Bulletin

Fr. Ciaran Feeney Adm.  191 Upper Newtownards Road, Belfast, BT4 3JB.

Phone – 028 9065 4157. Website: www.st-colmcilles.net

E-mail – stcolmcilles@downandconnor.org

Facebook: www.facebook.com/stcolmcilleschurch

SECOND SUNDAY OF LENT

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2^nd week of Lent

Readings : Sunday Cycle A,  Psalter Week 2

 

Entrance  Antiphon	Of you my heart has spoken : Seek his face. It is your face,       O Lord, that I seek; hide not your face from me.
1st Reading	The call of Abraham, father of the people of God. Genesis 12: 1 -4
Psalm	May your love be upon us O Lord,  as we place all our  hope in you.      Psalm 32
2nd Reading	God calls and enlightens us.    2 Timothy 1 : 8-10
Acclamation	Glory and praise to you, O Christ! From the bright cloud the Father’s voice was heard: “This is my Son, the Beloved. Listen to him.” Glory and praise to you, O Christ!
Gospel	His face shone like the sun. Matthew 17: 1-9
Children	Jesus went up to a high mountain. His face shone like the sun and his clothes shone brightly. A voice called “This is my beloved Son. Listen to him”.
Communion Antiphon	This is my beloved Son, with whom I am well pleased;                        listen to him.

 

MASS TIMES        Saturday: 6.30pm

Sunday: 9.30am; 11.30am

Monday to Friday: 7.15am; 9.30am

St Patrick’s Feast Day is this Friday 17^th March                                   and is a Holy Day of Obligation.

Mass Times – Thursday 16^th: 7.00pm; Friday 17^th: 9.30am.

 

MASS INTENTIONS Norah Rogan- Friday 9.30am

 

 

EUCHARISTIC   Monday to Friday: 9.00am – 9.30am

ADORATION       & Chapel of Adoration: Monday & Tuesday,  2.00pm – 9.00pm

DECEASED

 

We pray for the repose of the souls of all those who have died recently.

We also remember all those whose anniversaries

occur at this time of year especially:

 

Patricia Clydesdale, Margaret Kerr, Paddy Macauley, Frank Mc Manus,

Maureen Murphy,  Norah Rogan, and Brian Trickett

 

BEREAVEMENT SUPPORT  –  we can be contacted on

07456 989458

 

MONEY MATTERS

 

Weekly Offering Cash Collection and Standing Orders: £1908.56

Many thanks to all who contributed so generously to the collections last weekend.  The Collection for Needy Parishes will be taken up at all Masses next weekend.

 

                         BAPTISMS

We joyfully welcome into the Parish Family

 

Colm Liam Carlisle, Julia Kate Doherty, Arianna Greer,                              Ellie Mc Cormick, Peter Mc Cormick, Rachel Mc Cormick,                       Aisling Rosa MacNamara, Maeve Olivia Reford,                                               Molly-Rose Francis Smyth,  Mya Rachel Joy Thompson                                                                   and Ethan Francis José Tubera

St Colmcille’s first Parish Draw for 2017 is due to take place in the next few weeks.  It’s still not too late to enter, it costs £10 for one line, which enters you into every draw, over the next 10 months.

The more lines you have the better chance to win. If you are interested in taking part please speak to any member of the Social & Fundraising Committee or drop your details along with payment into the Parish Office.  Or contact Roisin McMullan on 07854 140019; Lucy Traynor on 07900 807589 or Mary Walsh on 07815 493463. Good Luck.

LENT PROGRAMME 

Would you like to transform your experience at Mass?

 

Would you like to understand the Mass and participate in it more deeply?

 

NOT TO BE MISSED!!

 

WHY NOT MAKE IT YOUR LENTEN COMMITMENT?

 

It’s not too late. Please come this Wednesday 15^th March or join the repeat on Friday morning, in the Iona Room Parochial Hall.

