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Do I Know You? What a frightening thought, that the master would reject us and deny that he knows us. To think that we would have done our best to live a good life, only to meet him at the narrow door and be denied admission! Yet many of us think we have it all sussed. Like those in today’s Gospel, we think we are surely safe. But there is a certain complacency in the voices that plead to the master ‘ We once ate and drank in your company; you taught in our streets’- as if it is enough to have a passing acquaintance with Jesus. Those are not the words of someone who really knows the master and deserves to enter his house. We may think we won’t be denied eternal salvaon because we say our prayers, go to Mass every Sunday, and try our best to live good and holy lives. Wouldn’t it be disappoinng aſter all that if we turned into someone that Christ does not recognise? Scripture Readings for next Sunday 28th August. 1st Reading: Eccles (Sir)3:17-20,28-29 Psalm: 67:4-7, 10-11, R/ cf. V 11 2nd Reading:Hebrews 12:18-19, 22-24 Gospel: Luke 14:1, 7-14 _______________________________ Parish Contact Details Telephone: (051) 421348. Fax: (051) 420122. E-Mail : [email protected]. www.newrossparish.ie. ________________________________ St Vincent De Paul - New Ross Telephone: (085) 8313073. ____________________________ Priest on Duty - 051 421214. _________________________ Weekly Collection - Sunday 14th August 2016 Envelopes: 237 Amount: €1,647.80 ________________________________ Sanctuary Lamp €10 per week PARISH RADIO 104.7FM 10.00AM MASS DAILY New Ross Parish Bethany Bereavement Support Group: Contact No: 087-3846577 ________________________________ Legion Of Mary - Meetings every Wednesday evening in the Parish Pastoral Centre, Robert St, New Ross. Time: 7.30pm. Contact Des & Marie - 051-420523 _______________________________ Day of Prayer at Lough Derg 17th September 2016. The Irish Pilgrimage Trust will again, this year, participate in a day of prayer at Lough Derg, Co Donegal. Full weekend trip includes all bus travel from Wexford, New Ross or Enniscorthy, 2 nights bed and breakfast and 2 evening meals and the day (Saturday 17th September) on Lough Derg. Total cost €180. Bus will leave on Friday 16th Sept and return on Sunday 18th September. Booking and further information from;- Maureen Fleming: 051 421710 Helen Kirwan: 087 6817648. _____________________________________ St Michael’s Theatre Saturday 27th August 2016 - 8.00pm. Movie: Hologram For The King. (starring Tom Hanks) Box Office Manager 051 421255. The Parish Office & Shop Opening Hours;- Monday - Friday 10.30am - 4.00pm. Monday the 15th The Feast of Our Lady’s Assumption into heaven, the Pilgrimage Season opened at Our Lady’ s Island. This year the theme is “Jesus Christ is the face of the Father’s Mercy”. This opening phrase of “Misericordiae Vultus” by Pope Francis in effect sums up the ethos of our Diocesan Marian Shrine; while at the Island we walk in Our Lady’s Company the face of Christ is always discernible through the beauty of the surroundings and most especially in the ebb and flow of Island Liturgy. His face is always the Father’s mercy, in the Confessional, in the Breaking of the Bread of God’s Word and in the Anointing of The sick, in the Eucharistic presence, in the kindness and welcome of out hosting parish, in the infinite procession of footsteps whosejourney across the centuries is accompanied by the Rosary which in the words of St Pope John XX111 is “the compendium of the Gospels”. The year of Mercy opened on the Feast of Our Lady's’ Immaculate Conception. On that day the door at Our Lady’s Island Church was proclaimed to be a door of mercy. During the oncoming season I invite all who can to pass through the Door into the heart of God’s Mercy; the presence of Christ in the Sacrament of Reconciliation, the healing presence of Christ in the Eucharist. I ask all to pass the causeway onto the Island where He will lead us to the green pastures beside the still waters. Priests who hear confessions are called by Pope Francis right into the heart of Christ: “Every confessor must accept the faithful as the father in the parable of the prodigal son: a father who runs out to meet his son despite the fact that he has squandered away his inheritance. Confessors are called to embrace the repentant son who comes back home and to express the joy of having him back again….Confessors are called to be a sign of the primacy of mercy always, everywhere and in every situation no matter what”. (Bishop Denis Brennan) New Ross Parish. Church of St. Mary & St. Michael Newsletter Volume 29 No 33 21st August 2016 Twenty –First Sunday in Ordinary Time New Ross Parish Community strives to be a welcoming, life-giving PEOPLE, nourished by FAITH, WORSHIP of God and SERVICE of all in the example of Jesus Christ.
