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21-08-16 Newry Bulletin Small Parish of Sunday 21 August 2016 Newry Twenty-First Sunday in Ordinary Time I knew a gentle Indian nun who had lived a year in Europe and was Even very sophisticated people can be held captive by buried beginning to get courage to comment on things. “Europeans are images of God. I once knew a moral theologian who had been a always asking Why?” she said, “and ‘How much?’ and ‘What time mechanical engineer before studying for the priesthood. His moral is it?’” We want to quantify things; it’s a way to feel in control. theology was a perfect piece of engineering: from an infinite tank They are all good questions in themselves, but they are not the grace flowed in to activate the four cardinal virtues, like pistons, right questions in every situation. Jesus ignored the question which made the wheels of your moral life to turn…It is very seldom “How many?” in this reading. He ignored a similar question in that you get a simple theologian. Instead you get an engineer- Matthew 24: about “when” the end would be. theologian, or an accountant-theologian, or a lawyer-theologian… What makes the difference is the question we ask, and the way we We imagine the person with a question to be in a superior position, ask it. A loaded question gives you back only what you loaded it especially if he or she has a microphone in hand. We imagine with. them to be neutral, clear-headed, authoritative - almost like judges. And we image that we are morally obliged to answer every Will only a few be saved? That is a question that a statistician question. But a question can be just as confused and would ask. The mind works comfortably when its object is ‘out wrong-headed as a statement; it can be biased and belittling; it there’, in the third person, so to speak. But Jesus’ reply was in the can express, while trying to conceal, a personal agenda; it can be second person: “Strive to enter by the narrow door….” We have a trivial; it can be everything that a statement can be. In fact, even tendency to survey our faith as if it were a landscape that did not at its best, a question is just an ambiguous statement. include ourselves. But a genuine spiritual question is always intensely practical and personal. “What good deed must I do to It is as necessary to pay attention to our questions as to our possess eternal life?” asked the young man; and then “What more answers - especially in religious matters. “Who made you?” do I need to do?” (Mt 19:16, 20). They were real questions, even someone asked the little slave girl in Uncle Tom’s Cabin. “Don’t though he didn’t prove capable of acting on the answers to them. think nobody ever made me,” she replied, “I s’pect I growed.” Her He had the grace to go away “sad”; he didn’t go away like the answer was better than the question. The questioner’s image of Pharisees thinking he was better than other people. There was God was of a craftsman of some kind: someone who makes hope for him. There is always hope for an honest person looking objects and puts them there. We always have some image of God; for the right road. it helps to hold some ideas and experiences and feelings together. But we know that no image can do justice to God. The trouble is Fr Donagh O’Shea, O.P., when we have images that we are not conscious of having. www.goodnews.ie Mass Times The Cathedral of St. Brigid’s Church, St. Mary’s Church, St. Catherine’s Church, Exposition of the Blessed SS. Patrick & Colman, Rooney’s Meadow Chapel Street Dominican Priory, Sacrament Hill Street Saturday Vigil : 7.00pm Saturday Vigil : 6.30pm Dominic Street Cathedral: Monday, Tuesday, Sunday Mass Times: Sunday : 11.30am, Sunday : 11.00am Saturday Vigil : 7.30pm Wednesday, Friday & Saturday Saturday Vigil : 6.00pm 9.30am (po polsku) Latin Mass : 9.00am Sunday : 8.00am, 9.30am, 9.00am ‒ 11.00am. Sunday : 8.30am, 10.00am, Weekday Mass Times : Weekday Mass Times : 11.00am & 12.15pm Thursday 9.00am ‒ 9.00pm 12 noon, & 5.30pm Monday, Wednesday & Tuesday & Thursday Weekday Mass Times : Sunday 1.00pm ‒ 5.15pm. Weekday Mass Times : Friday 7.00pm. 7.00pm. Monday to Saturday 7.30am, St. Catherine’s: Blessed Monday to Friday 8.30am, 11.00am & 7.30pm Sacrament Chapel each day Monday to Saturday 8.00am to 8.00pm. 10.30am. CONTACT DETAILS FOR THE PARISH OFFICE OFFICE HOURS AND CONTACT NUMBER FOR PARISH OFFICE All Baptisms, Marriages and appointments may be arranged by Opening Hours: 9.00am ‒ 4.00pm Monday to Friday calling