BANTRY PARISH NEWSLETTER
Fourteenth Sunday in ordinary time ]
sunday 6th July 2014
Calendar: Mass Times and Intentions :–
Mon. 7th July: 14th
week in Ordinary Time:
Bantry: 10am Michael
J. O’Sullivan & Mary T.
O’Sullivan – Droumleigh North
Tues. 8th July: 14th
Week in Ordinary Time:
Bantry: 10am Ann McCarthy – Slip Lawn
Wed.
9th July: 14th week in Ordinary Time:
Bantry: 10am Lily
& Pat McSweeney - Coomanore
Hospital: 5.30pm Dan & Peggy O’Shea - Adrigole
Thurs. 10th July: 14th week in Ordinary time:
Bantry: 10am John
& Mary Cronin – Coomhola
Friday 11th July: 14th Week in
Ordinary Time:
Bantry 10am John
J. McCarthy - Scartbawn
Kealkil: 7.30pm Kitty & Danny O’Sullivan -
Gortnacowley
Sat. 12th July: 14th week in
Ordinary Time:
Hospital: 10am Con Collins
Bantry: 6.15pm Mark
Joseph Delaney–Blackrock Road
2nd
Anniversary
Sun. 13th July: Fifteenth
Sunday in Ordinary Time:
Bantry: 9am Elizabeth Burke – Glengarriff Road
Coomhola: 10am Maura Cronin – Derrincullig, Borlin
Kealkil:
11am Mary Fahey - Gortloughera
Bantry: 12noon People of the Parish
The Deep End
‘All you who
are weary…’
Jesus had
little success with the ‘professionals’ of his day. Yet in today’s Gospel he
bursts into a prayer of thanksgiving for revealing wisdom to those who are
considered ‘infants’. In the context of these chapters of Matthew, it is
stressed that the poor are the only ones who truly understand the wisdom of God
and they do so under the weight of great oppression and demands placed on them
by the religious authorities. For example, the ‘wise’ place their particular
interpretation of the law on the ‘ritually unclean’ by excluding them from
meals (9:10-13) or place restrictions on the Sabbath that ignore human need
(12:1014).
Jesus wants people
to leave aside these oppressors and learn from him; find rest in him. His focus
is on mercy, compassion and love. This passage shows the tenderness with which
Jesus welcomes and accepts. Jesus knows the reality of people’s suffering. He
is not saying that there are no burdens in life; but that he will help people
to find wisdom. This wisdom gives consolation, tenderness, acceptance and the
rest for which the soul yearns.
‘Lowliness is
humility, and that means down-to-earth realism. I accept myself as the raw
material God has chosen to work through. For God can use me if I am ready to be
me. God cannot do much with me as I wish I were, and even less with me tring to
be someone else. In supple strength and cheerful self-acceptance lies the
sercret of a calm and restful spirit.’ (William Yeomans)
Jane Mellet (email:
janemellet@yahoo.com)
Recent
Parish Weddings
We
congratulate Eilish O’Sullivan (Kealkil) and Michael Duggan (Douglas, Cork
Traditional Latin Mass
(Missal of Blessed John XXIII)
will be offered on Friday, July 11th,
7.30 pm at St.
Finbarr's Church, Bantry
by kind permission of
Fr Martin Keohane P.P.
The celebrant will be Fr. Christopher Cullen, S.J., Fordham
University , New York
Recent Parish Baptisms:
Sadie Mae O’Donoghue – O’Leary
(Knocknaveagh
Close, Seskin, Bantry),
We welcome her into our Christian Community
Blessings for Summer
Take time to claim your
strength;
they are gifts of God.
Take time to have fun;
it's God's way of teaching
you your strengths.
Take time to grow yourself;
only you can grow you.
Take time to trust
yourself;
God trusts you.
Take time to be
self-reliant;
it is better than being
dependent.
Take time to share with
others;
they will bless you, and
you will bless them.
Take time to have hope,
you are a child of God.
Let's put ourselves into
the hands of the Lord,
and pray that God will
bless us and our families
during the wonderful months
of summer.
May we all help make our
home a place of relaxation,
joy, love, peace and
safety.
May we be generous and
considerate,
not thinking only about
ourselves,
but helping others enjoy
the blessings of a summertime.
Lord God, Creator of all
things,
guide our steps and
strengthen our hearts,
during these months of
summer and vacation days.
Grant us refreshment of
mind and body.
We ask this through Christ
our Lord. Amen
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