Easter

 Adapted below is a prayer path from Donal Neary SJ.

 Easter Time

 

 

 

Gospel

His is not here, he is risen (Mt 28:6)

 Prayer for the Week

Jesus, in death you become like us to the end,

and in the resurrection you point the way to what we will be.

In bad times give us confidence and faith,

in good times give us hope and joy,

and in all times give us love,

because you are love and hope from God. Amen.

Reflection for the Day

Everyone who met Jesus after the resurrection knew him

well by sight. They had walked with him, talked with him, gone through some of the passion with him. But they did not recognise him. Even his closest friends.

Something about him – or everything – was different, In

the risen Lord is something totally new. Knowledge of Jesus now is by faith, and it is the same for ourselves.

We half recognise him and then he passes us by. We hear rumours of Jesus, or echoes of his voice. Faith, while it is sure, needs light. Should we be surprised that we don’t recognise him any more easily than his friends did? We live happily in the love of faith which needs light and invites our openness to let that light in.

Action for the First 10 Days of Easter Time from Easter Week

Think of Easter on rising, at noon and on retiring, and say the Glory Be.

And if you like continue this then for the following 40 days.

 

 

 

EASTER REFLECTION

 When we ask for a wake up call from a family member or in a Guest House or a hotel, we hope and trust it will happen. Wake up call… a phrase we often use. It means a new way of looking on something.

 Wake Up Call

Easter is a wake up call – to a beautiful day and a wonderful way of life. Christ is Risen… He is Risen indeed.

You can bury truth but it will always rise again. The truth of our faith – we come from God and we go to God. Jesus found that too at Easter. Nothing not even death could keep him from returning in Glory to God.

But in between…that’s where we are now. And today is the new wake up call. Remember waking up – to a big day. Graduation, ordination, wedding, holiday, falling in love, your child’s birthday, going to a new school,– these are awakenings to a new day.

Or to a bad day, a funeral, redundancy, illness. We know some day we will waken for the last time. The last time this side anyway.

Celebrating Easter – wakening up to a big new world in and around us, and Easter really is every day.

New Friendship

Every day is a discovery of the friendship of Jesus…always there, always new. To the call to partnership with him in his saving work for the world. To joy in all times, even bad.

We look at Mary of Magdala after Jesus death as recounted in the gospel. All seemed lost when she last went to sleep on a dark night. Now all is new because of Jesus. Her life has changed; his wakening after death means we can all wake up now – to love, call, joy.

 We can be new – He is Risen.

 The Church can be new – He is Risen.

The world can be new – He is Risen.

 Adapted from an Easter Reflection by Donal Neary SJ

HOLY WEEK - BANTRY PARISH 2013

                                              

Holy Week in Bantry Parish 2013

Monday 25^th March: Bantry: 10am & 7.30pm

Tuesday 26^th March: Bantry: 10am & 7.30pm

Wed. 27^th March:     

                                                Bantry: 10am Mass

                                                Hospital: 5.30pm Mass

Easter Triduum (3 day preparation for Easter)

Holy Thursday, 28^th March:            Mass of the Lord’s Supper

                              Bantry:                 No 10am Morning Mass

                                                            N.B. 6.15pm – Mass

                                                            Holy Hour – 10pm-11pm (Eucharistic Adoration)

                              Coomhola:           7.30pm – Mass

                              Kealkil:                 8.00pm – Mass                       Trocaire Boxes can be returned

 

 

Good Friday, 29^th March—Day of Fast & Abstinence – (Devotion to the Passion of Christ)

There will be a Special Collection on Good Friday to support & maintain Holy Places.

                              Bantry:     12 noon — Stations of the Cross

                                                3.00pm — Solemn Liturgy of the Passion

                              Kealkil:     3.00pm — Stations of the Cross & Solemn Liturgy

                              Coomhola;           7.30pm — Stations of the Cross & Solemn Liturgy

Confessions before Ceremonies on Good Friday in Kealkil Church            

Holy Saturday, 30^th March: Easter Vigil:

(Services of Light, Word, Baptismal Water & Eucharist)

                              Bantry Hospital: 10.00am – Morning Prayer

                              Coomhola: 8.00pm Easter Vigil

                              Bantry:     9pm Easter Vigil

                              Kealkil:     9.30pm Easter Vigil

 

