Posts made in June, 2010

Thirteenth Sunday – 27 June 2010

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Gospel: Luke 9:51-62 Year C Jesus was about to be taken up to heaven …… Your mission will soon be finished. You will “return to the Father” Who sent You. The task which awaits Your disciples is huge ….. But how far they are from being ready to undertake this work! It will be up to the Spirit to achieve their formation and to guide them. Nevertheless, You continue their education by associating them with Your ministry. He resolutely took the road to Jerusalem ….. It is Your last journey to the Holy city. You know what awaits You there. Resolutely, with courage, because You love us, You go towards the total gift ….. You want to imbue also in Your disciples the ideas they should embrace because they should have the same courage in the face of the obstacles and challenges they will meet. He sent messengers ahead of Him ….. You send us, also, ahead of You, to prepare Your place in all hearts…. To us also You recall the spirit which ought to fill us if we want to be Your messengers: *a spirit of gentleness in the face of refusal …. Like You, come not to judge or condemn, but to save…. *a spirit of poverty … like You, Who have no place to lay Your head…. *gift of self … to be, like You, totally committed to the essential: to proclaim the kingdom of God! *total availability … like You: You were available “to the end”. You resolutely took the road to Jerusalem, the path to Calvary, the way of love which gives up its life… Thank You, Lord Jesus, for remaining, through the Eucharist, our Companion on the way. Every day, You share with us Your Word and Your Bread. Thus, You repeat the message that we must bring to the world of to-day and You strengthen us through Your risen...

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Twelfth Sunday – 20 June 2010

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Gospel : Luke 9 : 18 – 24 Year C Jesus was praying alone …. You have often prayed, Lord, alone on the mountain or at night. You had said : When you want to pray, go into your room and direct your prayer to your Father, Who is in the secret place (Matt. 6:6). You give the example of this silent, hidden prayer. …. You continue it now in the Eucharist…. With the Apostles I ask You : Lord, teach us to pray (Lk.11:1). Who do the crowds say that I am? During Your prayers, You have increased light and strength to fulfil Your mission which the Father has entrusted to You, this mission which will lead You to the very end of love, to suffering and death to draw us into Your resurrection. But why then this question to Your apostles, as if You were thinking of You popularity rating in a survey of the crowd? It is not out of curiosity, because You know well what is in the heart of each person; but You want to focus the attention of Your disciples on peoples’ ignorance, on their need for enlightenment. Who do you say that I am? Here is the important question! The disciples themselves must no harbour any false ideas about You. They must be in the truth to live it profoundly in the first place, before transmitting it to others. It’s not about a purely intellectual knowledge… You await a response which compels them to follow You along the same path, the path of concrete love which goes “to the end”: Whoever comes after Me, must renounce himself …. Who am I to You? Once more, You ask them, Lord …. Help me to give a true response, a response often renewed … For this, draw me close: may I know how to join You often in prayer, to increase there, light and strength, to allow the Spirit to put into my heart the love which the Father awaits from...

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Fr. Pat Costello’s New Assignment

Posted by on Jun 13, 2010 in Community, NEWS | 1 comment

Following the end of my term as Provincial, Fr. Peter Dowling, the new Provincial and his Council have generously given me a mini-sabbatical during the Summer – I will spend two months studying the Eucharist in our house in Brussels, and a month in one of our parishes in India. Then I will take up a new assignment in our parish in Glasgow in October. I have enjoyed my ministry here in the Chapel, and I thank all those who were so kind and supportive to me. Let us remember each other in our prayers. Fr. Pat Costello,...

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Super Draw Results

Posted by on Jun 13, 2010 in Community, NEWS | 0 comments

We had 4 winners (150 Euro each) in the May Super Draw (the third in this year’s series) organized in co-operation with Raheens GAA Club: Sr. M Hicks, Sisters of Charity Catherine Tierney, Ennis, Co. Clare John Dixon, Raheny, Dublin 5 Noel Mason, Inchicore, Dublin 8 Congratulations to the winners and many thanks to all who have supported this Draw. Full results are available in Chapel...

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Eleventh Sunday – 13 June 2010

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Gospel: Luke 7: 36-8,3 Year C A Pharisee had invited Jesus to dine with him… You willingly accepted invitations, Lord. For You it was an opportunity to bring people Your message of love. You went into all homes with the same simplicity, the same desire for their well-being. What prompts the Pharisee to invite You? You do not ask Yourself the question. You simply respond. A woman from the town came in…. She is a sinner! Without saying anything, she slips in near You: she is in tears, at Your feet. Furthermore: she covered them with kisses and anointed them with ointment. And You don’t react; You leave her to it!…. What a scandal! The Pharisee concluded from this that You are not the prophet he thought You to be …. In his place, what would I have done?…. Simon, I have something to say to you. Simon, was the Pharisee of that time…. it is I today. Speak Master…let me listen attentively to You! A creditor had two debtors…. We are debtors in relations to God. Jesus, You came, sent by the Father, to pardon all our debts…. Who will love more? The one Simon treated as a sinner had more love than he had. All of those I am tempted to despise are perhaps the same. So, Lord Jesus, open my eyes, above all, open my heart. May I not forget all the mercy You have shown me … and may I sing my recognition instead of judging others. You invite us unceasingly to Your Eucharistic banquet. Let us respond to Your invitation with thanksgiving and humility. Let us share Your viewpoint of goodness and mercy towards all the others invited: those who are there …. and those not yet...

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