 

WEDNESDAY :  8.00pm – 9.00pm

FRIDAY (repeat) : 10.00am – 11.00am

THE PASSION STORY                                                                                        Sean Goan will lead a prayerful reflection on the Passion story as an ideal way to prepare for the Holy Week ceremonies on Saturday 18^th March, 10.00am – 4.00pm at Tobar Mhuire Retreat Centre, Crossgar. Early booking is advisable. Contact Tobar Mhuire: 02844 830242

THE LARDER

St Vincent De Paul Society have placed boxes in the Church porch to collect food stuffs etc, from parishioners for the Larder, the food bank attached to St Christopher’s Church, Mersey St, who help many of our clients who are in severe poverty. Please participate for the season of Lent.

EASTER OUTREACH                                                                                       Outreach Ministers should collect their set of envelopes next weekend 18^th/ 19^th March, in the Church Porch.

SAFE CHURCH CHARTER MARK

St Colmcille’s Church has been awarded a Charter Mark in recognition that it is a ‘Safe Church’ for those suffering domestic abuse.

Domestic abuse is seen as threating, controlling, coercive behaviour, violence or abuse (psychological, physical, verbal, sexual, financial or emotional) inflicted on anyone (irrespective of age, ethnicity, religion, gender or sexual orientation)                                                       by a current or former intimate partner or family member.

Our Safe Church commitments include that we will never condone or stay silent about domestic abuse; we will play our part in supporting anyone that is affected; we will provide a safe place for anyone affected by domestic violence or or abuse in any of its forms, to confidentially access information; we will effectively respond to disclosure of abuse and support anyone affected to access support.

A card detailing helplines are also available in the Church porch.

PARISH FAMILY

 

PRAYERS OF THE FAITHFUL                                                                            The training for young people aged 11 – 16 years, for additional readers of the Prayers of the Faithful, begins this Sunday, 12^th March 10.30am – 11.10am. Please contact Noeleen for enquiries on 07879 498131

FIRST RECONCILIATION PARENTS MEETING                                                      A meeting for parents of the children who are preparing for their First Reconciliation, will be held in the Parochial Hall this Tuesday 14^th March at 7.00pm.

BALLYHACKAMORE  MARKET                                                                                The community Market, held in the St Colmcille’s car park, resumes on next Saturday 18^th March, 10.00am – 2.00pm

DTIM                                                                                                                        The children who are preaparing for First Holy Communon will have their special Do This In Memory Of Me Mass, next Sunday 19^th March, 9.30am.

SCRIPTURE AND PRAYER GROUP                                                                          Our next meeting will be next Tuesday 21st March at 8.00pm in the Committee Room. Reflections will be on 4th and 5th Sundays of Lent.

 

WELCOME MINISTRY                                                                                 If you could volunteer to be part of the Greeters’ team please sign up with one of the Greeters

Fr. Ciaran Feeney Adm.  191 Upper Newtownards Road, Belfast, BT4 3JB.

Phone – 028 9065 4157. Website: www.st-colmcilles.net

E-mail – stcolmcilles@downandconnor.org

Facebook: www.facebook.com/stcolmcilleschurch

FIRST SUNDAY OF LENT

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1^st week of Lent

Readings : Sunday Cycle A,  Psalter Week 1

 

Entrance  Antiphon	When he calls on me, I will answer him; I will deliver him and give him glory, I will grant him length of days.
1st Reading	The creation and sin of our first parents. Genesis 2:7-9; 3:1-7
Psalm	Have mercy on us O Lord, for we have sinned. Psalm 50
2nd Reading	However great the number of sins committed, grace was even greater.    Romans 5:12-19
Acclamation	Praise to you O Christ, king of eternal glory! Man does not live on bread alone, but on every word that comes from the mouth of God. Praise to you O Christ, king of eternal glory!
Gospel	Jesus fasts for forty days and is tempted. Matthew 4: 1-11
Children	Jesus said to be fully alive we do not just need food, we need the word of God as well.
Communion Antiphon	One does not live by bread alone, but by every word that comes from the mouth of God.

