Parish Contacts:
Fr Peter Finnerty, Parish Priest, 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-Sat 10am.
Weekends: Saturday Vigil 6pm, Sunday 9.30am and 12pm. Bayside – Saturday Vigil 7pm. Sunday 8am, 10am,11.30am. Parish Office: Mon, Tues, Thurs & Fri 9.30am to 12.30pm. Closed Wednesday.
All Masses only are also available on our Webcam.
| Masses for the coming week | ||
| Name | Date | Time |
| Bernadette O’Connor (Month’s Mind | Mon. 16th | 10am |
| Josephine Drew (A) | Mon. 16th | 10am |
| Helen Mason, RD | Tues. 17th | 10am |
| Séamus Lydon (A) | Wed. 18th | 10am |
| Jimmy Geraghty (A) | Thurs. 19th | 7.30pm |
| Pat McDevitt, (Month’s Mind) | Sat. 21st | 6pm |
| Paddy O’Reilly (20th A) | Sat. 21st | 6pm |
| Norry Roach & Thomas Lodge (A) | Sun. 22nd | 9.30am |
| Marie Pullen (A) | Sun. 22nd | 12pm |
Exposition of the Blessed Sacrament
Exposition of the Blessed Sacrament takes place from Tuesday to Friday, 11am-3pm each week.
Recently Deceased
We remember in our prayers
David Smyth RIP late of Tonlegee Road
Helen Mason RIP, late of Foxfield Park.
Our thoughts and prayers are with their families, friends, and neighbours. May they rest in peace.
Act of Spiritual Communion
My Jesus, I believe that You are present in the Most Holy Sacrament. I love You above all things, and I desire to receive You into my soul. Since I cannot at this moment receive You sacramentally, come at least spiritually into my heart. I embrace You as if You were already there and unite myself wholly to You.
Never permit me to be separated from You. Amen.
Family Offering
If you wish to receive a Family Offering Box, spare boxes are in the Parish Office. Contributions can be yearly, half yearly, or by Standing Order. Whatever your preference, if you need assistance, please contact Janice in the Parish Office. We thank everyone for the continued contributions during these difficult times.
Reflection on Sunday’s Readings
‘Yes, I have seen, and I am the witness that he is the Chosen One of God!’
With today’s Gospel from St John, Christmastide flows almost seamlessly into Ordinary Time. Christmas ends with the ‘revelation’ of the Son of God, and Ordinary Time begins with the Baptist recognising Jesus as the Lamb of God. If we, also, recognise Jesus as the Chosen One of God, what does that mean? What does it ask of us? A way forward can be readily found in the three other texts of today’s liturgy: doing God’s will and delighting in God’s law our hearts (Psalm); taking our place among all the saints, the holy people of Jesus Christ (Second Reading); and being a light for the nations so that God’s salvation may reach all people (First Reading). Let us pray, this week, that by ‘seeing’ God, both at work in the world and present to us in our lives, we might bear witness to the Chosen One by the daily choices we make.
Christmas Dues Envelopes can be left into Number(s) 54/56 Foxfield St. John or to the Sacristy/Parish Office
What’s On
- Reflections on the scriptures online each Monday 7.30pm. Resolution for 2023? – gain understanding of the liturgy. Contact Phyllis at 086 890 9488 with email address.
- Join us for morning prayer, Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday and Friday at 9.45am.
- Chairobics on Tuesdays from 11.30am-12.30pm
- Pop-up Gaeltacht Bayside Inn from 8pm 19th
- Free Bereaved Parent Evening, 7.15pm, Hilton Hotel Malahide Road from Anam Cara – open to all bereaved parents, regardless of the age of child, circumstances of death, or when it happened. Queries to info@anamcara.ie or 085 2888 888.
- Maria’s Gospel Hour. See Youtube at 4pm on Sundays. Search “@mariadoherty” on Youtube.
- Lectures on Responding to the Experience of the Mystery Marino Institute of Education from 24th January 7-9.30pm. Cost €150.Contact 087 450 8549 or gao@mie.ie, for details.
- Camino de Santiago? Camino Ingles 15th-22nd May with Breakthrough Cancer Research. Experienced guide. Help Make More Survivors. Contact Mary@breakcancer.ie/021 422 66 55 for details.
- Public meeting – ‘Protecting the vulnerable from the threat of legalised Euthanasia’.Speakers, Professor Patricia Casey, Consultant Psychiatrist and Peter D Williams, Anscombe Bioethical Centre 30pm Tuesday 24th January, Wynns Hotel, Abbey Street Lower.
