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DOLPHIN’S BARN PARISH & RIALTO PARISH

June 25th 2017 Vol 2, No 25

Saint Oliver Plunkett MASS TIMES DOLPHIN’S BARN Saturday 6:00pm (Vigil) Sunday 9:00am, 11:00am & 7:00pm (Taizé Mass)

Eve of Holy Day Vigil 6:00pm Holy Day 10:00am and 7:00 pm

Weekdays: Monday - Saturday (Excluding Tuesday) 10:00am Tuesday: Eucharistic Service - 10:00am RIALTO Saturday 6:30pm (Vigil) Sunday 10:30am Eve of Holy Day Vigil 6:30pm Holy Day 10:00am Weekdays: Tuesday - Friday: 10:00am Monday & Saturday, Eucharistic Service 10:00am Baptisms in Dolphin’s Barn: First Saturday at 12 Baptisms in Rialto: Third Sunday at 12 Feastday next Saturday July 1st

CONTACT INFO Parish Website Dolphin’s Barn Parish dolphinsbarnparish.org Rialto Parish rialtoparish.com Fr. Fergal MacDonagh P.P. 087-2441128 [email protected]

Fr. Gerry Fleming S.A.C., C.C. 01-4533268 Both Parishes have a webcam and all church [email protected] services are available to view online. To access either, go to the Parish Website and follow the link Parish email address For Dolphin’s Barn Parish: [email protected] Parish Safeguarding Representatives For Rialto Parish: [email protected] Dolphin’s Barn: Sinead Colreavy-Judd

Sacristy Dolphin’s Barn 01-4547271 Rialto: Christine Charlton Sacristy Rialto 01-4537720 Rialto Parish Centre 01-4539020 Diocesan Designated Liaison Person Parish Office for Dolphin’s Barn Parish Andrew Fagan 01-8360314 and Rialto Parish 01-4533490 Child Safeguarding and Protection Service, Holy Parish Pastoral Council Chairperson’s Cross Diocesan Centre Dolphins Barn Parish: Michael Judd Rialto Parish: Robert Allen www.csps.dublindiocese.ie Recent Church Collections Jesus warned them to be Gospel Reflection for convinced about their message Dolphin’s Rialto Twelfth Sunday in and to be confident that God was Barn with them in every situation. He assured them: ‘If anyone declares Sunday June 18th € 360 € 300 Ordinary Time First Collection himself for me in the presence of men, I will declare myself for him in the presence of my Father in Sunday June 18th € 245 € 90 ‘Do not be afraid’ (Mt 10:26). Share Collection heaven’ (Mt 10:32). Where have we heard these words Jesus says the same to us. The before? They are quite familiar to Last Sunday € € apostles were not living in easier most of us because they have First Collection times than ours. Yet they willingly been quoted often by preachers suffered for the faith, never and commentators since the death Last Sunday € € making excuses to dilute it or Share Collection of Pope John Paul II in 2005. A compromise it’s principles. Neither recurrent theme from the should we, believing that God beginning of his pontificate in Thank you for your generosity loves and supports us in every 1978 was: “Do not be afraid”. crisis. Faith dispels fear. This was also John Paul’s message As committed disciples, we are Important Message from to Catholics and to the entire duty bound to proclaim the gospel world as he passed from this life city Council fearlessly and confidently. This is to eternal life. His entire life, and our baptismal obligation. We are especially his final illness, required to be prophetic people by demonstrated that he himself was speaking the truth at all times. We fearless because of his absolute will frequently experience faith and trust in the person and opposition and alienation because saving message of Jesus Christ. of our Christian beliefs and we will And he urged everyone else to be tempted to abandon our have the same conviction. commitment in order to remain popular. However, popularity in John Paul was not the first person this life does not equate with good to say ‘Do not be afraid’. In the standing in the next life. Old Testament, God said it to the prophets. The angel Gabriel also Dolphin's Barn Village We can learn from the great spoke these words to Mary before heritage of our saints who, even in Improvement Scheme telling her that she would become the face of persecution and the Mother of the Saviour of the martyrdom, did not hesitate to world. Years later, Jesus remain faithful to Christ and his Earlier this year a workshop/information instructed the Twelve not to be teaching. They refused to deny meeting regarding the proposed Dolphin’s afraid when he commissioned him. Fortunately, most of us do Barn Village Improvement Scheme took them to continue his work of not suffer the threat of place in Saint Andrews Community Centre. proclaiming the Good News. The martyrdom. Instead, we are asked Good News was essentially that to become fearless witnesses to The next meeting takes place this Tuesday the kingdom of heaven was close Christ in all circumstances and to 27th June at 6pm in St. Andrew’s and that people must undergo cope in a dignified manner with Community Centre, 468 South Circular conversion from their sinful lives. ridicule in our workplaces or Road, Rialto, Dublin 8. disagreement among friends and Jesus knew that this message, colleagues, perhaps even our when preached and lived by his families. Let us pray that we will disciples, would not always be have the courage of our EVERYONE IS WELCOME. welcomed. The disciples would convictions and not be afraid. frequently be ridiculed and We look forward to seeing you there rejected, as he had been. Discipleship would indeed be By John Littleton: costly because it would require Director of the Priory Institute Distant humility and sacrifice. Therefore, Learning, Tallaght.

