Pope Francis Daily Reflections: August 9th 2021

Webmaster • August 7, 2021


August

Human Family

Family as Domestic Church

and School of Learning


Love is patient and kind; Loves does not envy or boast; it sis not arrogant or rude. It does not insist on all its own way; it is not irritable or resentful; it does not rejoice at wrongdoing but rejoices with the truth. Love bears all things, believes all things, hopes all things, endures all things.

   1 Corinthians 13:4-7





Monday 9th August :  Sadly, in our day, the family all too often needs to be protected against insidious attacks and programmes contrary to all we hold sacred, all that is most beautiful and noble in our culture.
                                                                                                                        

Tuesday 10th August : Making peace gives unity to the family; and tell young people, young couples, that it is not easy to go down this path, but it is a very beautiful path, very beautiful.


Wednesday 11th August:  The “Good News” of the family is very important part of evangelisation, which Christians can communicate to all by the witness of their lives…. This is evident in secularised societies: true Christian families are known by their fidelity, their patience, their openness to life, and by their respect for the elderly… the secret to this is the presence of Jesus in the family.


Thursday 12th August:  What is the family? Over and above it’s the most pressing problems and its peremptory necessities, the family is a “centre for love,” where the law of respect and communication reigns and is able to resist the pressure of manipulation and domination from the world’s “power centres.”


Friday 13th August: In the heart of the family, the person naturally and harmoniously blends into a human group, overcoming the false opposition between the individual and society.


Saturday 14th August:  In the bosom of the family, no one is set apart: both the elderly and the child will be welcome here. The culture of encounter and of dialogue, openness to solidarity and transcendence, originates in the family.

Prayers for the Sick

By Webmaster • June 6, 2025
Please pray for Our Sick : Ellen Blair, Margaret Callaghan Doreen Cleary, Michael Ritchie, Neil Boyle, John Rielly Molly Strang, Baby Elliot (15 month old) Joan Hart, James Clark, Fr. Michael McLaughlin, Patricia Henderson, Joanna Maier (Connecticut USA), Therese Gilgunn Tressy Callaghan, Suzanne McMurray, Mary Coyle, Lesley Watson (Spain) Maureen McHugh, Margaret Burke, Marie White, Kathleen Daly, John McGuire, Jill Brown, Karen Pritchatt, Louise Newton,and all our sick.

Confirmation

By Webmaster • June 6, 2025
St. Peter's & St. Mark's June 10th 7pm

Fr. Frank's 30th Anniversary of Priesthood

By Webmaster • June 6, 2025
Anniversary Mass will take place on Thursday 26th June at 7pm. There will be refreshments in the hall afterwards

Gift Aid

By Webmaster • June 6, 2025
If you wish to sign up for Gift Aid. It is a great way to help the parish financially, costing you absolutely nothing. If you wish to sign up contact myself or Doreen Lee and we will give you the form and hand it back as you can and we can get it organised. As I said it costs you nothing, but helps the parish so much.

Third Class Relic of Carlo Acutis

By Webmaster • June 6, 2025
We were given a relic of Carlo Acutis. I am grateful to the family who presented it to us. It is hanging in the side chapel below his icon and statue.  I will be blessing the icon and statue in the near future. There are Novenas now available in the Side Chapel.

Prayers for the recently dead, months, mind and Anniversaries

By Webmaster • June 6, 2025
Our Recently Dead Joan Hart, Bill Lewis, John Provan, Marie McVey, Jessie Hunter, Margaret Chambers, Jacqui Cadwallender, Anthony Rodden, Margaret Kelly Month Minds & Anniversaries John O'Donnell, John Heard, Mary Bissett, Elizabeth & John McGuire, Pat & Agnes McGuire, Mamie Brown, Dennis Brown Snr, Dennis Brown Jnr. Please if you could make sure all month minds and anniversaries are handed in no later than Wednesday Night. If they come in after that they will be read out at Mass on Sunday. If the recently dead come in after the Wednesday deadline they too will be read out at Mass on the Sunday

Powerpoint Remote Control:

By Webmaster • June 6, 2025
I am looking for Volunteers to move the power-points on during the Sunday Masses, Vigil 4pm, 9.30am & 11am. It is very easy to operate, if we get enough volunteers for each Mass we would put a wee rota together. It would take a wee bit of pressure off me.

Holyday of Obligation

By Webmaster • May 16, 2025
Ascension Thursday Wednesday 28th Vigil Mass 6pm Thursday 29th Masses 7am & 10am

Fr. Frank holiday

By Webmaster • May 16, 2025
I am going on holiday from Monday 19th May til Tuesday 27th May. I will be back to say the 10am Mass on Wednesday 28th. Fr. Davy Brown will be looking after you while I am away. I am going to visit Sr. Veronica a Poor Clare who used to be in the Bothwell Monastery who is in the Poor Clare Monastery in Ennis Ireland.

First Communion dates

By Webmaster • May 9, 2025
St. Mark's 10th May 10am Mass St. Peter's 17th May 10am Mass 27 of our children are making their First Communion on Saturday. The Children of St. Mark's have been working and practising hard for this special occasion. Could you pray for me that I don't loose my patience with the Adults. As you know my face let's the world know what I'm thinking and feeling. LOL
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