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13th September - 20th September 2026 |
Week Twenty Four |
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Twenty Fourth Sunday 13th September Sir 27:30-28:7 Rm 14:7-9 Mt 18:21-35 9.00 Mass Fr Peter Eccles 11.00 Mass Alistair Plummer RIP (anniversary) 12.30 Baptism 6.00 Mass People of the Parish also Robert Hardy RIP Exit Collection: Catholic Education Service |
Dear Brothers & Sisters, The feast of the Holy Cross (Monday) is a day of thanksgiving for the life-giving sacrifice of Jesus, and the day his triumph over hatred brought us hope. Our Lady of Sorrows, (Tuesday) is the counterpart of the Triumph of the Cross, often called Mater Dolorosa, and is the feast day of our parish school Our lady of Compassion. Saint Cornelius (Wednesday) was Pope at the time of the novation heresy, a puritanical current denying God's mercy to anyone who’d buckled in persecution & denied their faith. St Cyprian (same day) an African of the Berber tribe became Bishop of Carthage where he stoutly defended the guidelines of Cornelius in extending God's mercy to those who had previously denied their faith. Both were martyrs under the Emperor Valerian c. 258 AD. Today many Berbers in Morocco and Algeria are still faithful Christians. St. Robert Bellamine (Thursday) a 16th cent Italian Jesuit cardinal vigorously defended the church against the attacks of the Protestant reformers St.Hildegard of Bingen (also Thursday) Abbess of Disobodenberg Germany won fame 900 years ago as theologian, musician & scientist, unique for a woman back then. Today her legacy has been re-found her music offered on CD, popular even with atheists & agnostics. St.Theodore from Tarsus in Turkey (Saturday) was a studious monk ordained priest at 65, amazed when Pope Vitalian made him Archbp of Canterbury 3 yrs later. He came as peacemaker. A great linguist, he spent the next 20 yrs healing divisions between Celtic & Latin groups & died Sept 19th 690
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Monday 14th September Triumph of the Cross Nu 21:4-9 or Phil 2:6-11 Jn 3:13-17 7.00 Mass Private Intention 10.15 Mass Mrs Julie Agnew RIP |
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Tuesday 15th September Our Lady of Sorrows 1Co 12:12-14,27-31 Jn 19:25-27 or Lk 2:33-35 7.00 Mass Forgotten souls in purgatory 10.15 Mass Mrs Stella Minihan RIP 10.45 Rosary of the unborn 7.00 Prayer before the Blessed Sacrament |
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Wednesday 16th September St.Cornelius & St.Cyprian 1Co 12:31-13:13 Lk 7:31-35 7.00 Mass Holy Souls 10.15 Mass Kathleen Comer also Beverley Wilkes |
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Thursday 17th September St.Robert Bellarmine & St.Hildegard of Bingen 1Co 15:1-11 Lk 7:36-50 7.00 Mass Mary Anto RIP 10.15 Mass Mary Bourke RIP also Sean C 11.00-12.00 Prayer before Blessed Sacrament |
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Friday 18th September 1Co 15:12-20 Lk 8:1-3 7.00 Mass Ray Howden 10.15 Mass Denise & Gerry Poole Golden wedding |
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Saturday 19th September St.Theodore of Tarsus 1Co 15:35-37 Lk 8:5-5 9.30 Confessions 10.15 Mass Michael Fernando RIP |
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Twenty Fifth Sunday 20th September Is 55:6-9 Phil 1:20-24,27 Mt 20:1-6 9.00 Mass People of the Parish also Gaynor & Kevin Mc Garry & family 11.00 Mass Pauline O’Dowd 12.30 Baptism 6.00 Mass Carol Badrick RIP Exit Collection: Catholic Evangelisation Fund |