Confessions on Holy Saturday: Bantry Church: 12noon

Easter Sunday: 31^st March:             The Lord has Risen 

                              Hospital:               8.00am (please note extra Mass)     

                              Bantry:                 9.00am & 12.00 noon

                              Coomhola:           10.00am

                              Kealkil:                 11.00am

Church cannot 'walk without the Cross,' Pope Francis says in first homily as Pontiff

Celebrating Mass with the cardinals who had elected him, Pope Francis described the essence of the Church’s mission simply: “To walk, to build, to witness.” The new Pope celebrated the Mass Pro Ecclesia with the cardinal-electors on Thursday afternoon in the Sistine Chapel. In his brief homily, delivered in Italian, he reflected on the three aspects of the Church’s work. “Our life is a path,” the Pope said. “When we stop walking there is something that isn’t right.” “To build is to construct the Church,” he continued, adding that the Church is built of “living stones, stones that are anointed by the Holy Spirit.” Regarding witness, Pope Francis said: “We can walk when we want to, we can build many things, but if we do not witness to Jesus Christ then it doesn't matter. We might become a philanthropic NGO but we wouldn't be the Church, the Bride of the Lord.” The path of the Church always entails difficulties, the Pope said, and Church leaders should be prepared to embrace them. He explained that “when we walk without the Cross, when we build without the Cross, when we profess a Christ without the Cross… we aren't disciples of the Lord.” The Pontiff warned the cardinals that in this case: “We are worldly. We are bishops, priests, cardinals, popes, but not disciples of the Lord.” Pope Francis concluded the first homily of his pontificate by saying: “I wish that all of us, after these grace-filled days, might have the courage, yes, the courage to walk in the Lord's presence with the Cross of the Lord.” He asked for the intercession of Mary, the Mother of God, to assist the prelates in carrying out their duties. In the Prayers of the Faithful, the cardinals prayed for the new Pope and also for Benedict XVI, “that he may serve the Church while hidden to the world, in a life dedicated to prayer and meditation.”

Quote for Friday 15th March

"And now let us begin this journey, [together] as bishop and people. This journey of the Church of Rome, which is to preside over all the Churches in charity. It is a journey of fraternity, of love, of trust between us. Let us always pray for one another. Let us pray for the world, so that a great brotherhood may be created. I hope that this journey of the Church, which we begin today and in which my Cardinal Vicar who is present here will assist me, will be fruitful for the Evangelization of this beautiful city."

- His Holiness, Pope Francis

Pope Francis

 

Prayer for the New Holy Father

O God, shepherd & ruler of all the faithful,

Look favourably on your servant Francis,

Whom you have set at the head of your Church as her shepherd;

Grant, we pray, that by word and example

He may be of service to those over whom he presides

so that, together with the flock entrusted to his care,

he may come to everlasting life.

Through our Lord Jesus Christ, Your Son,

Who lives and reigns with you in the unity of the Holy Spirit,

One God, for ever and ever.

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The new Pope Francis who was Cardinal Jorge Mario Bergoglio, S.J., Archbishop of Buenos Aires, Argentina was born on 17 December 1936 in Buenos Aires. He was ordained for the Jesuits on 13 December 1969 during his theological studies at the Theological Faculty of San Miguel.

 He was novice master in San Miguel, where he also taught theology. After completing his doctoral dissertation in Germany, he served as a confessor and spiritual director in Córdoba.

On 20 May 1992 he was appointed titular Bishop of Auca and Auxiliary of Buenos Aires, receiving episcopal consecration on 27 June. On 3 June 1997 was appointed Coadjutor Archbishop of Buenos Aires and succeeded Cardinal Antonio Quarracino on 28 February 1998.
He has served as President of the Bishops' Conference of Argentina

Created and proclaimed Cardinal by the Bl. John Paul II in the consistory of 21 February 2001.

 

Bantry Bulletin - Weekend of 17th February 2013

BANTRY PARISH - CHURCH NOTICES 

 

 

Calendar: Mass Times and Intentions :–

Sat. 16^th February: After Ash Wednesday:

Hospital           10am      
Kevin McCarthy - Seskin
 Bantry:             6.15pm   
Michael Goggin – Barrack Street

Sun. 17^th February: First Sunday of Lent.

