Ramsey PeelSaturday 6.30 pm Fr. Tom Bradley 10.00 am Communion Service

(1st Anniversary)Sunday 11.00 am Tom Emmett (Birthday) 9.00 am ParishionersMonday 10.00 am John Royle 10.00 am Communion Service

(1st Anniversary yesterday)Tuesday 10.00 am H.J. O Mahony 7.30 pm Matt Buckley (8th Anniv.) Wednesday 7.30 pm Conor and All T.T. Riders 10.00 am Communion ServiceThursday 10.00 am D. & J. Tait Midday Andrew HetheringtonFriday 10.00 am Tom Emmett Midday Communion Service

(Senior Race Day)Saturday 12.30 pm Benefactors 10.00 am Communion Service

5:45 pm The Exposition of the Blessed Sacrament

6.30 pm Jack Trustham (19th Anniversary)Sunday 11.00 am Parishioners 9.00 am Carl Balcazar

Our Lady Star of the Sea & St. Maughold, Ramsey St. Patrick’s, PeelMasses and Services

ConfessionsRamsey : Saturday after 12.30pm Mass & 5.45-6.15pm Peel: Sunday 8.30 - 8.50am

Last Week’s Donations: Ramsey - £639.04 World Communications £236.23 Peel - £233.76 World Communications £113.21

3rd June - 11th 2017

PeelPeelKnights of St. Columbo, Lourdes WalkThursday 22nd June at 7pm a sponsored walk for the Lourdes fund will take place in Douglas,followed by a hot pot supper. Anyone interested please contact Maureen Dickinson.

RamseyRamseyFirst CommunionThe First Communion Mass will be held at 12.30pm on Saturday 17th June. The first marqueeof the year will be erected in the Church garden so we are not reliant on the unpredictable weather, nevertheless let us pray for a sunny day.We hope that other children and their families will come along to celebrate this joyful occasion.

Afternoon Tea PartyOn Sunday 18th June in the marquee we will be having our first Afternoon Tea Party from 3pm to 5pm. This will be a wonderful opportunity for you to bring any lonely friends oracquaintances to enjoy the afternoon with us. And a chance for you to invite any lapsedCatholics or anyone else who you feel might benefit from our spirit of community.

Strawberry FairThis popular annual event will be held on Saturday 29th July in the marquee. Tickets for thecream teas will be available for sale three weeks before.

Parish Talent CompetitionOur first talent show will be on Sunday 30th July in the marquee. Open to adults and children. Prizes will be awarded - so get practising!

Prayer of the Faithful: Send forth your Spirit and they shall be created, We respond: and you will renew the face of the earth.

Parish Priest: Fr. Brian O Mahony, CSSp, www.romancatholic.imThie yn Taggyrt, Queen’s Promenade, Ramsey, IM8 4BH Tel. 813181 * Email: ourladystarofthesea@manx.net

After Mass in both Peel and RamseyAfter Mass in both Peel and RamseyCoffee/Tea/Squash and homemade cakes are available after Mass every Sunday. Visitors are particularly welcome. Come along and join in the fellowship of your community.

Please remember to turn off your mobile phones when you enter the Church. Thank you.

Reading s f or th e weekR ead in gs fo r t he weekMonday: Tob 1:3; 2:1b-8; Ps 111:1-2, 3-4, 5-6; Mk 12:1-12Tuesday: Tob 2:9-14; Ps 111:1-2, 7bc-8, 9; Mk 12:13-17Wednesday: Tob 3:1-11a, 16-17a; Ps 24:2-3, 4-5ab, 6 and 7bc, 8-9; Mk 12:18-27Thursday: Tob 6:10-11; 7:1, 9-17; 8:4-9a; Ps 127:1-2, 3, 4-5; Mk 12:28b-34 Friday: Tob 11:5-17; Ps 145:1-2, 6c-7, 8-9a, 9bc-10; Mk 12:25-37 Saturday: Tob 12:1, 5-15, 20; Ps Tob 13:2cdef, 6fghi, 7klmn; Mk 12:38-44

Feastdays of the weekFeastdays of the weekMonday St. Boniface. 7th/8th century. English missionary to the Germanic peoples.

Martyred in the Netherlands. Apostle of Germany.Tuesday St. Norbert. Founder of the Premonstratensians.Friday St. Columba. 6th century. Irish founder of Iona.

Second collection next weekend for Provision for Priests in Retirement.

Vatican City, May 31, 2017 / 05:54 am (CNA/EWTN News).- On Wednesday Pope Francis said the Holy Spirit has the power to fillus with the hope of Christ, in turn making us Christians vessels that bring hope to others, rather than bitterness or desperation.“The Holy Spirit makes us not only able to hope, but also to be sowers of hope, that we too are, like him and thanks to him – the“paraclete” – consolers and defenders of our brothers, sowers of hope,” Pope Francis said May 31.“A Christian can sow bitterness, can sow perplexity, and this is not Christian,” he said, adding: “whoever does this is not a goodChristian. Sow hope: sow the oil of hope, sow the fragrance of hope, and not the vinegar of bitterness and hopelessness.”

Francis continued his reflections on the virtue of hope during the weekly general audience in St. Peter’s Square, this time center-ing on the role of the Holy Spirit in anticipation of the Feast of Pentecost. Hope is simultaneously, as St. Paul tells us in his letterto the Hebrews, like an anchor and a sail, the Pope said. “If the anchor is what gives the boat safety and keeps it ‘anchored’between the waves of the sea, the sail, instead, is what makes it proceed and advance on the waters.”“Hope is really like a sail; it collects the wind of the Holy Spirit and transforms it into a driving force pushing the boat, dependingon the case, offshore or to shore,” he explained.

“The Spirit is the wind that drives us forward, that keeps us on the road, makes us hear pilgrims and strangers, and does not allowus to sit and become a ‘sedentary’ people.” This is why hope does not disappoint: “because there is the Holy Spirit within us thatpushes us forward, always!” he said. It’s also because of the Holy Spirit that we have the ability to rest in hope, and have hopeeven “against all hope,” as St. Paul says in Romans, the Pope continued. To illustrate his point, Francis pointed to Abraham’sobedience when God asked him to sacrifice his only son, Isaac, and to the Virgin Mary as she stood at the foot of the cross of herson, Jesus, as examples of this supernatural hope.

It is possible to have this kind of “invincible” hope, he said, because the Holy Spirit helps us to recognize that we are children andheirs of God. Again pointing to St. Paul’s letter to the Romans, Francis noted that “hope does not disappoint, because the love ofGod has been poured out into our hearts through the holy Spirit that has been given to us.”“The expression ‘God of hope’ does not just mean that God is the object of our hope, that is, the one we hope to reach one day ineternal life; it also means that God is the one who already makes us hope, indeed, makes us ‘happy in hope,’” he said.According to a popular saying, “as long as there is life, there is hope.” While this is true, the Pope said that the converse is alsotrue: “As long as there is hope, there is life. Men need hope to live.”

Quoting from a speech of Bl. John Henry Cardinal Newman, Francis said: “Educated by our own suffering, by our own sorrow,indeed by our own sins, we will have a mind and heart practiced in every work of love towards those that have need.”

Pope: A good Christian spreads hope – not bitterness