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[email protected] Website: www.sallynogginandglenagearyparish.com The Baptism of the Lord, Year A, January 8th, 2017. Bulletin No: 1145. Reflection:- The Call to Service MASS TIMES: Sunday Holy Days Jesus was thirty years old when he began his public ministry. 8.30am, 10am (Irish) 6.30pm (Vigil), 9am 11.30am, 5.30pm 11.30am, 6.30pm How did he come to that decision and why did he wait so long to begin the real work of his life? The simple answer is: prior to this Saturdays Monday he wasn’t ready. Jesus was a teacher, not of a subject such as 9am, 6.30pm (Vigil) 9am, 6.30pm history which can b learnt out of books, but of religion, or better, spirituality. Spirituality has to be lived before it can be taught Tuesday - Friday 9am, No Evening Mass effectively. This is why time is important. Before the age of about thirty, what experience has a person to draw on? CONFESSIONS: Saturday The first thirty years he spend at Nazareth were not a waste of 10.30 - 11.30 a.m. valuable time. They were of crucial importance to him. During 5.30 - 6.15 p.m. those years he was growing, maturing and ripening. The day he BAPTISMS: was baptised by John he didn’t suddenly become a different Celebrated on the First Sunday and Third person. ‘No single event can awaken in us a stranger completely Saturday of the month, arrangements having unknown to us.’ (Antoine de Saint Exupery).