BANTRY PARISH NEWSLETTER
SS Peter and Paul, apostles
sunday 29th June 2014
Calendar: Mass Times and Intentions :–
Mon. 30th June: 13th week in Ordinary Time:
Bantry: 10am Vinnie
Walsh, Joe & Mary Walsh –
Tues. 1st July: 13th Week in Ordinary Time:
Bantry: 10am Timothy O’Leary – Newtown
Wed.
2nd July: 13th week in Ordinary Time:
Bantry: 10am Edward
& Johanna Gallagher - Dublin
Hospital: 5.30pm May McCarthy – Blackrock Terrace
Thurs. 3rd July: St. Thomas
Bantry: 10am Maurice
& Mary Gilhooley (Snr) & their daughter Mary Gilhooley - Donemark
Friday 4th July: 13th Week in Ordinary
Time:
Bantry 10am 50
Wedding Anniversary Intention
Kealkil: 7.30pm Shared Mass
Bantry: 7.30pm Shared Mass
Sat. 5th July: 13th week in
Ordinary Time:
Hospital: 10am Patricia O’Shea - Inchinagown
Bantry: 6.15pm Jimmy O’Rourke – Cois Riasc, Bantry
Sun. 6th July: Fourteenth
Sunday in Ordinary Time:
Bantry: 9am James Cronin – Tooreen, Coomanore
Coomhola: 10am Jerh. & Katie Lucey – Coorloum
North, Coomhola
Kealkil:
11am Nora & Pat O’Sullivan – Breenybeg,
Kealkil
Bantry: 12noon People of the Parish
We thank all those who helped organise the Corpus Christi
To those who participated, may the Blessings of Christ,
especially the Blessings of Peace, Joy, Happiness and Good Health, be yours.
Today we celebrate the two founders of the Christian church, Peter and Paul, in some ways not ideal disciples. Peter, originally Simon, was the fisherman who made many mistakes along the way including denying Jesus, but became the ‘rock’ upon which Jesus built his church. Paul, formerly Saul, turned from persecuting Christians into the greatest missionary and theologian in the early Church. The Gospel we hear today tells us something about this discipleship to which Peter and Paul were called. It is not easy, and it is not always what we would expect. Jesus tells Peter: ‘When you grow old you will stretch out your hands, and somebody else will put a belt round you and take you where you would rather not go.’ We are told that Jesus is indicating how Peter is to die. Yet his next words are still an invitation: ‘Follow me.’ Peter is left in no doubt that discipleship will not be a bed of roses. He will not be able to ‘walk where he likes’ and do his own thing. Following Jesus is going to take him to places he would rather not go. If Simon or Saul had known what was ahead, would they have taken the path they did? So it is with our lives. We never know what is around the next corner and what we may have to deal with, whether illness, loss or the many other obstacles that can come our way. The twists and turns of life may indeed bring us where we would rather not go. But we are called to follow Jesus, and trust that he has a plan for us.
Tríona Doherty, Email trionad@gmail.com
Died Recently
We extend our
prayers & sympathy to the family, relatives & friends of
Michael (Mike)
McCarthy (Kealkill)
May he rest in
peace
First Friday:
There will be Exposition of the Blessed Sacrament on the first
Friday, 4th July next, after 10am Mass until 7.30pm Mass & you
are invited to spend an hour in adoration.
Recent Parish Baptisms:
Tom Matthew O’Donovan
(Dromleigh
South, Bantry),
Niamh Kate Gordon
(San Francisco
We welcome them into our Christian Community
Holy Hour of Eucharistic Adoration
every Monday evening at 8pm
in the Hospital Chapel
Recent
Parish Weddings
We
congratulate local Polish couple Antonina Pietrowska & Marek Adam Ratuszny
who were married in St. Finbarr’s Church, Bantry on Monday, 23rd
June by the Chaplain to the Polish Community, Fr. Piotr Galus.
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