PARISH NEWSLETTER DOLPHIN’S BARN PARISH & RIALTO PARISH January 29th 2017 Vol 2, No 4 MASS TIMES DOLPHIN’S BARN Saturday 6:00pm (Vigil) Sunday 9:00am, 11:00am & 7:00pm (Taizé Mass) Eve of Holy Day Vigil 6:00pm Holy Day 10:00am and 7:00 pm Weekdays: Monday - Saturday (Excluding Tuesday) 10:00am Tuesday: Eucharistic Service - 10:00am RIALTO Saturday 6:30pm (Vigil) Sunday 10:30am Eve of Holy Day Vigil 6:30pm Holy Day 10:00am Friday is the Feast of Saint Blaise, a bishop and Weekdays: a martyr. The blessing of throats takes place on Tuesday - Friday: 10:00am his feast day during the morning Mass in both Monday & Saturday Eucharistic Service churches and in Dolphin’s Barn Church during a 10:00am Special Friday evening Mass at 7pm Baptisms in Dolphin’s Barn: First Saturday at 12 Baptisms in Rialto: Third Sunday at 12 CONTACT INFO Fr. Fergal MacDonagh P.P. 087-2441128 [email protected] Fr. Gerry Fleming S.A.C., C.C. 01-4533268 [email protected] St. Vincent de Paul Parish email address For Dolphin’s Barn Parish: [email protected] For Rialto Parish: [email protected] Monthly Church Gate Collection Sacristy Dolphin’s Barn 01-4547271 Sacristy Rialto 01-4537720 For February Rialto Parish Centre 01-4539020 Parish Website Takes place next weekend Dolphin’s Barn Parish dolphinsbarnparish.org Rialto Parish rialtoparish.com February 5th This week’s reflection on Did not seem to have the stuff to be a DOLPHIN’S BARN PARISH leader, but he was the greatest leader. the Sunday readings And still people did not and do not understand him and his message. WE INVITE YOU TO STAY A BIT At the very beginning of today’s readings The way to seek the Lord is to seek LONGER NEXT SUNDAY we are told to seek the Lord. And then, justice like he did, to seek righteousness MORNING AFTER THE 11 MASS conveniently, we are told how to do that. like he did, to seek peace like he did. Both readings, the psalm, and the Gospel Unfortunately, even he did not get justice all come together to give a definition of and righteousness and peace here on how to seek the Lord. We seek the Lord earth. He took the form of the lowly to by seeking justice and righteousness, by shame the higher-ups, but they didn’t seeking peace, by seeking humility. understand. Many still don’t understand. The beatitudes can seem sort of We have to seek for justice and oxymoronic. How will the meek lead? righteousness and peace, even if we don’t Leadership usually comes to the bold. We get it. We need to do the right thing, even see injustice around us every day. How if we don’t get what’s right in return. We are those who hunger for justice satisfied? are blessed who show mercy, who seek Where is the comfort for the mourning? I for justice, who are humble and helpful. know I continue to mourn. In a perfect Our blessings come from knowing we are world, people would treat each other acting appropriately. Even if we suffer for decently. A perfect world would be at our actions here, our rewards will be great peace, and justice would prevail. in heaven. And if our recompense is not in Unfortunately, this world is not perfect. this imperfect world, it will be in the next God chose the foolish to shame the wise, perfect one. the weak to shame the strong, but not everyone understands that. Jesus was by Tomora Whitney born poor, went against the standard Creighton University's English norms of the time and the government. Department Join us for a cuppa FATIMA CENTENARY next Sunday in Dolphin’s Barn 1917 - 2017 We are now in the centenary year of Dolphin’s Barn Parish Council have decided to the apparitions of Our Lady at have a monthly cuppa after the 11am Sunday Fatima, Portugal and from May to Mass. It will be on the first Sunday every Month, October 2017, the Church will be beginning with the First Sunday of February, celebrating the centenary. February 5th. From March we will also extend it Pope Francis will travel to Fatima for to the Taize Sunday evening Mass as well, when the ceremonies on the 13th May the Papal Nuncio will be joining us for the Taize which is the actual centenary of the Mass. day Our Lady first appeared to the three shepherd children Lucia, Francisco and Jacinta above a holm Tuesdays 7 - 8pm oak tree. To mark the Centenary this special Banner , on the right, of Our Lady of Fatima is being displayed in the Church in Rialto the Church of Our St. Andrew’s Lady of the Holy Rosary of Fatima. Tuesdays 7:30pm We also hope to have an art competition for children, more details BRIDGE about that in the weeks to