WEEKLY NEWSLETTER 12th May 2019

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MASS INTENTIONS

Sat 11th May

6.00 pm Vigil

Seán Doyle (Anv)

Sun 12th May

10.00 am

Linda Murphy (Anv)

John Bosco Keane (Birthday Remembrance)

11.15am

Michael & Siobhan Galvin (Anv)

David Moloney (Anv)

Michael Henry(Anv)

Mary Galvin (Anv)

12.30pm

Noel Turley (Anv)

Colm Hogan (Anv)

John Joseph Kelly (Anv)

Mon 13th May

10.00am

Mary and Delia Kilgannon (Anv)

Tues 14th May

10.00am

Eileen Doherty (1st Anv)

Thurs 16th May

10.00am

Jack Tyrrell (Anv)

Sat 18th May

10.00am

No Mass

11.00am

First Holy Communion Girls and French

School

Recently Deceased Harold (Harry) Fry

(Late of Foxrock Ave)

Liam Mac Con Iomaire

(Hollypark Avenue)

May they rest in peace

May 12, 2019

4th Sunday of Easter

We all face obstacles in life. Perhaps

it's a lost job, the death of a loved

one, a sudden accident that places an

unexpected dent in our finances.

Sometimes the challenges are of our

own making. Perhaps we've

developed patterns of sin in our

personal lives or our family

relationships. We've all felt the jolting

shock of, "This is all my fault." How do

these things affect our relationship

with God? Or, perhaps more

poignantly, how do we now view

God's relationship to us?

In this Sunday's Gospel, Jesus's words

to us are encouraging ones. "No one

can take them out of my hand." Did

you catch that? In case you didn't,

Jesus reemphasizes the point again a

few verses later. "My Father, who has

given them to me, is greater than all,

and no one can take them out of the

Father's hand." God's grip of

providential care and mercy is so

strong that nothing can separate us.

We might think things take us out of

God's hand - life circumstances,

tragedy, our lukewarm attitudes

towards faith - but Jesus tells us

otherwise. Nothing, no one, can take

us out of the Father's hand, and we

can't take ourselves out! We can't

remove ourselves from Him, not

entirely. Even when grievous sin

hardens us to grace, His love is still

sustaining us in existence. And His

mercy is always awaiting our

repentance.

"My sheep hear my voice; I know

them, and they follow me. I give them

eternal life, and they shall never

perish." This Sunday, let us heed the

voice of the Good Shepherd.

Whatever we feel might take us from

God's hand, we can turn back to Him.

God is always inviting us to follow

Him and to trust in His care and be

sustained by His hand.

Life in the Spirit Seminars have

started in the Centre each Wednesday

evening from 7.30pm to 9.30pm and

contact Maeve on 087 690 4814 for more

details.

Active Retirement have an outing

this Thursday, so they will not be meeting in

the Centre. The following week they are

away on a mini break and we wish you a

lovely time away.

The new Mindfulness Course

which has started still has spaces available

and please contact Pamela-Maria on 083

8166800.

If you would like to volunteer

some time in the Centre please do not

hesitate to pop in and collect a form as we

would be delighted to have you on board

with our team or give me a call on 01

2895650.

Enjoy your week Róisín

Sharing Spirituality is an informal Group which meets to consider, on a broad basis and in

a reflective spirit, religion, spirituality and philosophy. The topic for the next meeting is:

The Medium, the Message and Truth.

The facilitator is Carmel Heaney.

Venue: St. Joseph’s Parish Centre, Glasthule

Date: Monday, 13th May, 2019

Time: 7. 30 p.m.

We welcome into

our parish community through baptism

Cormac Niall Slowey

Alianna Maher

Millie Marie O’Byrne

Rosie Yvonne Whelan

Fiadh Patrick Lehmann

Mollie Anne Cullen

CHURCH COLLECTIONS Collection this weekend for SVP

and

Next weekend 18/19th May

Diocesan collection for lay ministry

replacing the Share Collection

UCD Institute of Food and Health

Nutrition and Health

Public Lecture Series 2019

Venue: Lynch Theatre. UCD O’Brien Centre for Science: Time 7.00pm to 8.00pm

Monday 20th May

Nutrition and Heart Health: What really matters?

Dr Breige McNulty, UCD

This is a free event—no booking needed. For more information at foodandhealth@ucd.ie or 01 7162808

Come & See! VOCATIONS RETREAT

A LOOK INTO THE LIFE OF THE PRIESTHOOD

18/19 May 2019 St Patricks College, Maynooth

Email info@vocations.ie

vocations.ie

FOXROCK PARISH

LIFE IN THE SPIRIT SEMINAR

Continues next Wednesday 15th May with 5 more Wednesdays to 19 June

Time: 7.30pm-9.30pm Venue: Foxrock Parish Pastoral Centre

Getting ready for Pentecost -

"You will receive power when the Holy Spirit comes upon you

and you will be my witnesses to the ends of all the earth ..." (Acts 1:8)

Maeve Davidson, Parish Pastoral Worker

Mob: 0872853726

maevedavidson@foxrockparish.ie

ALL ARE WELCOME

This weekend of 11 and 12 May, we celebrate Good Shepherd Sunday. This

Sunday will continue to be an irreplaceable occasion to reflect on the importance of the

ministerial priesthood and on prayer for vocations to the priesthood. This is an urgent

call for the future of our diocese.

