
Brigid (Bridie) Keely
(Foxrock Nursing Home)
May they rest in peace
Parish of Our Lady of Perpetual Succour
www.foxrockparish.ie [email protected]
Fr. Aquinas Duffy 01 289 34 92 [email protected]
Parish Office/Sacristy 01 2893492
Monday - Friday 10.30 - 12.30
Parish Pastoral Worker Maeve Davidson
087 6904814; 087 2853726
[email protected]. Pastoral Centre 2895650 www.parishcentre.ie
April 21, 2019
Easter Sunday
Can you imagine that moment? Can you
imagine the stomach drop with dizzying
realization: "It's all true. All of it is true!
The past three years weren't a dream that
ended horribly wrong." Can you imagine
all the doubts and despair of the past
days chased away like smoke on the wind
by a rolled up burial cloth? By an empty
tomb?
It didn't start that way, of course. "'They
have taken the Lord from the tomb, and
we don't know where they put him.'" This
frantic news from Mary Magdalene would
have been another unexpected blow.
After all that happened, now his body has
been stolen? The love and devotion in
Peter and John is apparent. They don't
wait to collect more information or stop
by the tomb when they have a chance.
They run to the site. When is the last time
you ran for something? This isn't a run for
exercise, but a huffing and puffing bolt
fuelled by desperation. Can you imagine
that moment? The fear pounding in their
temples, matching their accelerated
heart rate. Can you imagine the impatient
affection of John, who outruns Peter but
refuses to enter the tomb alone? And
then, upon entry, "He saw and believed."
This is the drama of our great feast! The
promise that seemed lost has been found.
The dead are raised. Long before the
Easter eggs and ham, we are invited to
meditate on this divine reality. We are
invited to feel the desperation and joy of
that first Easter Sunday deep in our
bones. Because it is not just Mary's story.
It's not Peter and John's story. It's our
story. From the greatest defeat can come
the most awe-inspiring victory, and this is
true not just for our God, but for each one
of us. He is risen indeed! Alleluia!
Have a lovely Easter Everyone, do pop
in for a coffee and there may be even
some Easter Eggs in the Hall. Easter
Monday the Centre will be closed but
opened again on Tuesday. Another
quiet week in the Centre, the Garden
Club will have their meeting on Tuesday
in the Hall and on Wednesday evening
Bridge will be on. Active Retirement
Association have a talk on Thursday by
Rob Goodbody ‘Frank Aiken – Inventor’.
**Last Term of Mini & Baby Jam
starting 2nd May for 7 weeks €105.
Book now to avoid disappointment by
emailing [email protected] or
Ph. 0879393953**
A new Mindfulness Course is starting on
9th May for 4 weeks, please contact
Pamela-Maria on 083 8166800 to book
your place.
Enjoy your week Róisín
Congratulations to
Oisín O Donovan and
Karen-Ann Dwyer
recently married in our Church
"There is one moment in life that towers above all others and summons us, heart and soul, to urgent prayer. The moment when, after a more or less carefree youth, a person fully realizes for the first time the grave choice before him or her: what meaning, what content, what direction do I want my life as a whole to have? I can choose or refuse my mission, my vocation. Fancy or caprice cannot be allowed to dictate the decision; it must be made only on reference to my first beginning and my final goal. I must implore God’s light. Show me Lord, what the meaning of my life should be.”
Hans Urs von Balthasar
At Foxrock Parish Pastoral Centre.
Tuesday23rd of April
What makes a great garden"
Speaker Annie Guilfoyle Garden
Designer and writer
Time 8.00 pm .
Admission 7€ non members
Johnstown Annual Parish Pilgrimage to Knock 2019
Will take place on Saturday 27th April Bus will leave church car park at 8.00a.m.
Spiritual Director Fr. Peadar Murney
Cost €50.00 per person Morning snack & Evening meal inclusive
Bookings will be taken at Parish
Office 01 235 1416 Our Lady of Knock Pray For Us
Chapel of Adoration
Disciples of The Divine Master
Whites Cross
28th April 2019 2.00 pm Blessing of Divine Mercy Image 2.15 pm Confessions 2.15 pm Guided Holy Hour (Fr Eugene Clarkson MSC) 3.00 pm Divine Mercy Chaplet 3.45 pm Holy Mass (Fr Derry Murphy SAC) Veneration of Divine Mercy Image Blessing with St Faustina Relic
MEDJUGORJE PRAYER GROUP
Russian icon with 5
themes:
The Holy Trinity ;
Good thief enters
Heaven;
Adam, Eve and
others follow Jesus
from Hell to
Heaven;
Harrowing of Hell;
Entombment of
Christ
It is located in the
Solovetsky
Monastery located
on the Solovetsky
Islands in
the White Sea in
northern Russia
The Solovetsky Monastery was founded in 1436. After a chequered history it
was converted into a Soviet prison and labour camp in 1926–39, and served
as a prototype for the camps of the Gulag system. A small brotherhood of
monks has re-established activities in the monastery after the collapse of
communism, and it currently houses about ten monks. The monastery has
also recently been extensively repaired, but remains under reconstruction.