Waltz every Tuesday in the Parish Centre from 12:45 - 1:45. Cost €3

Line Dancing every Thursday in the Parish Centre 1 - 2pm €4 forsake his flock. This meant extremely World Meeting of Saint Oliver tough times for Dr Plunkett and his companion, the of Cashel, Families who were now wanted men and Plunkett henceforth stayed in thatched huts in Dublin 2018 On July 1st 1681 Oliver Plunkett, remote parts of the diocese. Archbishop of and Primate of All , was the last and most Even though many senior Catholic Exciting News! famous in a series of Irish martyrs churchmen left the country around that executed for their faith by the English time, Oliver Plunkett refused to do so. Our Volunteer Application crown. Instead he travelled the nation dressed Process is now Open. Join us as a layman, suffering fiercely from and Apply to Volunteer! When the Roman cold and hunger, confirming people in canonized him on October 12th 1975, the open countryside. However, he was he was the first Irishman granted eventually arrested on December 6th 1679. Last week was National Volunteer Week in sainthood in almost 700 years. It was

Ireland and we are delighted that an honour that he had paid for dearly - Plunkett's conspiracy trial was our Volunteer Application Process is now with a perilous existence, strong civil originally fixed for but even open! You can apply to volunteer. resistance to anti-Catholic fervour and Protestant jurors refused to convict In excess of 1,500 people have already a most gruesome martyrdom. him. Once it became evident that expressed an interested in volunteering. Oliver Plunkett would never be Now we are ready to start registering Oliver Plunkett was at , near convicted in Ireland, he was instead you through our new online application Oldcastle, in on sent to pending trial. The trial, process. Everyone who has expressed an November 1st 1625. After studying at when it took place, was a pure farce interest in volunteering will need to fill in the Irish College in Rome, Oliver was and Plunkett was found guilty of high their volunteer application form. If you ordained in 1654. treason for "promoting the Catholic have not yet expressed your interest in faith". Lord Chief Justice Pemberton volunteering, you can apply directly on the However, due to rampant religious ruled that the Irish bishop should be link below. We are really excited and can't persecution in his homeland it was not given a brutal death, befitting a traitor. wait to get started! We have also uploaded possible for the new to return to He was drawn (two miles from information on our volunteer programme to Ireland and minister to his people. to 's 'triple our website. Have a read and please keep Instead, he spent fifteen years tree'), hanged, disembowelled, spreading the word and apply to volunteer: teaching in Rome. These were peaceful times in his life - the calm before the quartered and beheaded. During this macabre torture, it was practice to Applicants to volunteer must be residents storm, so to speak. keep the victim alive for as long as of the island of Ireland at the time of possible to ensure that the maximum application and be over 18 years of age, as In the meantime, the arrival of punishment was exacted. of 1st January 2018. Volunteers can also Cromwell in Ireland in 1649 had help in the lead up to the event in the main initiated the massacre and persecution Oliver Plunkett is the Irish Church's offices of WMOF2018 and in various of Catholics and, even though he left most celebrated martyr and is the preparatory events taking place around the following year, his legacy was name most readily associated with the Ireland. enacted in callous anti-Catholic legislation that ultimately culminated in period of religious persecution, his only Plunkett's shameful execution. 'crime' was being a Catholic bishop, but Collect the the sentence of death was passed as a At the age of 44, Plunkett’s then cosy matter of course. Referring to information leaflet life was altered forever when he was Catholicism at the trial, presiding judge surprisingly appointed Archbishop of Chief Justice Pemberton said "there is in the Church Armagh on January 21st 1669 (At the not anything more displeasing to God time there were only two bishops in or more pernicious to mankind in the Ireland). The appointment was world". Pemberton's performance at In 1992 a surprising as Plunkett was an the trail has since been rated by Lord representative administrator and theologian with no Brougham [in his book 'Lives of the seventeen Irish pastoral experience whatsoever. Chief Justices of England'] as a martyrs, chosen Nonetheless, after an absence of disgrace on the English Bar. from a list of some 23 years, he returned to almost three desolate Ireland the following year. In contrast, the dignity and grace with hundred who died for their faith in the The had been relaxed ever which Oliver Plunkett carried himself on 16th and 17th centuries, were so slightly, allowing Catholics to the day of his execution was nothing beatified by Pope John Paul II. publicly practise their religion, but it short of astounding. On Friday, July was a chaotic ministry that Oliver 11th 1681, he was led to Tyburn for The amount of information we know inherited. execution. The vast crowds that about these seventeen varies. About assembled along the way were filled some, such as Archbishop Dermot On October 4th 1670, the Council of with admiration for the condemned O’Hurley of Cashel, we know quite a Ireland decreed that all bishops and man. From the scaffold, Plunkett lot; about others, such as the Wexford must leave the country by delivered a speech worthy of a martyr sailors, we know little more than their November 20th of that year. When the and apostle. He publicly forgave all names and the fact of their death. Earl of Essex was appointed Viceroy of those who were either directly or Ireland in 1672, he immediately indirectly responsible for his execution. Over the next few weeks we will tell banned Catholic education and exiled Pope Benedict XV beatified Oliver their stories. Although this week we priests. When the storm of persecution Plunkett in 1920 and Pope Paul VI cover Saint Oliver Plunkett who was being wielded against the Irish Church canonised him 55 years later. He was canonised by Pope Paul VI in 1975, 17 erupted with renewed fury in 1673 with only 55 years old at the time of his years before the 17 were beatified. the result that schools and chapels unjust execution. His feast day is July were closed, Plunkett refused to 1st (the date of his death). Congratulations