Mass Times Sundays: Cathedral:- Sat. Vigil: 6.30pm; Sunday: 9am, 10.30am & 12 noon Ennis St. Joseph’s:- Sat. Vigil: 7pm; Sunday: 8, 10, 11.30am Cloughleigh Church:- 9.30am, 11am Friary:- Sat. Vigil: 7.30pm; Sunday: 9.30, 10.30, 12.00 noon Poor Clare Monastery:- 7.45 a.m. Parish Weekdays: Cathedral: Mon. – Fri: 7.45am; 10am & 7.30pm; 10am on Saturday St. Joseph’s:- Monday – Saturday: 11am Cloughleigh Church:- Monday – Friday: 9.30am Friary:- Daily: 10am & 1.05pm; 10am on Saturday News Poor Clare Monastery:- Daily at 7.45 am; Daily Exposition of The Blessed Sacrament from 4-6pm in the Chapel. Phone Numbers: Confessions in Cathedral Saturday After 10am Mass & before and Cathedral:- 6824043; Email: [email protected] afterConfessions 6.30pm Mass in Cathedral every Saturday: St. Joseph’s:- 6822166; Cloughleigh: 6840715; Friary: 6828751 St12 Joseph’s to 1pm Saturday& also before After 11amand after Mass 6.30pm Mass Ennis Parish Web Site: http://www.ennisparish.com Parish Office open Mon to Fri 9.30-1pm & 2-5pm Sat 10.30-12noon Facebook: http://www.facebook.com/ennis.parish Day of Prayer for Vocations (Year C) 17th April 2016 VOCATION SUNDAY “Go forth and tell the Good News” Later men like St Ignatius, St Dominic, St Alphonsus and St Francis seeing the needs of These were the departing words of Jesus to their time answered God's call to preach and His disciples and they have been responded to to teach . Women like St Angela Merici and in different ways through the centuries Mary Ward saw the need for educated women answering the needs of the times. and founded orders to fill that need. The early church was completely run by lay Unfortunately the Church could only see people. The apostles preached and women ran women in enclosed orders so women with a house churches where vision found it very hard. Eucharist was celebrated. As But God kept calling to time went by some people respond to the needs of the felt called to give themselves nineteenth century which more completely to God so were issues like poverty, they went out to the desert. ignorance, disease and all Later new preachers came kinds of sickness. The forward like St Jerome and Christian Brothers and the St Augustine and others. Brothers of St John of God Here in Ireland after the answered the call. Mary teaching of St Patrick we Aikenhead, Catherine Mc had our own monastic communities and from Auley, Nano Nagle answered here monks like St Columba and St the call here in Ireland. Others responded in Columbanus took the Good News to Scotland Europe while Mary MacKillop saw the needs and to Europe. of a new colony in Australia. st We had the era of the Great Women Mystics We are now in the 21 century. There are new who spread the Good News by their teaching needs in the world and God is still calling. I and by their writings. feel we have come a full circle and the church is once more in the hands of the laity. Is God calling you? How will you respond? Fáilte-Bienvenue-Willkomen-Benvenuto-Bienvenido-Witajcie-Bemvindo- Welkom-Velkomin-Vitejte-Karibu-Croeso-Valkommen-Tervetuloa-Welcome Cathedral Hospital & Sick Calls St. Joseph’s Remembered in Masses this Week: 17th April, 2016 Mass intentions for scheduled Masses in St. 6.30pm: Kathleen McNamara, Glensheen. 1st Anniv Priest on Duty: Joseph’s Church should be booked through the Parish Sun17th 9am: Michael Larkin, Cusack Rd. Office. For all other events call Fr John 0656822166. Fr. Ger Fitzgerald Frances O’Rourke, Dalcassian Ave. Please call: 065 6869098 Remembered in Masses this Week: 10.30am: William McGovern, College View, Clare Rd. Wednesday: 7pm: Kevin Lynch, Lifford Rd. 1st Anniv Kevin Maxwell, Shalee Drive. Fr. Brendan Quinlivan Sun 10am: PJ & Eileen O’Loughlin, Kevin Barry Ave. Mortimer Guthrie, Loughville. 065 6869098 11.30am: Peter Finnegan, St. Senan’s Rd. Des & Peggy Carroll, Corrovorrin Drive. Mon 11am: Tommy Moloney, Marian Ave. Bridget White, Drumbiggle. Blessing of Expectant Tues 11am: Decd Coughlan family, Marian Ave. Elizabeth & Denis Neylon, Bank Place. Parents Wed 11am: John, Winnie & Bridie Hayes, Mullagh. Enid O’Loughlin, Corrovorrin Grove. Thu 11am: O’Brien family, Crusheen. Con & Teresa Delaney, O'Connell Square. 7pm: Denis & Josephine Rice, Circular Rd. & Dec’d. Christy & Breda Carpenter & family, Hermitage Rd. Malone family Francis St. &Maureen McAllister (Rice). 12noon: Tony Lillis, Edenvale. 1st Anniv Fri 11am: Gerard Hartnett, Lifford. Mon: 7.45am: Joan & Gerard Devitt, St.Michael’s Vls. Sat 11am: Josephine Craig, Meadow Court. MM 10am: Katie & Jack Keane, Clonlara. Ennis Cathedral Sat 7pm: Barry Coughlan, Corrovorrin Grove. 7.30pm: Maureen & Billy Pigott & 20th April @ 8pm Sun 24th 10am: Paul Glynn, Hilltop, Corrovorrin. MM Burns family, Connolly Villas. 11.30am: Joe Conway, Corrovorrin Drive. Tues:7.45am Book of Intentions. All Welcome!!!! 