Our Lady of Victories Sallynoggin / Glenageary Pearse Street, Sallynoggin

Phone: (01) 2854667 email: [email protected] Website: www.sallynogginandglenagearyparish.com

Thirty Third Sunday in Ordinary Time Year B November 15th 2015.

Bulletin No:1086

MASS TIMES:

Sunday 8.30am, 10 am (Irish) 11.30am, 5.30pm

Holy Days 6.30 pm (Vigil), 9 am 11.30am, 6.30pm

Saturdays 9 am, 6.30 pm (Vigil)

Monday - Friday 9 am, 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) Reflection: Faith Can Strive In Adversity

Jesus didn’t hold anything back from his disciples. He told them that things would be difficult. When he spoke about the world he was very realistic. He spoke about wars and revolutions, earthquakes, plagues and famines, persecution and imprisonment, betrayal, hatred and killings.

He told them that such happenings would provide them with an opportunity to bear witness to him and to the Gospel. It is in times of darkness that the light is needed. It is in the times of hatred that love is needed. It is in the times of war that peace is needed. And it is in difficult times that Christian witness is needed.

During the communist regime in Russia there was a ten year old girl whose whole family had been scattered to distant labour camps because of their belief in God. The girl was first taken to an orphanage. There, she refused to give up the crucifix her mother had hung around her neck before leaving. She tied a knot so that they could not take it from her during her sleep. The struggle went on and on, but it was no good. She would not give up the cross.

She also refused to submit herself to retraining, to daily lessons in party propaganda. In the orphanage she was forced to live with children who were the very dregs of Russian society. Yet she refused to curse or steal. They never broke her. She ended up doing ten years in a labour camp.

In a world of so much social and political turmoil, people of faith will often be regarded as naïve and ineffective and irrelevant. However, we must not be afraid of scepticism and cynicism, but trust that God will give us the strength to hold our ground.

Faith is not a way of wishing that things were different. Now one is helped by denial. Faith gives us the strength to cope with reality as it is. God does not spare us pain, but rescues us from despair. Our Lady of Victories CONFESSIONS Saturday: 10.30 a.m.—11.30 a.m. 5.30 p.m.—6.15 p.m. BAPTISMS Celebrated on the First Sunday and Third Saturday of the month, arrangements having been made in person at the presbytery giving three weeks notice. EUCHARISTIC ADORATION Chapel open from 7.30 a.m. to 10.00 p.m. daily DIVINE MERCY Wednesdays from 2.45 p.m. to 3.45 p.m.

Sunday 15th November Thirty Third Sunday in Ordinary Time Prisoners’ Sunday/Restorative Justice week begins today. Monday 16th November Miraculous Medal Novena at all Masses Tuesday 17th November St Elizabeth of Hungary Friday 20th November Holy Hour after 6.30 p.m. Mass Saturday 21st November The Presentation of the Blessed Virgin Mary Benediction follows 6.30 p.m. Mass.

Please remember in your prayers the sick of the parish

Niamh Byrne, Seán Ó Brádaigh, Gerard Smyth, Joe Martin, Jean Power, Derek Howard, Mrs Hannah Johnston, Joe Whyte, Mary Sweeney, Michael & Maureen Reid, Noel Goggins, Maura & Bill McAllister, Freda Williams, Mary Boyle, Peggy , Peig Úi Chadlaí, Jenny & Des Whelan, Josie Potts.

If you would like us to pray for someone you know who is ill please contact the parish office with their name.

