The Parishes of Mary Immaculate; St Michael’s, Inchicore and Our Lady of the Wayside, Bluebell. Oblate Pastoral Area Newsletter Tenth Sunday in Ordinary Time 10th June 2018 The Blessed Sacrament The Pastoral Area Masses & Confessions On Sunday 3rd May 2018 we celebrated Mary Immaculate the wonderful Feast of Corpus Christi or the Body of Christ. This feast was Sundays: (Vigil) Sat 7pm, introduced by the Church to help us to 8am, 11am, 7pm reflect on and to thank Christ for this Weekdays Mon – Fri 7am great gift. The Eucharist was instituted 10am, 7pm, Sat 11am by Jesus Christ during the Last Supper Holy Days 7pm (Vigil), 7am, when He gathered with His disciples the 10am, 7pm night before He died on Calvary. During Holy Days that fall on a Saturday this meal Jesus prayed for His disciples (and us) and stressed the importance of 7pm (Vigil), 11am, 7pm them being united and supportive of Confessions Sat 10.30 - 11am & each other. He gave us the Eucharist as 6.30 - 7pm a sign of our unity with Him and with each other. However the Eucharist must St Michael’s never be seen as just a relationship between Jesus and me. It binds us into the Sundays (Vigil) Sat 6.30pm community of disciples as St Paul tells us in his letter to the 1 Corinthians Sunday 9am & 11am (Family) 10:17 “ …. we are one body, for we all share the one bread.” It is meant to Weekdays (Mon – Fri) 10am strengthen us for the journey of life and to enable us to give witness to Him by Liturgy of the Word & Communion on our daily living and active concern for others. In giving us the Eucharist we Wednesdays at 10am have one expression of Jesus’ promise to be with us until the end of time. St Michael’s Church is open from 9am-12pm Monday to Friday Do you wish to honour the body of Christ? Do not ignore him when he is naked. Do not honour here in the church clothed in Our Lady of the Wayside silk vestments and then pass him by unclothed and frozen outside. Remember that Sundays (Vigil) Sat 6.30pm, (Folk) he who said ‘This is my body’ is the same who said: ‘You saw me hungry and you gave me no food’, and ‘in so far as you did not to one of these, you did not also to 8.30am, 11am (Family) me.’ In the first sense the body of Christ does not need clothing but worship from Weekdays Mon -Fri 9.30am a pure heart. In the second sense, it does need clothing and all the care we can give it… What good is it if the Eucharistic table is overloaded with golden Saturday 10am chalices when your brother/sister is dying of hunger? Start by satisfying their Holy Days (Vigil) 6.30pm, 10am hunger and then with what is left you may adorn the altar as well… Consider that Confessions Sat 10.30am & 6pm Christ is that tramp who comes in need of a night’s lodging. You turn him away and then start laying rugs on the floor, draping the walls, hanging lamps on silver chains on the columns. Meanwhile the tramp is locked up in prison and you never Parish Office Hours give him a glance. Well again I am not condemning munificence in these matters. No one was ever condemned for not adorning your house… Make your house Mary Immaculate: Mon-Fri 9am - 5pm beautiful by all means but also look after the poor, or rather look after the poor Closed from 1pm - 2pm first. Adorn your house if you will, but do not forget your brother/sister in distress. S/he is a temple of infinitely greater value. St Michael’s: Mon-Fri 9.30am 12.30pm Saint John Chrysostom (c. 347-407) Bluebell: Mon-Fri 9am - 1pm 1 Cemetery Masses Newlands Cross Cemetery Mass Sunday July 8th at 3:00 pm Palmerstown Cemetery Mass Sunday June 17th at 3:00 pm Esker Sunday Sunday 2nd Sept. at 3.00 p.m. Glasnevin Cemetery Mass Sunday June 24th at 3:00 pm St Anne’s Glen na Smole Sunday 29th July at 3.00 p.m. St Joseph’s Bohernabreena Sunday 17th June at 3.00 p.m. The Annual Oblate Pilgrimage to Knock Cruagh Saturday 26th May at 3.00 p.m. Saggart Sunday 24th June after 11.30 Mass Saturday, 14th July 2018 St Jude’s Templeogue Sunday 24th June after 11.30 Mass The bus will leave from Our Lady of the Wayside Fingal Cemetery, Balgriffin Sunday 17th June 12.00 p.m. Church/Mary Immaculate Church/St. Michael’s Church Newcastle (Ballynakelly) Sunday 8 June 2.00 p.m. (times to be finalised). Mount Jerome September (date to be confirmed) Fare: €20 To book a place please give you name, phone number and bus fare to your Parish Office Oblate Youth Summer Camp Oblates of Mary Immaculate Parish. Tel: 01 454 34408 July 29th—August 3rd 2018 (Ages 12-14) Our Lady of the Wayside Parish. Tel: 01 450 1040 The Summer Camp will take place in