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CHRISTMAS SCHEDULE 2016

Posted by on Dec 24, 2016 in Community, Congregation | 0 comments

  24th December: Saturday – CHRISTMAS EVE Masses: 8.25 a.m., 11.00 a.m., 12.45 p.m. • Confessions: 3.00 – 4.00 p.m. • Chapel closes at 4.00 p.m. and re-opens at 11.00 p.m. Midnight Mass: 12.00 a.m. 25th December: Sunday – THE NATIVITY OF OUR LORD JESUS CHRIST • Chapel opens 11.00 am – Masses: 12.30 p.m; 7.00 p.m. • Exposition of the Blessed Sacrament: 1.15 – 7.00 p.m. Chapel closes after 7.00 pm Mass. 26th December: Monday – FEAST OF SAINT STEPHEN, FIRST MARTYR • No 8.25 a.m. Mass Chapel opens 10.00 a.m. Masses: 11.00 a.m., 12.45 p.m., 5.15 p.m. No Confessions • Rosary and Benediction: 4.45 p.m. Chapel closes 6.00 p.m. 27th December: Tuesday – FEAST OF SAINT JOHN, APOSTLE AND EVANGELIST • Chapel opens 10.00 a.m. Masses: 11.00 a.m., 12.45 p.m., 5.15 p.m. No Confessions Rosary and Benediction: 4.45 p.m. Chapel closes 6.00 p.m. 28th December: Wednesday – FEAST OF THE HOLY INNOCENTS, MARTYRS • No 8.25 a.m. Mass • Chapel opens 10.00 a.m. • Masses: 11.00 a.m., 12.45 p.m., 5.15 p.m. • No Confessions • Rosary and Benediction: 4:45 p.m. • Chapel closes 6.00 p.m. 29th December: Thursday – 5TH DAY IN THE OCTAVE OF CHRISTMAS • No 8.25 a.m. Mass • Chapel opens 10.00 a.m. • Masses: 11.00 a.m., 12.45 p.m., 5.15 p.m. • No Confessions • Rosary and Benediction: 4.45 p.m. Chapel closes 6.00 p.m. 30 December: Friday – FEAST OF THE HOLY FAMILY OF JESUS, MARY AND JOSEPH • No 8.25 a.m. Mass • Chapel opens 10.00 a.m. • Masses: 11.00 a.m., 12.45 p.m., 5.15 p.m. • No Confessions • Rosary and Benediction: 4.45 p.m. Chapel closes 6.00 p.m. 31 December: Saturday – 7TH DAY IN THE OCTAVE OF CHRISTMAS • No 8.25 a.m. Mass • Chapel opens 10.00 a.m. • Masses: 11.00 a.m., 12.45 p.m. • Confessions: 3.00 – 4.00 p.m. • Rosary and Benediction: 4:30 p.m. • Chapel closes 5.00 p.m. • Chapel re-opens 10.00 p.m. • Adoration of the Blessed Sacrament: 10.00 – 12 midnight • Solemn Mass for the New Year: 12.05 a.m. 1st January 2017: Sunday – SOLEMNITY OF MARY, MOTHER OF GOD • Chapel opens 10.00 a.m. Masses: 11.00 a.m., 12.30 p.m., 5.00 p.m.; 8.00 p.m. Holy Hour: 4.00-5.00 p.m. 2nd – 5th January 2017: Monday to Thursday Chapel opens 10.00 a.m. Masses: 11.00 a.m.; 12.45 p.m., 5.15 p.m. No Confessions Rosary and Benedictions: 4.45 p.m. Chapel closes 6.00 p.m. 6th January 2017: Friday – SOLEMNITY OF THE EPIPHANY OF THE LORD Chapel opens 10.00 a.m. Masses: 11.00 a.m.; 12.45 p.m., 5.15 p.m. No Confessions Rosary and Benedictions: 4.45 p.m. Chapel closes 6.00 p.m. 7th January 2017: Saturday – After Epiphany Chapel opens 10.00 a.m. Masses: 11.00 a.m.; 12.45 p.m. 7.00 p.m. (Vigil Mass) Confessions: 4.00 – 5.00 p.m. Rosary and Benedictions: 6.30 p.m. 8th January 2017: Sunday – FEAST OF THE BAPTISM OF THE LORD Chapel opens 10.00 a.m. Masses: 11.00 a.m.; 12.30 p.m., 5.00 p.m.; 8.00 p.m. No Holy Hour Filipino Community Mass: 3.00 p.m. NOTE: Mass office is closed from 2.00 p.m., Saturday 24th December 2016, and re-opens Monday, 2nd January 2017. Remembering all our friends in a Novena of Masses beginning on Christmas...

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Thirty-Third Sunday – 14 November 2010

Posted by on Nov 14, 2010 in Sunday Reflections | 0 comments

Gospel: Luke 21:5-19 Year C The Temple that you are thinking about, not one of its stones will remain on another ….. Lord, You Who admired the beauty of flowers in the field and invited us to consider them (Mt.6:29), were You insensitive to the beauty of the work of human hands, to the beauty of the Temple? What a cold shower for Your disciples and for all of those who heard You! It was almost a blasphemy in the eyes of the Jews that You spoke like this. Will You be numbered among the prophets of doom? Certainly, You announce doom, but it is not to make us live in fear. You want to put us on guard against the dangers which surround us and You invite us to trust. We risk only remembering what amazes us and not paying attention to what is essential, to the message on which You insist: – do not let yourselves be led astray by false prophets… – do not be frightened on hearing of wars or natural catastrophes – do not worry about your defence against persecution … – I will give you an eloquence and wisdom that none of your opponents will be able to resist or contradict… – Not a hair of your head will be lost…. What calls to trust! All the things that you are looking at, days will come when nothing of them will remain…. You have no disdain for the Temple; it is Your Father’s house (Lk.2:49) You chased the merchants out of it one day so that it would be a “House of prayer” … But You invite us to stick to what is essential, to stick with God alone. This is what should guide us in our choices on this earth where everything passes…. Even if the Temple is destroyed, the relationship with God is not severed. The Jewish people, Your people Lord, is a living example of that: despite the destruction of the Temple of Jerusalem, almost 2000 years ago, they remain the people of the Covenant. Let us persevere in our quest for the essential, in the love of Him Who, alone, can fill our hearts. Your endurance will win you your...

