(Thanks to Fr. Barry Horan for these pictures)Don’t forget! Adoration takes place throughout the year (apart for a week after Christmas Day, a week after Easter Sunday and Race Week) from Monday to Friday from 8 to 10 and on Saturday and Sunday after the 6:30 evening Vigil Mass. It is entirely run by a great team of volunteers devoted to the Eucharist. Come and meet the Lord!
This is the link to the Congress Website:
http://www.iec2012.ie/
(you'll also always find it on the menu bar at the side of this page)
Mass Intentions for the week ahead
Saturday 9th July
Vigil Mass
6.30 pm Peter Griffin and Gerard Garvey
Sunday 10th July
9.30 am
11am Maura and George King
12.15 pm Mary and Jack Hoare and Kathleen and John Guerin
6.30 pm Special Intention
Monday 11th July
10am Martin and Nora Connor and Padraic and Mary Connor
Tuesday 12th July
10am For all the Sick
Wednesday 13th July
10am Bridie Whelan
Thursday 14th July
10am Intention free
Friday 15th July 10am Celine Brennan
Saturday 16th July
Vigil Mass 6.30 pm Fintan Scally and Stephen Lally
Sunday 17th July
9.30 am Patrick Harty and Yvonne Crowley
11am Patrick and Esther Colohan and Jack Spellman and deceased
members of Donnellan and Spellman families.
12.15 pm Bernard McDonagh and Liver Transplant Donors and Receivers.
6.30 pm Mary Holland and Stephen Murphy.
Some Summer Reading
The Following books have recently been published by Four Courts Press. For additional details on any title or to order a copy go to:
Cardinal Paul Cullen and his world
Dáire Keogh &Albert McDonnell, editors
Thirty renowned scholars offer a broad perspective on Cardinal Paul Cullen (1803–78) whose authority from the mid-19th century was ubiquitous within Irish society and the English-speaking world. Contemporaries spoke of the ‘Cullenization of Irish society’; a Times obituary celebrated him as ‘an agent of great change’, while a critical James Joyce lampooned the cardinal as the ‘apple of God’s eye’.
Four Courts Press. 480pp Ills. 978-1-84682-235-3 €55.00 Hardback.
Available.Glendalough: City of God
Charles Doherty, Linda Doran and Mary Kelly, editors
Glendalough is one of the most enchanting archaeological and monastic sites in Ireland. Yet for all its familiarity the complex retains a serenity that signals a special place outside the concerns of this world – a City of God. This stunning book breaks new ground by considering the site in this light.
Four Courts Press. 356pp Colour Ills. 978-1-84682-170-7 €50.00. Hardback.
Available.Four Courts Press. 356pp Colour Ills. 978-1-84682-170-7 €50.00. Hardback.
Ireland, 1815-1870: Emancipation, famine and religion
Donnchadh Ó Corrain &Tomás O’Riordan, editors
This book is part of the Four Courts History of Ireland Series which offers a fresh approach to Irish history since the Act of Union (1801). In place of a general narrative, each book in the series focuses on major aspects of Irish history. These books answer to the needs of university students, the general reader, and all those interested in Irish history.
Four Courts Press. 320pp. Illustrated. 978-1-84682-232-2 €19.95. Paperback
Available.
Ireland, 1870-1914: Coercion and conciliation
Donnchadh Ó Corrain &Tomás O’Riordan, editors
Part two of the Four Courts History of Ireland Series. Essential reading material for university students, the general reader, and all those interested in Irish history.
Four Courts Press. 354pp. Illustrated. 978-1-84682-233-9 €19.95. Paperback
Available.
Reshaping Ireland, 1550-1700: Colonization and its consequences
Brian Mac Cuarta SJ, editor
This book extends our understanding of the colonial paradigm in early modern Ireland and includes the following themes: Plantation cartography and building, colonial discourse, the peerage, Caroline political culture, language change and evolving views of the Irish past are further themes. It also looks at the role of the Ulster Scots and how identities in Ireland were shaped by late 17th-century developments.
Four Courts Press. 320pp. Colour Ills. 978-1-84682-272-8 €55.00. Hardback.
Available.
Churches show muscle to broker Ironman deal
An Article from this week’s City Tribune
(See response from our Diocesan Secretary below)
July 8, 2011 - 7:15am
Organisers to lay on special transport for Massgoers
By Denise McNamara
A compromise has been brokered between the organisers of the International Ironman Triathlon and city churches to shepherd infirm Mass-goers to services while roads are closed off to traffic during the international event in September.
A campaign waged by the churches involved priests bombarding councillors as well as Galway City Council with letters, emails and phone calls, voicing their disquiet over the widespread closures which would prevent the faithful from attending Sunday Mass.
