MARTIN MC GINN - Sunday, 7th April 2019

Daily Masses:

Tempo: Tues 10.00 am, Fri 8.00pm.

Cradien: Mon 7.00pm, Thurs 9.30am.

Eucharistic Ministers:

Tempo: Sun 14th April: Lisa Farry & Adrian Slevin.

Cradien: Sun 14th April: Lorraine Moore.

Mass Servers:

Tempo:

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

Week Beg 14th April: Cormac Breen, Jack Kenny Quinn, Lily Tunny, Isobel Murphy.

Cradien:

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

Week Beg 14th April: Michael & Ellen Cleary, Cormac Cox.

Anniversaries:

Tempo:

Friday 8.00pm Annie, Tommy & Sean Farry, Clarnagh.

Kate Farry, Killaculla.

Tommie & Ellen Owens, & James Conlon & deceased, Killaculla.

DIOCESE OF CLOGHER FINANCIAL STATEMENT FOR 2018 and 2017 has been published and are accessible on the Diocesan Website with https//www...clogherdiocese.ie/financial- information to view. With renewed thanks to all those who support the work of our parishes and diocese.

YOUTH 2000 Retreat - A weekend of prayer, music, workshops and inspiring talks for young people, ages 16-35, in St Macartan’s College Monaghan, 12-14 April. Food and accommodation provided. To register, simply visit www.youth 2000.ie or call 00353 016753690 - Suggested donation €35.00. Under 18 must have consent forms. Theme: “The Lord God comes to my help”

Good Friday: This is a very special day during Holy Week. It is important that we meditate and become familiar with the liturgy of that day. There is no Mass on Good Friday. This is the day on which the Cross of Christ is central. Every practising Catholic should be out on that day. We are people of the Cross. The Cross is very much in evidence in our churches, on our rosary beads, in our homes, in our cars, and around our necks. The Cross is the symbol of God’s Love for each of us. As the first reading on Good Friday puts it: “The crowds were appalled at seeing him, so disfigured did he look. He seemed no longer human. He was despised and rejected by men, a man of sorrows, and familiar with suffering. Yet ours were the suffering he bore ours the sorrows he carried. We had all gone astray like sheep each taking his owns way and the Lord burdened him with the sins of us all.” In the Gospel we read about the agony in the garden, and the betrayal by Judas. He was brought to Annas who was father in law of Caiphias who was High Priest that year. We have the denial by Peter. Please read this l Gospel and meditate on it. It is followed by the solemn intercessions for Jesus has died for all and is drawing us all to himself. He is our Saviour. The Priest and servers now carry the Cross up the aisle. As with the candle on Holy Saturday Night they stop three times to worship the Cross and adore the saviour who died on it. The priest proclaims: “Behold the wood of the Cross on which hung the Saviour of the world, while the congregations answer “Come let us worship”. Here we adore the Cross, for through the Cross we are saved. It is with this mentality that we kiss the Cross. Finally we receive Holy Communion for here Jesus is truly and really present under the appearance of bread and wine. Good Friday is a time of prayer and meditation, a time to be silent, and a time to think of spiritual things. It is a time of great grace from God. It is helpful to prepare this gospel of the passion in the presence of the Blessed Sacrament. It makes a good Holy Hour.

Stations of the Cross on Thursday Night at 7.00pm. The meditation is read by one person, and two people carry a candle each down one side of the aisle and up the other side of aisle. The emphasis is on Jesus.