Parish Newsletter- 28th July 2024
| Mass times for the week ahead | MASS INTENTIONS |
| Saturday 27th July @7.00pm Clara | Vincent Rock (Month’s Mind). John & Anne Rock. Derek Mee. |
| Sunday 28th July @10.00am Horseleap | Patrick Keegan & deceased of the Scanlon family. P.J. & deceased of the Hickey family |
| Sunday 28th July @11.30am Clara | Imelda Goode. Joe, Josie & John Kennedy. |
| Tuesday 30th July @7.30pm Clara | St. Peter Chrysologus No Intention. |
| Wednesday 31st July @7.30pm Clara | St. Ignatius of Loyola Kathleen Egan |
| Thursday 1st August @10.00am Clara | St. Alphonsus Liguori Deceased Mercy Sisters of Clara. |
| FIRST FRIDAY Friday 2nd August @10.00am Clara | St. Peter Faber SJ Mass for all on the Parish List of the Dead |
| Saturday 3rd August @10.00am Clara | No Intention. |
| Saturday 3rd August @7.00pm Clara | Sean Colleran. Isaac & Elizabeth Kelly. |
| Saturday 3rd August @7.00pm Horseleap | Laura Dillon. Billy Fitzgearld. |
| Sunday 4th August @11.30am Clara | Tom & Sr. Edward Cusack. Brigid & Andy Cunningham. |
Adoration of the Blessed Eucharist
Come to me all you who labour and are burdened. I will give you peace
Monday & Friday – 5.00-6.00pm
Tuesday & Wednesday – after 7.30pm Mass to 9.00pm.
All are welcome!
The Feeding of The Five Thousand.
Without a doubt, the miracle of the ‘Feeding of the Five Thousand’ is one of the most iconic moments in the Gospels. Clearly, the most striking difference between the Last Supper as Eucharist and the Feeding of the Five Thousand as Eucharist is the number of people attending. Whereas the Last Supper was a small, intimate, family-like gathering of friends to share a meal, the Feeding of the Five Thousand was just that; a gathering of a large number of people – men, women, children. St. John shows us a large crowd of people searching for and finding Jesus, all of them wanting to listen to him. Jesus gathers them together, teaches them about the coming Kingdom of God, then invites them to share a meal with him. At this meal Jesus “takes, blesses, breaks and gives” bread and fish to eat. The ‘Crowd’ are a community of people searching for Jesus, coming together to listen to and be fed by him. When he “takes, blesses, breaks and gives” them the bread to eat they become a Eucharistic community which unites with Jesus’ sacrifice on the Cross. St. John tells us about the meaning of Eucharist: The loaves of bread presented by the boy are “barley loaves”. Bread made from barley had a rough texture and was hard to eat. It was the bread of the poor. St. John very deliberately tells us that the bread used by Jesus was the ‘bread of the poor’. Once again, we are left in no doubt that the Eucharistic Community – the Church – is a Church of, and for, the poor. Any crowd can come together and form a community, but that Community can only be a Eucharistic community when it is truly and transparently inclusive. No one can be excluded, and all have a contribution. Wherever a group of believers gather, that’s where Eucharistic Community happens. It’s what the Church actually is – a group of believers gathering to share a meal with Jesus, uniting ourselves with him through his journey to the Cross, to his Resurrection and onwards to the coming of the Kingdom
Universal Synod Update: How to be a Missionary Synodal Church!
Check out the working document for the 2nd of the Universal Synods to be held in Rome in October at www.synod.ie. To read the submission of the Diocese of Meath, visit the Synod 2024 page on www.dioceseofmeath.ie.
Pilgrimage to Lisieux 2024. Friday 27th September – Tuesday 1st October. Spiritual Director: Rev Fr. Simon Nolan O.Carm Provincial. Contact Marcie Sweeney Duggan on (085) 888 7549 for further information.
Meath Diocese Pilgrimage to Knock together with The Fr. Willie Doyle SJ Pilgrimage will take place on Sunday 11th August. Mass at 3.00pm.
Collections for 20th/21st July:
Development Fund: €1,285; Plate: €730; Offerings: €405.
Thank You!
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