Fr Peter Finnerty, PP, Ph: 01-832-3150.
Fr Séamus Connell, Ph: 087-702-5120.
Fr Cathal Price, Ph: 01-832-3683.
Janice Dornan, Parish Sec, Parish Office, Ph 01-839-0433.
Email info@kilbarrackfoxfieldparish.ie
www.kilbarrackfoxfieldparish.ie
Weekday Mass times – Mon-Wed 10am; Thurs, 7.30pm; Fri 10am. Bayside– Mon, Tues, Wed, Fri &-Sat 10am; Sat 7pm. Sun 8am and 11.00am
Our parish is part of the partnership in the Howth Deanery as follows – Baldoyle, Bayside, Howth, Kilbarrack/Foxfield, Sutton. Registered Charity Number 20016166.
| Masses for the coming week | ||
| Day | Date | Time |
| John Drew (A) | Mon. 4th Dec | 10am |
| Feast of the
Immaculate Conception |
Thurs. 7th | 7.30pm |
| Fri 8th | 10am | |
| Don Cullinan, Imelda Cullinan and Maura O’Shea (A) | Sat. 9th | 6pm |
| Mary Caulfield (2nd A) | Sat. 9th | 6pm |
| Anthony (Tony) Roach (4th A) | Sat. 9th | 6pm |
| Billy Dunne, RD | Sat. 9th | 6pm |
| Mairéad O’Dea, Eamon O’Dea, Liam O’Dea and Bridie O’Driscoll (A) | Sun. 10th | 9.30am |
| Martin Horan (A) | Sun. 10th | 9.30am |
| Paddy and Lena Martin (A) | Sun. 10th | 12pm |
| Peig Fitzgerald (A) and remember Paddy Fitzgerald | Sun. 10th | 12pm |
Christmas Retreat 2023
St. John the Evangelist Church
Kilbarrack Foxfield Parish –
Saturday 16th December from 10am to 3pm
Find some peace and tranquillity away from the hectic pre-Christmas activity.
Day will involve:
Introduction and short talk
Silent Time before the Blessed Sacrament
Sharing God’s Word Together
Lunch (bring a small, packed lunch)
Tea/Coffee will be provided.
Confession,
Mass
Voluntary Donation
The Annual Christmas Collection for our local St Vincent de Paul group will take place next weekend 9th/10th December. Please support and give generously.
Reflection on Sunday’s Readings
The Advent readings continue to focus on the coming of Christ at the end of time and on his coming in our own lives.
The people of Israel, just returned from exile, find rebuilding their land difficult, and ask God to help them. (First Reading).
The Psalm continues this theme, appealing to God ‘the shepherd of Israel’ to come to the help of his people.
In the Second Reading, Paul writes to the Corinthians of his gratitude for the graces they have received. Their strong Christian witness and the gifts of the Spirit given to them will stand to them when the Lord returns on the last day.
In the Gospel Jesus uses images familiar to his audience to warn them to remain alert and awake, as a doorkeeper would. In this way they will not be caught unawares when the Lord comes again.
We pray in Advent, that the Lord will come: as he came in history at Christmas; as he comes in our hearts if we keep our door open; and as he will come at the end of time. We pray for all those in the world who are waiting with longing and hope for freedom from oppression and peace.
Dear Heavenly Father, we bring this situation before you and ask for a swift end to violence. Our hearts are breaking for the children and families in Gaza and Israel who have and continue to experience the unspeakable horror of attacks and war all around them. We pray for peace and ask that you will guide the hearts and minds of those in leadership. We especially pray for those children who have been physically and emotionally injured, and for those who have lost loved ones, that you will provide the right people with the right resources to help them, and that you will protect each person. Lord, we ask for your wisdom for all those involved and for the wider international community. Amen
Carols in Our Church –
Everyone loves singing carols!
Do join us to raise the roof on Sunday 17th December at 12 noon Mass. We plan to sing during and after Mass.
Adoration of the Blessed Sacrament takes place from 11am-3pm, Tuesday to Friday.
Crosscare Christmas Appeal 2023
To donate online see www.crosscare.ie, or call 01-836 0011, or send cheque /postal order to Crosscare Christmas Appeal, 2 St Marys Place North, D07Y768. Envelopes on back table.
Christmas Schedule – Kilbarrack/Foxfield
A communal Penitential Service at Masses:
Tues. 19th Dec. at 10am, Wed. 20st Dec. at 10am and
Fri. 22nd Dec. at 10am
Sat. 23rd Confessions: 10.30 am. – 12 noon
Christmas Masses:
Sat. 23rd Dec. at 6pm
Christmas Eve: Sun. 24th December
9.30am and 12 noon & Mass of the Nativity 6pm
Christmas Day: Mon. 25th Dec. 9.30am & 12noon
Tues. 26th, Wed. 27th, &Fri. 29th Dec. Mass 10am
Thur. 28th Dec. – No Divine Mercy Hour
Sat. 30th Dec. Vigil 6pm
Sun. 31st Dec. 9.30am & 12 noon and Mass of Thanksgiving 9pm
Mon. 1st, Tues. 2nd, Wed. 3rd & Fri. 5th Jan. Mass 10am
Thur. 4th – Mass and Divine Mercy Hour 7.30pm
Sat. 6th Jan. – Feast of the Epiphany
Masses as follows:
Fri. 5th Vigil Mass at 6pm & Sat. 6th at 10am & 6pm.
