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Office: 01-4530387 9.30am - 12noon,
rita@francisstreetparish.ie
Outside Office hours: 01-5611390,
franciss@francisstreetparish.ie
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While Level 5 restrictions continue, there is no public celebration of mass, other than funerals which 10 people may attend. This is essential in order to keep one another safe.
Exodus 20:1-17 Then God spoke all these words: I am the Lord your God, who brought you out of the land of Egypt, out of the house of slavery; you shall have no other gods before me. You shall not make for yourself an idol, whether in the form of anything that is in heaven above, or that is on the earth beneath, or that is in the water under the earth. You shall not bow down to them or worship them; for I the Lord your God am a jealous God, punishing children for the iniquity of parents, to the third and the fourth generation of those who reject me, but showing steadfast love to the thousandth generation of those who love me and keep my commandments. You shall not make wrongful use of the name of the Lord your God, for the Lord will not acquit anyone who misuses his name. Remember the Sabbath day, and keep it holy. Six days you shall labour and do all your work. But the seventh day is a Sabbath to the Lord your God; you shall not do any work -- you, your son or your daughter, your male or female slave, your livestock, or the alien resident in your towns. For in six days the Lord made heaven and earth, the sea, and all that is in them, but rested the seventh day; therefore the Lord blessed the Sabbath day and consecrated it. Honour your father and your mother, so that your days may be long in the land that the Lord your God is giving you. You shall not murder. You shall not commit adultery. You shall not steal. You shall not bear false witness against your neighbour. You shall not covet your neighbour's house; you shall not covet your neighbour's wife, or male or female slave, or ox, or donkey, or anything that belongs to your neighbour.
For Jews demand signs and Greeks seek wisdom, but we preach Christ crucified, a stumbling block to Jews and folly to Gentiles, but to those who are called, both Jews and Greeks, Christ the power of God and the wisdom of God. For the foolishness of God is wiser than men, and the weakness of God is stronger than men.
Praise to you, O Christ, King of eternal glory!
The Passover of the Jews was near, and Jesus went up to Jerusalem. In the temple he found people selling cattle, sheep, and doves, and the money changers seated at their tables. Making a whip of cords, he drove all of them out of the temple, both the sheep and the cattle. He also poured out the coins of the money changers and overturned their tables. He told those who were selling the doves, "Take these things out of here! Stop making my Father's house a marketplace!" His disciples remembered that it was written, "Zeal for your house will consume me." The Jews then said to him, "What sign can you show us for doing this?" Jesus answered them, "Destroy this temple, and in three days I will raise it up." The Jews then said, "This temple has been under construction for forty-six Years, and will you raise it up in three days?" But he was speaking of the temple of his body. After he was raised from the dead, his disciples remembered that he had said this; and they believed the scripture and the word that Jesus had spoken. When he was in Jerusalem during the Passover festival, many believed in his name because they saw the signs that he was doing. But Jesus on his part would not entrust himself to them, because he knew all people and needed no one to testify about anyone; for he himself knew what was in everyone.
God who loves us, you are present with us in every
aspect of our lives. We thank you. Lord hear us
We were brought up to believe God was in the
church. We had to kneel and say our prayers and be quiet, and even if we moved
ever so quietly, we were hushed up. I often wondered, as a child, was God not
awful lonely, locked up in the church—especially at night, in the dark with no
one for company. Night time was scary at the best of times, but to have no one
with you, well that was beyond my comprehension. We only went to the church on
Sunday, so the weekdays must have dragged out something terrible for God.
Boredom on top of loneliness—how could anyone put up with that. I decided to pay
God a visit, on a weekday. Our church had that funny smell that churches have. I
never quite knew what it was. If you were wearing your good shoes, no matter how
quietly you moved the echo was something else. Maybe that’s how God knew you
were there, I thought to myself. "Childhood Reminiscence" - Anonymous
Liam Stynes 1st Anniversary
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