Resurrexit! Sicut dixit! Alleluia!
Mass Intentions, Easter Week.
Vigil Mass 8.00 pm Easter Vigil
Easter Sunday 24th April
9.30 am Marty Lee
11 am Michael John, Mai, Michael John Jnr, Francis,
Domonic, Tom and Patsy Healy.
2. Anthony Cunningham, Tony Cunningham and
Barbara McGrath
12.15 pm Bernadette o'Reilly and John Higgins
NO EVENING MASS
Monday 25th April
10am Mick Foley and John Mongan
Tuesday 26th April
10am For all the Sick and Special Intention 'Martin Joe Cooke'
Wednesday 27th April
10am Frank and Ellen Dolan and deceased members of Dolan family.
5.30 pm - 8.00 pm Indian Community Mass
Thursday 28th April
10am Deceased members of the Brock family.
Friday 29th April
10am Margaret Lydon
Saturday 30th April
Vigil Mass 6.30 pm Rita O'Connor and Bridie O'Reilly
Sunday 1st May
9.30 am Jeremiah and Mary Lennon, Billy, Desmond and Gerry Lennon
and deceased members of Keane, O'Halloran and Kavanagh
families.
11am Donal Fahy
12.15 pm Free intention
6.30 pm Patrick and Dorothy Gavin and Ann and Dolly Gavin.
Sacred Heart Parish Pastoral Council Constitution
1. The Council shall be called Sacred Heart Parish Pastoral Council.
2. The Council is a group of people which is representative of the parish community as a whole and whose purpose is the promotion of the mission of the Church in the Sacred Heart Parish Community.
The Council is a consultative group whose function is to cooperate in designing ways and means by which the parish can best fulfil its mission of becoming a parish community which includes all who wish to belong, in which there is Christian care for each other and for the whole human family and which gathers to worship, to celebrate and nourish Christian life.
3. The ordained priests and other pastoral staff shall be members of the Council in virtue of their offices and/or roles.
Parish representatives will be selected as follows. The following parish groups will nominate a representative; Ministers of Holy Communion, Ministers of the Word, Adoration Group, Baptism Group, Prayer Groups, S.V.P., Collectors & Counters group, Altar Society, Finance group, Do This In Memory group, Indian Community, Child Protection, others. The Parish Priest will approach the school to nominate someone to go forward onto the council.
The Parish Priest shall be free to co-opt additional members from the parish community on to the Council to enhance its representative character, or because of their experience and/or expertise.
4. The Parish Priest shall be President of the Council.Parish representatives will be selected as follows. The following parish groups will nominate a representative; Ministers of Holy Communion, Ministers of the Word, Adoration Group, Baptism Group, Prayer Groups, S.V.P., Collectors & Counters group, Altar Society, Finance group, Do This In Memory group, Indian Community, Child Protection, others. The Parish Priest will approach the school to nominate someone to go forward onto the council.
The Parish Priest shall be free to co-opt additional members from the parish community on to the Council to enhance its representative character, or because of their experience and/or expertise.
The chairperson and secretary shall be elected by the Members. [by a two-thirds majority] and shall remain in office for 3 years. Every member will be encouraged to be open to being selected as chairperson.
5. The term of the Council shall be 3 years. No member shall serve more than two consecutive terms, but shall be eligible for membership subsequently.
Members failing to attend 3 consecutive meetings without reasonable explanation shall be deemed to have resigned.
6. The normal schedule of meetings shall be agreed annually. The Parish Priest or his delegate shall preside at all meetings.
The chairperson and secretary of the Council are responsible for running the meetings and compiling the agenda. All members may contribute items. The completed agenda will be circulated one week before the meeting.
[Matters introduced under AOB should not be discussed at the current meeting but put on the agenda for discussion at the next meeting.]
7. The position of the Council on any issue is arrived at by consensus. [If a consensus is not arrived at the P.P. must take the decision]The chairperson and secretary of the Council are responsible for running the meetings and compiling the agenda. All members may contribute items. The completed agenda will be circulated one week before the meeting.
