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Divine Mercy Sunday 15 April 2012
Fr Frank Grey,
Carrick, Finea, Mullingar, Co Westmeath. 043 6681129
e-mail:
ballymachugh@eircom.net
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Mass Times And
Intentions
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Ballynarry
Sat
14th Apr 8:00 pm
Felix & Mary Harten and Olivia
Goldrick,
Moydristan.
Servers: Donna Smith. Jack O’Reilly.
Tue 17th Apr 8:00 pm
Tony McGarry and the deceased members of the
McGarry family, Ballyheelan.
Thur 19th Apr 8:00 pm
Pat Sweeney and John Middleton.
Fri 20th Apr 8:00 pm
Mary and John Sheridan and son Pat, Clonoose.
Sat 21st Apr 8:00 pm
Michael and Kathleen Briody, Clonlohan.
Servers: Donna Smith.
Jack O’Reilly.
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Carrick
Sun
15th Apr 12 O’clock
Patricia O’Neill, Castlepolard.
Servers: Darragh Sheridan. Niall Briody.
Mon 16th Apr 9:30 am
Mass
Sun 22nd Apr 12
O’clock
Kathleen Reynolds, Carrickbane. Months Memory.
Servers: Darragh
Sheridan. Niall Briody.
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Divine Mercy Sunday
God chose Sister Faustina to make known his
Merciful Love to the world. Sister Faustina came from a large but poor
peasant family near Lodz in Poland. After a few years of work as a domestic
servant, at the age of twenty she entered the Congregation of the Sisters of
Our Lady of Mercy. As a religious she performed the duties of cook, gardener,
and doorkeeper in several of the congregation’s houses. Pope John Paul II
declared her a Saint on 20th April 2000. She was canonised as the first Saint
of the New Millennium.
The Divine Mercy Chaplet
Our Lord said to Saint
Faustina:
Encourage souls to say the
Chaplet which I have given you... Whoever will recite it will receive great
mercy at the hour of death.... When they say this chaplet in the presence of
the dying, I will stand between My Father and the dying person, not as the
just Judge but as the Merciful Saviour....
Begin
with the Our Father, the Hail Mary and the Apostle's Creed:
Then, on the large bead before
each decade:
Eternal Father,
I offer you the Body and Blood, Soul and Divinity, of Your Dearly Beloved
Son, Our Lord, Jesus Christ, in atonement for our sins and those of the whole
world.
On the ten small beads of each decade,
say:
For the sake of His sorrowful Passion,
have mercy on us and on the whole world.
Conclude with
(Say 3 Times):
Holy God, Holy Mighty One, Holy
Immortal One, have mercy on us and on the whole world.
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From Hopes
and dreams to Despair
This Sunday marks the sinking of the Titanic in the early hours
of April 15th 1912. Built by Harland and Walff, Belfast, the 46,328 ton
Titanic, the world’s largest and most luxurious liner, was on her maiden voyage
with 2,227 passengers and crew, when she sank.
113 third class passengers, mostly poor Irish emigrants, boarded
at Cobh. As she finally steamed out into the Atlantic at 2 pm on 11 April,
Eugene Daly, and Irish piper, played Erin’s Lament.
Four days later when the Titanic reached the north Atlantic ice
fields, she ignored no fewer than six radio warnings of icebergs from other
ships in the area. Instead of slowing down to about four knots, as other
vessels did, the Titanic ploughed on at her full speed of 22 knots. Her owners
were more interested in making money than in the safety of their passengers.
The principal cause of the sinking was the cutting open of a
large gash in the left side of the ship after colliding with an iceberg,
fatally damaging six of the bulkheads. There is some evidence that the failure
of the rivets in this area made the opening bigger, letting in more water than
the ship could cope with. Ironically, the Titanic would not have suffered the
same damage, if she had hit the iceberg head-on, as the watertight compartments
would not have been so damaged.