10am: Anna & Sonny Greene, Miltown Malbay. 7.30pm: Martin & Anne Cronin, Drumbiggle Rd. This Sunday Reflection for Year of Mercy Wed:7.45am:Mick & Ellen O’Rourke, Newmarket-on-Fergus. Mercy is compassion and 10am: Mary & Joseph Halpin, O’Connell St. 17th April forgiveness shown towards 7.30pm: Cullinan family, Ard na Gréine. Ennis Cathedral 2pm someone. Mercy is kindness Thurs: 7.45am: Special Intention. exercised towards the miserable 10am: Mary Doherty, Ashbourne, Co. Meath. All babies baptised in Ennis during 2015/16, and their and includes pity, forbearance and 7.30pm: No Mass - Seinn Concert gentleness which the Scriptures so Fri:7.45am: Mass for the People. families, are invited to a abundantly ascribe to God. God's 10am: Mary Ellen McInerney, Doora. Special Blessing for their 7.30pm: Martina Moloney Traufield, mercy is his tender-hearted Steele’s Tce & USA. 1st Anniv first year of life. As these compassion for his people. It is his Don Ryan, Summerhill MM little babies begin to crawl, tenderness of heart towards the Sat:10am: Pat, John Joe, Sarah & Angela Kelly, walk and teethe, we want to needy. In the scriptures, Jesus asks us to be merciful towards one another just like our heavenly Father is Kildysart & Greaney family, Galway. ask God’s Blessing on their 6.30pm: John Curtin, Cahercalla Rd. merciful to us. "Then Peter came to Jesus and asked, Sun 24th 9am: William & Teresa Clohessy, Drumcliffe. infant years. Baptismal 'Lord how many times must I forgive my brother who 10.30am: Veronica Fenton, Ard na Gréine. Team members are most sins against me? Up to Seven Times?' Jesus Elizabeth Neylon, Parnell St. welcome. answered, "I tell you, not seven times but seventy John Feeney, St. Michael’s Villas. seven times." (Mt. 18:21-22) Christopher Keane, Fergus Park. The mercy of God means a blessing instead of Paddy & Jane Coffey, McNamara Park. punishment. It is the withholding of condemnation. John Snr., John Jr. & Johanna Garvey. Throughout the scriptures, God demonstrates his 12noon: Maureen O’Brien, Miltown Malbay. MM mercy fully in the person of Jesus Christ. Because of his love for us, God wants us to be with him. There is Roster for Cathedral: an inseparable connection between God's love and Sunday 24th April, 2016 his mercy. In Christ the ultimate act of God's mercy Readers: Group 2 took place upon the cross when Christ died for us. In Eucharistic Ministers Weekday: Group 5 this place mercy triumphs over Judgement, leading to Eucharistic Ministers Sunday: Group 3 the ultimate goal of mercy, our salvation. There is a welcome Jesse Onyejekwe Cloughleigh to all babies and Remembered in Masses this Week: young children. Dates for Your Diary Sun 17th 9.30am: John Daly, Cloughleigh & Westbourne. Mass and Anointing for people with disabilities 11am: Susan Bannon, Loughville. and chronic illnesses: Ennis Cathedral Tue 9.30am: Book of Intentions. Newly Baptised Wednesday25th May 2pm. Chief celebrant and Sun 24th 9.30am: Michael Hoare, Morrissey Ave. We welcome into the Christian homilist Fr. Tom Hogan PP. 11am: Jimmy Frawley, Woodlawn, Lahinch Rd. Community through the Parish Visitation Team will visit the Sacrament of Baptism: Live the Word: following areas starting 25th April: St. Rían Thomas O’Connor; When you accept, you stop running, you let Michael’s Villas. “Where 2 or 3 are Sarah Elale Obokiti; go, you cease to resist and judge and you gathered in My Name, there I am in the Michael King Bantom; find yourself being fully present to your midst of them”. Rachael Kelly; experience. In time that experience will Michéal Kelly; naturally dissolve because you have Lost & Found: Bracelet lost on 16th March in Dunnes Daniel Luke O’Shea; learnt to stop fighting. That is the power stores. Reward offered. Contact 085 7245366 Maria Breda Hurley of acceptance. Monthly Mass Ennis Padre Pio prayer group, Friary, Ennis; Wed. 20th April ; Launch of 7.30pm. All are welcome. An Ceathrú Domhnach den Cháisc / An Bishop Willie Walsh’s book Maranatha Prayer Ministry Sunday, 17th April, tAoire Fónta. at 2.30pm; Fr. John Walsh, Limerick; lay Tá an ceathrú Domhnach den Cháisc tiomnaithe speakers Janice and Moss Carrigg, at St. Paul's do lá domhanda d’urnaí ar son gairmeacha. Deir Church, Dooradoyle, Limerick. Tea after in hall. Íosa linn i soiscéal an lae inniu "Mise an All welcome. sáraoire, tugann an sáraoire a bheatha ar son a chaorach."(Eoin 10:11). Is íomhá an- Diocesan Pastoral Plan evaluation - A mid- chumhachtach é an Sáraoire ar an ngrá term evaluation of the implementation of the pearsanta agus an cúram atá ag Críost do gach Diocesan Pastoral Plan is currently underway, duine. Tá an creideamh lárnach don and any parishioner who wishes can participate. An evaluation questionnaire is now available on chaidreamh idir Íosa mar Aoire agus baill den the diocesan website for completion by 18th tréad sin.