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21st June - 28th June 2026 |
Week Twelve |
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Twelfth Sunday 21st June - Fathers’ Day Jr 20:10-13 Rm5:12-15 Mt 10:26-33 9.00 Margaret Rose Walsh RIP 11.00 Mark Jan Hurley RIP 12.30 Baptism 6.00 Mass People of the Parish also Matthew Gallagher RIP Exit Collection: Day for Life |
Dear Brothers & Sisters, Today is Father’s Day! In March we had Mothers day & honoured the mothers in our parish. Today we honour Fathers on their special day, & grandfathers too, plus those who like St.Joseph have taken on the role of step-father or foster-father or guardian. Saint Thomas More & Saint John Fisher (Monday) were the first to resist Henry VIII’s 1534 ‘power grab’, refusing the oath of supremacy & paying with their lives. John Fisher was Bishop of Rochester, while More was King’s Chancellor– equivalent of Prime Minister. Today he is patron saint of lawyers devoted to truth. St Ethelreda (Tuesday) 8th century Saxon princess was twice married in political unions before founding Ely Abbey where she is now buried. Popular in the Middle Ages, Audrey is a form of her name. St John the Baptist (Wednesday) is one of 3 Saints whose birthday we keep as well as their date of death. (The others are Jesus & Mary) Keeping his birthday is a way of saying that he was chosen right from the very beginning of his life. Cyril of Alexandria (Saturday) came to the Council of Ephesus (431) with 50 supporters carrying baseball bats (or 5th century equivalent!) to support belief in divinity of Christ. His opponents came just as well armed. Out of this unholy conflict came the Council’s pronouncement that Jesus is both fully human & fully divine, the only way of doing justice to the mystery of his person. Our Lady of Perpetual Succour (also Sat) linked with a famous 15th century icon that inspired a popular devotion, is much revered under that title by millions today over the whole world.
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Monday 22nd June Saints John Fisher & Thomas More 2Mc 6:18,21,24-31 Mt 10:34-39 7.00 Mass Private Intention 10.15 Mass Nancie D. also Val Mullins RIP |
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Tuesday 23rd June St.Ethelreda 2Kg 19:9-11,14-21,31-35,36 Mt 7.00 Mass Margaret Gateley RIP 10.15 Mass Aine Bunn RIP also Thelma Gearty 10.45 Rosary of the unborn 7.00 Prayer before the Blessed Sacrament |
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Wednesday 24th June Nativity of St.John the Baptist Is 49:1-6 Act 13:22-26 Lk 1:57-66,80 7.00 Mass Matt, Alicia & Edward (special int.) 10.15 Mass Mary Savage also Mrs.Martina Flaherty 11.00-12.00 Prayer Group (day chapel) |
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Thursday 25th June 2Kg 24:8-17 Mt 7:21-29 7.00 Mass Okane Family 10.15 Mass Katryn Oakley also Maureen Farrell |
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Friday 26th June 2Kg 25:1-12 Mt 8:1-4 7.00 Mass Michael Bolger 11.30 Solemn Profession of Bro.Thang scj |
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Saturday 27th June St.Cyril of Alexandria Our Lady of Perpetual Succour Lam 2:2,10-14.18-19 Mt 8:5-17 9.30 Confessions 10.15 Pat & Graham Bishop |
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Saints Peter & Paul - Sunday 28th June Act 12:1-11 2Tm 4:6-8,17-18 Mt 16:13-19 9.00 People of the Parish also Peggy & Richard Stacey RIP 11.00 John Byrne 12.30 Baptism 6.00 Mass John Larkin RIP Exit Collection: Peter’s Pence |