There were 2,227 people on the liner, but only enough lifeboats
for 1,178. She was originally fitted with thirty-two lifeboats, but sixteen
were later removed—to save money. The White Star Line was notorious for its
meanness. Unbelievably, the few crew members saved from the Titanic had their
pay stopped at 2.20 am, the exact time she went down!
Fewer than one-third of those aboard, 705, mostly women and
children, were saved, while 1,522 were lost. More would have been lost in the
icy sea had the Cunard liner Carpathia not arrived on the scene twenty minutes
after the Titanic sank. Only one-quarter of the third-class passengers
survived—because the sixteen lifeboats were on the first-class deck.
Nearly all the engineers and stockers, 112, were lost as they
worked below deck to keep the engines running and the lights on during the
three hours until the liner finally went down bow first, in the calm but icy
sea at 2.20 am.
187 Irish passengers were saved, among them Kate Connolly from
Cortrasns and Julia Smyth from Pottlebawn, Kilcogy. They met at Ballywillian
train station and made their way from there to Queenstown, Cork.
It is said that Kate Connolly was the first to wake in her cabin
and pulled the other girls out of bed ’by the hair of their heads’ because they
were unwilling to take the reported accident seriously.
Several aspects of this tragedy speaks directly to us to-day.
It is a reminder of our vulnerability and our mortality. It
teaches us that despite all the achievements of science and technology—and they
are many—we can never have total control of our destiny.
We are always travelling into the unknown.
Station Masses: The
group market with ✔
have been booked for Station Masses.
Please
contact Fr Frank at 043 6681129 to organise Station Masses for your area
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Group
1
Kilgolagh
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Group
4
Carrick
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Group
5
Moynagh
Up
Moynagh
Lr
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Group
7
Clonlohan
Ballynamone
Killakeen
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Group
9
Moydristan
Mullaghboy
Moate
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Group
11 ✔
Omard
Relagh
Lossett
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Group
13
Bracklagh
Carrickbane
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Group
15
Tawlaght
Cortrasna
Shankill
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Group
2
Maughera
Up
Maughera
Lr
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Group
3
Freeduff
Cullaboy
Lisnadarragh
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Group
6 ✔
Lavagh
Kilnahard
Fortland
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Group
8
Ballyheelan
Aughakilmore
Garrison
Cappragh
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Group
10
Turin
Killafassey
Crover
Lisduff
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Group
12
Foxfield
Ballinarry
Bellsgrove
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Group
14
Clonoose
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Group
16
Carrickakillew
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NOTICES
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Death
We
remember in our prayers James Connelly, Moynagh, whose funeral took place on
Friday also Alfie Heaney, brother of Elsie Blakley, Tullyboy who died in
Lisburn on Saturday 7th April. May they rest in peace.
Divine Mercy Sunday
The first Sunday after Easter was set aside by Pope
John Paul II as a special day of devotion to the Divine Mercy, The
revelations to St. Faustina, a visionary who lived in the Pope’s own diocese
of Krakow, are a great gift to the whole church. Mercy is God’s great gift to
us.
Youth Volunteer
Of The Year Award
Congratulations
to Peter Mulligan who was awarded the above award by Cavan V.E.C.
It
is a great achievement and wall deserved.
It
will mean an award of €500 to the youth club and also a grant of €350 to the
club.
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Last Respects.ie
If you would like to receive a free text
message with details of funerals arriving at St Mary’s Church Ballynarry then
text last109
to 51444. For more information
visit our website at www.lastrespects.ie
Collections
Ballynarry: 7th
April € 474.96
Carrick : 1st April € 519.73
8th
April € 519.90
Collection for St. Joseph’s Young Priests Society on
Holy Thursday € 325.00.
Trocaire: €
913.47
Eucharistic Congress Donation
Envelopes, dated
10th June, should be handed in no later than the weekend of the 5/6 May. This
collection is to help defray the cost of hosting the Eucharistic Congress.
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