| Church of St John the Evangelist, Kilbarrack-Foxfield
Parish Newsletter – Sunday, 4th April 2021. Easter Sunday Volume 24 Issue 14 |
Fr Peter Finnerty, Administrator, 01-832-3150.
Fr Finbarr Neylon, CC, 086-356-6380
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
The Church will close at 12.30pm this Bank Holiday Easter Monday. The parish office will re-open Thursday 8th April
Masses Online
Masses in our Church are all on Webcam only – Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday and Friday at 10am; Thursday 7.30pm (and Divine Mercy Hour). Sunday 12noon. See www.kilbarrackfoxfieldparish.ie. Details of other Churches also on our website. Every second Sunday RTE1 Mass at 11am and on the alternate weeks, Mass is celebrated on RTE Now at 2.15pm. Weekday Masses from RTE News Now at 10.30am. Those without internet can hear 10am Mass Monday-Friday on Radio Maria by phoning 01-437-3277 from a landline, then press the speaker symbol on your phone.
We encourage all to pray as set out below –
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.
Recently Deceased
We remember in our Prayers
Con Colbert, RIP, late of Foxfield Road.
May he rest in peace.
We are very sad to lose a valued and much loved parishioner. Con was involved in many ways in our Parish since its foundation including the local St. Vincent de Paul, as a sacristan and Parish Council Member etc. A lovely gentle man – he will be very much missed. We send our sympathies to Anne and all the family. Our thoughts and prayers are also with his friends and neighbours.
Divine Mercy Novena
The Divine Mercy Novena commenced on Good Friday (Leaflets available in the Church) to welcome the Feast of Mercy being celebrated here next Sunday, 11th April, starting at 2pm with Rosary, Divine Mercy Chaplet, Holy Mass and Benediction. Do join us online.
Happy Easter
May the peace of the Risen Christ fill all our hearts with joy this Easter.
We are including all of our parishioners and their families in constant prayers, knowing that the last year has been stressful for so many people.
As more people are vaccinated and with God’s help, we will celebrate Masses with all of you in the Church in the not-too-distant future.
We are renewed now as we celebrate the gift of new life and a fresh start at Easter. This is reflected in our Easter garden. The flowers, plants, water and open tomb speak for themselves.
“The Lord has indeed risen, alleluia”
Fr Peter, Fr Finbarr, Fr Séamus, Fr Cathal, Fr Paul
Adoration of the Blessed Sacrament
Adoration of the Blessed Sacrament, Tuesday-Friday from 11am-3pm.
A Message of Thanks
We extend huge thanks to the people who prepared for our Holy Week ceremonies; to Janice our secretary and our sacristans who have supported us all through this difficult time; to those who reflected our journey through Lent with the Lenten garden; to the Ministers of the Word who read at Mass regularly; to Eva who prepared the flowers for the altar; to those who brought flowers and plants for the Easter garden and to all who helped put together and deliver the Easter mailing.
Easter Dues Envelopes
Easter Dues Envelopes may be returned to the Sacristy or dropped into 54 or 56 Foxfield St John.
Weekly Reflection on the Scriptures
The weekly reflection will resume on Monday 12th April 7.30-8.30pm. Contact Sr Phyllis at 086-890-9488 with your email address and join us on Zoom any Monday night 7.30-8.30pm to reflect on the liturgy for the following Sunday. It is so rewarding and enhances participation at Mass on the day.
Reflection on Today’s Gospel
Christ, my hope, has risen!
We have come to the season of joy and hope, following a long season of anguish and suffering. Many have wept at tombs, asking ‘where?’, ‘how?’, ‘why’? We have all been asked to carry crosses. Now, though, alongside his own cross, we stand with Jesus victorious and risen in glory.
We may be coming to this new season hesitantly, like the younger disciple (Gospel), perhaps still hurting from the scars of the year and hardly daring to hope. Or we may find ourselves, like Peter, rushing headlong, eager to see and to believe.