Bantry:                  9am     
Finbarr Coughlan - Scart
Coomhola:           10am     
Geraldine Coakley - Snave
Kealkil:                11am      
Christy O’Reilly - Gurteenroe           
Bantry:                 12noon             
People of the Parish

Mon. 18^th February: 1st Week of Lent:

                Bantry:             10am       Bridie Cronin – Georges Row

                Bantry:             7.30pm    Jerry Daly – Shannonvale, Clonakilty

               

Tues. 19^th February: 1st Week of Lent:  

                Bantry:             10.00am,               Annie May O’Mahony - Glandore

                Bantry:           87.30pm               Dermot Hurley - Drimoleague

                                                                     

Wed. 20^th February: 1st Week of Lent:

Bantry:             10am       Mary O’Donoghue – Newbridge, Skibbereen

Hospital;          5.30pm    Donal O’Sullivan – Seskin Park
                       

Thurs. 21^st February: 1st Week of Lent:

                Bantry:             10am       Paddy & Nancy O’Shea – Gories, Bantry

                Bantry:             7.30pm    Nancy O’Sullivan – Newtown East – Months Mind

 

Friday 22^nd  February:

Bantry:             10am       Mary Griffin – Reenrour East

                Kealkil:            7.30pm    John O’Sullivan – Curraghglass, Kealkil

               

Sat. 23^rd  February: 1st Week of Lent:

                Hospital           10am       Con Keane - Kealkil

                Bantry:           6.15pm    Arthur O’Connor & his daughter Catherine O’Connor - Barrack Road
                Bantry:           7.00pm    Mass in Polish

Sun. 24^th February: Second Sunday of Lent.

                Bantry:                  9am    Patrick McSweeney – Shanavalla – 1^st Anniversary

                Coomhola:           10am     Teddy O’Driscoll - Snave
                Kealkil:                11am   Kathleen & Jeremiah Keohane – Incharoe, Kealkil
                Bantry:                 12noon              People of the Parish

First Assembly Meeting;

Tueday, February 19^th at 7.30pm in the Parish Room, upstairs in the Sacristy of St. Finbarr’s Church, Bantry. Looking forward to seeing you all.

 Further meetings will be on  26^th February (7.30pm – 9.00pm) and  9^th March (10.00am - 4.00pm)

The first meeting of the new Assembly will be on March 12^th. All of the above sessions will be facilitated by Sister Karen Kent of the Diocesan Pastoral Development Office. The Venue will be announced later.

Recent Parish Baptisms:

Ruairí Tadhg O’Donovan (Seskin, Bantry) & Michaela Kate Tooher (Kealkil)

We welcome them into our Christian Community

World Day of Prayer – Organised by Women

This years service will take place at 8pm on Friday 1^st March at Bantry Hospital Chapel.

A Preparatory Bible Study will be held at the new Ian Conner Room behind St. Brendan’s Church, Bantry on Thursday 14^th, 21^st & 28^th February. 10.30am-12noon. Enquries: Arethusa Greacen tel. 027-50166

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Community News

Bantry Basketball Club: AGM takes place on Wednesday 20^th February next at 8pm in the Boys’ Club. All Parents of players are requested to attend to ensure the club’s future.

Bantry Basketball Club Children’s Table Quiz: Bantry Boys Club – Saturday 23^rd  February Registration at 7pm. For ages 8-14 years. Team of 4: €20/team. Prizes for best team name & different ages & Raffle prizes.  Fully supervised.  All welcome.

Bantry Historical Society: The next meeting of the Society will take place at 8pm in the Maritime Hotel (note different venue) on 19^th February when Connie Kelleher will speak on “Piracy and Prostitution in West Cork in early 17^th Century”. Keep 20^th March free for the following meeting about the Famine. As part of Bantry Historical Society Photo Project to record the town, as it is now, exterior photographs of the shops and various businesses have been taken. The next phase is group photographs of owners and staff. Businesses will be contacted in the near future about this.

Spring Clean & Support Kealkil N.S.

