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MASS INTENTIONS

Mon 22nd April 10.00am John Howard (Anv)

Christina Wallace (Anv) Tues 23rd April 10.00am Christina Wallace (Anv) Wed 24th April 10.00am Kay Lenehan (Anv) Sat 27th April 10.00am Ramon Buggy (Months Mind)

Recently Deceased

Padraig O Fathaigh( Fahy)

(Meadow Vale)

Brigid (Bridie) Keely

(Foxrock Nursing Home)

May they rest in peace

Parish of Our Lady of Perpetual Succour

www.foxrockparish.ie secretary@foxrockparish.ie

Fr. Aquinas Duffy 01 289 34 92 pp@cabinteelyparish.ie

Parish Office/Sacristy 01 2893492

Monday - Friday 10.30 - 12.30

Parish Pastoral Worker Maeve Davidson

087 6904814; 087 2853726

maevedavidson@foxrockparish.ie. Pastoral Centre 2895650 www.parishcentre.ie

April 21, 2019

Easter Sunday

Can you imagine that moment? Can you

imagine the stomach drop with dizzying

realization: "It's all true. All of it is true!

The past three years weren't a dream that

ended horribly wrong." Can you imagine

all the doubts and despair of the past

days chased away like smoke on the wind

by a rolled up burial cloth? By an empty

tomb?

It didn't start that way, of course. "'They

have taken the Lord from the tomb, and

we don't know where they put him.'" This

frantic news from Mary Magdalene would

have been another unexpected blow.

After all that happened, now his body has

been stolen? The love and devotion in

Peter and John is apparent. They don't

wait to collect more information or stop

by the tomb when they have a chance.

They run to the site. When is the last time

you ran for something? This isn't a run for

exercise, but a huffing and puffing bolt

fuelled by desperation. Can you imagine

that moment? The fear pounding in their

temples, matching their accelerated

heart rate. Can you imagine the impatient

affection of John, who outruns Peter but

refuses to enter the tomb alone? And

then, upon entry, "He saw and believed."

This is the drama of our great feast! The

promise that seemed lost has been found.

The dead are raised. Long before the

Easter eggs and ham, we are invited to

meditate on this divine reality. We are

invited to feel the desperation and joy of

that first Easter Sunday deep in our

bones. Because it is not just Mary's story.

It's not Peter and John's story. It's our

story. From the greatest defeat can come

the most awe-inspiring victory, and this is

true not just for our God, but for each one

of us. He is risen indeed! Alleluia!

Have a lovely Easter Everyone, do pop

in for a coffee and there may be even

some Easter Eggs in the Hall. Easter

Monday the Centre will be closed but

opened again on Tuesday. Another

quiet week in the Centre, the Garden

Club will have their meeting on Tuesday

in the Hall and on Wednesday evening

Bridge will be on. Active Retirement

Association have a talk on Thursday by

Rob Goodbody ‘Frank Aiken – Inventor’.

**Last Term of Mini & Baby Jam

starting 2nd May for 7 weeks €105.

Book now to avoid disappointment by

emailing martha.bredin@gmail.com or

Ph. 0879393953**

A new Mindfulness Course is starting on

9th May for 4 weeks, please contact

Pamela-Maria on 083 8166800 to book

your place.

Enjoy your week Róisín

Congratulations to

Oisín O Donovan and

Karen-Ann Dwyer

recently married in our Church

"There is one moment in life that towers above all others and summons us, heart and soul, to urgent prayer. The moment when, after a more or less carefree youth, a person fully realizes for the first time the grave choice before him or her: what meaning, what content, what direction do I want my life as a whole to have? I can choose or refuse my mission, my vocation. Fancy or caprice cannot be allowed to dictate the decision; it must be made only on reference to my first beginning and my final goal. I must implore God’s light. Show me Lord, what the meaning of my life should be.”

Hans Urs von Balthasar

At Foxrock Parish Pastoral Centre.

Tuesday23rd of April

What makes a great garden"

Speaker Annie Guilfoyle Garden

Designer and writer

Time 8.00 pm .

Admission 7€ non members

Johnstown Annual Parish Pilgrimage to Knock 2019

Will take place on Saturday 27th April Bus will leave church car park at 8.00a.m.

Spiritual Director Fr. Peadar Murney

Cost €50.00 per person Morning snack & Evening meal inclusive

Bookings will be taken at Parish

Office 01 235 1416 Our Lady of Knock Pray For Us

Chapel of Adoration

Disciples of The Divine Master

Whites Cross

28th April 2019 2.00 pm Blessing of Divine Mercy Image 2.15 pm Confessions 2.15 pm Guided Holy Hour (Fr Eugene Clarkson MSC) 3.00 pm Divine Mercy Chaplet 3.45 pm Holy Mass (Fr Derry Murphy SAC) Veneration of Divine Mercy Image Blessing with St Faustina Relic

MEDJUGORJE PRAYER GROUP

Russian icon with 5

themes:

The Holy Trinity ;

Good thief enters

Heaven;

Adam, Eve and

others follow Jesus

from Hell to

Heaven;

Harrowing of Hell;

Entombment of

Christ

It is located in the

Solovetsky

Monastery located

on the Solovetsky

Islands in

the White Sea in

northern Russia

The Solovetsky Monastery was founded in 1436. After a chequered history it

was converted into a Soviet prison and labour camp in 1926–39, and served

as a prototype for the camps of the Gulag system. A small brotherhood of

monks has re-established activities in the monastery after the collapse of

communism, and it currently houses about ten monks. The monastery has

also recently been extensively repaired, but remains under reconstruction.