ARCHDIOCESE OF ARMAGH Clogherhead & Walshestown Parish

St Michael Clogherhead SS Peter & Paul Walshestown

To build bridges, bring together and renew the parish community in a spirit of faith,

trust and hope through loving service of God and of our neighbour Website: www.clogherparish.homestead.com Webcam accessible from website E - mail: [email protected] Clogherhead and Walshestown parish Fr. Martin McVeigh PP Parochial House 041 - 982 2224

Sunday Masses: St Michael’s - Vigil @ 7.30pm & 11.30am, 10am Ss Peter & Paul. Weekday Masses Celebrated in private at the moment Confessions—Suspended for the time being PASTORAL AREA CONTACT NUMBERS:- Mgr Jim Carroll PP Togher 041-988 9335 Fr P Byrne PP VF 041-982 2121 Fr Paddy Rushe PP Monasterboice 086—880 7470

Sacristan – St Michael’s: Maura Kearney 041 982 2211 Parish Secretary Ann McEvoy is contactable @ 041 -9822224 or by email @ [email protected] on Tues 9.30 -12.30 or Fri 2.30-5.30pm Vol 8 No 28 TWELFTH SUNDAY IN ORDINARY TIME 20th June 2021

Sunday Cycle B Weekday Cycle 1 Psalter Week 4 St Novena 2021 includes a theme for each day along with a prayer and a short commentary based on each theme. Begins Wed 23rd June leading up to the Feast on Thu 1st July. The St. Oliver Festival Mass celebrated by Bishop Denis Nulty at the National Shrine of St. Oliver, St. Peter’s Church on Sun 4th July at 4pm accessible on the St. Peter’s Parish website www.saintpetersdrogheda.ie

Day 1 - Wednesday 23rd June : Theme - Man of Faith St Oliver was born in Loughcrew, Co. Meath on the Feast of All Saints, 1625. As a young man of faith he wished to become a priest and he studied for the priesthood in the Irish College in Rome. After his ordination he was unable to return to Ireland as a result of the Cromwellian Conquest, so he undertook further studies, becoming a teaching professor in Propaganda Fide College in the Eternal City. On his appointment as Archbishop of Armagh by Pope Clement IX in 1669 he willingly returned to Ireland, even though he knew a life of hardship with many trials and difficulties awaited him. The Lord rewarded his deep faith and in less than ten years St Oliver accomplished much as the Archbishop of Armagh. Glorious Martyr, Saint Oliver, who willingly gave your life for your faith, help us also to be strong in faith. May we be loyal like you to the See of Peter. By your intercession and example may all hatred and bitterness be banished from the hearts of Irish  The Parish List of the Dead, deceased benefactors of the parish and those who died recently Criostóir McLaughlin, (Greystones ) Mass Intentions this week St Michael’s Church SS Peter & Paul’s Church st Sat Vigil 7.30pm Tom Cunningham Sun 10am Cameron Fox (21 Birthday remembrance) Sun 11.30am Thomas, Sheila & Next Sun Eileen Johnston Hillard Martin Smyth & Mary Tuite; Larry, Maggie, Jane & Sr Annette Kirwan; Peter Kirwan W ed Betty Hoey (offered privately by Fr Martin) Next Sat Vigil Patrick & Mary Kate Reilly + Noel Rafferty & family deceased Next Sun Liam Robinson We welcome into Drive in Bingo In the Dreadnots God’s family in Football Grounds on Monday next June 21st at 7.30 (Gates open at Baptism Harry Kirk 6.30). All Proceeds in aid of the Castleview & Garden of Life project at Callystown Toni-Jayne Tiernan National School. Books €15 and the Oriel Cove. double book €20. -Please support.

Next Sunday (27th June) we Continued from Front page men and women. May the peace of Christ reign would traditionally have in our hearts, as it did in your heart, even at celebrated the Blessing of the the moment of your death. Pray for us and Graves in Mayne & for Ireland. Amen. Rathdrummin. Unfortunately due O Holy Saint Oliver, Bishop and Martyr, to Government restrictions the defender of the Faith and glory of our country, full of confidence we beg you to Blessing will take place privately obtain our petitions, and pray for us to the again this year, Fr Martin will God you loved and served heroically unto bless the graves in both death. Amen. cemeteries after 27th June. Our Father Hail Mary Glory be

