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Feast of the Epiphany
The gifts brought by the Wise Men.
(Caspar, Melchior and Balthasar)
Gold
is the gift for a king. Seneca tells us that in Parthia it was the
custom that no one could ever approach the king without a gift. And gold, the king of metals, is the fit
gift for a king. So then Jesus was
‘the Man born to be King.’ But he was
to reign, not by force, but by love; and he was to rule over people’s hearts,
not from a throne, but from a cross.
We do well to remember that Jesus Christ is King. We can never meet Jesus on an
equality. We must always meet him on
terms of complete submission and complete surrender.
Frankincense
is the gift for a priest. It was in the temple worship and at the
temple sacrifices that the sweet perfume of frankincense was used. The function of a priest is to open the
way to God for people. The Latin word
for priest
is pontifex, which means a bridge-builder.
The priest is the man who builds a bridge between people and God. This is what Jesus did. He opened the way to the presence of God; he
made it possible for people to enter into the very presence of God.
Myrrh
is the gift for one who is to die. Myrrh was used
to embalm the bodies of the dead.
Jesus came into the world to die.
Jesus came into the world to live for us, and, in the end, to die for
us. He came to give for us his life
and his death.
Gold for a king, frankincense for a
priest, myrrh for one who was to die - these were the gifts of the wise men,
and, even at the cradle of Christ, they foretold that he was to be the true
king, the perfect high priest, and in the end the supreme Saviour of
all.
(W. Barclay, The Gospel of Matthew, pp.23-4)
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Email
the Presbytery
Priest on Call:
Fr. M. Ó Móráin
Tel. (094) 21844
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NOTICES
Christmas
Collection - The Priests of
the Parish wish to express their sincere thanks and appreciation for your
very generous Christmas Collection.
Thank you very much for your support.
Adoration today Sunday in the Parish Church from
5p.m. - 7p.m.
Bact to school
We welcome back to school all students and teachers after their
Christmas break. We wish them all the
best for 2002.
Reposition of the Blessed Sacrament
7th Jan. - 12 Jan.
Mon. - Nora
Devaney
Tues. - June
Durcan
Wed. - Anna
Fadden
Thurs. - Phil
O’Toole
Fri. - John
Byron
Sat. - K.
Culkeen
Castlebar Active Retirement Group meeting on Wednesday 9th
January in the Family Centre at 3p.m.
New members welcome.
Country Markets will
be held on Friday 11th January in the Town Hall from 9a.m. -
11a.m.
Ballyheane
Community Council will host the senior citizen’s party in Ballyheane
Community Centre on Sun. 13th January from 3p.m. - 6p.m.
Prayer Group
meeting on Wednesday at 8p.m. in the Social Service
Centre. All are welcome.
Bingo
Don’t forget Bingo every Tuesday night in the Welcome Inn at
8.45p.m. Great prizes.
Sunday
Missal for 2002
St. Paul Sunday
Missal is now on sale at the back of the Church and in the Sacristy after
Mass. Price €6.35.
Journey of the Magi
“A cold coming
we had of it,
just the worst
time of the year
for a journey,
and such a long journey:
the ways deep
and the weather sharp,
the very dead of
winter.”
And the camels
galled,
sore-footed,
refractory, lying down in the melting snow.
There were times we regretted
the summer
palaces on slopes, the terraces, and the silken girls bringing sherbet.
Then the camel
men cursing and grumbling
and running
away, and wanting their liquor and women, and the night-fires going out, and
the lack of shelters, and the cities hostile and the town unfriendly
and the villages
dirty and charging high prices:
a hard time we
had of it.
At the end we
preferred to travel all night,
sleeping in snatches,
with the voices
singing in our ears, saying
that this was
all folly…
T.S. Eliot 1927
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MASS
INTENTIONS
PARISH CHURCH
Monday, 7th
January:
8 - Paddy Fahey,
Sarnaught.
10 - Joe & Nellie Dunne & dec. members of family, Thomas Street.
Tuesday, 8th January:
8 - Michael
& Eva Concannon, Curragh.
10 - Richard Piggot, Watersville & Cork.
Wednesday, 9th January:
8 - Thomas,
Peter & Margaret Flannery, Mountdaisy.
10 - Jimmy & Nora Killeen, Fr. Sean Murphy & dec. members of family.
Thursday, 10th January:
8 - Tony
Durkan, Maryland.
10 - Nora Collinson, 36 Lower Charles Street.
Friday, 11th January:
8 - William
& Mary Queenan, Ballymayock, Lahardane.
10 - Michael
Tuffy, late of Raheens, Thomas & Mary Whelan & dec. members of family, Dublin.
Saturday,
12th January:
8 - Michael & Bea Bourke & dec.
members of Higgins family,
Turlough.
9.30 - Martin
Hopkins, Ballinaglough. (M.M.)
10 - Dermot
O’Dwyer & family, Station Road.
BALLYHEANE
CHURCH
Saturday 12th
January:
8.00p.m.- Dec. members of Grimes & Garvey
families, Ringeraun.
Sunday 13th
January:
10.30a.m.- John & Annie Jennings, Ballyheane.
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REST IN PEACE: We commend into your hands Lord, the souls of
Mike Jordan, Breaffy;
Bridie O’Connor, Spencer Street;
Mary Kate Sammon, Louisburgh, mother of
Mary Finnegan, Pheasant Hill;
Patrick Tolan, Dublin, brother of Jim
Tolan, Liscromwell & the late Gerald Tolan, Rockfield;
James Coyle¸Conloon, brother of Katie
Lavelle, Knocknaskibbole;
Bridie Cawley, Dooncastle, Westport,
mother of Mary Cunningham, Breaffy Road;
Margaret Loftus, Manulla, mother of John,
Hawthorn Ave., Willie, Rocklands, Noel, Aglish Est. & Marie Durkan,
Ballyheane;
Nora Lyons, sister of Richard Lyons,
Rathbawn;
Ciss Cusack, Ballymacragh;
Joe Clarke, Loughrea, father of
Linda McCaffrey, Fortfield.
John
Cameron,
Westport, father of Tomás Cameron, Meadowlands & brother of Mary Mee, St. Bridget’s Cres.;
Mai Nevin, Brize, mother of Benny
Nevin, Garryduff Park & grandmother of Aidan Nevin, Lakeshore Drive.
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