- Diocesan Pilgrimage to Knock led by Archbishop Farrell, Saturday 29th April. Information from knockpilgrimage@dublindiocese.ie .
- The 2023 Diocesan Pilgrimage to Knock, led by Archbishop Farrell, on Saturday, April 29. Email knockpilgrimage@dublindiocese.ie if you have any queries.
- Priory Institute – online Theology courses to degree level. Saturday lectures in Tallaght or from your own home. Register before February 8th. Find out more on our website, prioryinstitute.com
New Pilgrim Path
James Finley provides a superb commentary on newpilgrimpath.ie on the following famous prayer by Thomas Merton:
“My Lord God, I have no idea where I am going. I do not see the road ahead of me. I cannot know for certain where it will end. Nor do I really know myself, and the fact that I think that I am following your will does not mean that I am actually doing so. But I believe that the desire to please you does in fact please you. And I hope I have that desire in all that I am doing. I hope that I will never do anything apart from that desire. And I know that if I do this you will lead me by the right road though I may know nothing about it. Therefore, I will trust you always though I may seem to be lost and in the shadow of death. I will not fear, for you are ever with me, and you will never leave me to face my perils alone.”
Thank You
From all the priests of the parish we wish to sincerely thank you all for the generous gifts we received over the Christmas. We are very grateful for your kindness shown. Blessings to all of you for 2023.
Local Vacancies
Church of St John the Baptist, Clontarf, wishes to recruit a new sacristan. Information from Fr John O’Brien via www.stjohnsclontarf.ie or by calling 083 006 2411. There is a vacancy for a Parish Secretary at St Monica’s Church, Edenmore & St Benedict’s, Grange Park. See https://dublindiocese.ie/vacancies/ for more information. The closing date is 17th January.
Ukrainian Mass
Fr Vasyl Kornitsky is Chaplain to the Ukrainian community and curate in Donnycarney Parish. He can be contacted at 086 2359 561 or ugccie@gmail.com. Ukrainian Mass (Divine Liturgy of St John Chrysostom, Byzantine rite) is held every Sunday at 1pm in Our Lady of Consolation Church, Donnycarney.
In The Meantime
Meanwhile, flowers still bloom.
The moon rises, and the sun.
Babies smile and somewhere,
Against all the odds,
Two people are falling in love.
Strangers share cigarettes and jokes.
Light plays on the surface of water.
Grace occurs on unlikely streets
And we hold each other fast
Against entropy, the fires and the flood.
Life leans towards living
And, while death claims all things at the end,
There were such precious times between,
In which everything was radiant
And we loved, again, this world.
We Need to Be More than the Good Samaritan
On the one hand we are called to play the good Samaritan on life’s roadside; but that will be only an initial act. One day we must come to see that the whole Jericho Road must be transformed so that men and women will not be constantly beaten and robbed as they make their journey on life’s highway. True compassion is more than flinging a coin to a beggar; it is not haphazard and superficial. It comes to see that an edifice which produces beggars needs restructuring.
Martin Luther King
I Hope You Make Mistakes
I hope that in this year to come, you make mistakes.
Because if you are making mistakes, then you are making new things, trying new things, learning, living, pushing yourself, changing yourself, changing your world. You’re doing things you’ve never done before, and more importantly, you’re Doing Something.
So that’s my wish for you, and all of us, and my wish for myself. Make New Mistakes. Make glorious, amazing mistakes. Make mistakes nobody’s ever made before. Don’t freeze, don’t stop, don’t worry that it isn’t good enough, or it isn’t perfect, whatever it is: art, or love, or work or family or life.
Whatever it is you’re scared of doing, Do it.
Make your mistakes, next year and forever.
― Neil Gaiman
Don’t Let Yourself Die Slowly
You start dying slowly; if you do not travel; if you do not read; if you do not listen to the sounds of life; if you do not appreciate yourself.
You start dying slowly: When you kill your self-esteem, When you do not let others help you.
You start dying slowly: If you become a slave of your habits; Walking every day on the same paths…; If you do not change your routine; If you do not wear different colours or you do not speak to those you don’t know.
You start dying slowly: If you avoid feeling passion and their turbulent emotions; Those which make your eyes glisten and your heartbeat fast.
You start dying slowly: If you do not risk what is safe for the uncertain; If you do not go after a dream; If you do not allow yourself at least once in your lifetime to run away from sensible advice
Don’t let yourself die slowly. Do not forget to be happy!
~ Pablo Neruda, Chilean poet who was awarded the Nobel, Prize for Literature in 1971.
Thought for the WeekHappiness starts with you. Not with your relationships, not with your job, not with your money, not with your circumstances, but with you. |
