Palm Sunday
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MASSES THIS WEEK
Ovens:
9.30am: Monday & Wednesday.
Farran:
9.30am: Tuesday.
HOLY WEEK & EASTER TIMETABLE 2023
Holy Thursday 6th April:
Farran: Mass of the Lord’s Supper: 7pm.
Adoration at Altar of Repose until 9pm.
Ovens: Mass of the Lord’s Supper: 8.30pm.
Adoration at Altar of Repose until 11pm.
Trócaire Boxes may be returned.
Good Friday 7th April (Day of Fast & Abstinence).
Farran: Stations of the Cross 12noon.
Confessions before, during & after Stations of the Cross.
Ceremonies & Holy Communion 6pm.
Ovens: Stations of the Cross 3pm.
Confessions before, during & after Stations of the Cross.
Collection for the Holy Places will be taken up during the Stations in both Churches.
Ceremonies & Holy Communion 8pm.
Holy Saturday 8th April:
Farran: Celebration of the Easter Vigil 6pm.
Ovens: Celebration of the Easter Vigil 8pm.
Confessions for Easter on Holy Saturday:
Ovens: 11am to 11.30am.
Farran: 11.45am to 12.15pm.
Easter Sunday 9th April:
Dawn Mass in Kilcrea Abbey at 5.30am.
Feel free to bring a stool or chair.
Farran: 9.30am. Ovens: 11.30am.
HOLY WEEK 2023
This Sunday, Palm/Passion Sunday is the First Day of Holy Week & the Sunday before Easter. On Palm Sunday we commemorate the triumphal entry of Jesus into Jerusalem riding on a donkey.
Palm will be blessed at the beginning of Mass in both our Churches. The palms may then be taken home. Some of the palms are burned the following year to serve as the ashes for Ash Wednesday.
This week, Holy Week, we remember & commemorate the Passion, Death and Resurrection of Jesus. This, of course, includes within it The Mass of the Last Supper when we remember, on Holy Thursday the First Mass Jesus offered and through which He is with us to this day in the Eucharist.
The Irish Language refers to the coming week as “An tSeachtain Mór”, the Great Week, and this is most appropriate. Because it truly is the Great Week and what greater than the above could we ever dare to commemorate. Through the various ceremonies of Holy Week, please God we will make it truly the Great Week, An tSeachtain Mór.
MINISTERS OF THE EUCHARIST
Recommissioning Ceremony
At the Mass of the Last Supper, on Holy Thursday, 6th April, the Ministers of the Eucharist will be Recommissioned.
Farran: 7pm. Ovens: 8.30pm.
All Ministers of the Eucharist are please asked to attend.
COLLECTION FOR THE HOLY PLACES
The Collection for the upkeep of the Holy Places will be held on Good Friday.
The baskets will be passed around during the Stations of the Cross in Farran at 12noon & in Ovens at 3pm.
The Collection will also be taken up at the Evening Ceremonies in both Churches.
EASTER OFFERINGS
Easter Offering envelopes now available in the porches of both Churches.
Easter Cards, with the Timetable for Holy Week & Easter are still available in the Church porches.
HOLY WEEK TASKS FOR CHILDREN
Palm Sunday: Read about the first Palm Sunday.
Monday: No cross faces, say a prayer instead.
Tuesday: Help to tidy the house for Easter.
Wednesday: Be nice to your brothers & sisters.
Holy Thursday: Go to Mass & listen carefully.
Good Friday: Pray with Jesus on the Cross.
Holy Saturday: Pray for people everywhere.
REFLECTION FOR HOLY WEEK: FORGIVENESS
Forgiveness is the greatest gift that we can receive. The whole reason why Jesus came among us as a man & suffered & died for us on the cross was to give us the gift of reconciliation with His Father & with our brothers & sisters. He wants us all to have that amazing experience of being forgiven, not just for a moment but for all eternity.
This Holy Week let us remember the power of forgiveness as we forgive & are forgiven & every day, we can celebrate Jesus: the salvation He won for us by dying & rising from the dead, His precious gift of a new life in Him, and the way he pours out His mercy upon us when we repent.
SCRIPTURE REFLECTION FOR HOLY WEEK, AN TSEACHTAIN MÓR
Seek Reconciliation
When you are at peace with others, you will ultimately be at peace with yourself.
For Further Reflection:
Hebrews 12:14
Matthew 5:23-24.
ÁR DTEANGA FÉIN
An Té a Bhíonn Fial, Roinneann Dia Leis
God rewards the generous person. Literally, God shares (roinneann) with the generous (fial) one.
Be kind to others & God will be kind to you.
God shares so much with us in Holy Week, An tSeachtain Mór.
ALL IN THE APRIL EVENING
All in the April Evening April airs are abroad.
The sheep with their little lambs passed me by on the road.
All in the April evening I thought on the Lamb of God.
The lambs were weary and crying with a weak human cry.
I thought on the lamb of God going meekly to die.
Up in the blue, blue mountain dewy pastures are sweet, rest for the little bodies rest for the little feet.
But for the lamb, the Lamb of God up on the hilltop green only a cross, a cross of shame, two stark crosses between.
All in the April evening April airs were abroad, I saw the sheep with their lambs & thought on the Lamb of God.
By Catherine Tynan
Closing night of Matt Talbot Novena
7.30pm: Way of the Cross Church, Togher.
Celebrant & Preacher: Rev. Alphonsus Cullinan, Bishop of Waterford & Lismore.
May be viewed on: churchservices.tv/togher.
Taize Prayer & Veneration of the Cross
Good Friday at 7.30pm in the Church of Christ Our Light, Ballincollig.
OFFICE HOURS THIS WEEK
Tuesday: 6.30pm to 7.30pm.
No Office Hours on Holy Thursday.