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St. Matthew’s Church Ballyfermot PARISH NEWSLETTER
22 April 2018 (4th Sunday of Easter)
4th Sunday of Easter
Mass Times Weekdays: Saturday: Vigil Mass 6.30 Tuesday Sunday: 10.00 Prayer Service 09.00, 09.45 (Convent) Mass Times
10.30,12.00 Wed: 7.00pm Mon, Thur, Fri: 10.00
FAITH MOMENT We come to know the Holy Spirit within the community of the Church, in the scriptures inspired by the Spirit, in the Tradition of the Church’s teachings and doctrines, in the sacraments - particularly the Eucharist - and in prayer, apostolate and ministries that build up the Body of Christ.
Parish Centre or Sacristy: Phone: 626 56 95 Monday to Friday 10.00am to 1.00pm
BOOK OF THE WEEK CAN WE SAVE THE CATHOLIC CHURCH?
HANS KUNG WILLIAM COLLINS BOOKS LONDON 2013 Pp 350
Lest there be any doubt let us be clear at the outset that Hans Kung remains a priest in good standing. I say this because his name has for many years been associated with considerable controversy. I found this book fascinating. He starts from the premise that the Church is very ill and sets out a pretty comprehensive programme of recovery. A major part of the envisaged recovery for Kung is ecumenical. However be warned this is a book that is critical of the Church. That said I believe that the motivation throughout these pages is love. This is a demanding book, not for the faint hearted and yet ultimately very rewarding.
Mass Intentions This Week
Jimmy Callaghan Annie Doyle Matthew Doyle Wayne Duff Catherine Fulham Bernadette Heavey Eugene McGrattan Mary Mullen Noel Mullen Kathleen O’Brien William O’Brien Josie Rothwell Paddy Rothwell Sharon Sheridan
Recent Funerals Dick Bayly Teresa Lawlor Peadar McDonagh
Gospel Readings for the Week Mon 23/04 Jn 10: 1 – 10 ‘I am the gate of the sheepfold’. Tue 24/04 Jn 10: 22 – 30 ‘The sheep that belong to me listen to my voice’ Wed 25/04 Mk 16: 15 – 20 ST. MARK, EVANGELIST ‘While they, going out, preached everywhere,
the Lord working with them and confirming the word by the signs that accompanied it’
Thu 26/04 Jn 13: 16 – 20 ‘Whoever welcomes the one I send welcomes me’ Fri 27/04 Jn 14: 1 – 6 ‘I am the Way, the Truth and the Life’ Sat 28/04 Jn 14: 7 – 14 ‘You must believe me when I say that I am in the Father and the Father is in me’
A Day of Prayer for Vocations A Collection for the support of Dublin Diocesan Students preparing for Ordination to the Priesthood will be taken up at all the Masses this Sunday. It will replace the Share Collection
Pilgrimage to Lourdes Departure 16th August. 4* Hotel Solitude 7 Nights Full Board Cost €799 per person sharing fully inclusive Accompanied by Spiritual Director Fr. Joe McDonald, St. Matthew’s Contact Eddie Teeling @ 6262669 or Rose Reilly
Weekly Collections Apr 8 First Collection € 915 Share Collection € 680 Family Offering €1650
Please pray for the girls of St. Louise’s who will be receiving the Sacrament of Confirmation next Thursday. The ceremony was due to be held earlier in the year but had to be cancelled because of the snow.
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SATURDAY APRIL 28TH 9 am -3 pm. Speakers include: Austen Ivereigh
acclaimed biographer of Pope Francis Francis Campbell
Britain’s former ambassador to the Vatican
THE MOTLEY CREW AND THE POPE
Did you hear the one about the Motley Crew and the Pope?
One of my favourite pieces of Gospel text is Matthews going away bash! (Matt 9:9-13)
I am sure you remember it, he has just heard the invitation of Jesus, he has found enough in his heart to say some sort of yes. Like the fishermen, Peter, Andrew, James and John, he too got the special and personal invitation whilst at work. They were told to leave behind catching cod, mackerel, salmon and plaice. I wonder what was said to Matthew. As they were told to leave their nets, had he simply to leave the office or was it worse than that? Had our Matthew to leave behind his calculations? In his figures, his ‘number - scribbling’ did he cause more problems than he solved? Was he corrupt like many’s a tax collector? How corrupt? Did he rip off the poor ?
Did Jesus say ‘ Hey Matthew! Leave behind the tax books, fiddle no longer. From now on may your sums calculate what’s good for souls’? Or words to that effect.
Whatever about all this, there seems to have been a great turn out for his going away party. Now that needs further clarification, it was not so much a turn out of the great and the good as a gathering of the good, the bad and the ugly! It was by any stretch of the imagination a right motley crew that showed up for Matthews retirement do. In this mix’em gathering we had the hypocritical Pharisees, the greedy corrupt tax collectors, the desperate prostitutes to mention a few. When Jesus arrives into this gathering he does not tut tut nor does he finger point, nor does he seek a special seat, nor does he remain apart, no rather he takes his place amidst them. Of course, predictably enough, the finger pointers and tut tutters have a field day. They are quick to condemn Jesus and yet he uses this opportunity to teach, to educate them about God. We learn about a Church of and for sinners and we learn about service and compassion.
For me in my desire for both the reform and renewal of the Church Matthew’s farewell bash is one of the key passages. Apart from the overall issue of Church I wonder could we be learning something relevant to the World Meeting of Families.
Is it possible that WMF could be a gathering of the Messy Church? Could we gather around the Pope at the end of August and rejoice in being a meeting of the Good, the Bad and the Ugly? Could we cope with the observation after World Meeting of Families, ‘ well that sure was a motley crew that turned out to meet Pope Francis’?
Could Pope Francis cope? The evidence points to a resounding yes to this question. This Pope oozes compassion. This Pope is clear that at the heart of evangelization, at the heart of ministry is service. In our planning of WMF will we have the courage to actively include all. If this means letting the tut-tutters and finger pointers continue on their path whatever about to hell at least to a substantial period in purgatory, have we the stomach for this?
If WMF is going to be just for the goody goodies, the very ‘holy’, the ones who have it sorted, the ones who tick the right boxes..... I think I’ll stay at home.
Actually if the Pope hears that WMF is organized by a cosy comfortable elite for a cosy comfortable elite I’d say he might stay at home?
Where will Jesus position himself at WMF? Will we find Jesus on a throne in the sea of celibate red at the top or will he find himself more comfortable with those who did not feel that welcome and who squeezed in at the back or is he more likely to head to the hub for the homeless or the Provision Centre?
J MCDONALD 16. 04. 18
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