 

MASS TIMES        Saturday: 6.30pm

Sunday: 9.30am; 11.30am

Monday to Friday: 7.15am; 9.30am

 

MASS INTENTIONS

Maureen Bradshaw: Sunday 11.30am

Joseph Forde: Monday 9.30am

Kevin Crummy & Patrick Lennon: Friday 7.15am

 

EUCHARISTIC   Monday to Friday: 9.00am – 9.30am

ADORATION       & Chapel of Adoration: Monday & Tuesday,  2.00pm – 9.00pm

DECEASED

We pray for the repose of the souls of all those who have died recently, especially Bridie Donnelly.

We also remember all those whose anniversaries

occur at this time of year especially:

Maureen Bradshaw, Kevin Crummy, Teresa Deane,

Joseph Forde, Patrick Lennon.

 

BEREAVEMENT SUPPORT  –  we can be contacted on

07456 989458

 

MONEY MATTERS

Weekly Offering Cash Collection and Standing Orders: £1,819.15

Many thanks to all who contributed so generously to the collection last weekend.
The Monthly Stipend Collection will be taken up at all Masses this 
weekend.

APOSTOLIC WORK LENTEN LUNCH                                                                    

The annual Lenten Lunch will be held in the Parochial Hall after both Masses on

this Sunday 5th March.

There will be a collection after Mass on                 this Saturday 4th March.  

 

 

Please help the Missions by supporting Apostolic Work in whatever way        you can.

 

The Apolostic Society support many programmes including, education, medical & hospice care, orphanages, food & water projects.

LENT PROGRAMME 

A BIBLICAL WALK THROUGH THE MASS

For many Catholics, the Mass might, in a certain sense, be almost too familiar. We show up to Church each Sunday and perform certain prayers and rituals that many of us have known since childhood. But what do all these prayers and rituals mean? Do we really understand the significance of all that we are saying and doing in the liturgy?

Would you like to transform your experience at Mass? Would you like to appreciate the splendour of the liturgy more? Are you prepared to really encounter Jesus truly present?

If you desire to understand the Mass and participate in it more deeply, this 5 session programme is for you….starting this Wednesday 8^th March, in the Iona Room Parochial Hall, with repeats every Friday morning.

WEDNESDAY : 8.00pm – 9.00pm

FRIDAY (repeat) : 10.00am – 11.00am

EUCHARIST ADORATION

 

Monday to Friday 9.00am – 9.30am

 

Monday and Tuesday from 2.00pm

to 9.00pm in the Chapel of Adoration.

 

Could you make a commitment to spend one hour with JESUS in the Chapel of Adoration on a Monday or Tuesday, during this Lent?

 

WALK WITH ME BOOKS

A Lenten Journey of Prayer booklet, to aid you with your daily devotions in Lent, are available at the back of the Church.  Price £1.  Please put money in the box in the wall next to the candelabra.

 

MEETINGS & EVENTS

 

MARCH MEETING OF APOSTOLIC WORK                                                                       The meeting will be held in the Iona Room at 8.00pm on this Tuesday 7th March.

 

JOURNEY THROUGH GRIEF TOWARDS HEALING                                               A 5 Week Healing Programme for anyone who is bereaved.                       The Programme is designed to help understand the grieving process more fully and apply this in our personal grief journey.                                            Venue: St Mochumma Room in the Church of Immaculate Heart of Mary, Carryduff, starting this Wednesday 8th March, 7.00pm – 8.30pm
For more information please contact the Bethany Mobile on 07871768200.

 

MESSAGE OF HIS HOLINESS POPE FRANCIS
For Lent 2017

Lent is the favourable season for renewing our encounter with Christ, living in his word, in the sacraments and in our neighbour….. I encourage all the faithful to express this spiritual renewal by sharing in the Lenten Campaigns promoted by many Church organizations in different parts of the world, and thus to favour the culture of encounter in our one human family. Let us pray for one another so that, by sharing in the victory of Christ, we may open our doors to the weak and poor. Then we will be able to experience and share to the full the joy of Easter.

