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Fr. S. Kearney 81661445 Mobile 07981814320

Fr B Donnelly P’bridge 81648283, Fr. C O’Doherty C’derg 81671393,
Fr. J Forbes Gortin 81648203

 

Sunday, 5th February 2012

Fifth Sunday in Ordinary Time

“The fever left her and she began to wait on them.” One of the lovely features of the Gospels is the number of healing stories they contain. Nothing is too big or too small to bring to Jesus. He raised Lazarus from the dead; he healed Peter’s mother-in-law from a fever. That same Jesus is with us and among us with the same power and the same longing, to heal us into wholeness. All we have to do is ask him for what we need for ourselves and for one another and know that he will answer. We all need his healing power in so far as we set limits to our love for one another because his great commandment is to love. Husbands and wives often need to stretch their love into forgiveness if they are to go forward together. Parents need to grow in understanding of their children. And in our faith community we need Christ’s power to help us to take true responsibility for those in need.

Fr. Johnny Doherty, C.Ss.R.

Sunday, 5th February 2012

Fifth Sunday in Ordinary Time

First Reading: Job 7:1-4.6-7
Restlessly I fret till twilight falls.

Second Reading: Corinthians 9:16-19.22-23
I do not boast of preaching the gospel, since it is a duty which has been laid on me; I should be punished if I did not preach it.

Gospel: Mark 1:29-39
He cured many who suffered from diseases of one kind or another.

Reflection:

Living God, source of light and life,
we come to you as broken members of your body;
your strength is our strength,
your health is our health,
and your being is our being.
Grant us your wisdom in our work,
your love in our pain
and your peace in our hearts.
Send your blessing on all those who care for the sick,
and those whom they serve,
and give us the joy of everlasting love.
In the name of Jesus your Son.
(CARA) (adapted)

 

 

O n the occasion of the World Day of the Sick, which we will celebrate on 11th February, the Memorial of the Blessed Virgin of Lourdes, I wish to renew my spiritual nearness to all sick people who are in places of care or are looked after in their families, expressing to each one of them the solicitude and the affection of the whole of the Church. In the generous and loving welcoming of every human life, above all of weak and sick life, a Christian expresses an important aspect of his or her gospel witness, following the example of Christ, who bent down before the material and spiritual sufferings of man in order to heal them.

Whoever eats my flesh and drinks my blood has eternal life, and I will raise him on the last day”. The Eucharist, is above all ‘medicine of immortality, the antidote for death’ the sacrament of the passage from death to life, from this world to the Father, who awaits everyone in the celestial Jerusalem. The theme this year is, ‘Stand up and go; your faith has saved you’, also looks forward to the forthcoming ‘Year of Faith’ which will begin on 11th October 2012, a propitious and valuable occasion to rediscover the strength and beauty of faith, to examine its contents, and to bear witness to it in daily life.

I wish to encourage the sick and suffering to always find a safe anchor in faith, nourished by listening to the Word of God, by personal prayer and by the Sacraments, while I invite pastors to be increasingly ready to celebrate them for the sick. Following the example of the Good Samaritan and as guides of the flocks entrusted to them, priests should be full of joy, attentive to the weak, the simple and sinners, expressing the infinite mercy of God with reassuring words of hope. To all those who work in the world of health, and to the families who in their relatives see the suffering Face of the Lord Jesus, I renew my thanks and that of the Church. Benedictus PP XVI

 

Our Prayers are requested for the Souls

 

Laurence McNamee, P J Ward,

Ann Harkin and Pat McAnenna

 

whose anniversaries occur at this time

 

 

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