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St. John’s Parish - is part of the Community of St. John’s – Daniel-Phelan- MINISTERS OF THE EUCHARIST To you O Lord we commend the souls St. Lawrence Pastoral Area - together with The Maloney who was baptised in this church are available to bring Holy of our brothers and sisters whose Sacred Heart Church, Killea, The Cathedral on Saturday last Dec. 28 and congratulate Communion to the sick and house- anniversaries or month’s mind occur and Ss and Benildus parents and Aoife and bound after the 6.15 p.m. Mass every Saturday, at this time. godparents Eddie and Tracey on this Priests: and after the 10.00 a.m. Mass on the First Friday Remember in Your Prayers those who died joyous occasion. Fr. Paul Murphy 051- 874271 of every month. recently –  Fr. Tom Rogers 051-511275 COMMUNION TO THE SICK Bereavement Support is available in Parish Support: ANNIVERSARIES THIS WEEK:- We, the Minister’s of the Eucharist in St. Waterford, Dungarvan, Cappoquin and Office (Deirdre) 051 874271 6.15 Vigil – Saturday 5th January John’s church are available to bring Holy Clonmel, provided by Family Ministry, St. Communion to the sick or housebound after Frank & May Power and son Billy Sacristy (Eddie) 051 875849 John’s Pastoral Centre, John’s Hill, 6.15 Mass on Saturdays & after 10 Mass on 9.00am – Sunday 6th January Office Opening Hours Waterford. The Bereavement Support First Fridays. Please leave name(s) into Betty McGinn Mon – Fri: 10.00am – 1.00pm Workers are trained in the skills and Sacristy or ring 086 1087003. 12 Noon – Sunday 6th January Email: [email protected] confidentiality. Phone Number for Robert (Bobby) Whelan Website: www.stjohnsparishwaterford.com Morning Prayer - takes place during the Family Ministry Bereavement Support:

10.00a.m. Mass on Fridays. 051 858772 SHARED MASSES:  St. John’s Safeguarding Children Reps: Hannah & Michael Power sons Tom & Willie & NOVENA TO OUR LADY OF PERPETUAL HELP Third Age – Senior Help Line Deirdre Barry - 087-6441932 Daughter Mary O’Brien The novena is held every Monday morning ‘Do you need someone to talk to?’ A Michael & Brigit O’Donovan & daughter Greta MASS TIMES: during the 10.00a.m. Mass. confidential listening service for older Fitzgerald Weekend Masses people, open each day and evening 365 Emily & Michael O’Gorman Saturday Vigil 6.15p.m. Confessions: - every Saturday evening from day a year. Locall 1850 440 444 Mary & Patrick DeCourcey & Family 5.45, before the Vigil Mass. Sunday 9.00a.m. & 12 noon Patrick & Agnes Duffin

Sunday 10.00a.m. (Polish) Coffee Morning - each Wednesday Paddy & Eily Murray Just a thought… Weekday Masses: 10.00a.m. morning after the 10.00.m. Mass. Kathleen Phelan

No Mass on Saturday mornings. All are welcome. Elizabeth Ormond Prayer – Just for Today The 10.00a.m. mass each Friday is offered for The Phelan Family Seeking God with our Restless and the Holy Souls. The Rosary - is recited each weekday May their souls and the souls of all the Troubled Hearts Holyday Masses: morning prior to the 10.00am Mass. faithful departed rest in peace. You stir us up ,O Lord, and make us find Vigil Mass at 6.15p.m. – evening before joy in praising you, since you have made 10.00a.m. Mass only on the day. ST. VINCENT DE PAUL us for yourself, and our hearts find no The monthly collection for St. Vincent Notice Board rest until they rest is you. Cry Chapel (Jim Grant Rooms) - for parents with de Paul is being taken up at all Masses young children. You are very welcome! in St. John’s on the first Sunday of each Last Weeks Church Collections St Augustine  month. Envelopes €345.00 BLESSED SACRAMENT CHAPEL Offertory €446.00 Gardening the Soul Come and sit quietly before God in the Blessed ST. JOHN’S CHARISMATIC PRAYER GROUP. Ni h-e an t-eadaigh an fear (clothes do not Sacrament, in our Blessed Sacrament Chapel, We meet every Monday evening at 7.45p.m. in the The 2nd Basket Collection for the upkeep of make the man).’This old Irish saying tells open Mon to Fri from 10.30am to 11.30am. Upper Sacristy with a time of prayer and worship. the church buildings takes place at all us, in no uncertain terms, that the things All are welcome. Masses on the third weekend of each month. we possess do not and will not define us, YOUR PRAYERS nor bring us peace and happiness. Some You are asked to remember in your LEGION OF MARY may still believe abundant possessions prayers, those members of our Christian The Legion of Mary meet at no 23 Virginia Feast of the Epiphany bring happiness or that they are a sign of th Community of St. John’s who are ill at home or in Crescent, Good Shepherd Convent, Monday 6 January- Holy Day of Obligation God’s favour, but most of us know that hospital at this time, that the Lord may make them Hennessy’s Road each Monday morning at Vigil Mass – Sunday 5th January 6.15pm when we are least reliant on material comfortable in their illness towards a speedy 11.15am. For more information visit our Mass: Monday 6th January 10.00am website: www.legionofmaryw.com or things, we are happiest. recovery and help their loved ones to care for them. contact 087-2530992