Would you consider becoming a Minister of the Word at Mass?? We would be delighted with some new recruits. Please contact Fr. Padraig or the Parish Office if you are interested, we’d love to hear from you! Vigil Wed 6.30 Bridie Johnston + anniv & husband 9.00 Michael & Katie McGovern + & Family + Michael & son Anthony + Laurence Fee + Tony & Frank Barrett + annivs 6.30 Miriam Rynn + rec dec Elizabeth Byrne & Joe Cullen + annivs Thomas Hayden & Anne O’Neill + anniv Thurs Greta Quigley + anniv 9.00 Jim O’Connor & Family + Mick & Annie King + 8.30 For parishioners 6.30 Sr Canice O’Dowd 40th anniv O’Dowd & McKeon Family + 10.00 Laura Byrne int. Fri 11.30 Patrick Carry & David Carry Sr + anniv 9.00 Jack O’Donoghue + rec dec Sadie Browner + anniv 6.30 George & Phil O’Toole + anniv Catherine Flynn & Maureen Hill + annivs Sat 5.30 John Keenan + anniv 9.00 Catherine Flynn + James & Veronica Harding + annivs and 6.30 November Mass Thomas Harding + Mon 9.00 Patrick Doyle + rec dec Sun 6.30 Laura Byrne sp int 8.30 For Parishioners 10.00 Tues 11.30 Brendan Kearns, Thomas&Noel Burton + 9.00 Patrick + anniv & Elizabeth O’Reillly + annivs John Keohane + rec dec Nancy Elliott + anniv 6.30 Elizabeth Tracey + anniv Dolores Fitzgerald + months mind 5.30

Our Dear Departed+ Recently deceased: Sally Farrelly neé Turner Miriam Dempsey Rynn Susan (Lou)

Anniversaries: Maureen Reilly, Gerard & Tony Dempsey, Ellen , Bridie Johnston, Tony & Frank Barrett, Thomas Hayden, Elizabeth & Joe Cullen, Anne O’Neill, Greta Quigley, Maureen Hill, Patrick Carry, David Carry Sr., Sadie Browner, Catherine Flynn, John Keenan, James & Veronica Harding, Thomas Harding, Elizabeth Tracey, George & Phil O’Toole,

Please remember them in your prayers BAPTISMS We welcomed into the Christian Community through the Sacrament of Baptism Maggie-Mae Massey Liam John Dalton Amy Frances Breen Our congratulations to the parents and godparents.

Festival Of Faith

St Joseph’s Church in Glasthule host The BLACKROCK HOSPICE Redemptorist Fathers who will conduct a LIGHT UP A LIFE ‘Festival of Faith’ from Sunday 29th Sponsor a Light on the November to Saturday 5th. All are Hospice Christmas Tree. welcome! It will be a celebration of who Contact them on their special we are and what we stand for. website www.lightupalife.ie

Reminder: The Parish Draw for November will be held after the 11.30 a.m. Mass on Sunday 29th. You will find envelopes for your contributions at the back of the Church.

ANNUAL REMEMBRANCE New Sound System MASS Our new sound system Saturday Evening was installed this week, 21st November 6.30 p.m. thanks to the generous supporters of our monthly draw! MONTH OF THE HOLY SOULS

PURGATORY

What is Purgatory? If he were not expecting that those who had fallen would rise again, it would have been superfluous and foolish to pray for the dead. But if he was looking to the splendid reward that is laid up for those who fall asleep in godliness, it was a holy and pious thought. Therefore he made atonement for the dead, that they might be delivered from their sin. (2 Mc12:44-45)

If any man’s work is burned up, he will suffer loss, though he himself will be saved, but only as through fire. (1 Cor 3:15)

Purgatory is a state of purification for those souls who have died in the grace of God but require cleansing from imperfections before they can enter Heaven.

Before entering Heaven, every trace of attachment to created goods mush be eliminated, every imperfection of the soul corrected. The Church uses the word Purgatory to describe the final purification of the souls of those who, having died in grace, have not fully received remission of the temporal punishment for their pardoned mortal sins or their venial sins.

The punishment of the souls in Purgatory is the delay in seeing God and the knowledge that this delay is their own fault for not having fully repented on earth. These souls also have great joy because they know that they are assured of Heaven. Purgatory is not a lesser form of Hell but rather a state of preparation for Heaven.

Scriptural evidence of purgatory is found in both the Old and New Testaments. Most strikingly is that Judas Maccabeus offered prayers and atonement for the sins of his fallen soldiers; such prayers for the dead would have been meaningless if the deceased had already reached their final destination. The New Testament also speaks of a purification “as through fire”.

Prayers for the dead have always been considered a pious duty, an act of charity and justice. The Church frequently remembers the dead - who are also members of the Communion of Saints - in her liturgies, prayers and indulgences. People in the Book of Acts

SMILE AWHILE

Readings for next Sunday Oh, flip was that TODAY! First Reading: Dn 7:13-14

Responsorial Psalm: Ps 92

Second Reading: Apoc 1:5-8

Gospel Reading: Jn 18:33-37