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Notices Stations of the Cross 2018 To prepare for this year’s Stations of the Cross @12 noon Good Friday there will be a meeting @7pm on Monday 19 February in the Parish Centre for any young people of Secondary School age and upwards who would like to be involved in preparing and presenting this ceremony. Bereavement Support Programme: In the Parish Centre Carrigaline (Church of Our Lady and St John). Starts Mon. Feb. 12th– Mon 2 nd April 2018. 8pm -10pm. For those who have experienced the death of a loved one coming up to a year or more and need support. For information and registration please Tel Ber @ the Parish Office 021 4371109 on or before 9th Feb. Spring at Ennismore: Ash Wednesday Lenten Evening of Reflec- on led by Fr. Benedict Hegarty14th Febru- ary 7:30-9 pm€10/ Donation 'Walking up the World' immersed in the story of the universe, exploring what it is to be 'keepers of the light' by Mary Theresa McCormack Saturday 17th of February 10:30 am-4:30 pm Cost €60 'Into the Desert' Lenten Retreat By Marna Lehane Sheehan Friday 23rd-25th February Cost Res €175 Non Res €100 Mindfulness - Revise the 8 week programme in one day! By Catherine Suon MA Sunday 11th March 10:30 am-4:30pm Cost €60 Booking is essenal contact 021- 4502520 Email [email protected] Carrigaline Pioneer Association Annual Pilgrimage to Knock: Takes place on July 14/15 2018. Knock House Hotel, meals and coach included €140pps Tel Mary 021 4371025 / Mary 021 437116 Aislinn 021 4372035. A table quiz in aid of the Cork Association for Autism: Will take place in JJ Coppingers in Midleton on Friday 23 February @7pm. Entry fee of €10 per person with teams of 4 invited to play. Plenty of great prizes up for grabs on the night. Contact Barry on 021 453 3642 or email [email protected] for further information. All monies raised from this event will go directly to the Cork Association for Autism. Yoga for Core Strength: Carrigaline Community Centre Wed 8pm, Sat 10am Text 086 8948855 to book. Kensel Garden Machinery Main Street Relocated adjacent to old premises. Modern purpose built unit. Get your lawn mower ser- viced now and avail of discounted rate for the month of February. Increased range of gar- dening essentials. Tel Ken 021 4374855. Monday Morning Bridge: In GAA club. Starts 10.15am. Come with or without part- ner. Ballea Bridge Club. Tel 021 4372853 Property Maintenance: Power washing, painting, gutter cleaning, tree cutting, lawns, hedges, all stonework, patios, garden walls, chimney & stove cleaning Fully insured. Tel 087 7038733 Man with A Van Delivery Service: Any job, anywhere, Removals house, apartment, office, attic, shed, garden cleaning, clear-outs to dump Tel 085 7638294 / 085 1977677. PVC Windows and Doors Repaired: Tel Frank 087 2297706 Carrigaline Chimney Sweep: Chimneys and Stoves and Fire back replacement. Tel Liam 085 7203893. For Sale: Color Brother Printer MFC- 44OCN all-in-one: 1.high res. Printer, scan- ner, copy, fax, pc fax and media slots.2 2” color LCD DISPLAY. 3 Ethernet interface, 4x6 foto paper tray, 4.very fast and good print quality 5. Spare ink. Also Brand new mini stitch sewing machine, two speed con- trol. Tel Pat 086 1924375 St. Vincent de Paul, Carrigaline for confidenal support call 270444 6 Sunday (B), 11 February, 2018 Readings Leviticus 13:1-2, 44-46; Psalm 32 (31); 1 Corinthians 10:31-11:1; Mark 1:40-45 6 Sunday Year B 11 February 2018 130,000 new cases of leprosy (Hansen’s Disease) are diag- nosed in India every year. Narsappa was 10 when he was told he had leprosy. People shunned him and he had to leave the village. He says his mother started griev- ing for him "as if I was al- ready dead". His father took him to a leprosy hospital and he never went home again. Now 42, he lives in a leprosy colony near Hyderabad. "I lie awake at night thinking about how I was treated and how I can stop others from going through the same thing," he says. In India alone, there are a 1,000 leprosy colonies of people affected by leprosy. Even those who are no longer contagious live as outcasts. This present day reality helps us understand the leper’s hope in Jesus in the gospel this Sunday, The ’leper’ who was healed is as real as Narsappa who has lived in a leprosy colony for 32 years since he was 10. He is as real as any one of us, wanng with all our hearts to be made well from some personal weakness. “Jesus was moved with pity.” “Pity”, in Mark’s original text is a “gut wrenching” sadness for another’s suffering and wanng to do something about it. “ If you want to you can make me clean”. “Of course I want to”. We are not just hearing a historical conversaon between Jesus and the man he made clean. It is God’s reassuring and healing Word to us. Pope Francis Wednesday Teachings on the Mass. Last Wednesday, the Pope explained that at Mass, the pages of the Bible cease to be wrien text, but become “the living Word of God.” “God speaks to us. We must listen to Him and put into pracce what he says”. If we listen with our hearts, in faith, we hear God speak- ing directly to us, not just an inspiring account of another person in another me. At Mass we gather to hear what God has done and wants to do for us. The Lord arranges the Table of the Word to nourish our spiritual life. If we allow ourselves to be worked and culvated, like the good soil in the parable of the Sower, what we hear at Mass passes into our daily life.
