Our Lady of Victories Sallynoggin / Glenageary Pearse Street, Sallynoggin Phone: (01) 2854667 email:
[email protected] Website: www.sallynogginandglenagearyparish.com Fifth Sunday in Ordinary Time Year C, February 7th, 2016. Bulletin No:1098 MASS TIMES: Sunday 8.30am, 10am (Irish) 11.30am, 5.30pm Holy Days 6.30pm (Vigil), 9am 11.30am, 6.30pm Saturdays 9am, 6.30pm (Vigil) Monday - Friday 9am, 6.30pm PARISH STAFF Fr. Padraig Gleeson Parish Administrator St Kevin’s Presbytery, Pearse Street, Sallynoggin T: 01 2854653 M: 086 3549538 Fr. Michael Simpson Curate St. Petroc’s Presbytery, Pearse Street, Sallynoggin T: 01 2847024 Rachel Higgins Parish Secretary T: 01 2854667 E:
[email protected] Office Hours 9.30 a.m.—12.30 p.m. weekdays (the parish office is located at the rear of St. Kevin’s Presbytery) The Season of Lent Why do we fast and abstain from meat? ‘when you fast, anoint your head and wash your face, that your fasting may not be seen by men but by your Father who is in secret; and your Father who sees in secret will reward you.” (Mt6:17-18 Fasting and abstinence from meat are traditional Christian penitential practices. Such acts of mortification help bring about interior conversion, especially during Lent as we prepare for celebrating the Resurrection of Christ at Easter. The season of Lent is a time in which the faithful prepare to celebrate the Paschal Mystery, the Passion, Death, Resurrection and Ascension of Christ. Lent is a particular time for penitential practices, and both fasting (abstaining from all foods for a period of time) and abstinence (abstaining from meat) have long been among the forms of voluntary self-denial Christians have practiced for this purpose.