There will no longer be a special collection today as it is - with the smaller

number of seminarians - the funds collected over the past years are now sufficient for

the near future.

In his message for the World day of Prayer for Vocations Pope Francis says that there

can be no greater joy than to risk one’s life for the Lord! He encourages us, especially the

young, not to be deaf to the Lord’s call. ‘If he calls you to follow his path, do not pull your

oars into the boat, but trust him. Do not yield to fear, which paralyses us before the great

heights to which the Lord points

MASS CHANGE

There will be no 10.00 am Mass on

Saturday 18th due to

First Holy Communion Mass

(Hollypark Girls and French School)

at 11.00 am.

Saints of the Week

“Do not be afraid to aim for holiness and turn yourselves over to the love of God. Holiness does not mean performing extraordinary things but carrying out daily things in an extraordinary way – that is, with love, joy and faith”.

Pope Francis

Mon 13 Our Lady of Fatima Tues 14 ST MATTHEW APOSTLE Wed 15 St Carthage, bishop Thurs 16 St Brendan, abbot Sat 18 St John 1, pope and martyr

Tuesday 21st May 2019 at 20:00 MAIN TALK – Queen Victoria – her life

and her Irish visits By Frank Woods

No Short Talk

Novena In Honour of Our Lady of Perpetual Succour

Monday 20 to Tuesday 28 May 2019. Led by Fr.Laurence Gallagher and Fr. Peter Morris

10.00am –with Mass 7.00pm– with Mass

9.00pm—Reflective Prayer Service

May 20, 325 A.D. - The Council of Nicaea, the first ecumenical council of Catholic Church was called by Constantine I, first Christian Emperor of the Roman Empire. He was an unbaptized catechumen, who presided over the opening session and took part in the discussions. Nearly 300 bishops attended at Nicaea (now Iznik, Turkey). The council condemned Arianism which denied Christ's divinity and formulated the Nicene Creed. It also issued decrees on other matters including the proper method of consecrating bishops, a condemnation of lending money at interest by clerics, . The council intended to make a canon enforcing celibacy of the clergy, but it failed to do so when some objected.

It happened in MAY

IRELAND MALAWI AND PERU

The recent contributions from the parish to Malawi and Peru provide an opportunity to reflect on the huge differences in the standard of living between Ireland and these two countries which might in the past have been described as Third World countries. The term is being used less frequently because of the confusion about its definition. Instead, it is being replaced with terms including least developed countries, and developing countries The Least Developed Countries, or LDCs, are based on United Nations data that have the lowest socioeconomic development and Human Development Index ratings. These countries have weaknesses in areas including nutrition, education and literacy, have economic vulnerabilities, and have widespread poverty Malawi with a population of just under 20 million is one of the least developed countries in the world with an economy based on agriculture. The population is

mostly rural. The government depends a great deal on outside aid. Peru with a population of 33 million is in the developing countries category

A brief look at these two countries using a number of different figures is interesting.

Most Expensive cities to live in Top of the list are Hong Kong.

Tokyo and Zurich, Dublin is at 32,

Lima ( Peru) is at 132 and

Blantyre (Second city in Malawi)

is almost at the bottom of the list

at 204.

Average annual income-

Ireland €55000, Malawi €9300

while a teacher in Peru earns

about €12000

Average minimum weekly wage-

Ireland €392, Peru €63 and

Malawi €6.

Life expectancy-

Ireland 71.5, Peru 65.5 and

Malawi 51.2.

These figures highlight the huge importance contributions from Ireland can have to countries in the least developed and developing categories..

‘COMO SIEMPRE,

MUCHAS GRACIAS’

says ‘Milagros’.

The picture we

published of the little Peruvian

girl with the tiny dog and the big

bag has provoked a number of

enquiries. We asked Sister

Winifride of the Loreto Sisters

what her name was. She replied

‘Regarding that wise little girl in

the photo - for me she is 'Every

child'. So many of the children in

the Sierra are old beyond their

years, because of what life

throws at them. I would suggest

MILAGROS (‘the miracle’). Each

one is a miracle’. What is in the

bundle? It could be firewood just

collected, or pine cones for

multiple uses, or alfalfa to feed

animals, or among other items,

food for her dad who is digging

over the hill....

Sr Winifride has sent a message

of her gratitude for the € 7290

contributed to date for the

Loreto Sisters’ great work in

Peru by parishioners during and

after our Holy Thursday

collection.

We are delighted and

grateful to Foxrock. You have

done it again for us! This week

we are in the middle of our

planning for 2020 and the good

news came exactly at the

moment when we were

wondering how creative and

adventurous we could be. Now

we can launch ahead. Thank you

again. Our most sincere thanks

to all those generous people who

worked and contributed on our

behalf.

Envelopes marked ‘Peru’

containing contributions may still

be placed in the parish safe.

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GENTS GOLD RING

Gents gold signet ring with design on the face was found in the church and can be collected in the Sacristy