Sun. 7th Jan. 9.30am & 12 noon and Healing of the Generations Mass 7pm to 8pm.
Bayside Christmas Schedule
Sunday 24th December (Christmas Eve)
Vigil 7pm Saturday 23rd December
& Sunday Masses @ 8am and 11am
Vigil Mass for Christmas Day Sunday 24th December 9pm (with carols @ 8.30pm)
Monday 25th December (Christmas Day) 8am, 9.30am and 11am
New Pilgrim Path – Online Advent Retreat
Join in for a special online Ignatian Advent experience. Following a traditional Advent calendar format, you are invited to slow down this season and discover the quiet moments of Advent hope. Each day reveals a new resource, from ‘Creativity and Healing in Advent’ to ‘Silent Prayer in Advent’ and many, many more. This is a beautiful way to nurture your spirituality daily at this busy time of year. See www.newpilgrimpath.ie.
What’s On
- Chairobics every Tuesday 11.30am to 12.30pm. All are welcome.
- Reflections on the scriptures online Mondays 7.30pm. Contact Phyllis at 086 890 9488 with email address.
- SJYPS Holy Hour for Priests and Religious. Tues 5th Dec 2-3pm. https://www.mcn.live/Camera/st-johns-church
- Country Market, Raheny – Thurs 7th, 14th and 21st Dec. Gifts, cakes, jams, knitwear, etc.
- Join zoom presentation – ‘Longing for light, we wait in darkness’ Sun 10th Dec 7-8.30pm –watch and pray. Email stbeunosoutreach@beunos.com for link
- Mary’s Meals launched Christmas Gifts Campaign–gifts with real impact on those in need. €5.50 = 50 meals for children in school.. Visit marysmeals.ie to download a gift or call 01-853 5163/089-433 9592.
Briarfield Residents Environmental Group (BREG) will present the ‘switching on’ of the lights on Parish Tree of Hope next Saturday 9th December in the carpark of McHughs Centra S.C. Greendale Road at 6pm sharp. The lights will be switched on by our very own Fr. Cathal and Gail Fox, Principal Scoil Eoin. Everyone is welcome.
Christmas Carols/Concerts
- Four choirs incl. Third Day Chorale. St Gabriel’s Church, Dollymount. 3pm 3rd Donation VdeP
- Portmarnock Singers– 7.30-pm St Anne’s Church, Pormarnock. Sun 10th Tickets at door
- Dolce – Raheny Parish Church, 14th 7.30pm.
- The Seafield Singers – A Festival of Christmas Music, St. John the Baptist, Clontarf, 15th Dec at 8pm
- Palestrina Choir – National Concert Hall. 8pm Wed 16th Phone NCH 01 418 0000 or online
- Carol Service & Trad Session – 16th Dec. 3pm Church of Sts. Peter & Paul, Baldoyle. Collection St. Michael’s House Special National School, Baldoyle.
- Lucy O’Byrne & Canbelto Choir – Playhouse Baldoyle. 18th & 19th Dec. Tickets – call 085 146 5033.
Irish Blood Transfusion Service Board
The Mobile Unit Team will be at Gaelscoil Míde, Greendale Road, Kilbarrack on Monday 4th December 2023 from 5pm to 8.30pm. Donors are especially needed at this time.
Dublin’s Fair City
The Spire points to the sky
Cries aloud to God on high
Save our City from evil that lurks beneath
Save us from violence on every City street
A volcano of rage erupted
Flowed like lava through our streets uninterrupted
The mobs were filled with vitriol hate
Hate for all immigrants they advocate
Save us from anti-immigrant sentiment
And to our fellow humans’ anger and resentment
We were emigrants once upon a time
Or deported to Van Diemen’s Land for stealing food, our only crime
We fled famine, persecution and disease
To foreign lands to find shelter and some peace
Let’s not forget our past and abject poverty
And to the many lands we had to flee
For all who come to Ireland and Dublin City
Let us welcome them whoever they may be
Paddy O Keeffe
An Ancient Irish Rune on Hospitality
We saw a stranger yesterday. We put food in the eating place, drinking in the drinking place, music in the listening place. And with the sacred name of the Triune God, we were blessed, and our house, our cattle and our dear ones, as our lark sings in her song: Often, often, often goes the Christ in the stranger’s guise.
Thought for the Week
In God’s family there are no strangers – only kin or clan. Kinship is God’s dream come true. It’s about imagining a circle of compassion and no-one standing outside it.