Lilliput St Michael’s Parish. Tel: 01 453 1660 Adventure Centre, which is located in the Jonathan Booking essential before 25th June 2018 Swift Park, on the shores of Lough Ennell, approximately ten minutes from Mullingar, Co. Westmeath. Supervised transport will be provided. The staff at the Center are trained and all personnel and volunteers are Garda Vetted/DBS certified. The subsidised cost of the Summer Camp includes A group of American visitors who celebrated Mass at the transport, meals, accommodation and equipment hire (Oblate) Grotto recently. costs. €225 / £225 per person, all inclusive. Contact: Padraig Corcoran T. +353 (0) 08777 23255 [email protected] Joe O’Mahony and his daughters Laura, Sinead and family, wish to acknowledge the many expressions of sympathy and gestures of kindness shown to them following the sad loss of Cáit. Thanks to the Oblate Community, Inchicore Variety Group, local choirs and medical staff for their support and prayers. Our heartfelt thanks to the many friends and neighbours and for all those who helped in any way to make our loss more bearable. Thanks also for the generous donations made to Our Lady’s Hospice, Harold’s Cross and to the Irish Motor Neurone Disease Association on behalf of Cáit. Mass will be offered for your intentions. Rest in Peace Cáit O’Mahony As part of his thirty years as an Oblate in South Africa, Fr John Poole ministered to the Zulu people living in the Valley of 1000 Hills, which is situated between Durban on the coast Pietermaritzbury 80km North West of Africa. In his first booklet: Banthubahle: Stories from Valley of 1000 Hills, the author’s reflections are captured in ten short stories with illustrations that help the reader to enter into the uniqueness of the Zulu people’s way of life. His second publication is in the form of a short play entitled: Thusi and the House of Lies that the Dominican Zulu sisters of Montebello staged in a celebration following a series of retreats. “Thusi wanted to become rich very quickly, by means that were rapid shortcuts, and this lead to the need for lies and dishonesty. He built a false house for himself… and became an artisan of his own bad luck.” Both booklets are on sale in the Oblate House of Retreat and in the Oblate Pilgrimage Office and Gift Shop at €5 each. 2 At Mary Immaculate Church Pastoral Area Newsletter Thursday 24th & 31st May 2018. Liturgical Publications Ireland, who publish our Pastoral Area Newsletter, have informed us that they will not be in a position to continue publishing beyond the month of July. This is disappointing as we believe the newsletter has been very popular and we are exploring options that might allow us to keep it going. Our Lady of the Wayside, Bluebell Annual Cemetery Mass Sunday 1st July at 3.00p.m. Congratulations to the pupils, parents and teachers from Scoil Mhuire Gan Smál and Inchicore National School. Housing Clinics Goldenbridge Integrated Complex, Emmet Crescent, Inchicore. Every Tuesday & Thursday 09.45am-11.30am Bluebell Recreation Centre, Bluebell Road, Dublin 12. Every Wednesday 09.45am –11.30am No 1, Islandbridge Court, South Circular Road, Islandbridge, Dublin 8. Every Thursday 02.45pm -04.30pm New email address for the parish of Mary Immaculate: [email protected] As you are aware, a new European Data Protection law, the General Data Protection Regulation (“GDPR”), was introduced on 25 May 2018. This new law applies to any organisation, including our parishes that manages and processes people’s personal information. We are now working on ways of ensuring that what we do with your information is compliant with this new law. It is a work in progress and over the next few months we will keep you informed through the parish website and in the newsletter as policies are put in place. If you have any questions about this please do not hesitate to contact the parish office. In relation to Family Offerings, the three parishes are very grateful for your contribution to the Family Offering collection. Be assured that the personal information you provide is used by your parish to process the contribution in line with revenue guidelines. It is not shared with any other person or organisation. The information is kept only for as long as necessary and is then deleted from our system. PLEASE BRING HOME A COPY OF THIS NEWSLETTER AND DROP ONE INTO A HOUSEBOUND NEIGHBOUR Contacts Mary Immaculate: T (01) 453 4408 E [email protected] W www.oblateparishinchicore.ie Parish Team: Fr Brian de Búrca, Fr Willie Fitzpatrick, Br Frank Flanagan, Joanne Lanigan.