17th Sunday
in Ordinary Time –
Sunday, 25th July 2010
...Fr. Johnny Doherty, C.Ss.R.
“So
I (Jesus) say to you: ask and it will
be given to you; search and you will
find; knock and the door will be opened
to you.” The greatest
power that we have is undoubtedly
the power of prayer. And unfortunately
it’s a power that we don’t
use often enough. The three words
that Jesus uses here are dynamic words
that have to involve us at a personal
level. Ask: to do this we have to
decide what we are really looking
for in marriage and family life as
well as in our parish and then we
have to be willing to invest ourselves
in it. Search: if what we are looking
for is important to us we will be
willing to change to find it and to
change even more having found it.
So many people want everything but
without any cost and this is not the
way of the Lord. Knock: God wants
us to come to him with confidence
but then to abandon ourselves into
his hands, knowing that we will be
well looked after.
The
next issue of the Parish Bulletin
will be on Sunday 22 August.
Grandparents Pilgrimage...
...July 2010
The
4th National Grandparents Pilgrimage will
take place to the Shrine of Our Lady of Knock
on Sunday 12 September. Anointing of the Sick
at 2.00pm; Pilgrimage Mass at 3.00pm followed
by Eucharistic Adoration. Special guest singers:
Michael English, Dana and Chloe Coyle. For more
information telephone 003539824877 or visit
website www.catholicgrandparentsassociation.com.