A friend of mine who could be materially very The first one bought her a mansion. The second well off made major changes in her home bought her a Porsche. The third one, knowing how religious their mam is, bought her a Second Sunday of recently. By keeping only what she needed on a St John’s Church daily, weekly and monthly basis and giving remarkable parrot. It took eighteen monks, ten Christmas away everything else, she has discovered the years to teach him how to recite the whole Bible. Waterford secret of living simply. This woman’s attitude is It’s one of a kind, it cost $20million. After some time, their mother sent out her letters of thanks. a very simple one; people are more important Epiphany than things. She has discovered that ‘I have’ is “John,” she wrote to the fist one. “The mansion you bought is too big. I live in only one room, but I the greatest threat to who ‘I am’. have to clean the entire house.” We celebrate this mystery on the second Sr. Stan Kennedy “Peter,” she wrote to the second one. “I’m too old Sunday after Christmas; this year the  to travel. I stay most of the time at home, so I actual date of the Epiphany is tomorrow OF THE WEEK…. rarely use the Porsche.” Monday January 6th. We call it the Mon 6 – The Epiphany of the Lord – is the “Dearest ,” she wrote to her third son, “You Epiphany, or manifestation. There is still manifestation of Jesus as the Messiah of Israel, have a good sense to know what your mother the memory of the time when the entire Son of God and Saviour of the world. likes. “That chicken was absolutely delicious!” Church year and its major feasts were Tues 7 – St Raymond of Penyafort, 1175 –  solemnly proclaimed and sung as an 1275m was a very brilliant lawyer when at the Quote for the Week announcement on this day. age of forty-seven he became a Dominican. Later Panics, in some cases, have their uses; they he became Master General of the Dominicans produce as much good as hurt. Their The feast of the Epiphany was for centuries and Archbishop of Tarragona. duration is always short; the mind soon used as a momentary flash picture of the  grows through them and acquires a firmer entire mystery of God’s Incarnation. It QUESTIONS PEOPLE ASK habit than before. But their peculiar warned us ahead of time that it would lead Q. What does Epiphany mean ? advantages is, that they are the touchstones to Good Friday, and multitudinous feasts. Newsletter of sincerity and hypocrisy, and bring things A. An epiphany is a moment of revelation when We were being prepared, forewarned and and men to light, which might otherwise something hidden comes to light. The Feast of called forth to experience! Jan 5 2020 the Epiphany celebrates three manifestations of have lain forever undiscovered. (Thomas Paine) the divinity of Jesus hidden in his humanity. Unless we are awakened, told to expect, Mission Statement First was in the worship of the infant Jesus by spiritually aroused, we hardly ever do. We Quip for the Week With Christ’s teaching as our example the Magi. Then as the commencement of the are instead on cruise control, daily Sentimentality comes easy. and guided by the Holy Spirit, business as usual. Without an authentic mission of Jesus, after his baptism in the Jordan, But caring is hard – it involves doing. our aim is to represent an open and friendly the voice of the Father was heard, ‘You are my spirituality, most lives are a collective parish providing a service to the community of Son, the Beloved’, next Sunday’s Gospel. The sleepwalking, and sometimes even in the St. John’s and reaching out to everyone in third epiphany was at the wedding in Cana, as …thought for the week name of religion itself. Epiphanies, thank Jumping at several small opportunities may get us he changed the water into wine, he let his glory God, wake us up so we can in fact developing the parish as a community of faith. there more quickly this coming year, than waiting experience our experiences, learn from be seen and the disciples believed in him’, the for one big one to come along. Gospel for two Sundays hence. them and be transformed by them. This is the journey of holiness. Prayer for the New Year Next Sunday’s readings: I breathe in the green grass and in God, bless our year, The Baptism of The Lord the flowers, and in the living waters…. Giving us time for the task, What we celebrate in the mystery of the Is 42:1-4, 6-7. Ps 28:1-4, 9- I permeate all things that they may Peace for the pathway, Epiphany is not that we are right, that we 10, R / v 11. Acts 10:34- not die, I am life. St. Wisdom for the work, have God in our pocket, or that our religion 38. Mt 3:13-17 *** Friends for the fireside, IT’S GOOD TO LAUGH… is best. Instead we celebrate that God-in- Love to the last. Three wealthy brothers were competing to see Jesus is utterly given, trustworthy and (Book of 1000 Prayers) which one of them could give their elderly mother  better than we ever imagined. It is God who the best birthday gift. is manifest, not our formulations of God!

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