come. Parish Centre Organised by Rialto Active Retirement ALL WELCOME Monday’s 2 - 4pm Wednesdays 9am - 1pm Thursdays 11am - 1pm INDOOR BOWLS MENS ARTS AND F2 Centre GARDENING & CRAFTS SOCIAL CLUB Parish Centre Last Thursday every Tuesdays 10:30 - 12:30 St. Andrew’s month @ 11am Sewing Class Wednesdays BOOK CLUB Parish Centre 11am -12pm ARMCHAIR Thursdays 1-2pm Organised by Rialto Active AEROBICS Retirement Parish Centre LINE DANCING ALL WELCOME Parish Centre Last Weekend’s Church PARISH NEWSLETTER Collections This newsletter went to print last Tuesday. If Feast-days this week you leave it too late to send into any info it Dolphin’s Rialto may not be possible to include what you Monday Saint Aidan Barn want. Most of this newsletter you are reading Sunday was prepared by last Saturday. The only Blessed Margaret Ball and First Collection € 414 € 385 thing I am waiting for now are the details of Francis Taylor, MARTYRS Sunday the Sunday Collections. By the way special Tuesday Saint John Bosco Share Collection € 282 € 100 thanks to Annette Allen who proof-reads the newsletter and gets rid of most of my spelling Wednesday Saint Brigid. Envelope Collection mistakes. Thursday Presentation of the Lord for January €2260 €1579 Fergal Friday Saint Blaise ANNIVERSARY MASSES THIS WEEK AND NEXT WEEKEND DOLPHIN’S BARN RIALTO SATURDAY 6 Leo Scally (A) Saturday 6:30 John McGettrick (A) Noeleen Martin, (1st Anniv) Pat Dunne (A) Noel Duffy SUNDAY 9 ——————————— SUNDAY 10:30 Robert Charlton (A) A Special Intention SUNDAY 11 Tony Marchetti (MM) TUESDAY ——————————— Patrick Cummins WEDNESDAY ——————————— SUNDAY 7 ——————————— THURSDAY ——————————— DUBLIN CATHOLIC MARTYRS FRIDAY November Dead List MONDAY ——————————— SATURDAY 6:30 Paul Kenny (A) WEDNESDAY ——————————— Andrew Guider (A) Margaret Ball and Francis Taylor, were THURSDAY ——————————— Bridget Buckley (A) among a group of seventeen Irish FRIDAY November Dead List SUNDAY 10:30 Fintan, Danny, Sissy, martyrs beatified by Pope John Paul II Michael and Rita Phelan SATURDAY 10 ——————————— A Special Intention in 1992. (A) = Anniversary Margaret Ball: (BR) = Birthday Remembrance (RD) = Recently Deceased (1st Anniv) = First Anniversary (MM) = Months Mind died in prison in Dublin 1584, aged 70 Born Margaret Bermingham, she married Bartholomew Ball, a prosperous Dublin merchant. Her eldest son, Walter, yielding to the pressure of A reflection on emigration by Fr Alan “You have to understand the times, became a Protestant and an opponent Hilliard broadcast by RTE radio on that no one puts their children in a of the Catholic faith. Margaret continued to Tuesday 17th January 2016 boat provide ‘safe houses’ for bishops and priests unless the water is safer than the land passing through Dublin and would invite Walter to no one leaves home until home is a dine with them, hoping for his return to ‘Ships of Hope’ sweaty voice in your ear saying- Catholicism.But Walter was not for turning. When leave, run away from me now he was elected Mayor of Dublin, he had his own In his book Self-Portrait, John B. Keane talks I don’t know what i’ve become mother arrested and drawn through the streets, about what he saw behind the word but i know that anywhere on a wooden hurdle, as she could no longer walk, emigration. He tells of his journey across the is safer than here” to Dublin Castle. Here she remained imprisoned Irish Sea and he puts into words what he for the rest of her life. If she had renounced her saw all about him on the boat: I think that those who make a migratory faith she could have returned home, but she journey, whether that journey is from West refused and died in prison aged 70 in 1584. Kerry to Camden or from Aleppo to Ballaghadreen, that they hope for one Francis Taylor of Swords, thing. Lord Mayor of Dublin: died in prison 1621, aged 71 They live with the hope that what they gain in moving to a new place will outweigh what they lose in leaving the Francis Taylor was born into a wealthy Catholic “Underneath it all was the heart-breaking place formerly known as home. This may family in Swords about 1550. In 1595 he was frightful anguish of separation. It would be a be difficult for us to grasp, especially if elected Lord Mayor of Dublin. A convinced waste of time for me to launch into a we’ve never wanted for anything but as Catholic, he refused to accept the Acts of description of what went on. A person had to John B. says, “a person had to be part of it Supremacy which meant that the King was the be part of it to feel it”.