the Parish Office. A Priest is available in the Parish Office 028 302 62586 from Monday to Friday 1.00pm ‒ 2.00pm and in Tel No: the evening by appointment. Email: offi[email protected] Website: www.newrycathedralparish.org THE TWENTY-FIRST SUNDAY IN ORDINARY TIME INTRODUCTORY RITES grant your people to love what you command Congregation stands and to desire what you promise, that, amid the uncertainties of this world, our hearts may be fixed on that place Entrance Hymn or where true gladness is found. Entrance Antiphon Cf. Ps 85:1-3 Through our Lord Jesus Christ, your Son, who lives and reigns with you in the unity of the All: Turn your ear, O Lord, and answer me; Holy Spirit, one God, for ever and ever. save the servant who trusts in you, my God. All: Have mercy on me, O Lord, for I cry to you all Amen. the day long. THE LITURGY OF THE WORD GREETING Congregation Sits Priest: In the name of the Father, and of the Son, and of the Holy Spirit. FIRST READING All: Amen A reading from the prophet Isaiah 66:18-21 Priest: Grace to you and peace from God our Father and the Lord Jesus Christ. The Lord says this: I am coming to gather the nations of All: And with your spirit. every language. They shall come to witness my glory. I will give them a sign and send some of their survivors to the PENITENTIAL ACT nations: to Tarshish, Put, Lud, Moshech, Rosh, Tubal, and Javan, to the distant islands that have never heard of me or Priest: Brothers and sisters, let us acknowledge our sins, seen my glory. They will proclaim my glory to the nations. and so prepare ourselves to celebrate the sacred As an offering to the Lord they will bring all your brothers, in mysteries. horses, in chariots, in litters, on mules, on dromedaries, from all the nations to my holy mountain in Jerusalem, says the Priest: You raise the dead to life in the Spirit: Lord, like Israelites bringing oblations in clean vessels to the Lord, have mercy. Lord, have mercy. Temple of the Lord. And of some of them I will make priests and Levites, says the Lord. Priest: You bring pardon and peace to the sinner: Christ, have mercy. Christ, have mercy. The word of the Lord All: Thanks be to God. Priest: You bring light to those in darkness: Lord, have mercy. Lord, have mercy. RESPONSORIAL PSALM Ps 116. R Mk 16:15 Priest: May almighty God have mercy on us, (R) Go out to the whole world; forgive us our sins, proclaim the Good News. and bring us to everlasting life. All: Amen 1. O praise the Lord, all you nations, acclaim him all you peoples! (R) THE GLORIA 2. Strong is his love for us; All: Glory to God in the highest, he is faithful for ever. (R) and on earth peace to people of good will. SECOND READING We praise you, we bless you, we adore you, we glorify you, A reading from the letter to the Hebrews 12:5-7. 11-13 we give you thanks for your great glory, Lord God, heavenly King, Have you forgotten that encouraging text in which you are O God, almighty Father. addressed as sons? My son, when the Lord corrects you, do not treat it lightly; but do not get discouraged when he Lord Jesus Christ, Only Begotten Son, reprimands you. For the Lord trains the ones that he loves Lord God, Lamb of God, Son of the Father, and he punishes all those that he acknowledges as his sons. you take away the sins of the world, Suffering is part of your training; God is treating you as his have mercy on us; you take away the sins of the sons. Has there ever been any son whose father did not world, receive our prayer; train him? Of course, any punishment is most painful at the you are seated at the right hand of the Father, time, and far from pleasant; but later, in those on whom it have mercy on us. has been used, it bears fruit in peace and goodness. So hold up your limp arms and steady your trembling knees For you alone are the Holy One, you alone are the and smooth out the path you tread; then the injured limb Lord, you alone are the Most High, Jesus Christ, will not be wrenched, it will grow strong again. with the Holy Spirit, in the glory of God the Father. Amen. The word of the Lord. All: Thanks be to God. THE COLLECT Congregation stands Priest: Let us pray. Pause for silent prayer ACCLAMATION Jn 14:23 Priest: O God, who cause the minds of the faithful All: Alleluia, alleluia! to unite in a single purpose, If anyone loves me he will keep my word, THE TWENTY-FIRST SUNDAY IN ORDINARY TIME and my Father will love him, He will come again in glory and we shall come to him.
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