The Ironman competition will take place in Galway in September with up to 10,000 expected to descend on the city, including 2,500 athletes from 30 countries, who will complete a gruelling run, swim and a cycle. The event is expected to generate millions in revenue for the city with international TV coverage also assured.
Churches at Barna, Moycullen, Bushypark, Claddagh will be affected for a few hours by the traffic detours on the day of the event – Sunday, September 4 – with Salthill the worst affected as the resort will be closed off to vehicular access from 7am to 5pm.
Contrary to reports that the closures would last for five days, there will be just one 200 metre stretch of road outside the Aquarium which will be off limits to traffic between Friday evening and Sunday.
Fr Gerry Jennings, parish priest at Salthill, was particularly vocal in his criticism. “I still think it’s unfair the church is closed off for 10 hours. People have the right to worship on a Sunday,” he said.
A spokesman for the Ironman event manager said they had offered to lay on a bus to transport anybody unable to make their own way to Salthill Church.
“We’re making huge progress on this. We are actively getting things ironed out. We’re asking the priests to work with us on this one and encourage parishioners to go to Mass on Saturday or Sunday evening and, if they need it, we will transport them on the Sunday morning.”
The September race will be the first Ironman event in Ireland and will begin with a 1.9km swim in Galway Bay followed by a 90km scenic bike course towards Connemara and finish with a 21km run that will conclude at Eyre Square in the city centre.
For more on this story, see the Galway City Tribune.
Message from Fr. Martin Whelan, Diocesan Secretary
Dear Rev. Father,
I have been in contact with Evan Molloy of the City Council and Kieran McGlynn of the County Council.
They have informed me that the Temporary Road Closures scheduled for Sunday, Sept 4th 2011 are proceeding regardless of the objection raised by the Diocesan Office.
It would be important that your parishioners are informed of these developments.
Fr. Martin Whelan
Diocesan Secretary
Diocesan Office
The Cathedral
Galway
Ireland
Tel: 00-353-91-563566
Fax: 00-353-91-568333
Website:
Read the Notice of Intent on the City Council’s Website
Travel to Donegal
Ards Friary Retreat and Conference Centre have some great retreats coming up:
Lough Derg
You may have seen the fascinating Nationwide programme on RTÉ last evening (July 8th) about Lough Derg, one of our oldest pilgrimage and penance sites. This is their website if you’re up for the challenge!!
Saint of the Week
Saint Benedict from which our current Holy Father took his name, the sixteenth Pontiff to do so
COPYRIGHT:
It is unfortunate that no contemporary biography was written of a man who has exercised the greatest influence on monasticism in the West. Benedict is well recognized in the later Dialogues of St. Gregory, but these are sketches to illustrate miraculous elements of his career.
Benedict was born into a distinguished family in central Italy, studied at Rome and early in life was drawn to the monastic life. At first he became a hermit, leaving a depressing world—pagan armies on the march, the Church torn by schism, people suffering from war, morality at a low ebb.
He soon realized that he could not live a hidden life in a small town any better than in a large city, so he withdrew to a cave high in the mountains for three years. Some monks chose him as their leader for a while, but found his strictness not to their taste. Still, the shift from hermit to community life had begun for him. He had an idea of gathering various families of monks into one “Grand Monastery” to give them the benefit of unity, fraternity, permanent worship in one house. Finally he began to build what was to become one of the most famous monasteries in the world—Monte Cassino, commanding three narrow valleys running toward the mountains north of Naples.
The Rule that gradually developed prescribed a life of liturgical prayer, study, manual labor and living together in community under a common father (abbot). Benedictine asceticism is known for its moderation, and Benedictine charity has always shown concern for the people in the surrounding countryside. In the course of the Middle Ages, all monasticism in the West was gradually brought under the Rule of St. Benedict.
Today the Benedictine family is represented by two branches: the Benedictine Federation and the Cistercians.Comment:
The Church has been blessed through Benedictine devotion to the liturgy, not only in its actual celebration with rich and proper ceremony in the great abbeys, but also through the scholarly studies of many of its members. Liturgy is sometimes confused with guitars or choirs, Latin or Bach. We should be grateful to those who both preserve and adapt the genuine tradition of worship in the Church.
Quote:
“Rightly, then, the liturgy is considered as an exercise of the priestly office of Jesus Christ. In the liturgy the sanctification of man is manifested by signs perceptible to the senses...; in the liturgy full public worship is performed by the Mystical Body of Jesus Christ, that is, by the Head and his members.
“From this it follows that every liturgical celebration, because it is an action of Christ the priest and of his Body the Church, is a sacred action, surpassing all others” (Constitution on the Sacred Liturgy, 7).“Rightly, then, the liturgy is considered as an exercise of the priestly office of Jesus Christ. In the liturgy the sanctification of man is manifested by signs perceptible to the senses...; in the liturgy full public worship is performed by the Mystical Body of Jesus Christ, that is, by the Head and his members.
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