Bulletin 26 January

 

CHRIST THE KING PARISH, TURNER’S CROSS

 

26th January, 2025

Third Sunday in Ordinary Time

 

Fr Noel O’Sullivan   Mobile: 087-2610276 email: noscork@gmail.com

Website: turnerscross.com

 

Sacristy:     Phone 4317263             

       Opening Hours, Monday to Thursday, 9.30 am –10.45 am.

       Saturday, 5.15 pm – 6.45 pm; Sunday, 9.30 am – 1.00 pm.

 

 

Entrance Hymn: Holy God, we praise thy name

Year of Prayer, Listening and Discernment

 Family of Parish Gatherings – Next Steps:

Over the next four months all the Parishes and Families of Parishes of our Diocese will be involved in the next stage of our Year of Prayer, Listening and Discernment. This will involve representatives of each Parish Leadership Team participating in 3 meetings over 3 weeks reflecting on the questions posed in Bishop Fintan’s invitation in September. Since September, people individually and in Parishes have been praying the Diocesan Prayer from the Boat. As we continue to pray this prayer together, we pray for the success of these gatherings and we pray that the Holy Spirit will guide us as together we try to pray, listen and discern God’s future for our Church.

 

Dates for our family of parishes:

The meetings of the Parish Assemblies and Finance Committees of Christ the King, Douglas and Frankfield parishes will take place on three consecutive  Mondays:  17th February; 24th February; 3rd March, at 7.00 pm in the parish centre in St Columba’s, Douglas.

Congratulations and best wishes to Turner’s Cross native, Deputy Micheal Martin, on his election as Taoiseach.

 

Senior Citizens Dinner at Nemo: Sunday, 9th February, at 3.00 pm. All welcome; no charge. Ring 021 4291038 or 086 3014461

 

Introducing Luke’s Gospel  (Luke 1: 1-4; 4:14-21)

St Luke will be our evangelist for Sunday Mass this year.  Today’s Gospel might well be called “Introductions”.  In separate extracts we have Luke’s introduction to his writing (Luke 1:1-4), followed by his introduction to the public ministry of Jesus (Luke 4:14-21). Like the opening bars of a great symphony, the first words that each evangelist puts on the lips of Jesus announce the major theme of that particular Gospel.  Matthew and Mark quote Jesus announcing that the time has come for the establishment of the kingdom of God.  In John, the first words of Jesus are an invitation, “Come and see.” In Luke’s Gospel the first words of Jesus are about the Holy Spirit.  He reads from the scroll of Isaiah. The Spirit of the Lord has been given to me, for he has anointed me.  He sent me to bring good news to the poor, to proclaim liberty to captives and to blind new sight, to set the downtrodden free, to proclaim the Lord’s year of favour. Luke is the evangelist of the Holy Spirit.  Even in the infancy narrative, the Spirit was active in Mary, Elizabeth, Zechariah, and Simeon.  John the Baptist promised that Jesus would baptise with the Holy Spirit and fire.  Luke’s second writing, the Acts of the Apostles, might well be called the Acts of the Holy Spirit in the early Church.

 

Recent Deaths: The deaths have occurred of: Carmel O’Regan, late of Capwell Road; Maureen O’Leary, Curragh Road; Kay Twomey, Lower Friars Road. May they rest in peace. We sympathise with their families.

 

 

 

Recessional Hymn: Now thank we all our God

 

Now thank we all our God

With heart and hands and voices,

Who wondrous things has done,

In whom his world rejoices;

Who from our mothers’ arms

Has blessed us on our way

With countless gifts of love,

And still is ours today

O may this bounteous God

Through all our life be near us,

With ever joyful hearts

And blessed peace to cheer us,

To keep us in his grace,

And guide us when perplexed,

And free us from all ills

Of this world and the next.