Kealkil N.S. Parent’s Association are running a ‘Cash for Clobber’ fundraiser at the school next week. From Monday 18^th next through until Thursday 21^st morning only (as it is collection day), the school are accepting bags of clothing to be recycled locally in Ireland. This is the perfect opportunity to spring clean & benefit your local school. The following can be donated: - all types of clothing, bags & shoes, hats & belts, towels & curtains and bed linen. Place the items in black bin bags and drop off at the school during school hours 9.20am to 3pm. Any enquiries contact the school at 027 66298.

Retail Skills FETAC level 4 Course to commence on Tuesday 5^th March in Bantry. 3 mornings per week (Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday) from 9.30am – 1.30pm for 10 weeks. Info. session on Tuesday 26^th March 10am in St Goban’s College, Bantry. For info. contact  Kathryn in WCDP at 087-9876390 or Teresa in VEC at 028-40293.

FREE Health Checks at Primary Care Information Evening

A FREE pre-diabetes check, blood pressure check, and fitness test are available to members of the public at the Bantry Primary Care Information evening, which will be held next Tuesday, February 19^th, from 5.00pm to 8.00pm in the Primary Care Centre, The Quays, Bantry (follow the signs outside the Maritime Hotel).  The event is also a chance to meet the Primary Care Team – Public Health Nurses, Home Help Organiser, Speech Therapist, Physiotherapist, Community Mental Health Nurse and Community Worker, among others, and find out what services they offer.  All are welcome to drop in  any time between 5.00 and 8.00pm. 

Fadó Festival – Bantry 15^th-17^th March.

Lots of free events, wear your own period costume, live music & storytelling. Streets by lamplight. Children’s Fancy dress at Square on Sun.17^th followed by children’s ceili. Old time dancing from 9.30pm. See posters for full list of events

 

Bingo in aid of Bantry lifeboat in the Mariner (over the brick oven) every Monday night. €500 jackpot this Monday night.

 

 

 

 

 

Prayer for Pope Benedict XVI

 

PRAYER FOR POPE BENEDICT XVI

AT THE CONCLUSION OF HIS MINISTRY AS

BISHOP OF ROME AND SUPREME PONTIFF

 

 

Almighty ever‐living God,

who has given your faithful servant Benedict

grace to maintain his faith and hope in you

amid the labours of his apostolic ministry;

graciously bestow upon him, we pray,

the consolations of your Holy Spirit

and uphold him in serenity of life.

Through Christ our Lord.

Amen.

Holy Mary, Mother of God, pray for us

St Peter, pray for us

St Paul, pray for us

St Benedict, pray for us

All holy men and women, pray for us

Pope Benedict XVI

 

Pope Benedict's Address on Resignation From the See of Rome

"I have come to the certainty that my strengths, due to an advanced age, are no longer suited to an adequate exercise of the Petrine ministry"

VATICAN CITY, February 11, 2013 (Zenit.org) -
Dear Brothers,
I have convoked you to this Consistory, not only for the three canonizations, but also to communicate to you a decision of great importance for the life of the Church. After having repeatedly examined my conscience before God, I have come to the certainty that my strengths, due to an advanced age, are no longer suited to an adequate exercise of the Petrine ministry. I am well aware that this ministry, due to its essential spiritual nature, must be carried out not only with words and deeds, but no less with prayer and suffering. However, in today’s world, subject to so many rapid changes and shaken by questions of deep relevance for the life of faith, in order to govern the bark of Saint Peter and proclaim the Gospel, both strength of mind and body are necessary, strength which in the last few months, has deteriorated in me to the extent that I have had to recognize my incapacity to adequately fulfill the ministry entrusted to me. For this reason, and well aware of the seriousness of this act, with full freedom I declare that I renounce the ministry of Bishop of Rome, Successor of Saint Peter, entrusted to me by the Cardinals on 19 April 2005, in such a way, that as from 28 February 2013, at 20:00 hours, the See of Rome, the See of Saint Peter, will be vacant and a Conclave to elect the new Supreme Pontiff will have to be convoked by those whose competence it is.
Dear Brothers, I thank you most sincerely for all the love and work with which you have supported me in my ministry and I ask pardon for all my defects. And now, let us entrust the Holy Church to the care of Our Supreme Pastor, Our Lord Jesus Christ, and implore his holy Mother Mary, so that she may assist the Cardinal Fathers with her maternal solicitude, in electing a new Supreme Pontiff. With regard to myself, I wish to also devotedly serve the Holy Church of God in the future through a life dedicated to prayer.
From the Vatican, 10 February 2013
BENEDICTUS PP XVI

Bantry Parish Newsletter - Weekend of 3rd February 2013

CHURCH NOTICES

Bantry Hospice Project are holding their Annual Mass in the Hospital Chapel on Tuesday February 5^th at 7.30pm. All are welcome.