[Matters introduced under AOB should not be discussed at the current meeting but put on the agenda for discussion at the next meeting.]
8. The Parish Priest as president of the Council may convene and chair an extraordinary meeting should he consider it necessary.
9. This Constitution has been approved by Bishop Martin Drennan, Bishop of Galway 10. The Constitution may be amended by the Council with the approval of the Bishop.
Sacred Heart Parish Pastoral Council.
1. Matt Hurley (Chairman) Msgr. Malachy Hallinan, (President of the Council)
2. Eleanor Costello (Secretary) Fr. David Murphy
3. Bernadette Moloney Sr. Catherine Regan
4. Catherine Healy Bernie Scally, Parish Office
5. Frank Colohan
6. Bernie Moloney
7. Maureen Trill
8. Carmel Crawford
9. Joan O’Rourke
10. Moira Byrne
11. Pauline Dolly
Sacred Heart Parish Pastoral Council.
1. Matt Hurley (Chairman) Msgr. Malachy Hallinan, (President of the Council)
2. Eleanor Costello (Secretary) Fr. David Murphy
3. Bernadette Moloney Sr. Catherine Regan
4. Catherine Healy Bernie Scally, Parish Office
5. Frank Colohan
6. Bernie Moloney
7. Maureen Trill
8. Carmel Crawford
9. Joan O’Rourke
10. Moira Byrne
11. Pauline Dolly
John 20:1-9
If Christianity is not true then it is of no importance. If it is true then it is of infinite importance. It can’t be of moderate importance. Those words from C. S. Lewis prompt us to reflect, on this Easter Sunday, on central elements of our faith and on the implications of faith for daily living. The gospel for today draws attention to faith as a decision and also focuses on the content of that faith. According to the gospel of St. John the presence of Jesus in the world called for discernment, for decision (John 9:39). His central message was he who has seen me has seen the Father (John 14:9). He had been sent by the Father and he had come to make his Father known. His hearers were either for him or sharply opposed to him. The choice which they made had major implications. In his preaching Jesus made it clear that those who rejected his claim to be from God had passed judgment on themselves (John 3:18-19). Those who believed in him had chosen to let his light guide their lives. They had chosen life. The essentials in this life are, according to the Fourth Gospel, faith and love, faith lived in love.
According to today’s gospel an understanding of the Scriptures is necessary for fullness of faith. To see in depth is to understand the journey to the Cross as love in action, having loved his own…. he loved them to the end (John 13:1). The gospel passage today traces growth in the quality of seeing. It begins with seeing that is simple noticing (v.1,5) and moves to seeing that is attentive looking (v.6) to the seeing that leads to faith (v.8). It is the beloved disciple who has the deeper perception of what the empty tomb means, he saw and he believed (v.8). When Jesus called the first disciple he invited them to come and see or, better, to come and become people who see. The beloved disciple exemplifies progress in learning to see, in beginning to see as Jesus sees.
Before Jesus rose from the dead on Easter morning death was seen as the end, the silencer of words, the quenching of the spark of life, the destruction of every relationship. Jesus transformed all of that. He transformed a violent death into a voluntary sacrifice through love. He brought a new dawn, a new day of resurrection that has no evening. Death as final and as destruction of life is transformed into an event where there is communication of life and hope. His light has shone on the darkness of the world, bringing peace and a new creation. We are guests and pilgrims in this world, preparing for communion with God. We who are certain of the last things can afford to be serene about the second-last things.
For Prayer
The resurrection means that love is stronger than death. How do I experience that ?
The more we are like Jesus the more free we are. Am I growing in freedom, free from greed for possessions, free to transform the world for God ?
There is no place where Jesus is absent. Am I aware of that ?
Bishops welcome the new edition of the Missal
The new edition of the Roman Missal will be introduced at Mass from the first Sunday of Advent, 27 November 2011. The changes to the current text that affect the congregation are relatively small in number but Mass will sound different. The Irish Catholic Bishops’ Conference has developed a number of resources to assist the faithful in familiarising themselves with the new text.
