Summer Fair
Summer Fair is on Saturday, 4th July from 11.30 a.m. to 2.00 p.m. in Blessed Sacrament Hall, Bachelors Walk, Dublin 1. All the usual Stalls: Books (Paperbacks), CDs/DVDs, Groceries, Cakes, Bric-a-Brac, Wheel of Fortune, Raffles. Goods for the Fair may be handed in at our Mass Office. We hope you will support us also by coming along on the...
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A limited number of statues of both St. Peter Julian Eymard and of Our Lady of the Blessed Sacrament are available from our Mass Office at 25 Euro...
read moreThirteenth Sunday – 28 June 2009
Gospel: Mark 5: 21-43 Year B A large crowd gathered round Him…. For You, Lord, the crowd is not an anonymous multitude. You call each by his name (Jn. 10:3). You know how to listen, to be attentive, to remain available to all individually. You want to say to each one: I came so that you may have life and have it in abundance (Jn. 10:10). The crowd gathers round You because, perhaps, unwittingly, they have found in you the true source of life. It’s the case with Jairus: Come lay Your hands on her so that she will live! It’s the case with the sick woman: If I can even touch Him, I will be saved. You respond to their desire. You go to help them grow in faith: The incurable woman approaches You despite the prohibition of...
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for your forbearance while our Chapel was closed for re-repainting. We hope you are pleased with the result. Once again, apologies for the inconvenience. for your generous response to the Diocesan collection for the 2012 International Eucharistic Congress. You contributed 400 Euros, which we were pleased to pass on to the appropriate...
read moreTwelfth Sunday – 21 June 2009
Gospel: Mark 4:35-41 Year B Let us cross to the other side! The Evangelist often highlights Your boat journeys, Lord Jesus. It is useful for going from one shore to the other…. It is also the symbol of our life, with its moments of happiness, of easiness, and its hours of anguish, of difficulties and challenges. You bring us to the other side, that of Your Kingdom, that of eternity. We are always on a journey: For there is no eternal city for us in this life but we look for the one in the life to come (Heb. 13:14). The boat is a means of transport, not a residence. As long as we are on earth, we continue to be travellers. They took Jesus to the boat. The voyage is easy while You are there. Your disciples have...
read moreFourth Sunday of Easter
Gospel: John 10:11-18 3 May 2009 I am the Good Shepherd…. The Evangelist’s Greek word is “beautiful”. Three times in a row, You repeat this word, Lord. With insistence, You introduce Yourself as the beautiful Shepherd. It’s an invitation to contemplate You, to gaze on You, like stopping at a scenic spot, at a beautiful flower, a beautiful sight. Open our eyes, Lord! Let us know how to see you! You teach us by Your life as much as, or even more than, by Your words. The Good Shepherd gives his life for his sheep. Here is the beauty that You suggest we contemplate. This word “to give” is not only a reference to Your death on the cross. It is all Your existence which is given for Your sheep. You are the Gift of God to humanity: God...
read moreThird Sunday of Easter
Gospel: Luke 24: 35-48 26 April 2009 The disciples told about what had happened on the road. They have just experienced an extraordinary event. They want to share this joy with their companions. They tell how they recognised him at the breaking of Bread. This challenges me. and where am I in this? I meet You, lord, at every Mass. There, You enlighten me through your Word, You share Your Bread with me. Does my life after that tell to others about this meeting with You? Come, reinflame my heart, Lord, and increase my faith! Jesus was there in their midst…. They were overjoyed on knowing that You were risen. Suddenly here they are stricken with shock and fear when You show Yourself to them. It is difficult for them to grasp the marvelous reality. With love and patience,...
read moreSecond Sunday of Easter
Gospel: John 20: 19-31 19 April 2009 After the death of Jesus, the evening of the first day of the week…. This is not a simple historically precise timing. St. John puts us in parallel with the account of creation in Genesis. Your death, Lord, marks the end of a world, the end of the reign of Satan; You had predicted it: the prince of this world will be cast out (Jn. 12:31). Your resurrection is the first day of the new creation. Your death had plunged Your disciples into darkness and fear; for them it was the pits of emptiness and darkness (Gen. 1:2), like at the beginning of the world. your resurrection will be for them the radiant light announced by Isaiah (Is.60:1). Jesus came, He was there in the midst of them…. The “Light of the...
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Thank You!…
Thank you to all who helped with and supported our Spring Fair on Saturday 4th April. You helped us to raise 2,100 Euros. May God reward your generosity of...
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