 New Parish Assembly; New Assembly members who have not yet been approached will be invited on board this coming week. Letters of appointment will follow. There will be two evening sessions and one Saturday session to prepare these new members.

19^th February             7.30pm – 9.00pm
26^th February             7.30pm – 9.00pm
9^th March                  10.00am - 4.00pm
The first meeting of the new Assembly will be on March 12^th. All of the above sessions will be facilitated by Sister Karen Kent of the Diocesan Pastoral Development Office. The Venue will be announced later.

Cork Theology Forum - Come to the Water – Perspectives on Baptism.

Bishop Michael Mayes gives introductory talk followed by group discussion & response.

Topic What is the call & the meaning of our Baptism?

What is the background to this important sacrament?

Tuesday Evening 5^th Feb. 8pm-9.30pm.

Venue: Sacred Heart Hall, Western Road, Cork

Bookings & Queries: 021-4509574

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Mealagh Valley

The 4th Annual 10 mile Mealagh Valley Ring Run organised by Bantry Athletic Association will take place on Sunday 10th February. Starting time for walkers is 10.00AM and 11.00AM for runners. Walkers must register by 9.15 AM, Runners must register by 10.15AM. For more information or to register log onto www.bantryac.com.

 

Progressive 45 Card Drive will be held on Saturday 9th February at 9pm in the Mealagh Valley Community Hall. Entry fee 10.00. All Welcome.

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Kealkil 
 

Date for your Diary: Kealkil Tidy Towns are holding a Quiz in Collins Pub at 8pm on Friday 8^th February. All are welcome. 

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PAKT (Parents & Kids together) now has places in its weekly kids clubs for new members. For more info. contact Úna Chambers, YMCA, Old Barrack Rd., Bantry (027) 514 61 or email una@ymca-ireland.org 

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 The Bantry Bay Lions, in partnership with the HSE and the West Cork Development Partnership (WCDP), will be organizing a free short course on suicide prevention at the WCDP building (old Gaelscoil) on Mon. February 4 from 10-1pm. The course, SafeTalk, provides training that prepares anyone over the age of 18 to be alert to persons with thoughts of suicide & connect them to suicide first aid resources. Anyone interested please email the Bantry Bay Lions at bantrybaylions@gmail.com or access their website at www.bantrybaylions.com and click on ‘Suicide Prevention’ where you will be presented with a box to enter your contact details. You can also register by calling the WCDP office at 027-52266.

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Bantry Defibrillator Group would like to thank the people of Bantry for their generous support at our Church Gate collection held recently. We raised a total of €1136.15 which will go towards the cost of replacing out of date pads & batteries in the 6 external defibrillators placed around Bantry area. Our next training session will be held in the Bantry Boys club on Monday February 4th so do come along and learn CPR and other life saving techniques.

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Coomhola School enrolling pupils for 2013/14 school year on Friday Feb. 8th from 10.00 to 11.00 a.m.

 

Gaelscoil Bheanntraí – Open Day: An Open Day will take place for all new enrolments for September 2013 on Thursday, 21st February 2013 at 3.00 p.m. Children and parents will meet the Principal and the Junior Infants Class Teacher, Múinteoir Cristín will give a brief outline on how to prepare your child for school and you will have a chance to look around the school and it’s facilities. School Prospectus and enrolment forms will be available on the day. Please bring your child’s birth certificate with you – it will be photocopied and original returned to you. We look forward to meeting you all.

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Date for Your Diary!

Table Quiz in Quay’s Bar at 8.30pm

on Friday 15^th February in aid of

Carbery GAA Senior Football Team.

Teams of 4 @ €40.

Come and support your team.

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Bantry Al-Anon Family Group 086 6042376.

Portacabin behind St Brendan's Church

Wednesday night at 8.30pm