These resources are now available on
and
http://www.liturgy-ireland.ie:
- An information leaflet entitled Introducing the New Missal, which will be available in parishes before the 2nd Sunday of Easter.
- Brief video clips which explain the introduction of the new edition of the Missal, addressing: what is the Roman Missal? Is the Mass changing? Why are we getting a new edition of the new Missal? Is what we have been praying up to now wrong?
From September:
- The text changes for the new the Missal will begin to be introduced in many dioceses at Mass from Sunday, 11 September. Missalette publishers and parish bulletins will include these changes by way of explanatory inserts. These are also available on the websites above.
- Over the ten weeks from 11 September, all the changes in the prayers and responses of the congregation will be used at Mass, for example: the greeting, “The Lord be with you” and response, “And with your spirit”; the Apostles Creed; the longer Nicene Creed; and, the acclamations of the Eucharistic Prayer.
- From 27 November 2011, the First Sunday of Advent, the new edition of the Missal will be used in its entirety for the prayers of the Mass throughout the country and the English speaking world.
New edition of the Roman Missal
The publication of the new edition of the Roman Missal, the book of prayers used at Mass, is an opportunity to deepen our understanding of all that we are doing as we, the Christian community, gather to worship.
The use of a new edition of the Missal is not simply about words or translation. The new Missal will enable us to come to a deeper understanding of the Eucharist, which is the source and summit of the life of the Church. The new text is the result of the work of many people over the past ten years.
Since it was published in 1975, much has been added to the Missal currently prayed at Mass. Bishops welcome the new edition to be published later this year as it will provide Mass prayers, the Masses of our National Calendar and three Eucharistic Prayers which have all been approved since the current edition was published. Some of this material has been available but the new edition gives us an up-to-date Missal.
While the order or structure of the Mass is not changing, and readings remain the same, the edition of the Missal will be in a new translation. It uses new norms for translation which call for a fuller and more faithful translation of the Latin. The new edition of the Missal will bring a freshness and beauty to the language used at worship, capturing the biblical resonances of our prayers more clearly and the rich words and phrases of the prayers, many more than 1200 years old.
Catechesis on the text of the new Missal
Bishops are acutely aware of the impact of these changes in prayers that have been used and loved for almost forty years.
The preparation for the new Missal takes place as we prepare for the International Eucharistic Congress to be held in Ireland in June 2012. Many resources for the Congress will serve as resources for an understanding of the Eucharist and its celebration.
While the new Missal will be used from 27 November next, the changes in the people’s parts will be explained and introduced from September. This is in order to make the change to the New Missal as smooth as possible.
Preparation for the publication and use of the new edition of the Missal has already begun. Our National Centre for Liturgy in Maynooth has conducted workshops for Diocesan teams around the country. This will greatly assist priests and diocesan teams with special responsibility for the preparation and celebration of the Mass. Many dioceses have already scheduled workshops to take place over the next three months.
Explanatory sessions for diocesan and parish liturgy committees, parish and pastoral councils, pastoral workers, diocesan advisers (primary and post-primary), chaplains, those with responsibility and leadership in music will take place at a local level as we prepare to use the Missal towards the end of the year.
The use of the new edition of the Missal towards the end of the year will also mark a continuation of the catechesis that is now underway. It will provide priests and faithful with the opportunity not only to explore further the changes in words but also to continue to make our celebration of the Eucharist ever more reverent and beautiful, as the worship of God in thanksgiving for the gift of Jesus the Lord should be.
Background
The publication and use of a new edition of the Roman Missal is the culmination of a project launched in the Jubilee Year, 2000, when Pope John Paul II announced the third edition of the Missal. The Latin Missale Romanum was published in 2002 and the agency established by Bishops in countries where English is spoken was entrusted with the specialist work of translation.
