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28-08-16 Newry Bulletin Small Parish of Sunday 28 August 2016 Newry Twenty-Second Sunday in Ordinary Time The economic system that operated in Palestine in the time of I was once in a house that was valued at five million dollars (I knew Jesus was a patron/client system. People were born into a ‘place’ the cabinet-maker who had installed the kitchen presses. That's in the system, and the way to hold or improve that place was to why I was there. The family had not yet moved in). It was the cultivate the patronage of someone a little higher up in the pecking most vulgar and tasteless interior I have ever seen. In fact there order. This system was based on an assumption of inequality was no interior at all: it was all somehow outward; it was made to among people. In the hope of getting some slight perk from their impress, and the effect was a feeling of desolation. Every object patrons, the poor had to grovel before them, cap in hand, and there seemed chosen for its price, not for itself. If this is what learn flattery. This system never quite dies out, and when we get happens to things, imagine what happens to people when they are even a whiff of it today it brings out the killing instinct in us. It is seen in purely monetary terms. terrible to think that in most parts of the world, for most of human history, it has been the normal way. The word ‘economics’ comes from the Greek ‘oikos’ (house) and ‘nomos’ (law). You could say it means housekeeping. It is not In the first part of today’s reading Jesus seems to go along with it. about individuals accumulating as much as they can; it is about Go sit in the lowest place, he says, but with your eye on a higher the ‘household’, the community. There is a related word, place; try to attract by a false humility. But Jesus was only playing ‘oikodome’ (building), a favourite word of St Paul’s. He calls his with the system, fine-tuning it, before throwing it away. And throw own work a service to the ‘oikodome’ of Christ (2 Corinthians it away he did. ‘When you give a banquet, invite the poor, the 13:10). In a later letter he (or someone of his school) pulled out all crippled, the lame, and the blind. And you will be blessed, the stops with this word ‘oikos’ and the image of building: ‘You are because they cannot repay you.’ People are to be valued for what no longer strangers and aliens (‘paroikoi’), but you are citizens with they are, and not for their usefulness to you. This is not a false the saints and also members of the household (‘oikeioi’) of God, self-serving condescension, but an awareness that we are all built on (‘epoikodomethentes’) the foundation of the apostles and useless servants and that God is patron of us all equally. prophets, with Christ Jesus himself as the cornerstone. In him the whole structure (‘oikodome’) is joined together and grows into a ‘Those people are worth a lot of money,’ someone said of a rich holy temple in the Lord; in whom you also are built together couple. ‘No,’ said someone else, ‘they have a lot of money.’ The (‘synoikodomeisthe’) spiritually into a dwelling place point is taken: human beings are not worth a penny, because they (‘katoiketerion’) for God. (Ephesians 2:19-22). The message is that are priceless. Their intrinsic worth cannot be expressed in we are not menials cow-towing to a patron and edging up to a financial terms. ‘Be on your guard against all kinds of greed for better place at the table; we are part of one another, we are of ‘the life does not consist in the abundance of possessions’ (Luke household of God.’ 12:15). Fr Donagh O’Shea, O.P., 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. 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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-SECOND SUNDAY IN ORDINARY TIME INTRODUCTORY RITES so that, by deepening our sense of reverence, Congregation stands you may nurture in us what is good and, by your watchful care, Entrance Hymn or keep safe what you have nurtured. Entrance Antiphon Cf. Ps 85:3. 5 Through our Lord Jesus Christ, your Son, who lives and reigns with you in the unity of the All: Have mercy on me, O Lord, for I cry to you all Holy Spirit, one God, for ever and ever. the day long. All: Amen. O Lord, you are good and forgiving, full of mercy to all who call to you. THE LITURGY OF THE WORD Congregation Sits GREETING Priest: In the name of the Father, and of the Son, and FIRST READING of the Holy Spirit. A reading from the book of Ecclesiasticus 3:17-20. 28-29 All: Amen Priest: The Lord be with you. My son, be gentle in carrying out your business, All: And with your spirit. and you will be better loved than a lavish giver. The greater you are, the more you should behave humbly, PENITENTIAL ACT and then you will find favour with the Lord; for great though the power of the Lord is, Priest: Brothers and sisters, let us acknowledge our sins, he accepts the homage of the humble. and so prepare ourselves to celebrate the sacred There is no cure for the proud man’s malady, mysteries. since an evil growth has taken root in him. The heart of a sensible man will reflect on parables, Priest: Lord Jesus, you raise us to new life: an attentive ear is the sage’s dream. Lord, have mercy. Lord, have mercy. The word of the Lord Priest: Lord Jesus, you forgive us our sins: All: Thanks be to God. Christ, have mercy. Christ, have mercy. Priest: Lord Jesus, you feed us with your body and blood: RESPONSORIAL PSALM Ps 67:4-7. 10-11. R cf. v. 11 Lord, have mercy. Lord, have mercy. (R) In your goodness, O God, you prepared a home for the poor. Priest: May almighty God have mercy on us, forgive us our sins, 1. The just shall rejoice at the presence of God, and bring us to everlasting life. they shall exult and dance for joy. All: Amen O sing to the Lord, make music to his name; rejoice in the Lord, exult at his presence. (R) THE GLORIA 2. Father of the orphan, defender of the widow, All: Glory to God in the highest, such is God in his holy place. and on earth peace to people of good will. God gives the lonely a home to live in; he leads the prisoners forth into freedom. (R) We praise you, we bless you, we adore you, we glorify you, 3. You poured down, O God, a generous rain: we give you thanks for your great glory, when your people were starved you gave them Lord God, heavenly King, new life. It was there that your people found a O God, almighty Father. home, prepared in your goodness, O God, for the poor. (R) Lord Jesus Christ, Only Begotten Son, Lord God, Lamb of God, Son of the Father, SECOND READING you take away the sins of the world, have mercy on us; you take away the sins of the A reading from the letter to the Hebrews 12:18-19. 22-24 world, receive our prayer; you are seated at the right hand of the Father, What you have come to is nothing known to the senses: have mercy on us. not a blazing fire, or a gloom turning to total darkness, or a storm; or trumpeting thunder or the great voice speaking For you alone are the Holy One, you alone are the which made everyone that heard it beg that no more Lord, you alone are the Most High, Jesus Christ, should be said to them. But what you have come to is with the Holy Spirit, in the glory of God the Mount Zion and the city of the living God, the heavenly Father. Amen. Jerusalem where the millions of angels have gathered for the festival, with the whole Church in which everyone is a THE COLLECT ‘firstborn son’ and a citizen of heaven.
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