THE LARDER

St Vincent De Paul Society have placed boxes in the Church porch to collect food stuffs etc, for the Larder, the food bank attached to St Christopher’s Church, Mersey St, who help many of our clients who are in severe poverty. The following items would be most suitable and a great help – cereal, jam, pasta, rice, pasta & curry sauces, tinned meat, tinned fruit, tinned vegetables, biscuits, coffee, toilet rolls, washing powder, tooth brushes, toiletries, washing up liquid.

TOCAIRE BOXES

The Trocaire Lenten Appeal Boxes, are available in the Church porch and the back of the Church, for you to take home.

SUNDAY BULLETIN

26^th February  2017

Fr. Ciaran Feeney Adm.  191 Upper Newtownards Road, Belfast, BT4 3JB.

Phone – 028 9065 4157. Website: www.st-colmcilles.net

E-mail – stcolmcilles@downandconnor.org

Facebook: www.facebook.com/stcolmcilleschurch

EIGHTH SUNDAY IN ORDINARY TIME

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8^th week in Ordinary Time

Readings : Sunday Cycle A, Weekday Cycle 1, Psalter Week 4

 

Entrance  Antiphon	The lord became my protector. He brought me out to a place of freedom; he saved me because he delighted in me.
1st Reading	I will never forget you. Isaiah 49: 14-15
Psalm	In God alone is my soul at rest. Psalm 61
2nd Reading	The Lord will reveal the secret intentions of men’s hearts. 1 Corinthians 4:1-5
Acclamation	Alleluia, alleluia!  The word of God is something alive and active; it can judge secret emotions and thoughts.  Alleluia!
Gospel	Do not worry about tomorrow. Matthew 6: 24-34
Children	Jesus tells us not to worry about anything. He knows God our Father will look after us and give us everything we need.
Communion Antiphon	I will sing to the Lord who has been bountiful with me, sing psalms to the name of the Lord Most High.

 

 

 

MASS TIMES

 

Saturday	Sunday	Tuesday	ASH WEDNESDAY	Thursday	Friday
6.30pm   Moya Dalton Frank Donnelly Sean McMullan Ted O’Neill   Confessions 6.00pm	9.30am Mary Paul Bob Roddy	9.30am     PJ Joseph	7.15am   9.30am   7.00pm	7.15am   9.30am	7.15am   9.30am     Anointing of the sick
	Sunday 11.30am Teresa Judge           Francis & Isabella Quigley

DECEASED

We pray for the repose of the souls of all those who have died recently.

especially Fr Donal Kelly.

We also remember all those whose anniversaries

occur at this time of year especially:

Josefina Colina, Moya Dalton, Frank Donnelly, Florence Fusco, PJ Joseph, Teresa Judge, Sean McMullan, Gabriel Mullaly, Patricia O’Keefe,

Ted O’Neill, Mary Paul, Francis Quigley, Isabella Quigley, Bob Roddy.

 

BEREAVEMENT SUPPORT  –  we can be contacted on

07456 989458

MONEY MATTERS

Weekly Offering Cash Collection and Standing Orders:
The Sick and Retired Priests collection:

The sick and retired Priests collection will be taken up at all Masses next weekend.  Many thanks to all who contributed so generously to the collection last weekend.

LENT PROGRAMME  

A BIBLICAL WALK THROUGH THE MASS

 

For many Catholics, the Mass might, in a certain sense, be almost too familiar. We show up to Church each Sunday and perform certain prayers and rituals that many of us have known since childhood. But what do all these prayers and rituals mean? Do we really understand the significance of all that we are saying and doing in the liturgy?

Would you like to transform your experience at Mass? Would you like to appreciate the splendour of the liturgy more? Are you prepared to really encounter Jesus truly present?

If you desire to understand the Mass and participate in it more deeply, this 5 session programme is for you….starting on Wednesday 8^th March, in the Iona Room Parochial Hall, with repeats every Friday morning.

