Holy Family Parish, Kill o' the Grange

Sunday 5 September 2021

Twenty-Third Sunday, Ordinary Time

 

    PARISH NEWSLETTER 5 SEPTEMBER 2021

 

TWENTY-THIRD SUNDAY IN ORDINARY TIME

Readings:

Isaiah 35:4-7

Psalm 146:7-10

James 2:1-5

Mark 7:31-37

The incident in today’s Gospel is recorded only by Mark. The key line is what the crowd says at the end: “He has done all things well.” In the Greek, this echoes the creation story, recalling that God saw all the things He had done and declared them good (see Genesis 1:31).

Mark also deliberately evokes Isaiah’s promise, which we hear in today’s First Reading, that God will make the deaf hear and the mute speak. He even uses a Greek word to describe the man’s condition (mogilalon = “speech impediment”) that’s only found in one other place in the Bible—in the Greek translation of today’s Isaiah passage, where the prophet describes the “dumb” singing.

The crowd recognizes that Jesus is doing what the prophet had foretold. But Mark wants us to see something far greater—than, to use the words from today’s First Reading: “Here is your God.”

Notice how personal and physical the drama is in the Gospel. Our focus is drawn to a hand, a finger, ears, a tongue, spitting. In Jesus, Mark shows us, God has truly come in the flesh.

What He has done is to make all things new, a new creation (see Revelation 21:1-5). As Isaiah promised, He has made the living waters of Baptism flow in the desert of the world. He has set captives free from their sins, as we sing in today’s Psalm. He has come that rich and poor might dine together in the Eucharistic feast, as James tells us in today’s Epistle.

He has done for each of us what He did for that deaf mute. He has opened our ears to hear the Word of God and loosed our tongues that we might sing praises to Him.

Let us then give thanks to our glorious Lord Jesus Christ in the Eucharist. Let us say with Isaiah, “Here is our God, He comes to save us.” Let us be rich in faith, that we might inherit the kingdom promised to those who love Him.

 

VACANCY FOR SACRISTAN

Holy Family Parish is advertising a position for a Sacristan on a part-time basis at 15 hours per week 9 a.m. to 12 noon Monday to Friday.  Please view the attached job description for more information (on parish news sheet  - www.holyfamilyparish.ie). 

If interested, please apply with C.V. to,

The Administrator, Holy Family Parish Office, Kill Avenue, Dun Laoghaire, Co. Dublin., no later than 5.00 p.m. 10 September 2021, email: admin@holyfamilyparish.ie

Candidates shortlisted will be invited to attend a competitive interview from which the successful candidate will be chosen.

 

CROSS CARE COLLECTION

On 18/19 September 2021, the SHARE collection will be replaced by CROSS CARE COLLECTION.

 

MISSION APPEAL 2021

The Archbishop has permitted the Little Sisters of the Assumption who used to have a convent in this parish for many years to collect funds in parishes of the Archdiocese (Mission Appeal) for their charitable work.  The sisters will be present at the Masses on the weekend of 25/26 September 2021.

 

VINCENT DE PAUL

The Monthly collection for St. Vincent de Paul will take place at all the Masses this weekend 11th/12th September 2021.  The Conference would like to sincerely thank all those who continue to support it during lockdown by donating online and leaving donations at the Parish Office.  Your generosity has allowed us to maintain our assistance to families in need in the parish.

 

 

EWTN - Mass every day at 1 p.m. and 6 pm

SKY – Channel 588

VIRGIN MEDIA - Channel 815

 

Sunday, 5 September 2021

St Paul Missal page 344

Your prayers are requested for the souls of those recently deceased and for Elizabeth Gormley and Sylvester O’Mahony whose anniversary occurs around this time.

MAY THEIR SOULS AND THE SOULS OF ALL THE FAITHFUL DEPARTED THROUGH THE MERCY OF GOD REST IN PEACE. AMEN.

 

MASS TIMES AND INTENTIONS

Saturday 4

10 am       

Celebrant’s intentions

4.30 pm       

Celebrant’s intentions

6 pm             

William McGreggor - Recently Deceased

Tess Boylan, Recently Deceased

Gerard Morris, Recently Deceased

Carmel Gunning, Recently Deceased

Colin Kelly, Recently Deceased

Nancy Sheehy, Recently Deceased

Sunday 5

9.00 am   

Annie O’Dwyer, Anniversary

Teresa McGovern, Anniversary

Kathleen Evans, Recently Deceased

John Byrne, Recently Deceased

10.30 am 

Suzanne Nolan Walsh, Anniversary

Rose Havasy + Doris Manly, Recently Deceased

Anne Hennessy, Recently Deceased

Madge + Sephen Bedi, Anniversary

Thomas O’Gorman, Month’s Mind

12 noon        

Parishioners’ Intentions

Monday 6

10 am            

Stephen Doorley, Recently Deceased

Rory Jones, Recently Deceased

Ann, Ted + Sean McMahon, Anniversary

Tom Quinn, Recently Deceased

Tuesday 7

10 am       

Celebrant’s intentions

Wednesday 8

 

10 am

Sylvester + Bridie O’Mahony, Anniversary

Holy Souls

Kathleen Gilmartin, Recently Deceased

John Byrne, Recently Deceased

Special Intention

Thursday 9

10 am

Special Intention

Bernard McDonagh, Recently Deceased

Tom Quinn, Recently Decease

Friday 10

10 am

Jassim Alsheikh, Recently Deceased

Tom Quinn, Recently Deceased

John Byrne, Recently Deceased

Gerard Dwyer, Recently Deceased