Tempo: Sun 7th April: Eugene McGrade & Annmarie Kelly.

Cradien: Sun 7th April: Patricia McKeever.

Mass Servers:

Tempo:

Week Beg 31st March: Sara McQuaid, Cara McGrade, Katie Marie McDermott.

Week Beg 7th April: Ben McQuaid, Ebhan Mallon, Rosie Flanagan, Maria Brennan.

Cradien:

Week Beg 31st March: James Moore, Enya Moss & Isabella Wright.

Week Beg 7th April: Orla McKeever, Ryan McCann & Patrick Toal.

Anniversaries:

Tempo:

Friday 8.00pm M.M.M. Coinneach Brennan, Tempo & Lurgan.

Francey McMulkin, Edenmore Heights.

Cradien:

Sunday 31/03 9.30am Mary McGirr, Underwood Park & McGirr family, Breagho.

Holy Week Ceremonies:

I have been somewhat disappointed over the years with the lack of numbers at the Holy Week Ceremonies. This has been true with the numbers who come out on Good Friday and Holy Saturday night. Perhaps I don’t talk about them enough myself. However we are an educated people who should become familiar with Holy Week ourselves. The most important thing we can do during Lent is to study the Holy Week Ceremonies. So open St Paul’s Missal, and begins now. I was uplifted by the responses of the First Communion Children about Holy Week last Sunday. They proved that we adults should be as enthused about Holy Week as they are. Unless, we become like little children etc. We should know that these Holy Week ceremonies which celebrate the passion, death, and resurrection of Jesus are the most important ceremonies in the church year. In fact they give meaning to the whole year. In fact our faith is built on them; they are the foundation blocks from which everything has it origin. If we get rid of them, we have got rid of the Christian message.

The Church should be packed on Good Friday and on Holy Saturday Night because we take the suffering, death and Resurrection of Jesus seriously. Through his suffering and resurrection we form a relationship with our God. You would expect every family to come around the Cross on Good Friday, and you would expect them to come and celebrate the Resurrection of Jesus on Holy Saturday Night. After all it is a vigil, and we are called to keep vigil. Jesus who suffered and died for us makes his suffering and death present for us in each Sacrament, and especially in each Mass. He does this through the Holy Spirit. Otherwise our Mass and our Sacraments would be empty rituals. In other words, when we celebrate the sacraments we are united with Jesus in his suffering, death, and resurrection. Jesus makes Holy Week present for us in sign when we celebrate the Sacraments. Make sure to prepare, and make sure to join Jesus during Holy Week.

Parents of Confirmation Young People:

We invite you to a meeting in the Old School on Tuesday 2nd April 2019 at 8.00pm. Make sure that you make every effort to be present. James Mahan will come all the way from County Mayo to be with you and give a talk which you will appreciate.

Old School:

We are renewing the Old School Play Grounds with Tar-Mac. This is quite a big job as manholes have to be renewed, gullies cleaned, stones laid, new boiler stand erected, Metal Security Frame put in place, New Oil Line and Tiger loop put in place, and trees removed and banks sloped. I thank all who pay the Development Fund Envelope, and the Weekly Envelope. Only for your generosity we as a parish would not be able to continue making our parish into a place of which we can be proud. Donations, for all work is gratefully accepted.

Stations of the Cross: each Thursday Night at 7.00pm each week during Lent.

Readers:

Tempo: Ursula Kenny.

Cradien: 7th – James Rooney, 14th – Aideen McGirr, 21st – Paula Cox, 28th – Bridie McCaffrey.