 

WEDNESDAY : 7.30pm – 8.45pm

FRIDAY (repeat) : 10.00am – 11.15am

LENT

Lent begins on ASH WEDNESDAY, 1^st March

EUCHARIST ADORATION

Monday and Tuesday from 2.00pm to 9.00pm in the Chapel of  Adoration. Could you make a commitment to spend one hour with JESUS in the Chapel of Adoration on a Monday or Tuesday, during this Lent?

 

WALK WITH ME BOOKS

A Lenten Journey of Prayer booklet,  to aid you with your daily devotions in Lent, are available at the back of the Church.  Price £1.  Please put money in the box in the wall next to the candelabra.

 

PASTORAL AREA PROGRAMME FOR LENT

Please pick up a flyer in the porch today, to be informed about liturgies and programmes that may support you on your Lenten journey this year.

THE LARDER

Beginning next weekend, 4^th/5^th March, the St Vincent De Paul Society will be placing boxes in the Church porch to collect food stuffs etc, for the Larder, the food bank attached to St Christopher’s Church, Mersey St, who help many of our clients who are in severe poverty. The following items would be most suitable and a great help – cereal, jam, pasta, rice, pasta & curry sauces, tinned meat, tinned fruit, tinned vegetables, biscuits, coffee, toilet rolls, washing powder, tooth brushes, toiletries, washing up liquid.

APOSTOLIC WORK LENTEN LUNCH                                                                     The annual Lenten Lunch will be held in the Parochial Hall after both Masses on next Sunday 5th March. There will be a collection after Mass on next Saturday 4th March.  Please help the Missions by supporting                     Apostolic Work in whatever way you can.

 

LENTEN PIONEER PLEDGE

Many people choose to abstain from alcohol during Lent.  Why not take this opportunity to help someone you know with an alcohol or drug problem by offering your sacrifice for their freedom from addiction?                        Take the short term Lenten Pledge and make a difference to someone’s life. Register your pledge with local Pioneers or the D and C office, tel. no. 02890 894070 or Ian 02890 616601. Please give your name, address and contact no.

Prayer: “I promise in honour of the Sacred Heart of Jesus and with the help of the Blessed Virgin Mary to abstain from all alcoholic drink until the end of Lent”.

MEETINGS & EVENTS

WEDNESDAY CLUB

You are invited to a demonstration of ‘Baking on the Griddle’. Come and sample the goodies and bring some home this Wednesday 1^st March at 2.00pm.

WOMEN’S WORLD DAY OF PRAYER

The Women’s World Day of Prayer will be held in Belmont Presbyterian Church at 8.00pm this Friday 3^rd March. Praying for the Philippines is the focus for this year. Men, women and children are welcome.

TOCCATA CONCERT

Toccata Concert In aid of SOS NI and Brain Injury Matters on next Saturday 4th March – 8.00pm. Doors open 7.45pm. Twelve West End Performers accompanied by a local Belfast Community Choir will perform Songs from the Shows and iconic Rock and Roll Music. Drinks reception included, at Our Lady & St Patrick’s College, Gilnahirk Road. Tickets £15 from SOS NI on 9066 4505 or from Paddy Donnelly- 9065 1351

MARCH MEETING OF APOSTOLIC WORK The meeting will be held in the Iona Room at 8.00pm on next Tuesday 7th March.

 

A BETTER FUTURE:

Towards a culture of life, care and hope for all – statement from the Catholic Bishops of N Ireland

 

“Voting for those who will govern our society is a moral act. Each vote cast, or not cast, potentially influences the values that will shape future law and policy”

“We appeal for a new and more constructive political culture, one based on a shared commitment to the common good and the priorities of citizens rather than on traditional constitutional issues”

“The social and moral teaching of the Church is clear, that it is never morally acceptable to support any policy that undermines the sacred inviolability of the right to life of an innocent person in any circumstances”

– see catholicbishops.ie for the bishops’ media statement and for the pastoral reflection on the Assembly Elections

Pick up a leaflet at the back of the Church, Two Lives- One Love, from the Irish Catholic Bishop’s Conference, on their response to the Citizen’s Assemby on the topic of Article 40.3.3, about the the right to life.