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Sun 27th  July 2025
Seventeenth Sunday in
Ordinary Time
 
 Diary for the Week
Masses Kilaveney
Mon to Thurs 9.30am
Fri 7.30pm  First Friday 
 
Sat Vigil 6.00pm
Sun  11amAdoration Weds 10.00am –8pm
 
Crossbridge Mass
Fri  9.30am First Friday
Sun 9.am  
Adoration Tues 11.30 am-3pm
 
 
Feast Days
Tues Ss Martha, Mary &
LazarusWeds St  Peter Chrysologus
Thurs  St Ignatius Loyola
Fri St Aphonsus Luguori
Sat St Peter Faber SJ, St Peter
Julian Eymard
 
Mass Intentions Kilaveney
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Sun
 
 
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 & website Kilaveneyparish.ie
 
 




 Today’s Gospel
Luke 11:1-13
 
Jesus is asked by a disciple: Lord teach us to pray and Jesus responded with the perfect prayer, the Our Father also called the Lord’s Prayer.
 
The Our Father contains our Adoration for God, our contrition/repentance for our sins and our Supplication or request to God to give us the food that we need.
 
If we say this prayer with our hearts and minds deeply focused towards God, we would feel something that we don’t usually feel. It is hard to explain but we would certainly notice this healing experience when we truly pray the Our Father with all our being.
 
We must always be prayerful and we must not give up on our being prayerful. We are connected with God when we pray, and we are open to the enormous blessings that are always at God’s
disposal
 
Prayer is not asking God to give us this or that. Prayer is essentially satisfying our longing for God. And the God that we always long for will grant us the desires of our hearts because we always thirst and hunger to be with Him in
prayer.
Continue to believe, hope and have faith when you pray.
 







 



Medjugorje Pilgrimage
 
There are some spaces available on the Pilgrimage to Medjugorje,
 leaving on 10th September.
 
Dublin to Dubrovnik
 
7 nights
 
Guided by Joe Walsh Tours
 
Half Board
 
€899
 
For more info, please contact:
Mary O’Sullivan (Murphy)
on 087 612 1951

 
 
Lough Derg Pilgrimage
The Three Day
Pilgrimage for 2025
Continues
until Friday 15th August
 


.The Serenity Prayer
 
God grant me the serenity To accept the things I cannot change; Courage to change the things I can;
And wisdom to know the difference.
 
Living one day at a time; enjoying one moment at a time;
Accepting hardships as the pathway to peace;
Taking, as He did, this sinful world as it is, not as I would have it;
Trusting that He will make all things right
 If I surrender to His Will;
 
So that I may be reasonably happy in this life
And supremely happy with Him forever and ever in the next.
Amen.
(Reinhold Niebuhr)
 
Prayers of St Ignatius of Loyola  (1491-1556 ) Feast Day 31st July
“Teach us, good Lord, to serve you as you deserve;
to give, and not to count the cost,
to fight, and not to heed the wounds,
to toil, and not to seek for rest,
to labour, and to ask for no reward,
except that of knowing that we are doing your will. Amen ”
 
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Take, Lord, and receive all my liberty,
my memory, my understanding,
and my entire will,
All I have and call my own.
You have given all to me.
To you, Lord, I return it.
Everything is yours; do with it what you will.
Give me only your love and your grace,
that is enough for me.






                                                                                     



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Our mission as a parish is to foster a welcoming community of faith and love, by worshiping together, receiving the sacraments and practicing charity to all. Sun 30th  March 2025

Todays Gospel:
Luke 10: 38-42
Prayer and action
 
“Martha, Martha, you are anxious and worried about many things, there is need of only one thing”.
What do Jesus’ words mean to us?
Jesus’ words relating to the two
attitudes of Martha and Mary are not contradictory: listening to the word of the Lord and practical service to our neighbour. They are essential aspects of Christian life both lived out in unity and harmony.
Why then was Martha scolded in a kindly way by Jesus?
 
It was because she considered only what she was doing to be essential; she was too absorbed and worried by the things “to do”. She had prioritised work over listening to the Word of the Lord, like Mary was doing-at the feet of
Jesus, with the attitude of a disciple.
 
In our Christian life, may our prayer and action always be deeply united.  A prayer that does not lead us to practical action for our brothers and sisters-the poor, the sick, those in difficulty and need– is a sterile and incomplete
prayer. St Benedict called it “ora et labora”, pray and work. Our friendship with the Lord teaches us to live and to bring God’s love and mercy to others.



 

A new commandment I give you.

Todays Gospel:  John 13:31-35
To love as Christ Loved
The 3 main characteristics of Christ’s love were:
1. Love is sacrificial
There was no limit to Jesus’ sacrifice because there was no limit to his love for us.If we follow Jesus model  of sacrificial love, we will love one another sacrificially.
2. Love is unconditional
Jesus didn’t die for us because we deserved it. Jesus’ love was absolutely unconditional.  So despite our weaknesses and failings, we are called to love others unconditionally too. We need to be gentle with each other. Society is becoming so harsh and judgemental; we immediately think the worse of others, we judge, we blame, we accuse.  We need to follow in the footsteps of Jesus and treat others with the same gentleness, patience and kindness that God shows us.
3. Love is practical
Love is intensely practical. Think of the hospice nurse caring for the dying patient, the mother clearing up her child’s sick in the middle of the night, the parents who sacrifice their own dreams for the sake of their children. Its all about love, sacrificial, unconditional and practical…worked out in kindness,  patience, gentleness and hospitality.

CONFESSIONS

I shall hear confessions after the six pm mass on Saturday evenings

Sin exists, as is evident at every level, from individual human relationships to international wars. We all sin and, therefore, we all need forgiveness. We are not yet the saints that we are called to become through our Baptism. To ignore the reality of sin in our lives, or minimise it, can limit our ability to be in relationship with God. Servant of God, Archbishop Martinez, who was from Mexico said:

“For all sin, grave or light, large or small, wounds God’s divine heart and, since we love him, naturally we should feel great sorrow for having offended him.”

Trocaire

Trocaire

This year, Trocaire’s Lenten campaign focuses our attention on helping people whose lives are being effected negatively by climate change. Children all over the world are being denied an education because of the effects of the climate crisis says Trócaire ,as it launched its annual Trócaire Box appeal for Lent today Ash Wednesday (5th March).

More than 242 million students in 85 countries had their schooling disrupted by extreme climate events in 2024. These events included heatwaves, tropical cyclones, storms, floods and droughts, exacerbating an existing learning challenge in developing countries where children already face barriers to education.

This year, the family featured on the Trocaire box is one from the La Paz community in Guatemala in South America. Guatemala is one of many examples of countries who have contributed least to the climate change crisis and yet who have suffered most. This is a profound injustice that Trocaire seeks our help to address this Lent.

Please support Trocaire’s Lenten campaign by clicking on the link below:

Trócaire – Together for a Just World