As St Ignatius said, ‘Love is shown more in deeds than in words’. Haven’t we seen that this past year! So let us rejoice and be glad, and give thanks to the Lord.
SVPD Clothing Collection
The Society of Saint Vincent de Paul will deliver empty bags to each household in the parish. Please fill these with Clean Clothes and bring them to the Church Carpark on Friday 9th April between the hours of 11 and 2.30pm. Due to the current COVID situation, only clean dry clothes will be accepted. Please do not bring Toiletries, Furniture, Bedding etc.
New Pilgrim Path
The Laudato Si Animators programme trains and inspires local volunteers to bring the Pope’s teaching on climate change into local communities. The six-week training includes the mechanics of greenhouse gas emissions to our scriptural role as stewards of creation and helps to transform our community. Animators include students and retirees, clergy and lay people, climate experts and climate amateurs, in the Animators programme. Training begins 14th April. Find out more at: www.newpilgrimpath.ie.
Looking After Your Mental Health
Tony Bates, eminent psychologist, through Rotary Ireland, will host a webinar ‘Looking after your mental health’ on Monday 12th April at 1pm. It is a free event with unlimited attendees. Register on https://us02web.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_9Cw5BOx2Sf-oZLxItrYTmA. Never in our lifetimes, has there been such a need to give mental health support for people as we contend with Covid 19 and the restrictions placed on our freedom to work, socialise, travel, partake in normal family activities, comfort the ill and dying and share our grief for the loss of our loved ones.
Pope Francis
‘At the Easter vigil, we will renew our baptismal promises and experience rebirth as new men and women by the working of the Holy Spirit’
Trócaire
Trócaire boxes may be left into the church or you may donate at www.trócaire.org
Easter (1)
Renewal, Rebirth, Resurrection
life bursts forth to renew the Spirit
Green buds on trees
Spring flowers, the many colours of Joseph’s dream coat
dark gloom of winter to bright sunlight
Our lives renewed, Christ is risen
Triumphant, Glorious, death no more
The birds sing rejoicing
Nature bursts forth in Triumph
Despair no more, listen
Listen to the morning Chorus
The ” Son ” Rising
Light to our misery
Mercy and Love forever
Paddy O Keeffe
Easter (2)
And where is Jesus, this strange Easter day?
Not lost in our locked churches, anymore
Than he was sealed in that dark sepulchre.
The locks are loosed; the stone is rolled away,
And he is up and risen, long before,
Alive, at large, and making his strong way
Into the world he gave his life to save,
No need to seek him in his empty grave.
He might have been a wafer in the hands
Of priests this day, or music from the lips
Of red-robed choristers, instead he slips
Away from church, shakes off our linen bands
To don his apron with a nurse: he grips
And lifts a stretcher, soothes with gentle hands
The frail flesh of the dying, gives them hope,
Breathes with the breathless, lends them strength to cope.
On Thursday we applauded, for he came
And served us in a thousand names and faces
Mopping our sickroom floors and catching traces
Of that corona which was death to him:
Good Friday happened in a thousand places
Where Jesus held the helpless, died with them
That they might share his Easter in their need,
Now they are risen with him, risen indeed.
Malcolm Guite
Easter (3)
People are in and of a place.
But for an accident of birth
We might all have been there.
The crowd in Pilate’s court was as
Diverse as any modern court.
They acted like a herd,
Just like a modern herd.
They had a noble scapegoat,
One who was gentle and forgiving.
He rose above the insults,
He rose above the suffering.
He is the dawn of a wondrous new day.
Let us sing and shout for joy,
Let us celebrate His Triumph.
M.C.
Living with Loss
I did not go through pain and come out on the other side; instead, I lived in it and found within that pain the grace to survive and eventually grow. I did not get over the loss of my loved ones; rather, I absorbed the loss into my life, like soil receives decaying matter, until it became a part of who I am. Sorrow took up permanent residence in my soul and enlarged it. Jerry Sittser
Thought for the WeekWhen we lose someone we love, we must learn not to live without them, but to live with the love they left behind. |