This agency, the International Commission on English in the Liturgy (ICEL), always intended to revisit the translation given in the Missal we have used since St Patrick’s Day, 1975. Working with norms for translation given in the Instruction Liturgiam authenticam, ICEL began their work in 2002, sending the Missal to bishops’ conferences in twelve segments.
Irish bishops reviewed and commented on each segment, assisted by our Irish Commission for Liturgy. ICEL received the Commission’s detailed comments and those from the other eleven English speaking bishops’ conference it serves.
Revised texts were then placed before the Irish Bishops’ Conference and approved over a period of six years, making it possible last year to forward the complete Missal to the Congregation for Divine Worship and the Discipline of the Sacraments in the Vatican for its approval or recognitio. The Congregation made changes, ensuring that a common text will be used throughout the English-speaking world. It was assisted in its work by Vox Clara, a committee of senior bishops formed in 2001.
Resources
There are many resources available to support the changes introduced and here is a list of the home produced:
- Become One Body One Spirit in Christ an interactive DVD which explores the depth, richness and layers of meaning of the liturgical texts of the Roman Missal. Produced by Fraynework Multimedia and published by Veritas in September 2010 for Ireland, it is based on five foundational essays which provide the themes and pathways of this resource, using video, text, graphics and music to help the user enrich their understanding and deepen their appreciation of the Eucharist.
- General Instruction of the Roman Missal (GIRM), as approved for the dioceses of Ireland , was published in 2005. It is a translation of the Institutio Generalis issued with the Missale Romanum, editio typica tertia in 2002.
- Celebrating the Mystery of Faith is a study guide to the Mass, based on GIRM, put together by a team from the National Centre for Liturgy. It was first published in 2005 and now in an updated reprint. It is a study book for priests, on their own or in groups, for liturgy teams, for ministers of the Word, music and Communion, for parishes and for all who want to better understand this mysterium fidei, the Eucharist.
- The New Missal: Explaining the Changes has been put together by the National Centre for Liturgy to provide an explanation of why we have a new edition of the Missal and to explore the changes to texts that we will experience in a new translation of its prayers.
- Celebrating the Mass throughout the Year has been produced by the National Centre for Liturgy and will be published by Veritas shortly. It offers an overview and commentary on celebrating the Mass throughout the Liturgical Year. Texts like Collects and Prefaces, using the translation of the new edition of the Missal and illustrating our journey through the year, are included.
- O Sacred Banquet is subtitled Revitalising the Sunday Celebration of the Eucharist. Its 28 pages offer a powerful statement on the Eucharist. It was drafted for the Bishops’ Conference by the national Liturgy and Theology Commissions and is based on the sentence of St Leo the Great preaching on the feast of the Ascension: what was in Christ has passed into the mysteries [the liturgy].
- The resources that will be made available as we prepare for the International Eucharistic Congress to be held in June 2012 will also be very helpful.
- Music is integral to our celebration of the Eucharist. Settings for the Mass, with new music and music of well-known Masses adapted to the new translation are being prepared and will be launched at the summer school of the Irish Church Music Association which will take place in Maynooth during July 2011.
Further information:
Catholic Communications Office Maynooth: Martin Long 00353 (0) 86 172 7678
Eucharistic Congress 2012
On Saturday, June 25th, there will be a national Eucharistic Congress gathering in Knock. There will be Mass at 3.00 pm. A candle will be presented to each diocese. Next day in each Cathedral in Ireland
There's a link to the Congress website in the menu bar of this page
A Message from Father Liam Dunne
Father Liam was with us in the Sacred Heart a few weeks ago, and we enjoyed his sharing of the work his Divine Word Missionary congregation do throughout the world.
He would like to say thank you for the warm welcome he received.
You can follow the SVD work on their website:
Caring for someone with Dementia?
Do you care for or know someone with Demenia? A conference for the carers and families of patients with dementia will take place in the Clayton Hotel on 12th May from 9am -4pm. Admission is 5 euro which includes lunch. Contact 091-542978 to book a place.