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29 August 2010 – Twenty Second Sunday

Posted by on Aug 28, 2010 in Sunday Reflections | 0 comments

Gospel : Luke 14 : 1 – 14 Year C Jesus had gone for a meal to the house of one of the leading Pharisees…. How often the Gospel notes Your Presence at a meal, Lord! Long before this, You had commenced Your apostolic activity with a wedding feast, and You ended it with the Paschal feast. Your enemies never refrain from mocking You: A glutton and a drunkard! (Lk.7:34). They do not want to understand Your message. During a meal, what is important is not the eating, but the being together. To share a meal is to express the joy of being reunited, it is to share friendship, life, ideas, projects, worries …. For You, Jesus, this is exactly the deep sense of Your meals. You want to tell of Your love for everyone. You want to bring everyone the Good News. Also, because You have come to save all humanity, You accept all invitations that come Your way, those of the poor or the rich, those of the sinners and those of the “Righteous”, those of Your friends and those of people who want to entrap You. In Your parables, You will often use the image of a meal to tell of the love of our Father in heaven for each of us: The Kingdom of heaven is like a wedding feast …. All are invited, the wicked and the good; the only condition required is the Wedding Garment: to accept Your love (Mt.22). And You chose a meal as a means of remaining with us. The Eucharist is the wonderful banquet to which You invite us. There, You unceasingly share with us Your Word and Your Bread. You tell us repeatedly of Your faithful love; You strengthen the bonds of our Covenant with You; You make us live with You, as children of God…. as brothers and sisters together….. The guests picked the places of honour …. From now on, if we really want to understand it, there is no longer ‘places to choose from’. There is only one place: the one You occupy and want to share with us: so that where I am, you may be also: in the heart of the Father! This is the eternal banquet announced, and commenced, by Your meals on earth...

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Seventeenth Sunday – 25 July 2010

Posted by on Jul 23, 2010 in Sunday Reflections | 0 comments

Gospel : Luke 11 : 1 – 13 Year C One day, Jesus was praying…. The Apostles were struck by Your prayers, Lord Jesus …. Silent prayer, prolonged, in the solitude of the night, or the mountain…. They have anticipated the mystery of Your prayer, a prayer which did not involve repetition of formulae learned by heart… and they also want to penetrate it…. Lord, teach us to pray …. Yes, I make my own the request of the disciple. Teach me to enter into Your prayer. To this end, I don’t have to transport myself back through 20 centuries. The Mystery of the Eucharist allows me to rejoin You. You are there, always with us, continuing Your prayer unceasingly, a prayer of praise, thanksgiving, intercession. There, You invite me to enter into Your prayer … Thank You, Lord! When you pray, say : Father .. This word says everything! It is the expression of the heart …. The Holy Spirit Which You promised us, comes to help us in our weakness, The Holy Spirit makes us sons; through Him, we can say, we also can say this simple word : Abba! Father! Dad! (Rom.8). Father, may Your name be held holy …. You draw us towards what is essential : May Your Father, our Father, be known, loved by all His children on earth! A loving heart does not think of itself … Your filial heart does not dream of anything but the glory of the Father. But the glory of the Father, is the “sanctification” of His children. His Name is held holy when we live fully in His love. His Kingdom comes when we welcome and share His divine life. Father, may Your Kingdom...

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Sixteenth Sunday – 18 July 2010

Posted by on Jul 18, 2010 in Sunday Reflections | 0 comments

Gospel : Luke 10 : 38 – 42 Year C Martha welcomed Him into her house. In Your apostolic life, You have encountered all types of situations, Lord. Sometimes You have known deprivation: The Son of man has no place to lay His head (Lk.9:58). But You have also known the welcome of friends…. In the home of Lazarus, Martha and Mary, You felt at home. It was the warmth and simplicity of true friendship. The two sisters express this friendship according to their own temperament: Martha by preparing a good meal, Mary by listening to You ….. Martha was distracted with all the serving …. How many “Marthas” in our world to-day! People busy, running about… Always stressed, they never have time to stop for a while and catch their breath, to listen to each other… And evidently, there is no time to “pray”, to think of You, Lord. We do not hear You repeating to us : Martha, Martha, you worry and fret! Lord…..tell her to help me! Seized by her desire to give You a good welcome, Martha ends up by ordering You. What counts for her is her task, a good task which she is doing for You … but she does not concern herself with what can so easily be the case with us also, Lord! We dream of doing wonderful things for You …. and we demand Your intervention …. without first of all asking Your opinion! Mary sat at the Lord’s feet and listened to Him speaking … Here is the essential, “the better part”. You offer it to everyone, including all the Marthas of the world. Even in the midst of our many tasks it is possible to listen to You. Grant us, Lord, to know to consult You before becoming engrossed in our ideas, our projects …. It is You Who are the sole essential in our life! You want to come and live in us …. May our hearts be a home where You can feel welcome and listened to with...

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