th On Sunday June 6th you gave Day 2 – Thursday 24 €1,460.00 (€1,317.00 in 56 June : Theme - Man of Courage envelopes and €143.00 on the There are many instances where St plate), and last weekend you Oliver courageously defended the gave €675.00 (€481.00 in 58 victims of injustice. He often travelled in envelopes and €194.00 on the disguise, dressed as a soldier, Captain William Browne, “with my sword, wig plate). Grateful thanks. and pair of pistols.” When a bounty was offered for his capture, he refused the easy option of exile but went on college at , as for many the run, writing: “We shall not abandon decades priests in Ireland had not had our flocks unless compelled to do so, an opportunity of a proper priestly we shall first try out the prisons and formation. Within three and a half other torments, already we have years, the school was knocked to the suffered so much on the mountains, in ground by the secular authorities. huts and caves, and have acquired Despite the schools short existence it the habit of suffering to the extent that achieved much, and left an enduring it will be less inconvenient and difficult legacy among the youth. The college in the future…We shall flee to the for priests also played a crucial and mountains and caves in which these lasting role in educating and reforming past fifteen months we have put in a the clergy of the time. very strict novitiate.” St Oliver was We thank you and we bless you, Lord our never afraid to take the action God. In times past you taught us in many required, irrespective of the and varied ways through the prophets, but in this, the final age, you have taught us consequences for himself, writing: “Let through your Son. After his great example the world perish, but let justice be St Oliver founded schools for the education done”. One of his regular quotes was: of the young. May they be filled with “If the whole world should come knowledge of your will in all wisdom and crashing down, the ruins will not strike spiritual understanding, and bear fruit in an undaunted man.” every good work. Amen. God our Father, you raised up St Oliver to O Holy Saint Oliver, Bishop and Martyr, be a shepherd of your people in troubled defender of the Faith and glory of our times. We thank you for his example of country, full of confidence we beg you to love, faithful even unto death. May the obtain our petitions, and pray for us to the memory of his life and sufferings confirm God you loved and served heroically unto our faith, deepen our hope and inflame death. Amen. our own poor love for you. Amen. Our Father Hail Mary Glory be

O Holy Saint Oliver, Bishop and Martyr, th defender of the Faith and glory of our Day 4 – Saturday 26 country, full of confidence we beg you to June : Theme - Promoter of obtain our petitions, and pray for us to the Peace and Reconciliation God you loved and served heroically unto St Oliver brought peace and order to death. Amen. each diocese that he visited by settling Our Father Hail Mary Glory be countless disputes, writing: “I found Day 3 – Fri 25th June : serious divisions in them...But by the Theme - Founder of Schools grace of God, all is now quiet in the St Oliver believed that education of dioceses which I have visited.” He also the young should be a priority in his went in person to the hideout of the apostolate as Archbishop of Armagh. Tories or Raparees who were carrying Within three months of his arrival back on a war of attrition and successfully in Ireland, and despite huge negotiated ‘as Gaeilge’ a peace opposition, he founded a school in agreement between them and the Drogheda, built at his own expense. Government, writing: ‘The He also retrained priests in this [Metropolitan] Province [of Armagh] has not had greater peace in thirty Lens on the Gospel Mark 4: 35 - 41 Remember people who have had a 1. The image of a boat in a gift of bringing peace to troubled stormy sea is a symbol of life in situations. difficult times and can represent 3. The significance of miracles in the inner turmoil, anxiety and high gospels is that they show Jesus as emotions. When you have been one who brings God’s power to bear in such circumstances, perhaps a on human need and suffering. Have ‘Jesus person’ came to your there been times when you have assistance and calmed you been a channel for this healing down? Recall that person with power of God, holding a crying child gratitude. in your arms, calming the anxiety of 2. The image can also be applied a friend, or being a peacemaker in a to a family, a community, a group to which you belong? parish, or any other group. John Byrne OSA years.’ St Oliver is recognised as defender of the Faith and glory of our coun- Patron for Peace and Reconciliation try, full of confidence we beg you to obtain in Ireland and we give thanks to God our petitions, and pray for us to the God you that in the early decades of the loved and served heroically unto death. twenty-first century, we can now Amen. Our Father Hail Mary Glory be repeat those same words of St The remaining Novena prayers will be Oliver. We pray through his published in next weeks newsletter. intercession that this may continue into the future as we crave for lasting Lough Derg 2021 Reg- peace and reconciliation in our istration now open to “Do country and in our local communities, Lough Derg from despite the new challenges of our wherever you are” from time. 3rd to 5th July. The Prior, God our Father, you instruct us through Fr La Flynn, will do the Three Day the Scriptures that we have been wonderfully made. We know that you Pilgrimage on the Island during these have created us in love and to be loved; days. To offer a live link by webcam but we more often see that the life you in support of those who will choose to regard as sacred is taken for granted, do the pilgrimage wherever they are, used and discarded, and treated as some of the Lough Derg staff will do having no value. Through the intercession of St Oliver we ask you to the pilgrimage in St. Mary’s Church in banish violence and intimidation, to Pettigo. To register or for further info promote peace and stability, to defend please email [email protected] tel the vulnerable, and protect our homes, 071 986 1518. www.loughderg.org our streets, our parishes and archdiocese. Amen. Clogherhead & Walshestown O Holy Saint Oliver, Bishop and Martyr, Parish Bulletin ©2021